Chinese-region bootleg Godzillas -the plastic tide from the East
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A pedantic reader might well make the assertion that the subjects of this particular blogpost are at some remove from Godzilla, and they may well be right. There is much of the silently screaming chinasaur here in both. However, when we turn to the ‘Kong Hong’ finger puppet here, it is clear that it was…
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For those interested in bootleg Godzillas and a few related kaiju, the company names of Imperial and Dor Mei are the bedrock from which all else has been built. These are the ones that we, outside Japan, played with as children, and the vast majority of surviving bootleg Godzillas can be seen as an adaptation…
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When I began to work on assembling all known Godzilla bootlegs into a vast evolutionary tree, my greatest surprise was that no one had attempted it already. As I got further and further into the task, I continually hit the problem of perspective. Quite simply, while legions of people over the last few decades have…
Confessions of a Kaiju Hunter 