Gigan is truly a strange monster, sporting a circular saw weapon located in his frontal abdominal region, large steel hooks for hands with smaller ones for toes, spikes running down his tail, three, large finlike spines on his back. Original 2010 release of the standard 25cm godzilla 1973. Gigan making godzilla spurt blood, gigan beating the shit out of a downed jet jaguar and almost snapping his neck, megalon ripping a city apart, jaguar breaking gigan s arm, and the alltimer godzilla s sliding dropkick into megalon. Megalon is one of the very worst of the godzilla series. Jet jaguar s design was actually created by a child, in a toho contest. Megalon and gigan have trapped godzilla and his ally, jet jaguar, in a ring of flames. Jet jaguar concept art jet jaguar concept art jet jaguar concept art the slowest and most complicated riding toy ever invented. A rematch between jet jaguar and megalon like in the movie. It was actually meant to be a vehicle for tohos answer to ultraman, jet jaguar, but when test audiences wanted nothing to do with jet jaguar they decided to throw godzilla and gigan in the mix to spice things. Xplus 25cm godzilla 1973 2010 toho megalon jet jaguar gigan large monsters. Look for these films on watch tcm at connect with turner classic.
After a long and brutal fight, gigan and megalon both retreat and godzilla and jet jaguar shake hands on. There was a heated battle, and eventually gigan fled, and megalon retreated back to seatopia. The film we chose was godzilla vs megalon, the one godzilla movie that wasnt even meant to be a godzilla movie. He is content to be controlled like any robot until danger is about, at which he becomes a big damn hero and takes control of himself antivillain.
Topics godzilla, megalon, gigan, jet jaguar, jaguars, robots, machines, mass destruction. The winner of the contest was an elementary school student, who submitted the drawing of a robot called red arone, which superficially resembled both ultraman and mazinger z. That was really 48 minutes when you factored in commercials. Produced and distributed by toho studios, it is the th film in the godzilla franchise, and features the fictional monster characters godzilla, megalon, and gigan, along with the mecha character jet jaguar. King ghidorah posted this on facebook more info in the comments. They called upon megalon to destroy the humans and sent the captured robot jet jaguar to guide the monster on his rampage. Its one of the best fight scenes of the entire series imo. The employers goal is to rid the world of all the earths monsters and create perfect peace. Topics godzilla, megalon, gigan, jet jaguar, jaguars, robots. In this 12th installment of the 1st godzilla series has a cartoonist, named gengo, working for a charitable organization called the worlds children land committee. Together, the two nearly destroyed jet jaguar when godzilla arrived and made shit worse. Xplus 25cm godzilla 1973 2010 toho megalon jet jaguar. In addition, the comic ignores the fact that gigan can fly, and would be able to escape being killed by jet jaguar by swooping back upwards as he approached the ground.
But as preproduction got underway producers felt uncertain that jet jaguar could hold the movie on its own. They called upon megalon to destroy the humans and sent the captured jet jaguar to guide the monster on his rampage through japan. With katsuhiko sasaki, hiroyuki kawase, yutaka hayashi, robert dunham. This indifferently plotted bout pits the big lizard and jet jaguar, an ultramanlike robot, against megalon and gigan, two semimetallic monsters in the employ of an underground literally. This movie may be cheesy, but man, that whole fight that starts with megalon vs jet jaguar, then gigan enters, then godzilla enters and the 2 vs 2 monster brawl begins. Megalon was originally planned as a non godzilla film, a solo vehicle for jet jaguar, which was the result of a contest toho had for children in midtolate 1972. Megalon is the god to the seatopians, and he was their way to take revenge on the humans who were damaging their world with nuclear tests. Dont forget to check out my other channel silent storm for the latest video updates and other content under this link. In addition, godzilla calls on jaguar to help fight megalon, rather than jaguar coming to monster island to ask godzilla for help.
Godzilla finally arrives to assist jet jaguar and the odds become evened. The undersea nation of seatopia sends the gigantic megalon to destroy the world above and its up to godzilla and a sizeshifting robot, jet jaguar, to defeat him. These two monsters proceeded to attack jet jaguar, slowly wearing the giant robot down before godzilla. Returning to japan, jet jaguar programmed itself to grow to an enormous size in order to do battle with megalon. Before long, godzilla and jet jaguar are surrounded by a ring of fire. I wanted godzilla to be more crucial, but it mainly is about the subterreanean people and the andriod jet jaguar which inexplicably develops a conscience and artificial intellegence, and changes size, but reverts to being a mindless robot. Gigan and megalon should take this, especially megalon s cheap borrowing trick. Godzilla barely shows up at the end for the tag team match between him, jet jaguar, gigan and megalon.
This movie then fell into the public domain which led to many cheap releases. The aliens complied and brought their monster, gigan with his funky 80s beats, to aid megalon. This movie was initially developed as a lone jet jaguar movie. Jet jaguar ends up breaking gigan s arm and throws him in the air. The inevitable matchup of godzilla and jet jaguar versus megalon and gigan. The people of japan revolted and attacked the beast, to no avail. This indifferently plotted bout pits the big lizard and jet jaguar, an ultramanlike robot, against megalon and gigan, two semimetallic.
Jet jaguar then teams up with godzilla to defeat megalon and gigan. After jet jaguar briefly falls under the control of the seatopians, endangering humanity, the circuit is activated and the robot grows to enormous size. This movie was one of two godzilla movies to be featuredparodied on the tv series mystery science theater 3000 episode 212, along with ebirah, horror of the deep aka godzilla vs. A human work 1995 tv episode the giant robot featured in this episode, jet alone, takes its name from both jet jaguar and red alone the latter being a name used for jet jaguar while godzilla vs. Seriously four monsters just whaling on each other. Growing up, godzilla was a staplethe more monsters the better. So, they decided to shoehorn in godzilla and gigan in the last minute.
The movie was originally going to star jet jaguar, but the producers felt that they needed godzilla. Jet jaguar picks up godzilla and flies him out of there. Megalon is a 1973 japanese kaiju film directed by jun fukuda, written by fukuda and shinichi sekizawa, and produced by tomoyuki tanaka, with special effects by teruyoshi nakano. Their bizarre decision to send megalon to attack japan for nuclear weapons testing. Programmed to never harm a human being, it has a circuit of conscience installed as a safeguard. Robert scott field man who played the m11 bot in godzilla vs. I was horrified at how awful it was, especially the ultraman ripoff, jet jaguar, and gigan, who ranks with megalon as the most ridiculous adversaries of godzilla in history. Excellent condition with all the original packaging. Megalon is an awesome and underrated godzilla villain.
Gaigan is an alien cyborg kaiju created by toho that first appeared in the 1972 godzilla film, godzilla vs. Meanwhile, rokuros brother creates jet jaguar, a flying robot with a builtin moral compass. In addition to the many jabs at the movie, the bots also provide a mock translation of the jet jaguar theme song. The battle is roughly at a standstill between robot and monster, until gigan arrives and both megalon and gigan double team jet jaguar. To exact revenge, seatopia unleashes megalon, a gigantic beetle with the ability to fire ray beams and napalm bombs. Megalon the best known godzilla movie to american audiences. Megalon have the return of one of the best monsters gigan, but it also has the fun robot of jet jaguar and the reason why is a little odd godzilla vs. Megalon is the god and guardian to the seatopians, and he was their way to take revenge on the humans who were damaging their world with nuclear tests.
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