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Who Am I?
My Life As A Godzilla Fan
2005
At a young age, most kids are introduced into the world(s) of Superhumans from the likes of Marvel and DC. While I did grow up with superheroes, there was a world that left a much “bigger” impact on my life and still lingers today...the world of Monsters...Behemoths...Giants...Titans...Kaiju...take the name as you see. But what sparked my interest in giants actually came from the 1993 film, Jurassic Park. Besides the characters and the story, I love the movie because of its CGI and practical effects, they truly made dinosaurs feel awesome and alive again. I would often spend most weekends on the Syfy channel, watching cheap monster movies like DinoShark, DinoCroc, and even Sharktopus.
This also introduced me into the hobby of mythological creatures from the likes of dragons, or any other cryptids such as Bigfoot and the Chupacabra.
2006
I don’t really remember that much from that specific day. But what I do remember is that my mom came home with four movies which introduced me into the world of Godzilla, along with his destructive friends and foes . These movies were: Mothra vs. Godzilla, Godzilla 2000: Millennium, GODZILLA (1998), and my all-time favourite: Terror of Mechagodzilla. She assumed that I would show some interest in them because the covers of the movie featured a “giant dinosaur” of some sort. So, I watched all four of those films, and I absolutely loved them. However, my opinion of these films have changed in later years.
2007
Since then, movie stores from the likes of Blockbuster became one of my favourite stores to visit, as they did provide various Godzilla films from the Showa (Ebirah, Horror of the Deep, Godzilla vs. Hedorah, Godzilla vs. Gigan, and Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla) and Millennium series ({Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack, Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S., and Godzilla: Final Wars). But even time I watch a film, I would always use those tiny plastic dinosaurs to act as the monsters and bash them together as they fight. I specifically remember using a green Compsognathus figure to act as Godzilla, a tiny butterfly figure as Mothra, and a grey pachycephalosaurus as Mechagodzilla. But one day on Christmas, I received a Bandai Creations Godzilla (1954), which honestly surprised me, because I didn’t know Godzilla figures existed until now
It was one of my happiest moments of my childhood, as I had an actual figurine of my childhood hero...but that didn’t last long as I lost it after a few months.
2008
In less of a year, I lost the figure. And the thing is, I don’t know where I left it. I was incredibly sad about this but luckily that didn’t last long as my mom got me another Godzilla figure (Bandai Creations Godzilla 2001). I would take that thing in the bathtub with me but the downside of it was that water would get in the figure, so I would have to remove the tail to drain it. It was a pain in the ass to get it back on. But unfortunately I lost it but it didn’t bother me this time. On Christmas Eve my brother got me another Godzilla figure (Bandai Creations Godzilla 2004) and promised myself not to lose it (Funfact: Its still on my shelf to this day but in bad condition).
2009-2010
Of course being a Godzilla fan, it did leave me a few options in terms of friends with the same interests, at least where I was. My mom applied me for a camp called “Camp Cheerful” and that is where I met my best friend AlphaRper who also had an interest in Godzilla. We spent the whole summer together and we even kept in touch by giving me his moms phone number. We would schedule get togethers from time to time, and my mom became good friends with his mom so my mom got her email address. I even went back next summer however there was sudden rift between us and I don’t even know what caused that. That rift caused us to lose contact with one another for 5 years. This rift also changed my interests entirely, I suddenly wasn’t interested in Godzilla anymore and that gap was slowly filled up with LEGO.
2012-2015
One day, my mom called me down and showed me a trailer and was shocked to see that it was for an upcoming American reboot of Godzilla. That reignited my love for Godzilla and that caused me to look for my Godzilla 2004 figure for the next hour and I slowly got into collecting figures eventually getting into the SH Monsterarts line in 2015. Anyways May 16, came around and I came out of the theatre smiling like an idiot. My mom informed me that she had AphaRpers mom’s email address and I could talk to AlphaRper again. We both got Skype and kept in contact ever since.
2017-2018
It wasn’t long before I would see AlphaRper in person again as we both planned to go to Chicago for G-Fext XXIV and it was an amazing time. We both met one of the Directors (Shinji Higuchi) of Shin Godzilla and got my Shin Godzilla figures tag signed by him. And Alpha did the same. I even went back next year for G-Fests 25th anniversary and got my Hedorah figure signed by Kenpachiro Satsuma but this time Alpha couldn’t make it.
2019
Since then, I have a great collection of figures, own almost all the movies and even got into the Ultraman and Gamera series. Personal favourite Gamera film would include Gamera 2: Attack of Legion, as for Ultraman its Ultraman Geed. I’ve been watching so many monster films so much (including the ones you see on SyFy) that I’ve understood and accepted each film despite its flaws, no movie is perfect. Love or hate these films but one thing that we agree on is that giant monsters are f*cking awesome, nothing is going to change that. The G-community is a bit derisive when it comes to “which Godzilla movie is the best” or “which is the strongest incarnation”, honestly I don’t care about that stuff. I have my opinions and they have theirs, so we should respect that.
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The Bigger They Are, The Harder I Fight
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Fusion Rise, Legendary Godzilla! Shin Godzilla! Primal Godzilla!
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Would you like a......Bio-latte!
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My Collection
Figures
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Godzilla (2014) Japan Blu-Ray set
Video/Board Games
Movies
Posters
Books/Comics
Medalions
My Favourite Godzilla Films
Reviews
King Kong (1933)
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Son of Kong (1933)
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Godzilla (1954)
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Godzilla Raids Again (1955)
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King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)
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Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964)
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Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964)
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Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)
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Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966)
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Son of Godzilla (1967)
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Destroy All Monsters (1968)
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All Monsters Attack (1969)
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Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971)
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Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972)
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Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973)
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Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974)
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Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)
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King Kong (1976)
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The Return of Godzilla (1984)
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King Kong Lives (1986)
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Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989)
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Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991)
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Godzilla vs. Mothra (1992)
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Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993)
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Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla (1994)
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Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995)
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GODZILLA (1998)
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Godzilla 2000: Millennium (1999)
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Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000)
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Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001)
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Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002)
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Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (2003)
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Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)
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King Kong (2005)
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Godzilla (2014)
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Kong: Skull Island (2017)
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Shin Godzilla (2016)
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Godzilla:Planet of the Monsters (2017)
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Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle (2018)
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Godzilla: The Planet Eater (2018)
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
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Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)
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