What almost was the American Godzilla of the 1990s, Stan Winston School of Arts have shared some never before seen photos from their time on the canceled American Godzilla film from 1994. Instead, what we got was Roland Emmerich's take on the King of Kaiju in 1998, which introduced a far more controversial design for Godzilla and - no additional Monsters.
Below are concepts of both Godzilla (which we have seen in various forms before) and a new Monster, named the Gryphon from the Stan Winston Studios archive:








What do you think of these Godzilla and Gryphon designs? Would you have preferred this to the 1998 Godzilla? Sound off in the comments!
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