This is why I don't care if Godzilla isn't serious or goofy. Growing up in this era was a nightmare, no new Godzilla content, no new Godzilla games, no reruns of the classic Toho films, people would mock you for being a Godzilla fan, etc. That's why goofy or serious debate is stupid, because a lot of people didn't grow up during this era or weren't fans back then. So they don't appreciate the content they're giving us right now. I hope Godzilla stays strong!
Please preach. You got people in the community being toxic towards each other and criticizing what they hate, meanwhile they should be celebrating that there’s even content to criticize in the first place. And anyway, the wonderful thing about Godzilla is that it can successfully be many things. Godzilla can be a serious commentary on the consequences of nuclear warfare or it can be fun popcorn beatem up experience.
I'm just happy we're in a kaiju renaissance, people can finally take us seriously again and The sudden rebirth and explosion in kaiju media is great, it's such a good time to be a kaiju fan
I grew up in this time, all of what you said was true, but it ended 10 years and I feel quite strongly about the MV and their tonal shifts have made me less excited each film although GXK was alright. I look at fan art from Owen Kellen/Obamase and Project Monster/ Lost Utopia and I can’t help but wonder just how good we could be eating if this stuff had a Hollywood budget behind it. Toho is gonna do what they want regardless it’s the Reiwa era and theyre experimenting but this corner of Godzilla in the west doesn’t need to emulate Showa when we practically invented our own tone and I miss it because it ended the drought in the first place. We didn’t have a debate about silly vs serious until recently becayee it wasn’t a problem, which means it’s a problem in execution.
I literally grew up in this age. I was born 2004 and was put on by AVGN and monster island buddies. Then saw a pirated cd of 2014. The quality was really bad and the brightness was way darker than the actual movie. But I still fell in love with it and been a huge fan ever since.
Hey, thanks for the shoutout! I appreciate it. My new channel is just a personal one for uploading and sharing stuff with my friends, but I still get the occasional comment asking about the old days. While I’ve long since lost interest in doing toy reviews, it is fun to think about how I’d do them, now that I’m way more knowledgeable and experienced and actually have access to decent video editing software lol.
Also i like how Monster Island Buddies uploaded different types of videos eventually it's really like the channel grew up and matured with the audience
This was my era. As a 2005 kid in Europe Godzilla was nowhere to be found in anything except the internet. My very first "interaction" with Godzilla was an amv video with the Halloween song from nightmare before Christmas. The rest is history
I think you should've also mentioned the NES Godzilla Creepypasta. It came out way back in 2012 and Goji73 did a whole video version of the story. While many would just look at this more as a video game creepypasta and mainly belonging to that category of online horror stories (like Sonic.exe, Ben Drown, Slenderman, or Jeff The Killer), in my opinion, I view this as the height of more Godzilla fan content on the early years of RUclips. It's a story that takes the first Godzilla game Monster of Monsters on NES (which AVGN reviewed) and completely turns into a more engaging action pact game with your typical creepypasta horror elements. Basically a haunted, hacked, or possessed cartridge. It even added more fan created monsters into the Godzilla mythos like Red. It intrigued me back in the day and I think deserves more of a highlight in the Godzilla fan space. Others in both the online horror and Kaiju fan space have also talked about this gaming pasta. Its popularity extended beyond the release of the 2014 film.
We’re working on a separate video on the NES Godzilla Creepypasta. I have a lot to say about it and didn’t want to take away from the main focus of this video.
Monster Island Buddies got me into Godzilla. I discovered his channel around 2019/20 through his video game reviews. I would then watch the 2014 Godzilla movie on netflix, and buy a Godzilla DVD box wich I watched throughout the summer of 2020.
What you talked about was a golden age Now a days we have people talking bad about each other, horrible comic dub click bait trailers and powerscalers yapping about things that no one actually cares about stuff like “tribute to Godzilla vs mechagodzilla” and monster island buddies while looked back on weird now a days is 110% better then the modern content we are getting to a point that the roll of the movies and the fan content have swapped as fan content has now entered the dark ages while the official movies are entered a form of mix of golden age and renaissance with toho and the monster verse
there are two old school godzilla videos that i loved watching non stop as a kid but for whatever reason they've just disappeared and it kills me the first was a speedpaint of godzilla facing off other toho monsters that had the unused 'godzilla vs. tokyo' song for final wars playing the other is a flash animation where godzilla rallies all the toho monsters in an endgame portals like montage to fight some aliens that land on earth it ends with a close up of one of the aliens with a face of pure terror as a tear runs down its cheek as all the kaiju converge. It's called 'Godzilla's Army' but thats about all I can find nowadays hoping this can get some attention because I REALLY want to rewatch those old vids
Dang this time period was so interesting, as a godzilla fan i just rewatched some of the same stuff over and over again since there really wasnt much content around it. I also really liked the music of the movies and in particular I rewatched a video called “Happy Birthday Godzilla” posted in 2006 all the time which was a compilation of all the existing godzilla movies at the time with the godzilla theme playing over it.
The GodzillaThons is more than likely *the* RUclips Godzilla series that got new people exposed to the series between the span between Final Wars and Legendary’s Godzilla. James Rolfe was a big enough name to bring traffic towards this Godziller fella. More people were made aware of the fact there were more Godzillas than the Showa Era and the two post-Showa Toho films that were released in cinemas outside of Japan than they would have before seeing the series. Longtime fans on the internet knew but for everyone else, it was like seeing Season 3 of Beast Wars for the first time and getting the resolution for the Season 2 cliffhanger because some places never got the third season. I remember seeing the whole marathon and becoming aware of the series’ long history at a time that Legendary Godzilla or the idea of a new Godzilla just a murmur just like the return of Crash Bandicoot before 2016-2017. Fun, engaging, informative and a joy to explore a series that you only vaguely knew in passing even if the likes of Big Action Bill’s the History of Godzilla Movies have surpassed it in the years since. In a top ten of series James had done, it’d be up right there.
This video made me tear up so much, when your a Godzilla fan as an 8 year old in 2009 and one else gives af about it, these videos are your escape, I’m so happy to see other people experiencing the same thing, Loved this video.
