Added an additional figure review of Godzilla 2004 (Playmates Toys) to the Toys
Added Moguera (Trendmasters) review to the Toys, which covers both the original release and the 40th anniversary repaint
Special thanks to Josh Reynolds for both submissions!
Updated the Overseas Film Music for Toho Movies article, adding All Monsters Attack and more details for Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monsters... that said still missing identifying a lot of music from this film and any help people could offer in the comments thread would be amazing
September 7, 2020 5:31 PM
Nicholas Driscoll
Added a review for the Japanese version of Godzilla: Aftershock (Legendary Comics / Village Books) to the Comics
Parker Macgowan (Maritonic) joins the to the position of forum manager as he is joining the site's staff. We've been impressed with his continued hard work on moderating and felt it was time for a shake up in terms of overseeing the forums. As a result, Macgowan is now placed as being able to oversee day to day aspects of the boards. This includes hire new moderators, admins and make other decisions regarding the forums.
Added Kong with Battle-Axe (Playmates Toys) review to the Toys - note that the review contains potential spoilers for Godzilla vs. Kong
Special thanks to Jeremy Williams for both submissions!
Added Godzilla with Heat Ray (Playmates Toys) review to the Toys - note that the review contains potentially mild spoilers for Godzilla vs. Kong
Special thanks to Barron Christopher for both submissions!
Overhauled Bagorah (Dark Horse) in the Comic Creations, which includes:
- larger main image
- power listing
- new description
- secondary image
- background information
August 23, 2020 8:20 PM
Joshua Sudomerski
Added The Mysterians (Lost Project - 1999) to the Cutting Room, which includes a synopsis, image, history, and trivia
August 22, 2020 9:24 PM
Chris Mirjahangir
In celebration of the recent Gamera: The Complete Collection box set on Blu-ray, contributor Jeremy Williams interviews James Flower. A producer at Arrow Films and project manager on the Gamera collection.
Added Monster Waves to Godzilla Defense Force (Android/iOS) while adding up all the New York monsters... however, realizing that this page is getting too big and so will be breaking it up once the next location of monsters is added
August 17, 2020 7:41 PM
Anthony Romero
Added art for The Storm of the Pacific to the Music File Art
Added Godzilla with Radio Tower (Playmates Toys) review to the Toys - note that the review contains some mild spoilers for Godzilla vs. Kong. Special thanks to Josh Reynolds for the submission!
August 15, 2020 9:29 PM
Chris Mirjahangir
These final four reviews close out the Godzilla line for NECA, thus ending our working relationship with them - for the time being. Should they acquire the Godzilla license in the future, we'll be ready to pick up where we left off. I'd like to thank Summer Mullins and everyone at NECA for a wonderful 7 years! Maybe we'll see each other down the road a ways!
-Chris Mirjahangir
Overhauled Cybersaur (Dark Horse) in the Comic Creations, which includes:
- larger main image
- power listing
- new description
- secondary image
- background information
The site has moved to the Cloud. This was a costly upgrade, but the old architecture of the site was showing signs of slowing down due to traffic and it was time to upgrade. Hopefully this means a smoother experience for everyone, especially on the forums.
Added the price for the final location upgrades to the Defense Force Units and corrected info for the Seatopia Stone artifact for Godzilla Defense Force (Android/iOS)
Overhauled Gekido-Jin (Dark Horse) in the Comic Creations, which includes:
- larger main image
- power listing
- new description
- secondary images
- background information
Clarified trivia for Magnitude 7.9 (1980) in the Movies, thanks goes to Jessica Stan for pointing out the likely source for the music!
August 2, 2020 11:44 AM
Joshua Sudomerski
Updated the page format and review for Battra (Trendmasters) in the Toys, now covering the original release and the 40th anniversary repaint, with updated review and images contributed by Josh Reynolds
Added Spirit Orochi (IDW) to the Comic Creations, which includes:
- main image
- power listing
- description
- secondary image
- background information
Special thanks to Matt Frank for the images and some of the trivia supplied within the page!
Added Hideko Takamine's Remembrances of Mikio Naruse to the Blog. Actress Hideko Takamine starred in a total of 17 films for the great director Mikio Naruse, all the way up through his penultimate film, Hit and Run, in 1966. Fifteen years after Naruse's death in 1969, Takamine recalled the final time she met her director, and how very different he'd become when he was a few months from dying.
