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Just got the Sakai GMK Goji Appearance #2

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  • Member since
    November 2005
Posted by Anonymous on Friday, June 25, 2004 4:15 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by unsc_shipworks

Larry, I'm surprised that you even watch Godzilla movies anymore if you seem to dislike them so much.


I didn't say I dislike them, I said they are terrible.

QUOTE: I know it's a matter of individual taste, but even some of the "worst" Godzilla movies I've found are more entertaining and watchable than the typical Hollywood


Definitely a matter of individual taste, as I can't imagine any American movie as awful as your average Godzilla movie being allowed to direct-to-vid, forget about a theatrical release.
  • Member since
    July 2003
  • From: Philippines
Posted by Dwight Ta-ala on Thursday, June 24, 2004 6:50 PM
Wow, Mutants, UFO and gigantic monsters...in one movie?

Sounds like X-men, Independence Day and Jurassic Park rolled in one. I wonder if they are going to release it internationally. I want to see it, too.

  • Member since
    February 2003
  • From: Tochigi, Japan
Posted by J-Hulk on Thursday, June 24, 2004 12:11 PM
Some of the films are great, some not so great...but I love 'em all! They each have their own individual charm.

Here's a translation (not mine) of the story from the "Kensforce"
Godzilla-Final Wars webpage: http://www.kensforce.com/Godzilla_Final_Wars_2004.html

QUOTE: Repeated wars and nuclear tests... too advanced science broke the earth's environment and woke up the sleeping giant kaijus. The era that humans fight each other has ended, and the new era that humans fight against the menace of Kaijus has began---the "Earth Defence Force" was born. From a few years ago, the existance of "mutants" ,super humans who have special powers, were confirmed all over the world. The earth defence force organized an anti-Kaiju squad with the mutants. They called the squad "M kikan (M-Force)"

In 20xx, a mummy of a giant kaiju is salvaged in the north sea of Hokkaido. Shinichi Ozaki, a mutant soldier of the M-Force, investigates the mummy with Miyuki Otonashi who is a biologist sent from the UN.

At that time, Kaijus appear in cities all over the world simultaneously! New York, Paris , Shanghai, Sydney -- Kaijus appear one after another!

The earth defence force invests the full war potential, but they can only fight defensively because of too many kaijus.

Among the world-wide confusion, an airplane of Naotarou Daigo, who is a Secretary General of the UN disappears.

The earth defence force fights desperately, but cannot defeat the kaijus. Ozaki, who arrives on the sight of a kaiju arrival, strives to fight against the kaiju with another mutant soldier Kazama by using their super physical powers.

Among the intensive battles all over the world, UFOs suddenly appear in the sky, and eliminate the kaijus. UFOs are concentrated above the base camp of the earth defence force in Japan, and Daigo, the missing Secretary General of the UN appear from the UFOs. He suggests a friendly term with the aliens who introduce themselves as "X-seijin(X-Aliens)". The heads of the world decide to form an alliance with the X-Aliens.

However, Ozaki and Miyuki have a doubt about X-Aliens and researched their nature with Miyuki's elder sister Anna. While researching, they ask assitance from the captain of "Kaitei Gunkan Gouten-gou (Atragon)". Now the final wars of Ozaki and his companions on the Atragon start!

Godzilla keeps sleeping in the ice of south pole at that time ......


Sounds like a good start to me!

Should be a rollicking good time. I haven't seen any pix of the kaiju yet, other than the concept art.

Destroy All Monsters 2004!
~Brian
  • Member since
    November 2005
Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, June 24, 2004 11:31 AM
Yeah, I buy quite a few of my kits through XOFACTO too. There are other dealers I sometimes buy from, but XOFACTO is always reliable.