I still fall asleep with Godzillathon on in the background. Hell, half the time when I fall asleep watching sonething else on RUclips the autoplay will wind up bringing me back to Monster Madness anyway. RUclips knows what's up.
So much nostalgia! Even back during that time in my early 20s I never thought Goji would reach this level of popularity. We are definitely in the golden era
When you reminded me of Godzilla and his Amazing Friends a moment got activated in my brain like that critic guy from Ratatouille. I haven't thought about those videos in years but they were my childhood.
Godzilla-A-Thon was how I became aware of all the films. As I was limited to whatever just randomly aired on cable. I still can’t watch Son of Godzilla without quoting G: “What the f&@k are you doing?” M: “Nothing dad go back to sleep.”
When I was a kid, there was this Godzilla video with that god damn Numa Numa song and I was obsessed with it. I drove my mom nuts with how much I listened to it lol.
I remember those kinds of videos. One in particular that I remember was a montage of Mothra with Around The World (La La La) by A Touch Of Class playing in the background.
I was in elementary school during this era. I was born in 2001 and I remember watching all kinds of Godzilla videos on RUclips, many of which are showcased in this video. I remember watching all the toy reviews, toy fights, animated fights, and even Godzilla Attacks Eden Prairie. When I was in 2nd grade, our class was given an assignment on reporting about multiple characters from a specific franchise we had to choose. This was back in either 2010 or 2011 and my dad got me hooked on Godzilla when he had me watch Godzilla and Mothra: The Battle For Earth. I figured, “Why not do mine on Godzilla?” Godzilla was an interesting entry into the school assignment because it was nowhere near as hugely known a franchise as Star Wars or Pokémon. The only monsters my classmates and teacher recognized were Godzilla, King Kong, and Mechagodzilla. The rest were all obscure to them. I had Mothra on the front cover because at the time, I really liked her (and still do). The teacher asked me in front of the class “Who’s Mothra?” And then I did some explaining. Everybody was speechless. One girl who really liked me didn’t know who Godzilla was until I came along and she would tease me for liking Godzilla. With the immense success of the recent Godzilla media, I wonder what she’s thinking now? It’s safe to say, beginning in 2014, I’ve been killing it as a Godzilla fan. Her as a Monster High fan, not so much.
Plus, the figure fights I remember watching were uploaded by SabufanX and zillagamer. Ghidorah vs Gomora by SamanthaVoorhees is one I fondly remember watching when I was younger.
I can't precisely remember the channel's name (probably something like CJ Productions Inc.), but I would watch their videos a lot. They made videos displaying custom kaiju/toku toys made out of Lego or wood. They even had a few series like a Lego Ultraman one and a crossover between Godzilla and Superman.
Someone's prolly already said this but I feel like this is more of a Golden Age, especially if we're specifically referring to the RUclips side of things. It was an experimental and fun little era for a lot of fans, or the chance to introduce others into the very poorly distributed world of Toho's kaiju. It was a dark age for the Godzilla franchise for sure, but not necessarily on the internet side of things I'd say.
It was a very fun yet strange time growing up in the very early 2000's and being a godzilla fan. I was born in 2003 and at the age of 3 I stumbled across godzilla through a random music video on youtube at the time. Ever since that day I have been a massive godzilla fan. I'm very glad that godzilla is as big as he is today and I honestly feel quite envious whenever I walk into my local supermarket and see godzilla toys line the shelves. That was something I could only ever dream about as a kid growing up in Australia where godzilla was even less popular than most countries at the time. There was barely ever anybody who actually knew who he was besides the few random older people who probably grew up seeing the showa era films. I remember always talking about godzilla at school with my friends or other kids and they had absolutely no idea what I was talking about lmao.
I remember watching monster island buddies on our old family laptop on the couch when I was like 8 or something and ghidorah was humping mothra and the dude just straight up moaned I still feel the embarrassment of my parents hearing that 11 years later
Being 24 and being a fan at age 3 keeping up with what I had throughout the "Dark years" was kinda tough, all I had was the dvds that was available, having Godzilla destroy all monsters melee on GCN and the Bandai America toys to go by, I barely used the internet until the 2010s and this is most of what I saw back in the day and eventually learning there was more Godzilla movies out there thanks to James Rolf blew my mind as a pre teen, Ultraman Cronos and MIB opened my eyes to all the toys that was out there at the time eventually jumping into Rich Eso and Samson West blew the gates wide open. With all that I know and have now, if it wasn't for some of these people, I wouldn't have been as influenced to look and invest into Godzilla more and I don't regret that today.
I remember when I was young I watched a guy called pta 17 or something like that were he would take footage from godzilla usually heisei or the last 2 showa movies and mesh them with footage from ultraman shows they were the first ever tokusatsu videos I ever watched along MMD, GAHAF and Cronos unfortunately all of his videos have been deleted with very few reuploads.Apparently toho forced him to delete them there are to this very day godzilla vs ultra monster videos such as bubba ultra.
Thank you for making this video and acknowledging the positives during this timeframe on RUclips and in general. Growing up in the 2000s as a Godzilla fan, nothing was more fun for me than to watch Godzilla toy battles on RUclips from channels like Tarantula Productions and C.J. Productions Inc. Those types of videos were the D.I.Y. equivalents to rubber suit monsters fighting on soundstages, all embodied in a kind of childhood innocence and love for film making. (There was also the "Godzilla X The Kaiju Killer" movie by Chris Elchesyn, who went as far as to make his own Godzilla suits for the project, which is super inspirational in-and-of itself.) And all of the Godzilla movies were "new" to me while growing up as a Godzilla fan. There was so much to explore throughout all 28 Godzilla films that it never truly felt like there was a lack of Godzilla content, even when new movies were not being made. I also feel like Toho made more of an honest effort during this timeframe to release as many of their Godzilla and Non-Godzilla-Giant-Monster movies on DVD in America, something that is not happening as much now. I feel like looking back on this timeframe and dubbing it as the "Dark Ages" has an immature implication. From my perspective (and I could be wrong), it seems like a lot of things Godzilla fans talk about wanting to own in general - from DVD/Blu-Ray releases of Godzilla and Non-Godzilla Toho Giant-Monster movies to various new Godzilla figures - are tendencies that have carried over from this timeframe.