July 26, 2020 12:31 PM
Andrew & Joshua Sudomerski
Added Susanoo (Heisei) to the Aliens, SDF & Misc, which includes:
- main image
- sound effect
- power listing
- description
- secondary image
- background information
Updated 3 sketches and added an additional 9 sketches of Kumasogami to Yamato Takeru (1994) in the Movies
Andrew Sudomerski, Joshua Sudomerski & Anthony Romero
Overhauled Tsukuyomi (Heisei) in the Aliens, SDF & Misc, to include:
- larger main image
- sound effect
- updated power listing
- modified description
- secondary image
- background information
Updated 1 sketch and added an additional 15 sketches of Orochi, from body designs, turnarounds, heads, eyes, and facing off against Amano Shiratori and Utsuno Ikusagami, to Yamato Takeru (1994) in the Movies
Created a new page for and overhauled Tsukinowa (Heisei - formerly Sukinowa) in the Aliens, SDF & Misc, to include:
- larger main image
- sound effect
- updated power listing
- modified description
- secondary image
- background information
Updated 1 sketch and added an additional 18 sketches of Kaishin Muba to Yamato Takeru (1994) in the Movies
Reverted the name for Orochi (Heisei - formerly Yamata no Orochi) in the Monster Bios, and included a new piece of trivia regarding its English name
July 23, 2020 5:28 PM
Andrew & Joshua Sudomerski
Overhauled Oto Tachibana (Heisei) in the Aliens, SDF & Misc, to include:
- larger main image
- sound effect
- updated power listing
- modified description
- two additional images
- background information
Added 21 sketches of Amano Shiratori, consisting of body and head designs, to Yamato Takeru (1994) in the Movies
July 22, 2020 5:25 PM
Andrew Sudomerski, Joshua Sudomerski & Anthony Romero
Overhauled Yamato Takeru (Heisei) in the Aliens, SDF & Misc, to include:
- larger main image
- sound effect
- updated power listing
- modified description
- four additional images
- background information
Updated 5 sketches and added an additional 15 sketches of Utsuno Ikusagami, from body designs, turnarounds, heads, to its weapons, to Yamato Takeru (1994) in the Movies
Added Michiru Oshima to Receive Invitation from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences / Kaiju Crescendo Concert News to the Blog. The composer of Godzilla vs. Megaguirus, Godzilla Against MechaGodzilla, and Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. was recently included on a list of people the Academy plans to invite into its organization. Oshima also co-conducted a concert of kaiju music in Chicago last year called Kaiju Crescendo. A recording of this concert will soon be available on CD and digital download. Here's a news article on both and also a small dive into Oshima's extraordinary career as a film composer -- as she's worked on a number of noteworthy films outside of her three Godzilla movies.
July 18, 2020 12:18 PM
Andrew & Joshua Sudomerski
Overhauled Utsuno Ikusagami (Heisei) and merged with Amano Shiratori's page in the Monster Bios, with bio updates including:
- larger main image
- sound effect
- updated power listing
- modified description
- background information
July 17, 2020 5:17 PM
Andrew & Joshua Sudomerski
Overhauled Yamata no Orochi (Heisei - formerly Orochi) in the Monster Bios, to include:
- larger main image
- sound effect
- updated power listing
- modified description
- secondary image
- background information
- trivia image
Overhauled Kaishin Muba (Heisei) in the Monster Bios, to include:
- larger main image
- sound effect
- updated power listing
- modified description
- secondary image
- background information
July 14, 2020 5:32 PM
Andrew & Joshua Sudomerski
Overhauled Kumasogami (Heisei) in the Monster Bios, to include:
- larger main image
- sound effect
- updated power listing
- modified description
- secondary image
- background information
July 13, 2020 5:47 PM
Andrew & Joshua Sudomerski
Overhauled Amano Shiratori (Heisei) in the Monster Bios, to include:
- larger main image
- sound effect
- updated power listing
- modified description
- secondary image
- background information
Overhauled the Vapor Man (Showa) in the Aliens, SDF & Misc, adding a:
- larger main image
- sound effect
- power listing
- background information
July 5, 2020 0:00 AM
Patrick Galvan
Added Interview: Reiko Yamada - Remembering Akira Ifukube to the Blog. Miss Yamada was a student at the Tokyo College of Music in the 1980s, at a time when Ifukube was president of the school. In our interview, she remembers the legendary composer, provides insight as to what he was like as a teacher and as a person, talks about the times she's performed his music in concert, and more.
