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@Danzilla93 Wait, the Japanese version of KKvsG can be easily seen now!? I thought it was never released outside of Japan! YOU MUST TELL ME WHERE TO FIND IT.

You do know that there are flares that are glowing bright red right by Godzilla right? 

Yes i see wings and a body.

Wait how does that make it rodan?

Well, Gareth alreay expressed that he wanted to do a sequel like DESTROY ALL MONSTERS, so I'd say it's a safe bet.

toho would have to repurchase the rights to king kong and I don't see them doing that. They wanted to remake kk vs. g in the 90s but decided the asking price for kong was too much

Lol@GodzillaFan1995.Just the scene where he blows away 'Zilla' near the Sydney Opera House...

Godzilla is everywhere in Pop Culture, had been for a very longtime. I don't see how someone would not know of it even if they don't like the movies. 

you showed them final wars, you fool, that is a godzilla fan movie, you should've shown them GMK 

I agree with Madison. I watched the trailer with friends who were not 'educated on Godzilla' and knowing that I'm into all things comic-booky, were asking me about the origins of Godzilla, who the other monsters are...etc.

Yeah, some people mention the 1998 face palm....but I assure them that was no way in in hell Godzilla King of the Monsters as I press play on Godzilla Final Wars DVD to show them his true bad-assery!

madison is very right, even the fake or short lived fans are good becuase 1. they show that the movie is good and 2. even if they are not 'true fans' they do make the movie more succesful, some may even become permantant gfans, altough that depends if they like the older movies.

There haven't been too many comments like that that I've seen. Overall response has pretty positive, which is good. I just wish the response was a little LARGER. X-Men and Spiderman are averaging 25 million views per trailer.

Such comments are obviously allowed to annoy you on the inside. 

But on the outside be sure to put a calm and friendly foot forward.

We need to make sure we don't follow in the footsteps of other fandoms and get so hung up on 'being right' and correcting them that we forget to be friendly. Nothing will sink Godzilla 2014 faster than fanboys alienating the lay audience that needs to show up for the movie to make money. We need to persuade them to go see it, not drive them away with nerdgasmic rage. 

That being said, yeah, some of those comments annoy the crap out of me. I recently had somebody tell me the trailer turned him off because he thought it was unrealistic/over the top that the nukes DIDN'T kill Godzilla.............it's....ah....that's THE POINT. IT"S A RADIOACTIVE MONSTER>>>>A PARABLE AGAINST NUCLEAR TESTING>>>>>>OF COURSE NUKES WON'T KILL HIM>>>>>>>DO YOU KNOW NOTHING YOU BANDWAGONING MORON?????.....that's not what I told him....but that's how it made me feel.

@Madison Thanks for our reply. I think one of the reasons Pacific Rim did not perform at the box office as well as the studios thought it would was because it was a new property that no-one had heard of. The general audience after seeing trailers and promotional art just cast it off as a Transformers offspring. This is not the case for Godzilla, the last major cinematic release for our favourite king of the monsters (not including Japanese productions) was Emmerichs attempt, and I hope Gareth Edwards will do a 'Christopher Nolan' and reinvigorate the franchise 'a la Batman Begins'...how fantastic would it be if Godzilla became the 'hero that we fear most...but the one we need right now!'...cut to credits...

But you're right, after people watched Pacific Rim and word of mouth spread of how awesome it was, it started to gain popularity (too bad it was beaten by Grown Ups 2 when it was released...really people?)

really i think they are just joking, not mocking it, besides a lot of non gfans have reacted to the new trailer better than the teaser trailer.

I don't know how is in other countries, but in Guatemala, the most famous Godzilla is that of Hanna-Barbera. Zilla is just remembered very far away, but the famous Godzilla with Godzooki is the top one in the mind of people. Besides, as "Godzilla 2000" was presented in the country, some people have an idea of the actual Japanese big G, appart from the well stablished groups of fans of the Japanese culture (Otakus).

The real problem is not Zilla, but the Power Rangers!!! Yes, many people think in silly suits and paper buildings when you mention Japanese Godzilla, that is the real deal with the big G in my country.

I have one particular dumbass at my highschool that will randomly shout: GODZILLA

I think he thinks its and insult...but....idono

there are afew monsters they need to put in the next godzilla game such as,

king kong, ZILLA, gorosaurus, and monster x (which like mothra can turn into king kaeser.

@GuateGojira

Yeah! i can totally see the similarities between the kodiak Bear and the new Godzilla. Especially the overal pose and the tilting of the head when roaring. :)

Well, as many of you have said, the actual 350ft figure really doesn't matter as much as how large he looks in various scenes, which unfortunatly won't be scaled correctly or consistently.

That being said, he is considerably larger than this figure in pratically every scene shown so far.  In a two scenes in particular, he is shown as being much larger than 350ft. 

Furthermore,  just adding as little as 25ft to the height changes the overall mass if the creature exponentially.

Some of the numbers I have seen thrown out (800ft) are over the top, but if the trailers are attempting to demonstrate accurate size, he far exceeds 350ft. 

March 3rd.  Typo. :)

I went to FOUR stores today loking for this magazine, and couldn't find it! :( I talked to the lady at Barnes & Noble and she said they would get it March 1st.  So I have until Monday to let my excitement build up!  But afer a day looking for this thing, seing these pages has been awesome!  Thanks for posting them!

By the way, I insist, this new Godzilla looks like a huge Kodiak bear, check this image and compare them with him:

If for some odd reason, the number 984 is mentioned in the film, you *might* be on to something

Where did you get 984 from?

GODZILLAFAN1995: You are right, the accident is modern and the investigation is what probably lead Brody to discover what MUTO has been hidding since 1954.