I remember watching a lot of videos in the very early 2010s on my ipad. At first I just watched dinosaur videos and then I stumbled across I think a godzilla thon video and my life has been changed forever since.
MIB,Godzilla and His Amazing Friends,GojiFan93 and Godzilla-Thon (Both AVGN's and 93's) was what made me a Goji fan, I don't post much about Godzilla but I am getting into stop motion as a concept so I might use some of my SHMA figures and take some concepts from MIB and Goji73's series to make some stuff
I have fond memories of RUclips from those days ! I live in Mexico and back then Godzilla wasn’t even mentioned anymore, so the only way I had to learn about the franchise was on RUclips. I have a deep appreciation for Kaijunomura. He was my inspiration for creating content in Spanish and thanks to him I was able to learn so much about the Godzilla toys ❤
For me, one of the first videos that introduced me to Godzilla related media was a video titled "Happy Birthday Godzilla" by kaijusroyaume. That one video introduced me to the many films that were part of the Godzilla franchise (back then, the concept of a movie franchise was foreign to younger me) and got me hooked to find more Godzilla related videos on the internet. Pre-RUclips, I already had an idea of who Godzilla was courtesy of Godzilla '98 and that one episode from Animal Icons called "It Came From Japan" but Happy Birthday Godzilla was what got me digging deeper into the kaiju rabbit hole.
Does anyone remember that video called Godzilla goes to McDonald’s? And it was a kid doing a voice over of his Godzilla figure at a McDonald’s drive thru?
@@AlTilleyTheBum-pt4mx nah not that one. It was an older video with i believe a heisei figure. Not sure if it even exists anymore but the kid voices both Godzilla and the dude in the drive thru
@@allmightyningen2017 Yeah, I think I remember that one. If I remember correctly, the guy in the drive-thru got attacked and Godzilla was left on a cliffhanger. I’ve tried looking for it, but I’m not sure it exists anymore.
I was going to talk about Deadzilla in this video but it felt wrong and brought the mood down. I’m working on a separate video that’s talking about the small amount of content creators in the Godzilla fandom that have been exposed for degenerate stuff. Deadzilla will definitely be the main focus of that video.
I was so disappointed when Deadzilla got exposed fr. You can talk about the Nerfman vs Luis Duran situation back in 2016. That feud was a crazy and obscure situation. It was the Drake vs Kendrick of the godzilla community in 2016, but it was quite petty and involved hacking/broken friendships.
So I have a RUclips account from 2007, and I was able to look through my comment history to find some interesting videos I haven't thought about in years. Godzilla roar compilations (There were a ton of these but I always listened to the 1954 ones) "Godzilla in Brawl!!!" by "Tom K" which is a poorly edited image of Godzilla in Smash Bros Brawl for 5 seconds "Godzilla vs. Mothra (1964) Main theme" by "KaijuQueenMothra13", an OST video that has a screamer at the end for no reason whatsoever "TOP 13 GODZILLA MONSTERS" by "gydromon" which features a high pitched alien voice counting down the characters "numa numa godzilla" by "octavio abuelito" which is exactly what you expect, Numa Numa with Godzilla footage, has a lot of interesting choices "Godzilla Vs NES Heroes" by "cerebulon", a good old MUGEN video "godzilla movies that got canceled?" by "1fanofgodzilla", this one got me obsessed with the idea of lost, unreleased, or scrapped media
This video has it several soft spots in my heart, I remember watching almost all of these back in the day, in fact my first ever yt video was a mini movie from a now deleted channel called GFW and it was using gamera figures in a makeshift city made from figures boxes lmao
Oooh yeah! I think i know what you're talking about, i've been looking for it a long time now. It's that one video where Godzilla looked like a green humanoid giant iguana right? And both Godzilla & King Kong Had that stock 70's King Kong roar, and there was that weird synth music. Something curious about that animation is that the fighting animation was reused in every other video using the same "engine" (if you can call it like that), i even remember one that was supossedly "Godzills vs Megalon" where Megalon didn't looked like Megalon at all (it looked more like a black'ish skeleton)
0:37 I agree I remeber they was a time were is was dry with Godzilla content it was the same with Chucky. The hardcore fans had to keep it alive on tell they came back. When they did came back it was they told us "Its ok now I got this, thanks for keeping to fort alive while I was gone".
I think Dark Age is more of an apt term because Godzilla media was in bit of a dryspell as it was between Terror of Mechagodzilla and Return of Godzilla. No new film projects were being worked on, the distribution of the films was still spotty with some Heisei and Millennium Era Godzillas not readily available for viewing, Gojira (1954) wouldn’t be available for a few years, Godzilla merch was relegated to specialty shops or as part of an evergreen branding, the SH Monsterarts hasn’t started and if you wanted new Godzilla, you had to turn to the comics or the video games coming out. Can’t comment on the then state of Kaijuwiki because I only experienced the newer version. When the Godzilla RUclips community started coming into being, Final Wars was the most recent film, a second go at an American Godzilla film was relegated to the same developmental status as the Justice League (Before Zack Snyder’s involvement) and the Kaiju genre was in something of a drought during most of the 2000’s in terms of big releases with Gamera the Brave having an underwhelming box office run. I would say the G-Fans were in a similar boat to Trekkers in the 1970’s where Star Trek was in that state of limbo between TOS Season 3 in 1969 and 1979 when The Motion Picture dropped where no new on-screen media was being produced at the time other than a two season low-budget animated series of 22 episodes in 1973-1974. In the meantime, you had to seek out the TOS reruns, go to conventions to see the unaired pilot before it was widely available, pick up the Gold Key Comics and the odd original novel to get your Trek fix. The whole Motion Picture project is a long, spiralling tale of false starts, pay disputes, trying to pitch a good story for the big screen and the movie we got was originally conceived as a story for the unmade Phase 2 series for a new network. The Golden Age started with the 1990’s because Star Trek was no longer in a constant precarious state of dying off as it was throughout the 1980’s including the whole nightmare surrounding The Next Generation’s first two seasons with 1989 being the peak of absolute chaos. For the Golden Age of RUclips Godzilla, that either came about around the late 2000’s where the likes of MIB were coming into prominence or near the mid-2010’s when news of Legendary’s Godzilla started circulating.
