In terms of age, I'm probably on the cusp of generations 2 and 3 (born in '89 and became a Godzilla fan in '98).
My generation 2 stats would be:
- Once owned every Godzilla movie up through G2000 on VHS, including two TV recordings, but haven't had those tapes for many years now
- First saw Godzilla vs. Biollante by renting the tape from Blockbuster Video
- Collected Trendmasters and other American toys as a '90s kid, lots of TriStar film merchandise
- Has the Criterion Godzilla '54 DVD autographed by Haruo Nakajima and the Godzilla 2000 DVD autographed by Tsutomu Kitagawa
- Never subscribed to G-Fan magazine but has downloaded PDF scans of most issues from its glory years
- Did keep the Godzilla 2000 theater ticket stub but has long since lost it
- Never been to a G-Con/G-Fest but did trek to general sci-fi conventions in the past decade to meet Nakajima and Kitagawa
And my generation 3 stats would be:
- Has multiple shelves of creature feature and Japanese sci-fi/fantasy films and shows on DVD and BRD
- Hasn't given a hoot about toys & figures in 20 years
- Only had to drive one hour to see Shin Godzilla in a theater... although it was two hours including the drive home... and then went back to see it again later that week...
- Doesn't remember there being a leaderboard but fondly remembers playing the hell out of God.DAMM in middle school, even still has the GameCube disc
- Only posters on the wall are a framed King Kong 1933 reprint (mail-in offer from the 2005 DVD) and Noriyoshi Ohrai's textless Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah art printed on canvas
- Does indeed have almost every IDW Godzilla comic from their original run except Kingdom of Monsters and Oblivion (still need to get their newer Godzilla comics)
- Doesn't care about Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, etc., lost interest in Facebook and MySpace long ago, and couldn't care less about listening to fans jabber on YouTube or podcasts
Spuro wrote: ↑Tue Aug 16, 2022 9:24 pm
A lot of them are still in DVD format, notably Sony's Heisei/Millennium disks. I'd upgrade... but that one bluray that pairs Destoroyah with Megaguirus would ruin the order on my shelf... it's important, damnit!
Yes, it is important! Here is the solution for
Godzilla vs. Megaguirus:
- Take Sony's 1-disc Megaguirus DVD, remove the disc and the wraparound cover from the case.
- Put the disc and wraparound cover into an empty 2-disc case.
- Add Sony's Megaguirus BRD to that case in the other disc slot.
The solution for
Godzilla vs. Destroyer is very similar:
- Take Sony's 1-disc Spacegodzilla/Destroyer flipper DVD, remove the disc and the wraparound cover from the case.
- Put the disc and the wraparound cover in an empty 3-disc case.
- Add Sony's Spacegodzilla and Destroyer BRDs to that case in the other two disc slots.
And just like that, you'll have a three-disc
Spacegodzilla/
Destroyer BRD+DVD combo set sitting on your shelf, along with a 2-disc
Megaguirus BRD+DVD combo set, with no disruption to their chronological shelf sequencing!
It's super easy! This is what the end result looks like, if these images are able to load:
Sony's distribution rights to
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah and
Godzilla vs. Mothra were up for renewal in 2019, and that double-feature BRD set has become an expensive collector's item in the years since, probably because Sony allowed their rights to lapse and that set is now out of print.
Sony's rights to
Mechagodzilla '93,
Spacegodzilla,
Destroyer,
Rebirth of Mothra,
Rebirth of Mothra II,
Megaguirus and
GMK are all up for renewal in 2023, so we can expect each and every Sony DVD and BRD containing any of those movies to go the way of
GvsKG and
GvsMothra by the end of next year. Those remaining Heisei/Millennium blu-ray discs are still cheap and easy to get right now but that isn't going to last much longer...