TK's New and Improved Monster Bios

[Mr. X]

I'm surprised there wasn't a topic for this yet.

Anthony is finally redesigning the Monster Bios - adding more images, listing each of the monsters' powers with pictures, adding roar sound files, adding trivia (FINALLY), and more. Godzilla 2014 and Showa Baragon were the first to undergo this new format, and I must say it looks pretty great.

http://www.tohokingdom.com/kaiju/godzilla_2014.html
http://www.tohokingdom.com/kaiju/baragon_showa.htm

A very welcome and much-needed addition to the site. Props to GigaBowser and Lain who helped push the idea.

[M.U.T.O.]

I like them a lot now! Much better!

And G2014 finally has stuff in its bio!

[shippersdreamer]

This reminds me a lot of the monster archives, any inspiration taken from it?

[Breakdown]

LOVE these new bios. I'd be willing to help in any way I can.


Hey LC, here's your time to shine

[Lain Of The Wired]

I'm really glad people are enjoying the new updates, but then again, who wouldn't? Now with the added trivia and audio roars, they're top-notch.

I was wondering though, what's up with the (stock footage mistake) found on a few of the Showa era Kaiju. Like Godzilla (1954) for example, it reads in his appearances "Varan (stock footage mistake).

[NSZ]

I was wondering though, what's up with the (stock footage mistake) found on a few of the Showa era Kaiju. Like Godzilla (1954) for example, it reads in his appearances "Varan (stock footage mistake).

I think it's when a movie uses stock-footage where it's obvious that the monster that's actually in the shot is not the monster it's supposed to be.

[GigaBowserG]

Really enjoying the new trivia section. Never knew the Giant Condor started off as freaking Rodan.

[NSZ]

Really enjoying the new trivia section. Never knew the Giant Condor started off as freaking Rodan.

And I never knew that was techinically a new monster in AMA.

[BlankAccount]

Hey LC, here's your time to shine

I'm done writing.

Hoping this means the Character Analysis will get more stuff soon.

[Lain Of The Wired]

Hey LC, here's your time to shine

I'm done writing.

Hoping this means the Character Analysis will get more stuff soon.

I think if enough people email Anthony about it we can get some more CA's

[Greyshot151]

Definitely like the new changes. It looks far more modern and stylized then what we originally had. May try to help out with this myself.

[Mr. X]

http://www.tohokingdom.com/kaiju/giant_eagle.html

[NSZ]

http://www.tohokingdom.com/kaiju/giant_eagle.html

http://33.media.tumblr.com/7925508e4c95 ... o1_400.gif

You gotta love the reactions to this little revelation.

[BlankAccount]

WHAT. THE. FUCK?

[MoarCrossovers]

Giant Eagle is superior to Giant Condor.


Fact.

[BlankAccount]

Congrats Toho, you made something even dumber than the GINO vs ZILLA debate YEARS before that was even a thing and only now do we notice this. I didn't even think that was possible. I am not joking or being sarcastic when I say I am legit impressed.

[UltramanGoji]

Somebody please provide context for this, this is the most shocking revelation in Godzilla history.

[ABB Gamma]

What’s in a name? that which we call a Condor
By any other name would die as quickly;

I think giving the Condor two bios because of a quirk in Toho's books is a bit silly, but the Background and Trivia section is worth it.

[NSZ]

Somebody please provide context for this, this is the most shocking revelation in Godzilla history.

From the Giant Condor page:

Despite the fact that the footage of it's appearance was reused for All Monsters Attack (1969), the bird seen in the 1969 movie is supposed to be a totally different species from the one in Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966). In Japan, the original is credited as a "Giant Condor" (大コンドル - Ookondoru). The second appearance, for All Monsters Attack (1969), is credited as a "Giant Eagle" (大ワシ - Oowashi) on sources such as the official Japanese Godzilla website. Not all sources are consistent on this. The 2000 publication Godzilla Encyclopedia: Toho Special Effects Movies of the World, for example, list separate bios for each appearance and credit both to the Giant Condor. Most modern sources, though, that break out the bios for the two do use the "Giant Eagle" name for the 1969 "version". Because of this, the appearance in the 1969 feature is credited as a stock footage mistake on Toho Kingdom, as it was not intended to be the Giant Condor.

So, yeah, even that official website that went up last year supports this.

[Noble Saber]

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