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Re: Top 4 best and worst Godzilla suits

Postby PopInPicsPresents » Thu Jan 05, 2012 5:27 pm

BEST:
64 - Honestly the only Showa suit that looks really good IMO
84 - Looks like the original but done a lot better
91-95 - I grew up with him, I think this is the best suit by far
02-03 - My personal favorite suit of the Millennium series

WORST:
73-75 - I absolutely hate this suit, it just looks dumb
04 - The suit looks like a slimmed down, rat-faced Heisei Godzilla
66 - I love the suit but honestly it looks terrible
55 - All the intimation from the 54 suit is lost in this suit, way to anorexic
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Re: Top 4 best and worst Godzilla suits

Postby Goji » Thu Jan 05, 2012 6:08 pm

The '91, '92, '93, and '94/'95 suits are all different. They are not one and the same.
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Re: Top 4 best and worst Godzilla suits

Postby PopInPicsPresents » Thu Jan 05, 2012 7:25 pm

Goji wrote:The '91, '92, '93, and '94/'95 suits are all different. They are not one and the same.


Well I count them as the same ;)
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Re: Top 4 best and worst Godzilla suits

Postby Gyaos » Thu Jan 05, 2012 7:31 pm

Arnt they the same suit just with heavy modifications for each film?
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Re: Top 4 best and worst Godzilla suits

Postby PopInPicsPresents » Thu Jan 05, 2012 7:35 pm

Gyaos wrote:Arnt they the same suit just with heavy modifications for each film?


Just food for thought, why did they bother modding it at all?
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Re: Top 4 best and worst Godzilla suits

Postby Gyaos » Thu Jan 05, 2012 8:02 pm

I dont really mind the modification (except the 1993 suit) but why did they suddently decide to change the roar?
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Re: Top 4 best and worst Godzilla suits

Postby Goji » Thu Jan 05, 2012 9:45 pm

Gyaos wrote:Arnt they the same suit just with heavy modifications for each film?


Nope. Only the '89 and '91 land suits and the '94/Burning Godzilla suits are the same, with modifications.

New suits were made in '92, '93, and '94.
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Re: Top 4 best and worst Godzilla suits

Postby PopInPicsPresents » Fri Jan 06, 2012 3:32 am

Goji wrote:
Gyaos wrote:Arnt they the same suit just with heavy modifications for each film?


Nope. Only the '89 and '91 land suits and the '94/Burning Godzilla suits are the same, with modifications.

New suits were made in '92, '93, and '94.


That seems like the biggest waste of money..If the '94 Godzilla was a new suit why was the tail falling off?
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Re: Top 4 best and worst Godzilla suits

Postby Goji » Fri Jan 06, 2012 8:08 am

The suits used for water scenes were built either specifically to be used in the water (like the water suit with the "small" head and mouth that's used briefly in VS. MOTHRA, when Godzilla arrives on Adona Island in VS. MECHAGODZILLA, and when Godzilla and Baby are walking into the ocean at the end) or it's an older (land) suit re-used for water scenes.

I believe the suit that had it's tail flying off in that scene was the BattoGoji ('92), which was the "main" suit from VS. MOTHRA.
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Re: Top 4 best and worst Godzilla suits

Postby King Caesar » Fri Jan 06, 2012 1:09 pm

Best:
Godzilla vs Mothra
Godzilla '54
GMK
Godzilla vs Destroyah

Worst:
Son of Godzilla
Godzilla 1991
Godzilla 2000
Godzilla vs King Kong
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Re: Top 4 best and worst Godzilla suits

Postby Legion1979 » Fri Jan 06, 2012 2:02 pm

Toho HAD to create new suits for each new film. There's no way they'd last more than a couple of films with the punishment they go through. Even the '89 costumes were modified between films.
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Re: Top 4 best and worst Godzilla suits

Postby Dr. Nishiyama » Fri Jan 06, 2012 3:42 pm

BEST

1. suit from Return of Godzilla (specifically the suit used in the water scenes and final battle with the Super X, it has a thicker neck and better placed fins)
2. The Godzilla '54 suit
3. The GxMG\Tokyo SOS suit
4. The 1964 mosu-goji suit