As someone who was 2 when 1998 came out and 9 when i saw final wars on shelf all i had left was hoping to buy which ever dvds or vhs tapes i didn't have in stores until the rumors of a possible American movie in 2012
I used to watch a bring me to life Godzilla AMV video and I thought it was the coolest thing to ever exist! Also half of these I watched of what you mentioned in this video! Thank you so much for reigniting some more memories of that age as a Godzilla fan. If y’all excuse me…. I’m gonna go find the AMV!
Watching godzilla videos during 2006 - 2012. I can't find one video that is a music video of blue oyster cult where it's in early cgi graphic. One big hint: Kid visit toys r us and saw godzilla toy; he imagine godzilla rampage and at the end; the kid put the figure in shelfs with barney. Barney try to see his song to godzilla but he gets burn by goji
Hey, I grew up in this era. I recall thinking that 2004 was the last year a Godzilla film would be, period, let alone seeing another Godzilla movie made in my lifetime. I, of course, did not know how old humans are, nor did I understand how famous Godzilla was. With the 2000's music and simply slide-show editing, these older videos are nostalgic.
4:46 Godziller: “oh, that’s a ufo” “Realizes” Godziller: Æ!🤬👹 Goji73 definitly scared me during the extus episode during his reading of the NES Godzilla creepypasta
I grew up watching Monster Island Buddies even though I wasn't supposed to watch it when I was a kid but nowadays MIB does put out that warning but hey I'm glad you decided to talk about it😂
I used to watch a video of Godzilla vs Space Godzilla set to When World's Collide by Power Man 5000 so much as a kid. It's been obliterated by copyright since 2014 but it was a banger!
Since 2004 even before Final Wars came out, an American G film was in the works thanks to Yoshimitsu Banno with Toho's blessing. Just because Toho took a break didn't mean the Big G wasn't busy. Mostly in IDW Comics.
That era got me into Godzilla tbh, cinnamassacre’s monster madness and finding episodes of “Godzilla the series” on RUclips, Looking back tho it is funny how wrong james was about the plots on his movies in godzillathon.
theres also this one video i cant find that was called "Godzilla 2" and it was Godzilla against MechaGodzilla and it played three days grace, lost media fr
I grew up with Godzilla during the Dark Age of Godzilla. I resnt showa and 2000s movies from lcoal blockbuster and watch Godzilla youtube videos. My earliest videos were Go GO Godzilla - 1977 - Blue Oyster Cult, uploaded by Tv Generalist, and Godzilla is Never Going Down, uploaded by FlamesIntheDark. Man I wish I grow up during now because 10 year old me would be in heaven.
This is why I don't care if Godzilla isn't serious or goofy. Growing up in this era was a nightmare, no new Godzilla content, no new Godzilla games, no reruns of the classic Toho films, people would mock you for being a Godzilla fan, etc.
That's why goofy or serious debate is stupid, because a lot of people didn't grow up during this era or weren't fans back then. So they don't appreciate the content they're giving us right now. I hope Godzilla stays strong!
Please preach.
You got people in the community being toxic towards each other and criticizing what they hate, meanwhile they should be celebrating that there’s even content to criticize in the first place.
And anyway, the wonderful thing about Godzilla is that it can successfully be many things. Godzilla can be a serious commentary on the consequences of nuclear warfare or it can be fun popcorn beatem up experience.
I'm just happy we're in a kaiju renaissance, people can finally take us seriously again and The sudden rebirth and explosion in kaiju media is great, it's such a good time to be a kaiju fan
Preach!! I loved all Godzilla movies growing up because I would take what I could get!!
Speaking to my soul here.
I grew up in this time, all of what you said was true, but it ended 10 years and I feel quite strongly about the MV and their tonal shifts have made me less excited each film although GXK was alright. I look at fan art from Owen Kellen/Obamase and Project Monster/ Lost Utopia and I can’t help but wonder just how good we could be eating if this stuff had a Hollywood budget behind it. Toho is gonna do what they want regardless it’s the Reiwa era and theyre experimenting but this corner of Godzilla in the west doesn’t need to emulate Showa when we practically invented our own tone and I miss it because it ended the drought in the first place. We didn’t have a debate about silly vs serious until recently becayee it wasn’t a problem, which means it’s a problem in execution.
So many memories! I played that Godzilla Vs MechaGodzilla animation on repeat for ages. Is one of my earliest YT memories.
Yooooo Dangervile here?!?
Holy crap! Dangerville?!
I used to watch Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness Godzilla-A-Thon over and over near religiously as a kid.
Me too! Those videos were hilarious
I literally grew up in this age. I was born 2004 and was put on by AVGN and monster island buddies. Then saw a pirated cd of 2014. The quality was really bad and the brightness was way darker than the actual movie. But I still fell in love with it and been a huge fan ever since.
Hey, thanks for the shoutout! I appreciate it.
My new channel is just a personal one for uploading and sharing stuff with my friends, but I still get the occasional comment asking about the old days. While I’ve long since lost interest in doing toy reviews, it is fun to think about how I’d do them, now that I’m way more knowledgeable and experienced and actually have access to decent video editing software lol.
Literally nostalgia, 70% of my childhood in one video
Also i like how Monster Island Buddies uploaded different types of videos eventually it's really like the channel grew up and matured with the audience
This was my era. As a 2005 kid in Europe Godzilla was nowhere to be found in anything except the internet. My very first "interaction" with Godzilla was an amv video with the Halloween song from nightmare before Christmas. The rest is history
9:10 "GODZILLA DOES NOT HAVE A HORN THAT IS NOT GODZILLA!" got me dying💀
Godzilla 🤝 DBZ = Having the internet to hold fans over after a decade of no new content
This aint dark age, this was Gold era of godzilla's youtube content
Lol fr I watch avgn since that first video Castlevania 2
I think he meant that there’s no new Godzilla content so fans made their own Godzilla contact.
