Godzilla Collectibles Thread

[IKE-CON]

i like how ugly he is, i think they tried ver hard to make it as "real" as possible and i think they did a good job.. a big ugly fat looking monster. reminds me of a dinosaur all roided up or sumthin. IMO

plottin on my first monster arts big G, will be the 2000 ver i think. easiest to find and instock at sites i buy from.

If they were trying to make him real, then his feet would be larger. No way evolution would spit out something so massive
and give it tiny feet that wouldn't be able to hold up to the mass of the body, let alone balance,even with a tail. Essentially, he would become a stationary tri-pod and would be something that would die off very quickly.

So to me, that is a genetic design flaw. If realism was what they were going for, they fell short in that regard.
Maybe they spent to much working with that forward vestigial tail...
Not that he could ever scratch it if he had an itch. Those little arms would never reach...

 

[jye4ever]

 

[G-M53]

If they were trying to make him real, then his feet would be larger. No way evolution would spit out something so massive
and give it tiny feet that wouldn't be able to hold up to the mass of the body, let alone balance,even with a tail. Essentially, he would become a stationary tri-pod and would be something that would die off very quickly.

So to me, that is a genetic design flaw. If realism was what they were going for, they fell short in that regard.
Maybe they spent to much working with that forward vestigial tail...
Not that he could ever scratch it if he had an inch. Those little arms would never reach...

Yeah I don't know why they made his feet so small either but look at Elephants, Hippos, Rhinos, etc. All big animals with tiny feet. Course they're quadrupeds but still. And take a gander at Whales- Great big and no feet at all!

I personally would've made his teeth, Spines and tootsies all bigger. Heh.

 

[Rotfish]

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On the real though, I can't tell which suit that figure is supposed to be. Doesn't look like any of them. Curious how they handle the '84 since there are certain characteristics of the suit that they have to nail in order to sell the likeness.

 

[Buttmunch]

I have to admit I'm disappointed with the 12" NECA Godzilla. I don't know if the paint is ruining a lot of the sculpt details, but the sculpt seems soft and a lot like the Jakks figures. The 24" version looks great though, but that may be because of the lack of paint.

And I'm not sure the articulation of the arms and legs are helping these figures. It doesn't look like he has much range of motion in his arms, making him almost t-rex like with alligator arms. And those cankles, they are almost thighkles!

Everything shown in trailers look great, so I'm not worried about the movie, but I'm hoping these toys were just based on early concept art before things were tweaked better.

 

[joebizz34]

I think this movie will be much improved over the 1998 version but man why does Godzilla always have to look "realistic" when we make the film in the US? I mean there is nothing realistic about the whole concept of kaiju monsters. So just make him look like Godzilla for Christ sake.

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[demorathis]

I for one like the legendary design because it is unique....the legs are a lot like sauropod legs and those where the largest if the land animals...in terms if long lasting, pervasively enduring species, even t.rex though he had seemingly useless arms, as a species lived for millions of years, especially when it is clear now that t.rex started as a miniature version of itself in the earlier periods...it literally grew larger but its proportions remained the same...

Btw though the word "Kaiju" means monster in Japanese...Daikaiju actually is used for giant monster, so that's usually what's additionally what's used to describe the giants vs horror or universal monster type kaiju...

 

[Viking Spawn]

Whenever, I see the new toys... I'm usually not overly fond of the design. However, so far the brief film footage we've seen - he looks fantastic! Perhaps the new look just doesn't translate well into action figure form? I'll make my final opinion of him after I see the film and how the toys turn out that are eventually made by either Bandai Japan or X-Plus.

 

[RIDDICK]

On the real though, I can't tell which suit that figure is supposed to be. Doesn't look like any of them.

Same here.
They said '94 yet it doesn't even look like SHMA's stylized version of that design.

 

[MaulFan]

Posted this in the movie thread by mistake, picked up this little guy today.

 

[Centurion]

That's no "pelvic bone", not in my dirty mind.

LOL! Sac included!

 

[Joda]

Posted this in the movie thread by mistake, picked up this little guy today.

So MaulFan - where to the other Godzilla figures in that picture come from?

 

[MaulFan]

So MaulFan - where to the other Godzilla figures in that picture come from?

The '54 and '95 are from Bandai's Yuji Sakai Concept Works line, there's also a '62 and '64 in that line. The '84 is from Bandai's Godzilla history set here.

I care more about how well a figure represents the design than the scale, so my collection ranges from 2" Godzillas up to 10" for now, 12" once NECA 2014 arrives. These guys are around 3.5-4" tall.

 

[illproxy]

If they were trying to make him real, then his feet would be larger. No way evolution would spit out something so massive
and give it tiny feet that wouldn't be able to hold up to the mass of the body, let alone balance,even with a tail. Essentially, he would become a stationary tri-pod and would be something that would die off very quickly.

So to me, that is a genetic design flaw. If realism was what they were going for, they fell short in that regard.
Maybe they spent to much working with that forward vestigial tail...
Not that he could ever scratch it if he had an itch. Those little arms would never reach...

i hear ya, i do. i guess what i was getting at is its more realistic compared to the toho designs, they remind me of a dragon where as this new godzilla design instantly reminds me of a dinosaur. dunno if that made sense?

so desperate for my first monster arts zilla right now, saving for a 1/6 Sherlock and after i PO that zilla is next.

 

[GodzillaSpawn]

Im not judging the design in film yet because in action and on his own merits im hoping this Godzilla will look great on screen. But as a toy on a shelf alongside other godzillas he just looks like a bloated pig monster.

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[Big Duke 6]

Im not judging the design in film yet because in action and on his own merits im hoping this Godzilla will look great on screen. But as a toy on a shelf alongside other godzillas he just looks like a bloated pig monster.

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Agreed, like the old Elvis..... Makes the 98 version look good

 

[ironwez20]

Pshhh yea right. No matter how you slice it the 98 version will never look good. Bandai just sucks at making figures.
Anyway I went to toys r us and of course all they had were those crappy bandai figs and no jakks. I hate my toys r us.

 

[GodzillaSpawn]

Pshhh yea right. No matter how you slice it the 98 version will never look good. Bandai just sucks at making figures.
Anyway I went to toys r us and of course all they had were those crappy bandai figs and no jakks. I hate my toys r us.

Lots of people like the 98 design. I like it. Just not as Godzilla. But none of the toys so far have made me want to display the new design with the old. Not Jakks not Bandai not Neca. The jakks is cool dont get me wrong but it still looks goofy next to my large scale Godzilla 91 or my super premium meltdown Godzilla

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[jye4ever]

Im not judging the design in film yet because in action and on his own merits im hoping this Godzilla will look great on screen. But as a toy on a shelf alongside other godzillas he just looks like a bloated pig monster.

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man, brought back some bad memories of my early drunk days.

 

[ironwez20]

Lots of people like the 98 design. I like it. Just not as Godzilla. But none of the toys so far have made me want to display the new design with the old. Not Jakks not Bandai not Neca. The jakks is cool dont get me wrong but it still looks goofy next to my large scale Godzilla 91 or my super premium meltdown Godzilla

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Meh I like it. The legs aren't to my liking but it still looks like godzilla to me. These bandai figures are just awful and I would even bother to give them a second look. It's just all a matter if opinion . I think the neca and the jakks are a better representation if what he really looks like. The bandai head is way to fat and it's just a hideous sculpt. I get what ur saying though so maybe you should wait it out for more quality figures down the line like xplus or the 18 inch neca or monster arts.