The covers that had regular dinosaurs on them were the oddest to me, because did the people that made those think that nobody would be able to tell the difference between Godzilla and a damn Carnotaurus?
10:14 The Greg Winters Godzilla vs. Mothra illustration is based on a Toho publicity shot for the film where Godzilla looks similarly off-model, with his mouth bleeding for whatever reason. At a glance, it looks like Toho might have used a miniature to represent Godzilla, one that wasn't closely modeled on the MosuGoji suit. (The Monster Zero VHS cover is also based on a Toho publicity still, IIRC.) A video about Toho publicity photos might be fun. There are plenty of weird ones out there.
Oh, I've seen that photo! It's so weird, but Toho did that a lot; the almost-wholly-repainted stills for _Rodan_ are just astonishing. (EDIT: Maybe not Toho, might have been UPA.) The Infant Island natives in the foreground of the Greg Winters illustration are likewise based on a still from _Godzilla vs the Sea Monster._ It seems they just went through stacks of unlabelled publicity material and pulled whatever they thought would work.
You talking about how inaccurate the fire-breaths were reminds me of a high school art project I did. We had to paint a ceiling tile a picture of our choice. I chose the Japanese poster for Destroy All Monsters while also putting the movie's American title at the bottom. I asked my art teacher if I could replace he fire-breaths in the poster with the monster's more accurate beams, which she approved.
Something about the godzilla vhs artworks give such a profound sense of childhood memories. These vhs artworks are just so nostalgic, even the movies i haven’t seen as a child. No matter how cheap it looks, strange or misleading the covers can be, It’ll be a memory I’ll hold onto
I can't get over how much Scimitar's "Terror of Mechagodzilla" cover with the tight shot of Godzilla staring at Mechagodzilla's chest and Mechagodzilla looking down on Godzilla looks like the cover of a romance novel.
Ghidorah had fire breath for the promotional stills and Japanese posters for both 3 headed monster and monster x. Artist probably used them as reference
The “monster against monster for the lost continent of Mu!” Header wasn’t just pulled out of the vhs company’s ass. That was the tagline for Toho’s international poster for Godzilla vs Megalon.
Some of those releases seem to use the Imperial toy as reference. Especially in the case of the Paramount version of vs Mothra. You can even see some of the toy’s “lipstick” around Godzilla’s mouth.
The old farts in Godzilla vs megalon on the radio were talking about how the continent of mu and one other continent sink in the ocean, millions of years ago. Rip, continents. You were both one of the good ones 🫡😪.
I don't mind Simitar's Godzilla artwork considering that i remember seeing them alot when i was a kid. Add to the fact that they look very cool and spectacular even by Godzilla VHS artwork standards makes them even more iconic and unforgettable.
Best Godzilla vs. Megalon cover is clearly the World Trade Center one. But I get maybe why you didn't focus on it. Great job and do more Godzilla stuff!
Great video! I absolutely loved the paramount artwork as a kid even though some of them were inaccurate. It seems as though the artist used promotional pictures from the films as reference but did their own thing half way through
8:40 At first I thought they were employing the strategy of showing that the movie has special effects creatures, but obscuring them in such a way that you have to watch the film to see them in all their glory. Much like how the only dinosaur in the Jurassic Park trailer was a shot of the tyrannosaurus which cropped the head out of the frame or how the DVD for Clash of the Titans used a silhouette of Pegasus as their screenshot of choice. But when I saw the other covers, nope, I think they just didn't care.
I'll never forget that the only reason I ever watched Godzilla vs Megalon is because I found it at a flea market once with Mechagodzilla on the cover 15:21 At the time I wasn't familiar with the Godzilla mythos. I just assumed this robot was called Megalon, so I got the movie because it looked cool. Didn't even question why it wasn't in the movie when I was watching it. I was that dumb of a kid.
Let’s make up some more strange posters. It has kaiju resembling bootleg ultraman and Godzilla kaiju, some aliens, tokusatsu OCs with a space background. The title translates to “Monster wars: Supermen vs Frankenstein’s space monster army.” My second for a strange poster has a group of superheroes, a spaceship with a drill, some menacing UFOs, Aliens, and mutant dinosaurs. The title translates to “Galaxy adventure X” a superhero anime in the same vein as Gatchaman with elements of Doctor who.
