MPAA Ratings Cards

[Tamura]

According to the February 7, 1977 edition of Boxoffice Magazine (a trade paper), MECHAGODZILLA was set to be released in March under the title GODZILLA VS. THE BIONIC MONSTER. On May 16, the film was reviewed in Boxoffice under that title. It would continue to be listed as BIONIC MONSTER in the feature chart until July 18 of that year, when the title was changed to GODZILLA VS. THE COSMIC MONSTER, while at the same time still occupying the March row.

[o.supreme]

Thanks again Tamura . Thats the kind of great research you still cant from any referrence site online. So now I know (many of you knew already), that "G vs The Bionic Monster" DID in fact make it into the theater until that title, for a couple of months at least. Wether a print with that title still exists however is still unknown.

[Tamura]

Extant prints or not, the BIONIC MONSTER title card probably wouldn't be that hard to recreate. I'm assuming it looked exactly the same as the COSMIC MONSTER card but with the BIONIC title instead.