Yes, the teaser for Godzilla: King of the Monsters, released a couple months back, showed you the other, non-Godzilla monsters, namely: Mothra, the giant flying moth; Rodan, the giant flying pteranodon; and King Ghidorah, the giant flying three-headed dragon. But they were only glimpses — blink-and-miss images you had to pause to truly grok. But thanks to toy designers who want to get a jump on sales, our first clean and clear idea of how the classic kaiju will look in the film, out in late May, comes courtesy of a tweet of photos taken at a convention.
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This one comes from Dread Central, who caught an attendee at the Tokyo Comic Con, who spotted decent-sized toy replicas of the three monsters. That means we now have a good idea of what modern, CGI, non-dudes-in-a-rubber-suits versions of the trio will look like. And lo and behold: They’re more realistic-looking than their Toho originals — or as realistic as flying reptiles, dinos, and super-dragons can be.
Of the three, the oldest is Rodan, who was offered as a stand-alone kaiju in its very own film in 1956, two years after the original, bleak-o-rama Godzilla. Rodan and Godzilla didn’t cross paths until 1968’s all-star monster mash Destroy All Monsters, which also included Mothra (born in 1961) and Ghidorah (b. 1964).
Yes, this is all supposed to lead up to a big prize fight between Godzilla and the also newly-dusted-off King Kong, but we hope modern franchise-addicted Hollywood gods try to exhume the many other classic Toho kaiju. Can we please get ’zilla foe Hedorah, aka the environmentalist-inspired “Smog Monster”? Better yet, someone remake 1966’s highly, highly enjoyable War of the Gargantuas, about two super-duper-sized “Frankenstein monsters” duking it out.
(Via Dread Central)