why is hedorah the most popular monster ever all of a sudden

i can't even remember what zilla flix i saw when i was a lad. i'm going to my netflix now. BOOM!

 

top kaiju in my book:

rodan
king ghidorah
gigan
mecha
king seeser

 

Rodan kicks ass. I recently saw a photo that my mother has of my 6th. birthday party with a big huge Rodan with opened wings. The thing looks as big as I am. Plus a cool Incredible Hulk inflatable chair. Love that picture

 

Just to add some sense to my last post, the Rodan is a toy that i'm holding in the photo.

 

I'm with you on that Paul. These toys appeal to me so much because they tickle my nostalgia bone. When I hold a Gamera toy I am instantly transported back to my childhood. The other non-character based toys like the fight stuff is very cool and I can dig it but it's not the same for me. I really need to know the character to fully enjoy the toy.

They're definately making stuff I wished for as a kid!

 

i was just at a secret meeting... the consensus is that hedorah isn't cool anymore.

meet your new favorite toy:

 

Great meeting this week Bryan. Thanks for bringing the donuts, but would it kill you to get a couple of extra with jelly? That guy from the Carlyle Group always hogs them all.

Pikachu world domination in '06! Pika! Pika!

 

ixnay on the arlyle-cay oup-gray!!!

 

Oh crap! I can't find my decoder ring....

 

I think Jet Jaguar has been gaining fast recently.

 

that's because he's got that aerodynamic head that cuts through the wind.

 

......and a cool theme song

 

For me the appeal is the shear ugliness that makes Hedorah beautiful, he creeped me out a lot as a kid, being this very ugly monster that wanted to burn the skin off people and choke them on smog. To me there was really no super ugly misfit monster like him that the Big G fought. Most of the Big G’s villains mostly wanted to fight him, but Hedorah seemed to want to kill people, at least as a kid it hit home for me. His figs as gorgeous, because he’s so alien and ugly. I love him a lot.