Added The Legal Battle over Seven Samurai and The Magnificent Seven to the Blog. Akira Kurosawa called the 1960 American remake of his classic samurai film an "entertaining" western, but he and his co-screenwriters were not very pleased with the way Toho had authorized a remake of their film.
Updated H-Man (Showa) in the Monster Bios, adding:
- a new main image
- expanded description
- three secondary images
- roar
- power listing
- background information
Added SpaceGodzilla (Trendmasters) review to the Toys, which covers both the original release and the 40th anniversary repaint - special thanks to Josh Reynolds for the submission!
June 14, 2020 00:43 AM
Patrick Galvan
Added Interview: Norman England - On the Set of Gamera 3 / Making of The iDol to the Blog. We talked to England about his time visiting the live-action and special effects sets for Shusuke Kaneko's highly acclaimed Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (1999), learning about Kaneko's directing style, the making of the film, and about the Japanese film industry in general. (England was kind enough to share photos he took on the set!) We also talked about a science fiction movie he directed called The iDol, now available for preorder from SRS Cinema, LLC and which co-stars Gamera 3 actor Yukijiro Hotaru.
June 13, 2020 10:41 AM
Thomas Fairchild, Tyler Trieschock & Chris Mirjahangir
Added Yamatai Kingdom (Lost Project - 1978) to the Cutting Room, which includes a synopsis, image, history, trivia, and the listing for featured Monsters
Updated the history and trivia sections for Bakan (Unused Character) in the Cutting Room to reflect the new information presented in the above page
Added 2 sketches of Bagan (1st Version), 1 sketch of the Spirit God Beast, 3 sketches of Bagan (2nd Version), and modified the history and trivia for Bagan (Unused Character) in the Cutting Room
Enhanced the navigation for the blog and content under it so it should load much faster now
May 26, 2020 10:29 PM
Anthony Romero
Added stockage footage and background information to Dogora (1964) in the Movies
May 25, 2020 7:03 PM
François Coulombe
Added 80 pictures to A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2 (1957) in the Movies, an early Ishiro Honda film that features a lot of the cast from the 1954 Godzilla film
May 24, 2020 11:42 PM
François Coulombe
Added stockage footage to the war film Zero Fighter (1966) in the Movies
Added The Paradise Island Story (1957) to the Movies, along with a Japanese poster and trivia about the suitmation work done by Eiji Tsuburaya in the film
Below is a video panel from the team at Legendary's comics division about two new Monsterverse graphic novels, a MonsterVerse picture book, and the upcoming "Godzilla vs. Kong" art book. It runs about 30 minutes and is a pretty informative watch!
Over 50 Toho titles, produced and distributed, are heading to HBO Max when it launches later this month. This includes almost the entire Showa Godzilla series. Check out a Toho and Godzilla movie list for HBO Max to find out what will be available.
Added Biollante (Trendmasters) review to the Toys, which covers both the original release and the 40th anniversary repaint - special thanks to Josh Reynolds for the submission!
May 15, 2020 2:01 AM
François Coulombe
Expanded the stock footage listing for Konto 55: Grand Outer Space Adventure (1969) in the Movies, which to our surprise borrowed footage from a Godzilla film as well: Invasion of Astro-Monster
Added stockage footage to the disaster film Magnitude 7.9 (1980) in the Movies
Updated details around the US release of Attack Squadron (1963) in the Movies, thanks goes to Terasawa for the information
May 14, 2020 0:38 AM
Anthony Romero
Overhauled the Zobot (Zone Fighter) in the Aliens, SDF & Misc, adding a new:
- main image
- secondary image
- description
- power listing
- background information
Thanks goes to Andrew Gilbertson for this!
Think you know Godzilla? Put your knowledge to the test in the Godzilla Certification Exam Translation - a collection of prep quizzes based on Toho's "1st Annual Godzilla Certification Exams" held in Japan last March
