The Giant Monster Doctor is in... All giant monster film questions answered

[jrderego]

All questions welcome, no matter how esoteric.

[wintermute]

How many of the rabbits from Night of the Lepus could Godzilla eat before he choked on a hairball?

[stePH]

If Leonard Maltin and Sidney Poitier both ganged up on Mecha-Streisand at the same time, could they have kicked her ass without Robert Smith's help?

[jrderego]

How many of the rabbits from Night of the Lepus could Godzilla eat before he choked on a hairball?

All and without choking. He'd sizzle their hair off before eating them.

[jrderego]

If Leonard Maltin and Sidney Poitier both ganged up on Mecha-Streisand at the same time, could they have kicked her ass without Robert Smith's help?

Nope. She had the amulet.

[wintermute]

How did the ants in Them! not just have their legs snap off as soon as they tried to move?

[jrderego]

How did the ants in Them! not just have their legs snap off as soon as they tried to move?

The beauty of radioactively seeded explosive evolution, or as I call it Wilderness Insulated Retroactive Evolution System (WIRES).

[stePH]

If Leonard Maltin and Sidney Poitier both ganged up on Mecha-Streisand at the same time, could they have kicked her ass without Robert Smith's help?

Nope. She had the amulet.

But suppose they had punched her in the nose like Robert Smith did?

[jrderego]

If Leonard Maltin and Sidney Poitier both ganged up on Mecha-Streisand at the same time, could they have kicked her ass without Robert Smith's help?

Nope. She had the amulet.

But suppose they had punched her in the nose like Robert Smith did?

The nose punch was why they needed Robert Smith.

[Alasdair5000]

Given the immense size of Godzilla and his compatriots, exactly how big is Monster Island?  Also, how plausible s it that Monster Island is in fact Skull Island under a different name?

[jrderego]

Given the immense size of Godzilla and his compatriots, exactly how big is Monster Island?  Also, how plausible s it that Monster Island is in fact Skull Island under a different name?

A common misconception... there is no "Monster Island". However, there is a facility within the Ogasawara Island chain that was designed as "Monsterland" by the United Nations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonin_Islands

As for the inhabitants -

Godzilla
Minilla (Godzilla's offspring)
Anguirus
Rodan
Mothra
Varan
Baragon
Spiga
Manda
Gorosaurus

They are enclosed by special "scientific barriers" tuned to the specific instincts of the monsters.

As far as navigational charts show, Skull Island, as discovered by Carl Denham is the same Skull Island visited by Commander Carl Nelson on his UN Submarine, and later by Dr. Who in his helicopters, is not in the Bonin chain. It is in fact somewhere further south, but the location is known only to a few men. Though Skull Island is theorized to be within the vicinity of Easter Island. The same can be said for Obelisk Island (home of Gappa the Triphibian Monster). While Pleasure Island, (Where baby Gappa was to be an attraction) and Infant Island (Home of Mothra) and Odo Island (where the survivors of Godzilla's ship attacks washed ashore) are located within the Bonin chain.

[Ocicat]

Exactly how many times has Tokyo been destroyed and rebuilt?

[jrderego]

Exactly how many times has Tokyo been destroyed and rebuilt?

Showa series -

Once by Godzilla in Gojira/Godzilla King of the Monsters
Once by Mothra in Mothra
Once by Godzilla and King Kong in King Kong vs. Godzilla
Once by Godzilla and Mothra in Godzilla vs. the Thing
Once by Ghidorah in Ghidorah the Three Headed Monster
Once by Ghidorah, Rodan, and Godzilla in Godzilla vs. Monster Zero
Once by Hedorah in Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster
Once by Godzilla's cyborg in Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla
Once by Megalon in Godzilla vs. Megalon (stock footage destruction though, so I don't think it truly counts)
Once by Titanosaurs in Terror of Mechagodzilla

Once by Gamera in Gammera the Invincible
Once by Barugon in Gamera vs. Barugon

Once by Frankenstein's Monster in Frankenstein Conquers the World
Once by both the green and brown gargantua brothers in War of the Gargantua

Twice by The Mysterians in The Mysterians and Battle in Outer Space

Once by The Neptune Men in Invasion of the Neptune men

Once by the two Gappas in Gappa the Triphibian Monster

Once by Godzilla in Godzilla 1985.

In each of the Heisei films for both Godzilla and Gamera so that's... five for Godzilla and assorted foes, and three for Gamera and the Gyaos monsters, Irys, and Legion.

And in all of the Millennium series films for Godzilla... that's five for Godzilla and foes (Mothra, Kiryu, and Megaguiras).

Finally, by the Xillians in Godzilla Final Wars.

So a total of - 33 times

[Planish]

1. For all the monsters on Monster Island that eat conventional food, what do they eat? It can't have a lot of prey left running around.

2. wikipedia sez:

In the Hanna-Barbera cartoon, Godzilla's roar was not the same as his trademark roar. Instead, it was provided by Ted Cassidy.

