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Originally Posted by trebleshot

Not really a fan of this design, but I'm not sure why. It just looks off, somehow. But I do like it better than that one from the Broderick film.

As for this toy in particular, I have zero interest. I don't collect stuff like this and I see no reason to start. But it does look like the toy did a good job capturing the design, so I wouldn't give Bandai the raspberry just yet.

I know exactly what I don't like about this design, they're several things that bother me only in certain ways.

1. His posture. To me the upright, human-in-a-rubber-suit posture is a defect of the effect used in the old Japanese movies. It's charming, but absolutely distracting. I grew up as a huge Godzilla fan. My oldest memory of Godzilla goes back to about 1990 when I was 3 or 4 years old, so I'm not talking as a newcomer who is indifferent to classic Godzilla. I grew up loving rubber-suit Godzilla. Why it bothers me now is that this is a big budget movie with incredible special effects... and yet they've chosen to preserve the stupid, defective posture of the rubber suit. This annoys me a lot. Godzilla is a dinosaur, even in his original incarnation. Modern science tells us dinosaurs had a horizontal posture, using their tails as ballasts.

Ideally, I want to see Godzilla with this posture:


But I'm willing to tolerate a compromise like this:


Yet, the new Godzilla is completely vertical. I wouldn't mind the new design having the old posture if it was actually a high-tech new rubber suit for a new Toho Godzilla movie. Alas, it's not, so I can't forgive it. This is the main thing that bothers me, but all the following items are forgivable to me.

2. His stumpy feet. Seriously, just give him some freaking toes. Godzilla has always had prominent toes. Now, it looks like he has elephant feet with sharpened hooves.

3. His humble nose. Godzilla's nostrils have always had a prominent appearance. They have their own protuberant shape. Sometimes his nose looks like an Oni's nose (Japanese demon), sometimes it looks like a cat's nose. But in the new design, they're just slits on a relatively flat surrounding surface.

4. His square snout. Once again, like 1998 Godzilla, he has a square snout. Bleh.

5. His dangling arms. Godzilla's arms are always raised at the elbow. This is actually part of what science tells us dinosaurs looked like. They always had their elbows bent.