Playmates: Godzilla/Kong
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These look fun. If these sell, I'd love them to do Mechagodzilla as well.
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Anguirus and Godzilla being friends in the Showa series is cannon. Deal with it.
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Anguirus and Godzilla being friends in the Showa series is cannon. Deal with it.
Monsterverse is not similar to either MCU nor Bayformers just because all three are big budget CGI blockbuster franchises.
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Godzilla: "Gee, I hope Mechagodzilla doesn't show up wearing the same thing as me..."
Kong: *Expletive filled rap song followed by a mike drop*
It reminds me of the very old idea of Mechagodzilla as a robot with flesh over it. I really wonder what a modern Mechagodzilla done like this would wind up like. Since it's already visibly a robot there would be more flexibility in design.
Kong: *Expletive filled rap song followed by a mike drop*
It reminds me of the very old idea of Mechagodzilla as a robot with flesh over it. I really wonder what a modern Mechagodzilla done like this would wind up like. Since it's already visibly a robot there would be more flexibility in design.
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Wtf?
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Well... These are surely a thing.
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plasmabeam wrote: ↑Tue Dec 05, 2023 3:03 am Hear me out on this. What if Godzilla is actually Suko’s father? In GvK when Godzilla defeated Kong and they were roaring at each other, what if Godzilla inseminated Kong at that moment and that’s why they were screaming?
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The new season of Transformers Beast Wars looks sick. These must be transmetal 4 Optimus Primal and transmetal 4 Megatron. Hmm, yesssss.
GVK: TNE is a modern day 70s Showa Godzilla movie. Being a massive budget modern blockbuster CGI film instead of traditional 70s tokusatsu techniques doesn't change that. Fight me.
Anguirus and Godzilla being friends in the Showa series is cannon. Deal with it.
Monsterverse is not similar to either MCU nor Bayformers just because all three are big budget CGI blockbuster franchises.
Anguirus and Godzilla being friends in the Showa series is cannon. Deal with it.
Monsterverse is not similar to either MCU nor Bayformers just because all three are big budget CGI blockbuster franchises.
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Reminds me of Powered Up Godzilla and friends from the trendmasters line. Looks silly through adult eyes, but kid me thought they looked pretty sweet back in the day.
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Yeah, these look horrendous
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Ngl the Titan tech Kong looks so goofy I just might have to get one. Machine Monke hits the right part of my brain
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Might be the boomer in me talking, but I really can't see many parallels between these and the old TM Battle Armor/Power-Up figures besides the kaiju just getting some weapons. The TM stuff was just armor attachments. They didn't "transform." If you wanted to display Godzilla without it, you could and it wouldn't be overly obvious that they come with extra add ons (except MKG with his new launchers). And the pieces were put in "regular" places where one would expect such weapons to go (wrists, shoulders, hands, etc). They didn't just pop random missile launchers out of Godzilla's neck and make his body split into three sections.
I really don't know if I'll pull the trigger on them, but I REALLY want to know the thought process behind these. Especially the "transforming" bit, which isn't even "transforming." They're not turning into something different, they're just separating pieces. Especially in Godzilla's case, he just looks like he was vivisected. Edit: Nevermind, Kong has the same "transformation" of shoulder separation.
If anything, I'd say Trendmasters' Battle Armor is the Godzilla to Playmates' Titan Tech's Varan. If that simile makes sense.
I really don't know if I'll pull the trigger on them, but I REALLY want to know the thought process behind these. Especially the "transforming" bit, which isn't even "transforming." They're not turning into something different, they're just separating pieces. Especially in Godzilla's case, he just looks like he was vivisected. Edit: Nevermind, Kong has the same "transformation" of shoulder separation.
If anything, I'd say Trendmasters' Battle Armor is the Godzilla to Playmates' Titan Tech's Varan. If that simile makes sense.
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plasmabeam wrote: ↑Tue Dec 05, 2023 3:03 am Hear me out on this. What if Godzilla is actually Suko’s father? In GvK when Godzilla defeated Kong and they were roaring at each other, what if Godzilla inseminated Kong at that moment and that’s why they were screaming?
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Well, looks like Mega Godzilla is getting a new lease on life in the form of...whatever this is.
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Good to see the return of Mechani-Kong.
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Good...
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plasmabeam wrote: ↑Tue Dec 05, 2023 3:03 am Hear me out on this. What if Godzilla is actually Suko’s father? In GvK when Godzilla defeated Kong and they were roaring at each other, what if Godzilla inseminated Kong at that moment and that’s why they were screaming?
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I dont know what surprises me less, that a toy company with the Godzilla license would make something this stupid or that fans would actually buy them.
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Hey, I was the one who only half-jokingly suggested making an Ultimates Godzilla with a pancake flipper re: Godzilland. And recently they had a chibi version of one of Shin Godzilla's evolutions vs. a ballerina, so this is not the weirdest turn I've seen for the franchise.
To be honest, though, I have no idea what a Godzilla fillet tastes like, I'm sort of concerned about any meat radioactive enough to self-microwave, and monkeypox clearly hit Kong HARD...
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Yeah, God forbid toys actually be fun. Who the hell came up with that notion?Legion1979 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 20, 2022 3:07 pm I dont know what surprises me less, that a toy company with the Godzilla license would make something this stupid or that fans would actually buy them.
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Toys can be fun. But...LOOK at those things...
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I would buy these things just to end their suffering.
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Legit, I MIGHT actually buy these and not even open/display them. If only because I have a VERY strong gut feeling these are going to flop hardcore and never be seen again.
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plasmabeam wrote: ↑Tue Dec 05, 2023 3:03 am Hear me out on this. What if Godzilla is actually Suko’s father? In GvK when Godzilla defeated Kong and they were roaring at each other, what if Godzilla inseminated Kong at that moment and that’s why they were screaming?
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Godzilla fans in a nutshell. I don’t know what’s dumber, the toys themselves or anyone wasting their energy being mad at them. But that’s how it’s always been with most fandoms I suppose.Fermix wrote: ↑Mon Jun 20, 2022 4:17 pmYeah, God forbid toys actually be fun. Who the hell came up with that notion?Legion1979 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 20, 2022 3:07 pm I dont know what surprises me less, that a toy company with the Godzilla license would make something this stupid or that fans would actually buy them.
I didn’t even see how they transformed before; these really might be the absolute dumbest Godzilla toys I’ve ever seen, official or otherwise. I can’t even recall any bootlegs that went this nuts. Makes me like them even more.
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Im inclined to agree. I think they are dumb and Im not going to buy them. Thats the end of the discussion for me. Im sure kids will have a lot of fun with them and maybe in 20 years time, if humanity as a species still exists, kids will look fondly back at these wacky toys the same way some G fans do with the Shogun warrior figure, which, mind you, is a WEIRD Godzilla figure. Its iconic, sure, but its very strange looking, just like these are.
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