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It’s the dark age of Godzilla in media where Toho wasn’t releasing anything new.
@@FirewoodMediaTV Godzilla Minus One won an Oscar not an Academy Award, it was nominated for an Academy Award but did not win
Idk if I'm the only one but Gojifan1993 also played a huge part in making me a fan of Godzilla
Me too bro
I think you should've also mentioned the NES Godzilla Creepypasta. It came out way back in 2012 and Goji73 did a whole video version of the story. While many would just look at this more as a video game creepypasta and mainly belonging to that category of online horror stories (like Sonic.exe, Ben Drown, Slenderman, or Jeff The Killer), in my opinion, I view this as the height of more Godzilla fan content on the early years of RUclips.
It's a story that takes the first Godzilla game Monster of Monsters on NES (which AVGN reviewed) and completely turns into a more engaging action pact game with your typical creepypasta horror elements. Basically a haunted, hacked, or possessed cartridge.
It even added more fan created monsters into the Godzilla mythos like Red. It intrigued me back in the day and I think deserves more of a highlight in the Godzilla fan space. Others in both the online horror and Kaiju fan space have also talked about this gaming pasta. Its popularity extended beyond the release of the 2014 film.
We’re working on a separate video on the NES Godzilla Creepypasta. I have a lot to say about it and didn’t want to take away from the main focus of this video.
Monster Island Buddies got me into Godzilla. I discovered his channel around 2019/20 through his video game reviews.
I would then watch the 2014 Godzilla movie on netflix, and buy a Godzilla DVD box wich I watched throughout the summer of 2020.
Bro you are just like me
another banger video that i used to watch a lot, was one of those Godzilla Neo slideshows where it would show the monster and their accompanied roar
Those were made by Nick Dodge, who still sometimes makes videos where he usually animates dinosaurs.
What you talked about was a golden age
Now a days we have people talking bad about each other, horrible comic dub click bait trailers and powerscalers yapping about things that no one actually cares about stuff like “tribute to Godzilla vs mechagodzilla” and monster island buddies while looked back on weird now a days is 110% better then the modern content
we are getting to a point that the roll of the movies and the fan content have swapped as fan content has now entered the dark ages while the official movies are entered a form of mix of golden age and renaissance with toho and the monster verse
there are two old school godzilla videos that i loved watching non stop as a kid but for whatever reason they've just disappeared and it kills me
the first was a speedpaint of godzilla facing off other toho monsters that had the unused 'godzilla vs. tokyo' song for final wars playing
the other is a flash animation where godzilla rallies all the toho monsters in an endgame portals like montage to fight some aliens that land on earth it ends with a close up of one of the aliens with a face of pure terror as a tear runs down its cheek as all the kaiju converge. It's called 'Godzilla's Army' but thats about all I can find nowadays
hoping this can get some attention because I REALLY want to rewatch those old vids
Dang this time period was so interesting, as a godzilla fan i just rewatched some of the same stuff over and over again since there really wasnt much content around it. I also really liked the music of the movies and in particular I rewatched a video called “Happy Birthday Godzilla” posted in 2006 all the time which was a compilation of all the existing godzilla movies at the time with the godzilla theme playing over it.
I miss this era of godzilla youtube, even if there wasn't much godzilla media going on at the time
The GodzillaThons is more than likely *the* RUclips Godzilla series that got new people exposed to the series between the span between Final Wars and Legendary’s Godzilla. James Rolfe was a big enough name to bring traffic towards this Godziller fella. More people were made aware of the fact there were more Godzillas than the Showa Era and the two post-Showa Toho films that were released in cinemas outside of Japan than they would have before seeing the series. Longtime fans on the internet knew but for everyone else, it was like seeing Season 3 of Beast Wars for the first time and getting the resolution for the Season 2 cliffhanger because some places never got the third season.
I remember seeing the whole marathon and becoming aware of the series’ long history at a time that Legendary Godzilla or the idea of a new Godzilla just a murmur just like the return of Crash Bandicoot before 2016-2017. Fun, engaging, informative and a joy to explore a series that you only vaguely knew in passing even if the likes of Big Action Bill’s the History of Godzilla Movies have surpassed it in the years since.
In a top ten of series James had done, it’d be up right there.
The Godzillathon is so important. They made me a Godzilla fan and it is so iconic. Desteroooyaaaahh
This video made me tear up so much, when your a Godzilla fan as an 8 year old in 2009 and one else gives af about it, these videos are your escape, I’m so happy to see other people experiencing the same thing,
Loved this video.
I can’t stop watch you’re vids
I still fall asleep with Godzillathon on in the background. Hell, half the time when I fall asleep watching sonething else on RUclips the autoplay will wind up bringing me back to Monster Madness anyway. RUclips knows what's up.
man this was the awesome era, we dont get many vids like this anymore
So much nostalgia! Even back during that time in my early 20s I never thought Goji would reach this level of popularity. We are definitely in the golden era
I remember an All Godzilla Monsters video, but I’m pretty sure it was different than the one you showed, it’s deleted now.
These videos were very nostalgic to watch as a kid
When you reminded me of Godzilla and his Amazing Friends a moment got activated in my brain like that critic guy from Ratatouille. I haven't thought about those videos in years but they were my childhood.
Godzilla-A-Thon was how I became aware of all the films. As I was limited to whatever just randomly aired on cable.
I still can’t watch Son of Godzilla without quoting
G: “What the f&@k are you doing?”
M: “Nothing dad go back to sleep.”
I loved that era of godzilla RUclips, so much nostalgia. I'm glad people still remember all those old videos.
When I was a kid, there was this Godzilla video with that god damn Numa Numa song and I was obsessed with it. I drove my mom nuts with how much I listened to it lol.
I remember those kinds of videos. One in particular that I remember was a montage of Mothra with Around The World (La La La) by A Touch Of Class playing in the background.