WORST

1. Final Wars suit (this would've been passable for me if it was used in any other entry that wasn't his 50th anniversary)
2. Son of Godzilla suit
3. Megaro-goji suit, 73-75 (they seriously couldn't make a new Godzilla suit for his 20th anniversary film GvsMG '74?)
4. GRA suit (to baggy and hideous, like if a fan made a costume out of the shodai goji design and didn't get the look quite right)
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Re: Top 4 best and worst Godzilla suits

Postby Inferno Rodan » Fri Jan 06, 2012 4:01 pm

Best:
1. Godzilla 89-94 (the '94 suit specifically is my favorite)
2. GvsMG/TOMG
3. DAM-GvsGigan
4. KKvsG

Worst:
1. SOG
2. GFW
3. GxMG/TSOS
4. GRA
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Re: Top 4 best and worst Godzilla suits

Postby Giga Kaiju » Fri Jan 06, 2012 9:14 pm

Best:
1.- Godzilla (89-91)
2.- Godzilla (1964)
3.- Godzilla Millenium
4.- Original
(close 5.- GMK)

Worst:
1.- SOG
2.- GRA
3.- GFW
4.- GvsTSM
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Re: Top 4 best and worst Godzilla suits

Postby Irys X » Sat Jan 07, 2012 9:39 pm

Best:
G 54
GMK
KIryu Goji
G 75
G 95

Worst:
G 67 (only suit I don't really like)
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Re: Top 4 best and worst Godzilla suits

Postby Primevalgodzilla V2 » Sat Jan 07, 2012 10:35 pm

King Caesar wrote:Best:
Godzilla vs Mothra
Godzilla '54
GMK
Godzilla vs Destroyah

Worst:
Son of Godzilla
Godzilla 1991
Godzilla 2000
Godzilla vs King Kong


Huh? How can you love the Destoroyah suit but dislike the '91 suit? (which is basically a template for all the 90s designs)
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Re: Top 4 best and worst Godzilla suits

Postby Superrex » Sat Jan 07, 2012 10:46 pm

Best:
GMK
GFW
G2K
G54

Worst:
Son of Godzilla
Return of Godzilla
Godzilla Raids Again(I dont like how it looks when you view it from the front.)
Godzilla vs the Sea Monster
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Re: Top 4 best and worst Godzilla suits

Postby Goji » Sun Jan 08, 2012 9:23 am

Primevalgodzilla V2 wrote:
King Caesar wrote:Best:
Godzilla vs Mothra
Godzilla '54
GMK
Godzilla vs Destroyah

Worst:
Son of Godzilla
Godzilla 1991
Godzilla 2000
Godzilla vs King Kong


Huh? How can you love the Destoroyah suit but dislike the '91 suit? (which is basically a template for all the 90s designs)


Yeah, I don't get that either.

Burning Godzilla is "cool" looking and all that jazz, but he's fat as shit. A Burning Godzilla '91, now that would have been bitchin'.
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Re: Top 4 best and worst Godzilla suits

Postby JAGzilla » Mon Jan 09, 2012 4:04 pm

Goji wrote:Burning Godzilla is "cool" looking and all that jazz, but he's fat as shit. A Burning Godzilla '91, now that would have been bitchin'.


Agreed. I wish Biogoji (or exact replicas thereof) could've been used for every Heisei movie; none of the others ever looked nearly as good.
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Re: Top 4 best and worst Godzilla suits

Postby Goji » Mon Jan 09, 2012 4:46 pm

^ Exactly.

The BattoGoji ('92) wasn't too bad, but everything after was kind of hit and miss. The '94 costume seemed like a good medium between the '92 and '93 suits. Not too fat, but not nearly as bad ass looking as the '89 and '91 designs.

Did anybody else miss the smaller eyes he had from in '89'/'91? They were almost too big on the '93 suit, IMO.
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