Megalon

Destroyer was kind of crazy.

I don't remember which of us played this character, but we always liked Megalon because you could like dig underground and then you'd come up underneath the person and like spin them.

And it was so hard to avoid that attack.

And that was the thing where like, you have to stop, like you have to play a different character.

I love Jet Jaguar.

Megalon is my favorite of that era.

The Showa era? Yeah, aside from the original.

We were watching them at the same time,

Is this

Megalon? Because I had Megalon.

I still have Megalon on VHS over there.

I watched that one way too many times.

That's the bug, right?

No, that's the stuff that Adam Driver comes up with in Megalopolis.

I think Megalon's the bug, right? Megaguirus is also a bug, but it's like a giant dragonfly.

I've watched that one so many times.

So we'll be covering the ones from 2020 to 2024.

Specifically, Godzilla appears at Godzilla Fest in 2020, Godzilla vs. Hedorah in 2021, Godzilla vs. Gigan Rex in 2022, Godzilla vs. Megalon in 2023, Gods- Fest- G- Godzilla Fest III: Gigan Attacks in 2022, Godzilla Fest 4: Operation Jet Jaguar in 2023, and Godzilla Fest 5: All Monsters Showdown in 2024.

If you want to watch these yourselves, the shorts for Godzilla vs. Gigan Rex and Godzilla vs. Megalon are available on the official Toho YouTube channel at the time of this recording.

The other shorts, well, Toho had them on their channel, and then they privated them because then they started selling the Blu-ray for the official Fest Godzilla shorts.

As far as I can tell, it was not released in the West, so even for official Godzilla media released in the 2020s, there is already a question of media preservation.

The next short we're gonna talk about, I assume he only had a year to work on that one, but it looks just as good.

Yeah.

But by the way, audience, if you want to see what we're talking about, this short, Godzilla vs Gigan Rex, and the next short, Godzilla vs Megalon, are available on the official Toho YouTube, as I said, at the, the time of this recording.

For sure, make more money.

It would be a Godzilla podcast talking about Megalon every week for a year.

Oh, hear me out.

and Mere Deer.

There you go.

Murder.

The Murder Megalon.

We were constantly kicking ideas back and forth.

This might be the same situation then that's sort of fuzzy from that period, but it has been mentioned that there was sort of an untold chapter envisioned with Godzilla burrowing down from where he'd been buried with the Devonian kingdom and fighting Megalon in the center of the earth before reemerging in the Arctic the way that he does in issue 13.

So was there any ever intention to dramatize that which just kind of fell through? Or is that more of an afterthought retroactively, "Oh, well, it's too late now, but we should have done that," and that's what we figure in our heads happened, you know, but by the time we thought of that, we'd already had him come back, so we can't do that now.

That sounds like an idea that maybe Chris had that I just don't remember very strongly, 'cause we were kicking around a lot of ideas for Megalon.

Like, there was a whole...

I think Chris really did wanna use Megalon from the start, so that definitely sounds like an idea that he probably threw out there.

I had a different idea for Megalon, which is closer to what we wound up using, which was another idea that a friend came up with of, like, Megalon and King Caesar fighting.

We had so many ideas we threw back and forth.