There's also Godzilla Vs Mecha Bin Laden and those Godzilla Pivot Animations.
I remember those!
I remember watching Monster Island Buddies, and various stop motion animations when i was young.
I was in elementary school during this era. I was born in 2001 and I remember watching all kinds of Godzilla videos on RUclips, many of which are showcased in this video. I remember watching all the toy reviews, toy fights, animated fights, and even Godzilla Attacks Eden Prairie.
When I was in 2nd grade, our class was given an assignment on reporting about multiple characters from a specific franchise we had to choose. This was back in either 2010 or 2011 and my dad got me hooked on Godzilla when he had me watch Godzilla and Mothra: The Battle For Earth. I figured, “Why not do mine on Godzilla?” Godzilla was an interesting entry into the school assignment because it was nowhere near as hugely known a franchise as Star Wars or Pokémon. The only monsters my classmates and teacher recognized were Godzilla, King Kong, and Mechagodzilla. The rest were all obscure to them. I had Mothra on the front cover because at the time, I really liked her (and still do). The teacher asked me in front of the class “Who’s Mothra?” And then I did some explaining. Everybody was speechless.
One girl who really liked me didn’t know who Godzilla was until I came along and she would tease me for liking Godzilla. With the immense success of the recent Godzilla media, I wonder what she’s thinking now? It’s safe to say, beginning in 2014, I’ve been killing it as a Godzilla fan. Her as a Monster High fan, not so much.
Plus, the figure fights I remember watching were uploaded by SabufanX and zillagamer. Ghidorah vs Gomora by SamanthaVoorhees is one I fondly remember watching when I was younger.
I called the Gold age. It’s when fans slowly discovered each other.
I got hit by a brick of nostalgia when I saw Godzilla and his amazing friends and The Thailand oil ad (I'm a Thai Person)
I can't precisely remember the channel's name (probably something like CJ Productions Inc.), but I would watch their videos a lot. They made videos displaying custom kaiju/toku toys made out of Lego or wood. They even had a few series like a Lego Ultraman one and a crossover between Godzilla and Superman.
Someone's prolly already said this but I feel like this is more of a Golden Age, especially if we're specifically referring to the RUclips side of things. It was an experimental and fun little era for a lot of fans, or the chance to introduce others into the very poorly distributed world of Toho's kaiju. It was a dark age for the Godzilla franchise for sure, but not necessarily on the internet side of things I'd say.
It was a very fun yet strange time growing up in the very early 2000's and being a godzilla fan. I was born in 2003 and at the age of 3 I stumbled across godzilla through a random music video on youtube at the time. Ever since that day I have been a massive godzilla fan. I'm very glad that godzilla is as big as he is today and I honestly feel quite envious whenever I walk into my local supermarket and see godzilla toys line the shelves. That was something I could only ever dream about as a kid growing up in Australia where godzilla was even less popular than most countries at the time. There was barely ever anybody who actually knew who he was besides the few random older people who probably grew up seeing the showa era films. I remember always talking about godzilla at school with my friends or other kids and they had absolutely no idea what I was talking about lmao.
I remember watching monster island buddies on our old family laptop on the couch when I was like 8 or something and ghidorah was humping mothra and the dude just straight up moaned I still feel the embarrassment of my parents hearing that 11 years later
I miss this era of RUclips and Godzilla content. Goji73 was peak
Being 24 and being a fan at age 3 keeping up with what I had throughout the "Dark years" was kinda tough, all I had was the dvds that was available, having Godzilla destroy all monsters melee on GCN and the Bandai America toys to go by, I barely used the internet until the 2010s and this is most of what I saw back in the day and eventually learning there was more Godzilla movies out there thanks to James Rolf blew my mind as a pre teen, Ultraman Cronos and MIB opened my eyes to all the toys that was out there at the time eventually jumping into Rich Eso and Samson West blew the gates wide open. With all that I know and have now, if it wasn't for some of these people, I wouldn't have been as influenced to look and invest into Godzilla more and I don't regret that today.
The way these old videos and channels were your fuel for your love and hype for Godzilla and kaiju media, your channel is one of those for me!
I remember when I was young I watched a guy called pta 17 or something like that were he would take footage from godzilla usually heisei or the last 2 showa movies and mesh them with footage from ultraman shows they were the first ever tokusatsu videos I ever watched along MMD, GAHAF and Cronos unfortunately all of his videos have been deleted with very few reuploads.Apparently toho forced him to delete them there are to this very day godzilla vs ultra monster videos such as bubba ultra.
I remember him!!! He just deleted his Channel I think
@@TheGamingGob He didn`t delete his channel he just deleted all of his videos.
Thank you for making this video and acknowledging the positives during this timeframe on RUclips and in general.
Growing up in the 2000s as a Godzilla fan, nothing was more fun for me than to watch Godzilla toy battles on RUclips from channels like Tarantula Productions and C.J. Productions Inc. Those types of videos were the D.I.Y. equivalents to rubber suit monsters fighting on soundstages, all embodied in a kind of childhood innocence and love for film making. (There was also the "Godzilla X The Kaiju Killer" movie by Chris Elchesyn, who went as far as to make his own Godzilla suits for the project, which is super inspirational in-and-of itself.)
And all of the Godzilla movies were "new" to me while growing up as a Godzilla fan. There was so much to explore throughout all 28 Godzilla films that it never truly felt like there was a lack of Godzilla content, even when new movies were not being made. I also feel like Toho made more of an honest effort during this timeframe to release as many of their Godzilla and Non-Godzilla-Giant-Monster movies on DVD in America, something that is not happening as much now.
I feel like looking back on this timeframe and dubbing it as the "Dark Ages" has an immature implication. From my perspective (and I could be wrong), it seems like a lot of things Godzilla fans talk about wanting to own in general - from DVD/Blu-Ray releases of Godzilla and Non-Godzilla Toho Giant-Monster movies to various new Godzilla figures - are tendencies that have carried over from this timeframe.