BIGBADBEN: From my point of view, the size is still speculative, but as you can see, there are allready two articles that states the size at 350 ft high. Maybe Toho kingdom don't have this new article yet, but if the magazine's source was Edwards himself, then this heigh should be treated like the "official" one, for the moment.

Interesting, Edwards say that this Godzilla have a face like a bear or a dog. In fact, I think that it looks more like a tiger or a jaguar, which had short muzzles, cat like face and large zygomatic arches that create a huge strengt in the bite. The only reptile with this type of head is the T. rex.

Tempted to read this, but I sort of want to buy the magazine myself... I'm sure I'll return to this thread after a trip to the book store.

My faith in this movie is mostly from how audiences have accepted more nerd-driven franchise material as of recent. Iron Man, Captain America and Thor have been fully embraced with the Avengers. Doctor Who is has some crazy mass following now days. Transformers, a geeky toyline, is now one of the most anticipated movie franchises of all time... the list goes on.

I hope that kind of attitude is evident with Godzilla. If so it will be successful. If not... Well, there's always China...

@guategojira

yeah you could be right also if this is godzilla's official height (not saying that it is not) i am wondering why toho kingdom's forum has not yet revealed it. not trying to argue over this but the facts are there with this magazine and also total magazine. like i said it is the CGI effects that made him look bigger than 350 feet to me but like its says on this magazine as well 350 feet so we all need to deal with it. and what also is throwing me off is bryan cranstons speech "it wasnt an earthquake, it wasnt a typhoon." so this godzilla is so massive that he can i guess create minature earthquakes?

The cast was mediocre at best. Matthew Brodrick is typically a good actor, but this movie torpedoed his career for a good decade until The Producers. It's not so much his acting that bites as it is his character. He's fairly uninteresting. This might have been the point, but he never breaks out of that mold. He never does anything truly heroic that changes his character for the better.

Maria Pitillo might have been up for a Worst Actress Razzie award that year. I can't remember. (EDIT: Just looked it up. My guess was right. She won worst actress of the year.) Even if she wasn't, she was downright awful. Her career has been forgetful at best since the movie. She's appeared several canceled TV series and as a guest actress in others. There's nothing redeeming about her.

Hank Azaria needs to stick to comedic roles and voice acting. Although he wasn't bad, he represents a part of the movie that contradicts itself: The fun that's failed by the supposed title creature. If the movie was as entertaining as he was attempting to be it might of worked. Otherwise he comes off as a mindnumbingly stupid and hard to watch.

Jean Reno is the only actor and character I can say nice things about. His character was no nonsense and combated the threat with a seriousness that echoed characters played by Akira Takarada, Akira Kubo, Akihito Hirata and Takashi Shimura. Even if the movie was just going to be fun, we needed more characters with the weight he carried into the situation.

The rest of the movie is scattered with mindless sub-characters, substandard acting and baffling roles. I'm not entirely sure how Hicks made it into the military and the Siskel and Ebert characters were a massive waste of space. If you're going to take jabs at critics, give the audience want they want to see out of it. Have a building fall on them or the monster crush them. Don't just do nothing with them.

BIGBADBEN: Check that this Godzilla, although just slightly taller than the Heisei era, is much more massive. If Heisei G weighed 60,000 tons, then this new G could probably weight up to 100,000 tons! It is just my especulation, but based in the presented images.

japan didn't have nuclear plants in 54, it is a modern nulcear powerolant 'accident', you know that power plant that crumbled in the trailer.

Hell Toho helped with the movie and is advertising it in Japan, what does that tell you?

I admit that when I was little all I wanted to see was Godzilla but now that I'm older I appreciate the human part as well. I just hope they show enough Godzilla too but the New Traitler gives me so much hope

It is a pleasure my friends, after all, we ALL are Godzilla fans!!!

Check what GodzillaFan1995 pointed out in the fourth image (page 3, actually), the synopsis sais something about an accident in Japan (1954) at a nuclear plant.

LYNK: Your argument sort of refutes itself. You say: 

1. Godzilla's trailer is making the movie look different from Pacific Rim

2. Audiences want to see another Pacific Rim

3. I don't want to Godzilla to fail like Pacific Rim did. 

It's just kind of backwards in that if Pacific Rim failed, that's evidence that audiences DO NOT want to see another Pacific Rim. Therefore, Godzilla separating itself from Pacific Rim is a GOOD thing.

As a side note; technically Pacific Rim didn't fail. It did 'OK'. But I feel your concern, Godzilla needs to do better than just 'OK' if we are going to get a sequel. 

To that end, I don't think you need to worry about Godzilla's perception vs Pacific Rim. Nor do I think you need to worry about what people will think AFTER they leave the theatre. I believe most people will like the movie if they go see it. 

The big obstacle is getting people to GO SEE IT. In order to get people to see it, Godzilla's main opponent isn't Pacific Rim.....it's Godzillla. Or rather, the general public's perception of Godzilla. 

If people are going to see this movie, then we/Legendary/WB have to make people aware of this movie, and let them know that it is going to be unlike any Godzilla movie they have ever seen before. Which the trailer did a good job of that. 

Long story short. That trailer helped. It didn't hurt. Godzilla advertising doesn't need to/shouldn't try and dress itself up as Pacific Rim. 

thanks for sharing, im just curious on how much this bad boy is going to weigh.

WOW! He's huge! Thank you for sharing! :D

amazing bro! I love you for sharing this!

they aren't the fairies, and is not even an easter egg, they are firefighters, but im still believing that the movie will have a lot of easter eggs.

This is really good, thank you! I thought I would never get to read it for myself, so this is greatly appreciated.

i'm really interested in the story synopsis on the 3rd image on the left hand side

yes i completly agree godzillafan1995, this movie will be insane i can not wait to experience this in 3-D XD