Toho's most well known failed creation, who was up for a couple screenplays as well as being featured in some of the 1990's Godzilla merchandise. The second rendering of Bagan occurred after the creature missed out on being placed in Godzilla's revival outing, The Return of Godzilla (1984). Following production on Godzilla vs. Biollante in 1989, Toho felt it was time to resurrect the second most popular kaiju, and one of their most recognizable characters: Mothra. For this perceived project, the firm decided to pit the deity against an all new foe for the big screen: Bagan. Instead of going with the monster's look and powers from the aborted The Return of Godzilla (1st Draft), though, Toho decided to revamp the creature, optioning four different designs and grounding the monster in Chinese mythology. Of course, in the end, the monster is laid to waste by Mothra.

Unfortunately, the ambitious movie, titled Mothra vs. Bagan and slated for a 1990 release, never came to pass, even though producer Tomoyuki Tanaka had given the project his blessings. The production's cancellation lay in the fact that Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989) didn't meet Toho's expectations at the box office, and creating a larger budgeted Mothra picture was deemed an unwise move by the company.

The project didn't mark the end of Bagan, though, as four years later the creature was again being proposed for a new film. To garnish the creature a reputation before the movie hit the big screen, Bagan was placed as the final boss in the SNES (Super Nintendo Entertainment System) game Super Godzilla. The production was planned for a 1995 release, and dubbed Godzilla vs. Bagan. However, Bagan's big screen appearance was not in the cards. With Tristar's GODZILLA (1998) looming on the horizon, Toho decided to finish their Heisei series and started work on Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995), which marked the end of Bagan's failed career.

Three years later, Bagan gave his last hurrah when he was featured, alongside Dogolas, in the 1998 CD-Rom Godzilla Movie Studio Tour. The disc revealed how close the monster has come to being made as it featured, what appears to be, either the creature's suit or a highly detailed and poseable character design model.

Note: The pictures seen, above and below, were taken from the Godzilla Movie Studio Tour CD-Rom. They, like all of the other pictures in the program, were originally uploaded as gifs at less than 128 colors, which is why some of the shots look very rough.