Larry, I'm surprised that you even watch Godzilla movies anymore if you seem to dislike them so much. I know it's a matter of individual taste, but even some of the "worst" Godzilla movies I've found are more entertaining and watchable than the typical Hollywood spfx "blockbuster". GMK was a good movie...but it had its flaws as well. If you consider Godzilla films to be "absolutely terrible", then count your blessings that you haven't seen the countless films that come out each year that are much worse. I don't know how many times I've gone to the video rental place and stared at the new release wall and thought to myself, "I'd rather be home watching GODZILLA VS MEGALON or even GAMERA VS ZIGRA than paying to rent anything on this shelf!!!"
  • Member since
    November 2005
Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, June 22, 2004 9:44 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by J-Hulk

I'm wondering what nuttiness we have in store for us this December with Godzilla: Final Wars.
Lotsa monsters, that's for sure!
Check 'em out at this link:



Thanks for the link. I just can't get into the baroquely-ornate anime Godzilla. Let him die, as far as I'm concerned. Tongue [:P] And the movies themselves have been absolutely terrible lately, even worse than usual. Overall, I'm really disappointed that the 2002 Goji was just a fluke, and now thet are back to animezilla and his mind-numbing adventures.

I don't read Japanese. What's the plot?
  • Member since
    March 2003
  • From: Newport News VA
Posted by Buddho on Tuesday, June 22, 2004 9:41 AM
That is a wicked looking one...Hope ya post photos of it done.

Regards, Dan

  • Member since
    February 2003
  • From: Tochigi, Japan
Posted by J-Hulk on Tuesday, June 22, 2004 9:31 AM
That's a cool kit, Larry! (As are all the Sakai pieces)
I'm with you 100% about GMK...G at his most brutal!

I'm wondering what nuttiness we have in store for us this December with Godzilla: Final Wars.
Lotsa monsters, that's for sure!
Check 'em out at this link:

http://www.godzilla.co.jp/
~Brian
  • Member since
    November 2005
Just got the Sakai GMK Goji Appearance #2
Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, June 22, 2004 8:31 AM
Got it from XOfacto, the company that specializes in selling rare Japanese godzilla models. Sakai is apparently involved somehow or other with the design of the godzillas for the movies, and also sells a small number of his own model-size sculpts of Gojira and friends.

The latest is his second appearance of Godzilla kit from the movie Godzilla Mothra Kingghidora -- the first appareance is when Goji comes out of the sea and sends that fishing boat flying. (Sakai did a kit of that too.) The second appearance is when he arrives from the other side of a hill and crushes a bunch of annoying picture-taking tourists. (Even the Japanese are annotyed by the Japanese obsession with taking pictures.) He then goes on to kill the ridiculous-looking Baragon.

Here's a url to a scan of the ad run in a hobby magazine announcing the kit:
http://www.xofacto.com/preview/sakai_godz.jpg

You can buy it with the mountain side, but that cost a total fortune. I just bought the goji himself. This is my favorite recent design of godzilla, and the movie has a special place in my heart, as it was actually half-way decent as a movie, a rare thing, and godzilla actually kills the other monsters -- blasts them to pieces with his death ray. In other words, in this movie, they actually remember to have things happen.

The kit itself is very nicely cast in the following pieces:

1) head
2) lower jaw
3) teeth and inner mouth for upper jaw
4) tongue
5) body
6) left arm
7) right arm
8) left leg
9) right leg
10) lower tial
11) upper tail

plus the normal assemblage of death-ray fins for his back and upper tail.

One remarkable thing is how waxy the resin is. This sounds bad, but I really like it! It's firm, but not brittle, so it was a snap trimming off the very modest amount of excess resin from the join areas on the legs, which I tried just to see how it would go. Or I should say, it was not a snap! We all kow that's the biggest problem with resin -- losing parts of the piece you need when you are trimming parts yo do not need. Anyway, a big thumbs up for the resin.

The goji appears to be a bit bigger than the small gojis that Kaiyodo released, and a bit smaller than the next bigger ones. -- I estimate it will be around 9-10" tall.

All told, a great kit. I think 75 were made, altogether. All have been sold, but many of those will have been sold for resale. If you want one, remember that these are hard to find, and are generally pretty pricy. You can find them on eBay, though, or try xofacto, as john often snags kits here or there and posts them for sale. The Sakai's go fast though. If you are loopy enough to collect them, John's website is generally the way to get them, as he advance orders the annouced kits and has Sakai ship them direct to him.
http://www.xofacto.com

Cheers!
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