hey ABB, thanks for cleaning up the work I did on yellowback's page for journey to monster island, really appreciate it. I'm gonna try and make it consistent with rattler's page by adding some of your recent changes to his pgae
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Sure, happy to help! I read those books endlessly as a kid and it's nice to see their associated pages grow.
that must've been fun being able to see them come out during the 90s. idk why but something about those snakes intrigued me enough to want to finish their pages (which I also plan to do for sasori), and I plan to finish yellowback sometime this week. all that's left is space monster for him
I actually got the last three Ciencin books at a thrift store around 2004 (and didn't get my hands on the first one until I was in college). Anyways, good show!
oh wow lucky, crazy to think that that's still before by time. honestly I would have loved for the Ciencin books to continue, they were like a mash of heisei and showa which is really charming to me. a shame a certain blockbuster bombed and caused it to be stopped prematurely (well that's the reason for the Cerasini book being canned but I think its safe to assume it would apply to a potential Ciencin sequel to space monster)
I'm sure I would've enjoyed further installments, but I thought Space Monster was a fine finale. Still one of my favorite depictions of Ghidorah (not to mention Monster Island and its bickering inhabitants).
oh space monster was a good way to end it, I don't disagree there. I just love the reinterpretations of the kaiju in the series, treating them more as characters than the Cerasini books did. Part of why I wish it got another novel is the fact that it was willing to make its own creations as well as use some of the lower scale kaiju as its front runners (ie Kamacuras and Varan). Ghidorah being mostly based on his showa incarnation is great too because ever since the 2010s it's been nothing but heisei ghidorah. Even if he was commanded by the Meteor crystal thing in Space Monster, he was at least allowed to have personality like in his debut, it's like a mix of three-headed monster and astro-monster
finished making it consistent
hey ABB, wanted to revisit this thread because I finally found a means to read Godzilla vs. the robot monsters. I'm gonna try and update pages accordingly, but I also wanted to know if you have a copy on the off chance you're able to help me out with it
Yep, I have copies of all the Random House stories. I don't have a ton of time for a new project right now, but I can certainly offer my takes on given scenes. Get ready to learn how much Cerasini hates stadium subsidies!
wuh oh, sounds like I'm in for a trip then
ok so I did have a question about something. I have read the prior novels and I think the Rodan from world's end becomes fire rodan in robot monsters. but I saw your edit reverted the changes and I had to ask, does him being called fire rodan not qualify, cause unleashed counts and it specifically calls him fire rodan? the novel also specifically uses fire rodan's copyright icon and he uses his uranium heat beam too, so i'm just wondering what the criteria is
Oh, I didn't realize about the copyright icon; that may make things trickier. However, the page isn't exclusively for Fire Rodan, and that version of the character isn't treated as a distinct being like, say, Mecha-King Ghidorah is in some stories. Regarding the video game list: when those were done some time ago, I believe we were counting any appearance of a monster that carried over a film design as an appearance by that incarnation, hence the previous Pipeworks games being listed on the Rodan (Heisei) page as well. That may not be ideal. (Sorry for the vagaries!)
oh I see, well to be fair I think unleashed also uses the fire rodan's name and copyright (cause destroy all monsters melee and save the earth he was just Rodan). but yeah its a weird situation, don't worry about the vagueness
Side note I thought might be worth mentioning: the GI Rodan also has a Fire Rodan form rather different in nature to the Heisei one. I was considering changing the Fire Rodan redirect to a disambiguation page but since most of those links would be redlinks I didn't (I also wasn't sure how to word it, particularly regarding the Cerasini one if we even decided it qualified for a page).