1:14 I now expect Godzilla to fight a giant robotic… ant? …or something, while getting air support from Rodan, and would have been VERY disappointed when that didn’t happen ☹️
Hey Paper Finz, Should i Make my Own VHS Art of Terror of Mechagodzilla with Cartman as Godzilla, Towelie as Titanosaurus, and Scott Tenorman as Mechagodzilla? I Also Should Make My Own VHS Art of Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla. with Cartman as Godzilla, Scott Tenorman as Mechagodzilla, Token Black as King Ceaser, Heidi as Anguirus, and Cartman from Jesus vs Frosty (One of the South Park Pilots) as Fake Godzilla?
Man, People back in the Days were a bunch of Nut Jobs by doing these Posters. I mean, HOW HARD is it to draw a Simple Godzilla Poster to promote the Movies? They ain't getting the point here
I remember the Scimitar VHS covers from 1998, that's how I was introduced to many other Godzilla movies besides Godzilla vs the Sea Monster and Godzilla vs Megalon.
Now I wanna watch After Holocauste. From the posters alone it looks like one of those low budget Mad Max ripoffs and I’d be all over that shit. Oh well…
11:07 I’m still scratching my head over this one… 😵💫 I’m gonna take a wild guess that “Chlorett-proof breath” is an attempt at making a joke about “Clorets”, a breath-freshening gum popular in the 70s & 80s… i’d even give them the benefit of the doubt that the misspelling is _intentional_ for trademark reasons, but i think that would be _way_ too optimistic, seeing as how “Mega-decimal shriek” no doubt should have been “mega _decibel_ shriek” so… yeah 🙄
It's not exactly a godzilla movie but I have the VHS tape called godzilla trailers and sci pie monsters And it has the craziest artwork ever it's super hard to explain you Have to see it
I actually got a magnet or something i got at a flea market that looks exactly like that 17:54 Expect that the title is replaced with ”I love you!” For some reason
I assume for the ones with good artwork depicting stuff from the wrong movies that the artist was just working with whatever reference material they were given. Remember, back then they couldn't just go to the internet and look up images of what these things were supposed to look like. These are artists hired to paint whatever they were told to paint. They might not have ever seen a Godzilla movie. (Or might not have been told which Godzilla movie their artwork was to be used for.) And it's possible this reference material was black and white, or even something sent to them over a fax machine in low quality. (This very low detail issue is why many characters in the old Transformers cartoon look very different from their toys. The artists were only given crappy photocopies of photos of the toys to work with. They had to make up a lot of details on their own because they simply were not visible in their reference material.)
Oh wait i have an idea let's put a terminator poster and say it's a poster for gmk really it makes more sense then putting a cy warrior poster on godzilla vs mechagodzilla
A lot of the artists used old publicity paste-ups as reference, and those images often depicted the beam weapoms inaccurately and used shots of models or different suits for Godzilla. The Paramount MOTHRA VS GODZILLA cover, for example, is just an artist's rendition of a pretty common publicity still from the film, best known here in the west for being included in Ian Thorne's Crestwood House kids book on the series.
Some strange freaking covers. I actually dug all the SImitar ones they did for their dvd releases. Yeah all the monsters looked way off model, but I still appreciate the effort for the artist to make something that stands out on a wall.
Also.... Winters used a promotional still for the g vs mothra for the paramount cover. It actually is very faithful to the photo. Godzilla looks exa6like that in the photo. I think it was an alternate suit used. In the actual shot. They even drew in the breath
People complaining about the fan headcanons of San (left Ghidorah head) being goofy: Ghidorah would never look this dumb back in the old days The "Ghidorah: The three headed monster" VHS cover: I BEG YOUR PARDON Loved these odd VHS pics. They reminded me of those weird video game box arts (*cough, cough, MegaMan*) that are still something to talk about XD. Good video!