I remember watching a lot of videos in the very early 2010s on my ipad. At first I just watched dinosaur videos and then I stumbled across I think a godzilla thon video and my life has been changed forever since.
MIB,Godzilla and His Amazing Friends,GojiFan93 and Godzilla-Thon (Both AVGN's and 93's) was what made me a Goji fan, I don't post much about Godzilla but I am getting into stop motion as a concept so I might use some of my SHMA figures and take some concepts from MIB and Goji73's series to make some stuff
I have fond memories of RUclips from those days ! I live in Mexico and back then Godzilla wasn’t even mentioned anymore, so the only way I had to learn about the franchise was on RUclips. I have a deep appreciation for Kaijunomura. He was my inspiration for creating content in Spanish and thanks to him I was able to learn so much about the Godzilla toys ❤
wdym, it was the golden age of Godzilla YT
Nice eddie figure in the back btw
I use to watch monster island buddies when i was 8
For me, one of the first videos that introduced me to Godzilla related media was a video titled "Happy Birthday Godzilla" by kaijusroyaume. That one video introduced me to the many films that were part of the Godzilla franchise (back then, the concept of a movie franchise was foreign to younger me) and got me hooked to find more Godzilla related videos on the internet.
Pre-RUclips, I already had an idea of who Godzilla was courtesy of Godzilla '98 and that one episode from Animal Icons called "It Came From Japan" but Happy Birthday Godzilla was what got me digging deeper into the kaiju rabbit hole.
Now this is the era I grew up with Godzilla on RUclips
Growing up in the dark era has made the current era all the more amazing
I agree. If anything, it’s actually made me appreciate the Godzilla franchise even more now.
Does anyone remember that video called Godzilla goes to McDonald’s? And it was a kid doing a voice over of his Godzilla figure at a McDonald’s drive thru?
Are you talking about the one uploaded by Autobot Alex5?
@@AlTilleyTheBum-pt4mx nah not that one. It was an older video with i believe a heisei figure. Not sure if it even exists anymore but the kid voices both Godzilla and the dude in the drive thru
@@allmightyningen2017 Yeah, I think I remember that one. If I remember correctly, the guy in the drive-thru got attacked and Godzilla was left on a cliffhanger. I’ve tried looking for it, but I’m not sure it exists anymore.
@@AlTilleyTheBum-pt4mx YES EXACTLY THATS THE ONE. That video was my childhood and I’ve spent like the past 3 years tryna find it lmao
@@allmightyningen2017 I feel you. I’d like to see that video again.
It was the golden age with pure content, unlike now there's cringe ah vs edits or power scaling stuffs (they want fame)
Anyone sill remember Gojifan1993, Nerfman, and Deadzilla (the pedo guy)??
I was going to talk about Deadzilla in this video but it felt wrong and brought the mood down. I’m working on a separate video that’s talking about the small amount of content creators in the Godzilla fandom that have been exposed for degenerate stuff. Deadzilla will definitely be the main focus of that video.
I was so disappointed when Deadzilla got exposed fr.
You can talk about the Nerfman vs Luis Duran situation back in 2016. That feud was a crazy and obscure situation. It was the Drake vs Kendrick of the godzilla community in 2016, but it was quite petty and involved hacking/broken friendships.
Monster island buddies is so iconic for me, i used to watch it everyday whrn i was younger
I remember going to Toho Kingdom watching cartoons
Same. I had mixed feelings about those, but some of them were goofy.
So I have a RUclips account from 2007, and I was able to look through my comment history to find some interesting videos I haven't thought about in years.
Godzilla roar compilations (There were a ton of these but I always listened to the 1954 ones)
"Godzilla in Brawl!!!" by "Tom K" which is a poorly edited image of Godzilla in Smash Bros Brawl for 5 seconds
"Godzilla vs. Mothra (1964) Main theme" by "KaijuQueenMothra13", an OST video that has a screamer at the end for no reason whatsoever
"TOP 13 GODZILLA MONSTERS" by "gydromon" which features a high pitched alien voice counting down the characters
"numa numa godzilla" by "octavio abuelito" which is exactly what you expect, Numa Numa with Godzilla footage, has a lot of interesting choices
"Godzilla Vs NES Heroes" by "cerebulon", a good old MUGEN video
"godzilla movies that got canceled?" by "1fanofgodzilla", this one got me obsessed with the idea of lost, unreleased, or scrapped media
I Had Account In 2022 Although In 2008 I Was The Youngest Person To Watch RUclips
This video has it several soft spots in my heart, I remember watching almost all of these back in the day, in fact my first ever yt video was a mini movie from a now deleted channel called GFW and it was using gamera figures in a makeshift city made from figures boxes lmao
My favorite was this weird CGI Godzilla vs king kong where it looked nothing like Godzilla and had some really weird animation
Oooh yeah! I think i know what you're talking about, i've been looking for it a long time now.
It's that one video where Godzilla looked like a green humanoid giant iguana right? And both Godzilla & King Kong Had that stock 70's King Kong roar, and there was that weird synth music.
Something curious about that animation is that the fighting animation was reused in every other video using the same "engine" (if you can call it like that), i even remember one that was supossedly "Godzills vs Megalon" where Megalon didn't looked like Megalon at all (it looked more like a black'ish skeleton)
0:37 I agree I remeber they was a time were is was dry with Godzilla content it was the same with Chucky. The hardcore fans had to keep it alive on tell they came back. When they did came back it was they told us "Its ok now I got this, thanks for keeping to fort alive while I was gone".
Wouldn’t this be the Golden Age, a dark age implies there was a Godzilla youtube era prior to this but there wasn’t
I think Dark Age is more of an apt term because Godzilla media was in bit of a dryspell as it was between Terror of Mechagodzilla and Return of Godzilla. No new film projects were being worked on, the distribution of the films was still spotty with some Heisei and Millennium Era Godzillas not readily available for viewing, Gojira (1954) wouldn’t be available for a few years, Godzilla merch was relegated to specialty shops or as part of an evergreen branding, the SH Monsterarts hasn’t started and if you wanted new Godzilla, you had to turn to the comics or the video games coming out. Can’t comment on the then state of Kaijuwiki because I only experienced the newer version.
