Toho Godzilla Suit 16
KiryuGoji (2002)
- Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla
- Godzilla × Mothra × Mechagodzilla: Tokyo SOS
Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla
For the film Godzilla Against MechaGodzilla, Toho decided to stray away from Shusuke Kaneko’s Godzilla design and go back to the look of the MireGoji/GiraGoji design. This new version, dubbed KiryuGoji, did however go under some pretty obvious changes from those two previous designs.
- The head was made smallerÂ
- The dorsal plates lost their purplish hue
- Godzilla’s skin returned to the old charcoal black
Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002) – Japanese Trailer (SD)
Smaller Head
The head was completely changed and made smaller to sort of represent the head of the Heisei series Godzilla.
Dorsal Changes
The dorsal plates were reduced a bit and lost their purplish hue, deciding to keep the classic bone-white color, but still remained jagged like the MireGoji/GiraGoji`s dorsal plates.
Green to Grey
Godzilla’s skin also returned from the MireGoji/GiraGoji green to the old charcoal black, Godzilla’s traditional color.
SPECIAL FEATURE
The Making of Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla
In this 30 min video you’ll see every SFX aspect the movie such as…
- The Hideki Matsui baseball scene
- Seeing many filming scenes on set
- Hand-drawn storyboards
- Working with the miniature buildings
- See the actors get into the suits
- And so much more!
KiryuGoji Suit Reference Images
The screencaps were captured from the Sony Blu-ray and the rest were found online and/or scanned in from magazines and books. Some of the images may have been modified to see the textures more easily.
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