Ayo the second godzilla revenge VHS tape thing had the trandmaster super kumanga, which if I'm correct never came out. How the hell did the artist know off its existence.
2:22 one thing that Terror of Mechagodzilla cover has in common with the original poster is that Xilien UFOs are featured instead of the Black Hole Alien's actual ships
The UAV art for "Godzilla vs. Cosmic Monster" at the very end is a (well-rendered) take-off of the U.S. poster art by the great Basil Gogos, done for Cinema Shares when the company released GODZILLA VS. MECHAGODZILLA in 1977 as GODZILLA VS. BIONIC (changed to COSMIC) MONSTER. The art was repurposed as the cover of Famous Monsters of Filmland issue 135.
I love that issue of Famous Monsters, although the inclusion of Ghidorah, "protector of the land" confused me since he didn't do battle in the film. Actually, GODZILLA VS. THE BIONIC MONSTER was released in US theaters in late 1976. That's when I saw it. I can't prove that but even if I could, it wouldn't affect the price of gasoline so....
@@ronnieburton1312 You might have seen it that early. That was still when small distributors had to milk a small amount of theatrical prints for all they were worth and send them out to theaters, region by region. GODZILLA VS. MEGALON (50 years old this week in Japan!!!) definitely came out in 1976 because the marketing aped (pun intended) in advance the World Trade Center tower setting of the KING KONG remake, which opened at Christmas '76. I at least remember the latter, since it's the earliest movie I remember seeing in a theater, and I'm still miffed to this day that it had no dinosaurs. :p
@@cuconfidentialheadquarters8510 I also recall MEGALON being advertised on tv but I didn't see it untill it's "premiere" on NBC. I am certain about when BIONIC MONSTER came out because I used some Christmas money to go see it. I was a freshman in high school at that time.
@@ronnieburton1312 I remember seeing MECHAGODZILLA spots on TV and sitting at the bar we had in the basement, drawing a comic about what I thought the movie was going to be like. It seemed like the ads ran for-ev-er by the time we went to see it.
@@ronnieburton1312 The difference may have been when the distributor had to pull BIONIC MONSTER due to the threatened lawsuit from Universal over use of the word "bionic" they were banking on with SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN, and then sent it back out to theaters eventually as COSMIC MONSTER. Also, I would love to see the Belushi broadcast if it ever turns up..
Strange art aside, I always thought “Godzilla’s Revenge” was a bizarre title for the NA version of “All Monsters Attack”. Mainly because it’s a movie where Godzilla himself does not seek any sort of revenge.
Looking up Greg Winters, he's responsible for SO MANY iconic game covers! Tons of stuff for Capcom, Streets of Rage, Shinobi, Super Star Wars and Rebel Assault, bunch of ads. Yeah, some of it looks a tad off, but the detail and VOLUME in the time period is incredible! Hat's off and salute him. The dude's awesome.
The one from Studio Canal looks like Gamera without the tusks. Really enjoyed the video! Thanks! I saw GODZILLA ON MONSTER ISLAND at the theater in 1977 and some of these vhs art covers remind me of the cool poster art for this film.
I don’t know if anyone noticed this, but on the semi cool looking one for Destroy All Monsters at 9:30, but you can clearly see like three images from Godzilla vs King Ghidorah from 1991. They almost had it, everything turned out so good until that part lol
You may not be aware, but ghidorah was supposed to be rainbow colored, or at least a red white and blue palette. No matter what you say, I will always post a redundant comment.
5:58 predates the kevin meme.. Someone needs to edit this and add the 2 meanincingly heads on the left and middle heads while the right head stays dumb as shit
I remember being about 9 years old, 1998 at a dollar store in Australia called "Crazy Prices" and getting a copy of the Hollywood House Video VHS release of Godzilla vs the Thing, with that ridiculous cover shot of a Carnotaurus (I believe) it had a bonus wierd cartoon at the end of "Godzilla vs Bambi"..... The quality of EVERYTHING on the tape was so terrible.... It seemed pirated actually.... It was like they took a grainy 8mm film camera and recorded the actual movie playing on a projector.... It was years later I saw the film how it was meant to be and was surprised to see the quality wasn't grainy filled with these wierd film crackle/blotch things and the color was good etc.