When the Godzilla RUclips community started coming into being, Final Wars was the most recent film, a second go at an American Godzilla film was relegated to the same developmental status as the Justice League (Before Zack Snyder’s involvement) and the Kaiju genre was in something of a drought during most of the 2000’s in terms of big releases with Gamera the Brave having an underwhelming box office run.
I would say the G-Fans were in a similar boat to Trekkers in the 1970’s where Star Trek was in that state of limbo between TOS Season 3 in 1969 and 1979 when The Motion Picture dropped where no new on-screen media was being produced at the time other than a two season low-budget animated series of 22 episodes in 1973-1974. In the meantime, you had to seek out the TOS reruns, go to conventions to see the unaired pilot before it was widely available, pick up the Gold Key Comics and the odd original novel to get your Trek fix. The whole Motion Picture project is a long, spiralling tale of false starts, pay disputes, trying to pitch a good story for the big screen and the movie we got was originally conceived as a story for the unmade Phase 2 series for a new network.
The Golden Age started with the 1990’s because Star Trek was no longer in a constant precarious state of dying off as it was throughout the 1980’s including the whole nightmare surrounding The Next Generation’s first two seasons with 1989 being the peak of absolute chaos. For the Golden Age of RUclips Godzilla, that either came about around the late 2000’s where the likes of MIB were coming into prominence or near the mid-2010’s when news of Legendary’s Godzilla started circulating.
My favorite part of this era was all the fan made trailers for "future" Godzilla movies
As someone who was 2 when 1998 came out and 9 when i saw final wars on shelf all i had left was hoping to buy which ever dvds or vhs tapes i didn't have in stores until the rumors of a possible American movie in 2012
I used to watch a bring me to life Godzilla AMV video and I thought it was the coolest thing to ever exist! Also half of these I watched of what you mentioned in this video! Thank you so much for reigniting some more memories of that age as a Godzilla fan.
If y’all excuse me…. I’m gonna go find the AMV!
Remember EarthBaragon Productions doing the kaiju music videos? Those were so good
I’m retry sure that guy does art for Brandon Tenold now.
1:23 DUDE I FORGOT ABOUT THAT ANIMATION!!! I MUST HAVE WATCHED IT 100 TIMES BACK IN THE TIME
I remember this youtuber called godzillafilms, who made a recreation of the ultra galaxy movie with kaiju figures
What about Godzilla vs Jet Jaguar animation from 2007??
God, this was my age. Godzilla pre-2012 was crazy.
Bro Godzilla was, is and will be my not only favourite monster but a inspiration in life.
Daimajin spotted in the background!
Good Job man! very entertaining and well made and informative
I wasnt even born during that era
How old are you then ?
So you joined RUclips when you were 3?
That was the earlier 2000’s, this kid could be at oldest, 14
@@trinitynguyen-su8wh Why Cant People Be Like Fgteev
@@lawrencematthewsantos3029 what
0:31 love that shirt dude 🤘
Gotta love the old days
Watching godzilla videos during 2006 - 2012. I can't find one video that is a music video of blue oyster cult where it's in early cgi graphic.
One big hint: Kid visit toys r us and saw godzilla toy; he imagine godzilla rampage and at the end; the kid put the figure in shelfs with barney. Barney try to see his song to godzilla but he gets burn by goji
A RUclipsr mentions Monster Island Buddies?
Im amazed, i swear the only other RUclipsr who knows him was WikiZilla
People knew Godzilla would return. Toho was very clear that it was only a haitus
Godzilla at Thailand is just average Thai commercial
Hey, I grew up in this era. I recall thinking that 2004 was the last year a Godzilla film would be, period, let alone seeing another Godzilla movie made in my lifetime. I, of course, did not know how old humans are, nor did I understand how famous Godzilla was. With the 2000's music and simply slide-show editing, these older videos are nostalgic.
4:46
Godziller: “oh, that’s a ufo”
“Realizes”
Godziller: Æ!🤬👹
Goji73 definitly scared me during the extus episode during his reading of the NES Godzilla creepypasta
Monster island buddies
Started their series in 2010 which was the same year i was born
DONT FORGET THE LINKIN PARK GODZILLA NEO VIDEOS
Another one is the Godzilla Unleashed intros
I grew up watching Monster Island Buddies even though I wasn't supposed to watch it when I was a kid but nowadays MIB does put out that warning but hey I'm glad you decided to talk about it😂
godzilla and his amazing friends and ggodzilla vs walter go hard asf
Dude I loved Godzilla and His Amazing Friends, I grew up on that
I used to watch a video of Godzilla vs Space Godzilla set to When World's Collide by Power Man 5000 so much as a kid. It's been obliterated by copyright since 2014 but it was a banger!
Since 2004 even before Final Wars came out, an American G film was in the works thanks to Yoshimitsu Banno with Toho's blessing. Just because Toho took a break didn't mean the Big G wasn't busy. Mostly in IDW Comics.
8:54 nostalgıc sınce when ıt was around the fırst godzılla commercial ı watched
Yeah, I was a GodzillaTuber back in those times, especially because I was a Godzilla fan since 2009.
9:10 Damn that scream was loud on my video projector.
That era got me into Godzilla tbh, cinnamassacre’s monster madness and finding episodes of “Godzilla the series” on RUclips,
Looking back tho it is funny how wrong james was about the plots on his movies in godzillathon.
9:52 I used to watch videos like that on my old tablet when I was younger
theres also this one video i cant find that was called "Godzilla 2" and it was Godzilla against MechaGodzilla and it played three days grace, lost media fr
Golden Age of Godzilla in RUclips (2006-2015)
I grew up with Godzilla during the Dark Age of Godzilla. I resnt showa and 2000s movies from lcoal blockbuster and watch Godzilla youtube videos. My earliest videos were Go GO Godzilla - 1977 - Blue Oyster Cult, uploaded by Tv Generalist, and Godzilla is Never Going Down, uploaded by FlamesIntheDark.
Man I wish I grow up during now because 10 year old me would be in heaven.