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With S.H. MonsterArts Destroyah due out in just a few days(February 27th!), the lads at Tamashii Nations have posted a new preview for it! We have made a news article about it because…look at it…it looks awesome! The face of Destroyah is life changing, I want to be like that guy when I grow up. S.H. MonsterArts Destroyah was 1st revealed last September and subsequently, even more Destroyah was revealed later on.

Thanks to Gojira Prime for the heads up. The images can say way more than I can say at the moment, so before Destroyah decides to Destroyah wallet(12,600 yen, youch!) in a few days, click on the headline to check out the new images.

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Welcome to another Godzilla preview brought to you thanks to the kind folks at IDW!

Godzilla #10
Earth is ravaged by the Space Monsters! With Earth’s kaiju trapped on Monster Island, the planet is seemingly doomed. Until Boxer decides to undo all of his hard work and stage the biggest prison break of all time!

Read on to preview this issue!

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Back in 1969 Marv Newland made a very short film depicting a very very brief meeting; Bambi Meets Godzilla. If you have not seen it before, well…..let’s just say Bambi doesn’t fare too well in this…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDiBgHuRctg

KindredCoda has made a digital restoration of this film, which can be seen above in its “newfound” glory.

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Absolute Radio has posted a brief clip in which Elizabeth Olsen, recently added to the cast of Godzilla, says that the movie is definitely not light-hearted.

In addition, Bryan Cranston(of AMC’s Breaking Bad) is reported to be in negotiations to join the cast as well, according to Yahoo News.

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More images from New York Toy Fair give us better looks at the previously announced S.H. MonsterArts King Kong (Peter Jackson Ver.) figure (due out in May).

Also on display were Destroyah, Burning Godzilla, Godzilla Junior, Mecha Godzilla, Rodan, Space Godzilla, practically every S.H. Monsterart figure ever released!

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Forum member Secretcode has just clued us into some HUGE news for Godzilla fans out there. Import Monsters has just posted an image from Wonderfest 2013 of none other than the great Toho beast himself, S.H. Monsterarts Showa (1964) Godzilla! No other information is available at this time such as price or release date. But for any one whose been a fan of the S.H.Monsterarts line and has been waiting for Bandai to show some Showa love, then this is incredible news!

Credit: Import Monsters

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Are you pondering what I’m pondering? After the hint Bluefin‘s official Twitter account left just a few hours ago, I sure hope so!

After some similar but more vague teases about what Bluefin would be showing off on behalf of Bandai and Tamashii Nation at the New York Toy Fair this year, this little bombshell was dropped.

S.H. MonsterArts was already expected to make a showing at the event, but this hint… more Godzilla? Of the older variety, perhaps?!

Speculate away, because there’s sure to be more hype as we approach Toy Fair in a few weeks!

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In our recent Godzilla 2014 Movie update, we mentioned that Frank Darabont would be finalizing the script. Recently, io9 talked with Darabont, and how his Godzilla will be a “terrifying force of nature”:

What I found very interesting about Godzilla is that he started off definitely as a metaphor for Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And some of the atom bomb testing we were doing in the South Pacific in the subsequent years. The giant terrifying force of nature that comes and stomps the shit out of your city, that was Godzilla. Filtered through the very fanciful imaginations of the Japanese perception. And then he became Clifford the Big Red Dog in the subsequent films. He became the mascot of Japan, he became the protector of Japan. Another big ugly monster would show up and he would fight that monster to protect Japan. Which I never really quite understood, the shift.

Darabont does not want to make a campy Godzilla movie:

What we’re trying to do with the new movie is not have it camp, not have it be campy. We’re kind of taking a cool new look at it. But with a lot of tradition in the first film. We want this to be a terrifying force of nature. And what was really cool, for me, is there was a very compelling human drama that I got to weave into it. It’s not that cliched, thinly disguised romance or bromance, or whatever. It’s different, it’s a different set of circumstances than you’re used to seeing. And that’s tremendously exciting as a writer when you’re asked to do something else.

Do you think Darabont’s take on Godzilla is going in the right direction? Discuss!

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Zangyack and cyclones and crabs, oh my! Tonight has marked a flurry of activity as Tamashii Web is updating with the latest exclusives in their various lines in June. Prime among them is the long-anticipated and hinted S.H. MonsterArts “accessory” set intended to complete the upcoming Destoroyah release, from Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995). As reported last week, a leaked scan from Figure-Oh magazine with the name, price, and release month was quickly followed by newer scans earlier today and finally leading to the official Bandai announcement, product listing on Tamashii Webshop, and even confirmation from Bluefin that the set would be coming to the US!

The Destoroyah Evolution Set unfortunately includes no known effect parts, but still accessorizes well with the Destoroyah Final Form coming to Japan in February, expected in the US in March. The set includes three different stages in the growth of the Precambrian crustacean – a less-developed Crab, the infamous Aggregate Form which fought Godzilla Junior in the film, and the rarely-produced-in-plastic Flying Form which preceded the monstrous final form. All three figures are appropriated scaled to their final form as well as prior releases Burning Godzilla and Godzilla Junior and will be available in June at a cost of 8400 yen according to both the earlier scans and the Tamashii Web listing. Bluefin will be releasing the Destoroyah Evolution Set in North America as announced mere minutes ago on their Facebook page with pricing and date to be determined.

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