Art at 18:00 is a rip-off of Basil Gogos' G vs MechaGodzilla/Bionic Monster artwork. I hated most Godzilla VHS art, & wished there was a way to convey how no one (adult) cared about Godzilla movies at the time(80s-90s). Just calling Simitar Entertainment in 1998 and asking about details of their forthcoming Godzilla releases was enough to get me hired to work on the DVDs. It was shocking how little they cared about the video transfer, which edit,etc but were very into the new digital art they had commissioned.
The ‘Cosmic Monster’ cover shown at 18 minutes is a tracing of the FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND cover from when the movie was originally released in the USA.
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I would've never guessed that the same guy who drew some of the US Mega Man box arts also worked on a couple Godzilla box arts. Nice trivia!
As a Mega Man fan it made me smile
The covers that had regular dinosaurs on them were the oddest to me, because did the people that made those think that nobody would be able to tell the difference between Godzilla and a damn Carnotaurus?
The after holocauste ones tho.....
Though if you want to play into fun speculation, this could be the dinosaur that Godzilla is a close relative and descendant of.
10:14 The Greg Winters Godzilla vs. Mothra illustration is based on a Toho publicity shot for the film where Godzilla looks similarly off-model, with his mouth bleeding for whatever reason. At a glance, it looks like Toho might have used a miniature to represent Godzilla, one that wasn't closely modeled on the MosuGoji suit. (The Monster Zero VHS cover is also based on a Toho publicity still, IIRC.)
A video about Toho publicity photos might be fun. There are plenty of weird ones out there.
Both of these publicity photos were printed in Ian Thorne's famous Godzilla book from the 70's, which is how I became aware of them.
Oh, I've seen that photo! It's so weird, but Toho did that a lot; the almost-wholly-repainted stills for _Rodan_ are just astonishing. (EDIT: Maybe not Toho, might have been UPA.) The Infant Island natives in the foreground of the Greg Winters illustration are likewise based on a still from _Godzilla vs the Sea Monster._ It seems they just went through stacks of unlabelled publicity material and pulled whatever they thought would work.
I came here to post this too! 😂
What if you were hired to do art for a Godzilla VHS...
You talking about how inaccurate the fire-breaths were reminds me of a high school art project I did. We had to paint a ceiling tile a picture of our choice. I chose the Japanese poster for Destroy All Monsters while also putting the movie's American title at the bottom. I asked my art teacher if I could replace he fire-breaths in the poster with the monster's more accurate beams, which she approved.
Something about the godzilla vhs artworks give such a profound sense of childhood memories. These vhs artworks are just so nostalgic, even the movies i haven’t seen as a child. No matter how cheap it looks, strange or misleading the covers can be, It’ll be a memory I’ll hold onto
VHS covers in general had this "something" that made them so charming and appealing that DVD, Blu-ray and anything else just couldn't replicate
5:49 how the hell did they get away with drawing Ghidorah this goofy.
Is that Kevin?
Yea
I can't get over how much Scimitar's "Terror of Mechagodzilla" cover with the tight shot of Godzilla staring at Mechagodzilla's chest and Mechagodzilla looking down on Godzilla looks like the cover of a romance novel.
Ghidorah had fire breath for the promotional stills and Japanese posters for both 3 headed monster and monster x. Artist probably used them as reference
The “monster against monster for the lost continent of Mu!” Header wasn’t just pulled out of the vhs company’s ass. That was the tagline for Toho’s international poster for Godzilla vs Megalon.
You beat me to it!
10:47 that's just a carnotorus
6:13 I love how you used R Truth to say this, considering this is the opposite of how he actually is, just like the movie posters themselves. 😂
Some of those releases seem to use the Imperial toy as reference. Especially in the case of the Paramount version of vs Mothra. You can even see some of the toy’s “lipstick” around Godzilla’s mouth.