How did they create Godzilla's classic roar? Was it a slowed down and reverbed version of a real more mundane animal? There seems to be variations from one movie to the next, but all sound pretty similar.

3. Would King Kong think that the 50 Foot Woman was hot?

[jrderego]

1. For all the monsters on Monster Island that eat conventional food, what do they eat? It can't have a lot of prey left running around.

Destroy all Monsters shows Rodan eating a dolphin, the rest don't appear to eat anything.

2. wikipedia sez:

In the Hanna-Barbera cartoon, Godzilla's roar was not the same as his trademark roar. Instead, it was provided by Ted Cassidy.

How did they create Godzilla's classic roar? Was it a slowed down and reverbed version of a real more mundane animal? There seems to be variations from one movie to the next, but all sound pretty similar.

the original roar for the 1954 film was made by dragging a leather gloved hand up and down the strings of a contrabass. The recording was then slowed and manipulated to create the roar. The roar, from those base recordings, was used in all of the Toho Godzilla films. However, in the Americanized version of Godzilla Raids Again, the American producer/distributor assigned the sound of Anguirus to Godzilla and vice versa.

3. Would King Kong think that the 50 Foot Woman was hot?

Probably not. She was way bigger than him and he seemed threatened by large things as opposed to small Fay Wray sized things.

[Ocicat]

So a total of - 33 times

Uh, ya.  I actually don't think so.  I know a lot of the Heisei Godzilla series they stayed away from Tokyo itself.  Biolante destroyed Osaka, Battra and Mothra throw down in Nagoya, Space Godzilla got... Fukuoka?  In fact that's probably why they threw out film to film continuity in the Millennium series - just so they could flatten Tokyo every time and not apologize.

[jrderego]

So a total of - 33 times

Uh, ya.  I actually don't think so.  I know a lot of the Heisei Godzilla series they stayed away from Tokyo itself.  Biolante destroyed Osaka, Battra and Mothra throw down in Nagoya, Space Godzilla got... Fukuoka?  In fact that's probably why they threw out film to film continuity in the Millennium series - just so they could flatten Tokyo every time and not apologize.

Biollante didn't really flatten anything but Dr. Shirigame's lab. Godzilla came through Tokyo after being released from Mt. Mihara and again after walking up through the Iraga Channel.

I completely forgot Space Godzilla. Wasn't the end battle with Moguera and Godzilla in Tokyo? I also forgot GMK, which was all Tokyo at the end.

Godzilla, Battra, and Mothra have their fight in Yokohama at the Cosmoworld Amusement Park.

I stand by 33.

[stePH]

Will Godzilla and Megalon ever confess their forbidden love, or will they continue to live in denial until death separates them a final time?

[deflective]

why do giant sea creatures fair well against mothra's sonic attack but not so much against rap trios?

[Alasdair5000]

Given the immense size of Godzilla and his compatriots, exactly how big is Monster Island?  Also, how plausible s it that Monster Island is in fact Skull Island under a different name?

A common misconception... there is no "Monster Island". However, there is a facility within the Ogasawara Island chain that was designed as "Monsterland" by the United Nations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonin_Islands

As for the inhabitants -

Godzilla
Minilla (Godzilla's offspring)
Anguirus
Rodan
Mothra
Varan
Baragon
Spiga
Manda
Gorosaurus

They are enclosed by special "scientific barriers" tuned to the specific instincts of the monsters.

As far as navigational charts show, Skull Island, as discovered by Carl Denham is the same Skull Island visited by Commander Carl Nelson on his UN Submarine, and later by Dr. Who in his helicopters, is not in the Bonin chain. It is in fact somewhere further south, but the location is known only to a few men. Though Skull Island is theorized to be within the vicinity of Easter Island. The same can be said for Obelisk Island (home of Gappa the Triphibian Monster). While Pleasure Island, (Where baby Gappa was to be an attraction) and Infant Island (Home of Mothra) and Odo Island (where the survivors of Godzilla's ship attacks washed ashore) are located within the Bonin chain.

* Is awed *

Thanks for that:)

[jrderego]

Will Godzilla and Megalon ever confess their forbidden love, or will they continue to live in denial until death separates them a final time?

Unfortunately, Megalon succumbed to a bad Pyrethrin habit some years ago following a disastrous tryst with Gigan.

[jrderego]

why do giant sea creatures fair well against mothra's sonic attack but not so much against rap trios?

It's funny you bring that up. The Intergalactic video was based on this.

[wintermute]

3. Would King Kong think that the 50 Foot Woman was hot?

Probably as much as you think regular female gorillas are hot.

[stePH]

3. Would King Kong think that the 50 Foot Woman was hot?

Probably as much as you think regular female gorillas are hot.

He seems to have a thing for human women that fit in the palm of his hand, so why not one that's actually to scale?

[deflective]

It's funny you bring that up. The Intergalactic video was based on this.

good to know, wiki updated