BOOTLEG GODZILLAS
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Before we get going with this post, it should be recognised that at least half the work below has been done by my esteemed friend and bootleg co-hunter and researcher, Jamie Francis (see here and here). Thus, this blog is published in both his and my name as a collective research project. Like any good…
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If these little critters, with spring-loaded arms that allow them to be clipped to objects, don’t bring you immediate waves of warm nostalgia, then I’m afraid you might be too youthful and filled with zest, vigor and natural joie de vivre to be reading this blog. … Ok, now it’s just us old farts lamenting…
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Some bootleg Godzillas are so glorious that it would be wrong to look at them too quickly – so just breathe with me and keep your eyes focused up here, and we can count together to steady our nerves: 1-hippopotamus, 2-hippopotamus, 3-hippopotamus, 4-hippopotamus, 5-hippopotamus. Ok, now look down: We finally come to the wonders that…
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Just as Spain has the crown in the western part of Europe for the number and variety of bootleg Godzillas and kaiju (see my earlier posts on JHL and Hermanos Pardines), then Poland has the equal honour in the eastern part of Europe. There are many similarities to the bootlegger’s art in both, and also…
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Two notes before we deep dive into the nerdy details here (I can tell you already as excited as me) – the first is the quote in the title here is obvs. from Shakespeare’s Othello, act 3, scene 2. The second is that some of what it written here has already appeared in my vast…
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This post is a little different to my others, as it originates from a nearly empty file of mine, despite lengthy searches for information. I have hit a wall, and so this post is more an appeal for information, than a crystallisation of my conclusions. It concerns an exceptionally rare Godzilla bootleg, produced in hollow…
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I read somewhere a long time ago that one of the problems (and excitements) of archaeological research into early hominids (species of ancient human-like creatures) is that when researchers went back to a dig site to try to find more fossils from this or that species, they frequently also found fossils from a completely new…
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(Images from Jamie Francis, and reproduced here with his permission) I hope not to shock devoted readers by a non vintage offering (here in an example in the collection of my friend and fellow devoted kaiju hunter, Jamie Francis: see Facebook and Instagram). However, this bicephalic Godzilla bootleg has so much charm that it is…
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Today I feel a bit foolish, but am glad of the chance to rectify my earlier omission. In my previous post on the Tsunami of Chinese-made Godzilla bootlegs for the Western market, I catalogued a bootleg of the Dor Mei Godzilla (my *Bootleg of Dor Mei model 1, the ‘lunar-crater skin Godzilla’ in my earlier…
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Sometimes the hunting of new and rare kaiju takes you into strange territory. While online and idling away a long sleepless night sometime ago, I stumbled across a toy offered by a Polish seller just north west of Warsaw, described as a USSR-made character named Cebulka (‘Little Onion’), but in fact a previously unrecorded Polish…
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