0:46 you just not gunna mention that Godzilla has a human nose
And so the strangeness of some godzilla art continues, lol.
11:07 For anyone wondering what "Chlorett-proof breath" means, i think it's a reference to Cloretes, which was a brand of breath-freshening gum.
Your videos never cease to amaze me, love them
Its amazing how seeing some of these VHS covers, brings back so many memories. I recognize at least half of them.
9:40 Definitely gives off an early 90s CG look thanks to the shading, the way they're both stylized reminds me of Vrahno's wips a bit.
10:48 this poster is so goddamn hilarious 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
Please do a history lesson on the copyright issues surrounding Godzilla vs Megalon. Would be interesting I think
Great suggestion!
I Just Released the video about that topic. Enjoy!
The old farts in Godzilla vs megalon on the radio were talking about how the continent of mu and one other continent sink in the ocean, millions of years ago. Rip, continents. You were both one of the good ones 🫡😪.
I don't mind Simitar's Godzilla artwork considering that i remember seeing them alot when i was a kid. Add to the fact that they look very cool and spectacular even by Godzilla VHS artwork standards makes them even more iconic and unforgettable.
Simitar's Minilla looks like he just smoked a doobie.
Best Godzilla vs. Megalon cover is clearly the World Trade Center one. But I get maybe why you didn't focus on it. Great job and do more Godzilla stuff!
10:48 that dinosaur is called the Carnotosaurus (correct me if i'm wrong if i mistaken the name)
@Dav Yx Yx alr cool
11:37 the fact that this is exactly what you described while talking about siren covers
The 1998 Semitar releases are pure nostalgia, I’d get them framed if I could
The Ghidorah box art looks like a poster for a parody movie.
Great video! I absolutely loved the paramount artwork as a kid even though some of them were inaccurate. It seems as though the artist used promotional pictures from the films as reference but did their own thing half way through
8:40 At first I thought they were employing the strategy of showing that the movie has special effects creatures, but obscuring them in such a way that you have to watch the film to see them in all their glory. Much like how the only dinosaur in the Jurassic Park trailer was a shot of the tyrannosaurus which cropped the head out of the frame or how the DVD for Clash of the Titans used a silhouette of Pegasus as their screenshot of choice. But when I saw the other covers, nope, I think they just didn't care.
Looks like the Mountain Video Ghidorah box art predicted the terrible "Kevin" meme.
The 2 Heads are Serious, but Kevin is his own entity.
@@conradojavier7547 They are all Kevin now!
“It makes Ghidorah look like some kind of demonic space dragon..”
Someone pull up the meme reaction of Nicolas Cage saying “uh… yeah.”
"Chlorett-proof breath" -- such stinky breath it's immune to breath mints.
1:11 Kumonga looks like he fused with Kamacuras and is more robotic at that, Rodan is in the background, even though he is only mentioned in the film
Mecha-Kamacuras! Also, I thought that was a random Pteranadon at first, not Rodan lol
@@mikehunt4986 it could be a heavily resigned Giant Condor, though unlikely
9:25 i love how in the poster they put gorosaurus from go godman
Wait, Godman is incredibly obscure
It would be more effort to find that and edit than just take a screenshot of the actual movie
4:49 dude, the fuckin coca cola font on that one just killed me xD
I'll never forget that the only reason I ever watched Godzilla vs Megalon is because I found it at a flea market once with Mechagodzilla on the cover 15:21 At the time I wasn't familiar with the Godzilla mythos. I just assumed this robot was called Megalon, so I got the movie because it looked cool. Didn't even question why it wasn't in the movie when I was watching it. I was that dumb of a kid.
Let’s make up some more strange posters. It has kaiju resembling bootleg ultraman and Godzilla kaiju, some aliens, tokusatsu OCs with a space background. The title translates to “Monster wars: Supermen vs Frankenstein’s space monster army.” My second for a strange poster has a group of superheroes, a spaceship with a drill, some menacing UFOs, Aliens, and mutant dinosaurs. The title translates to “Galaxy adventure X” a superhero anime in the same vein as Gatchaman with elements of Doctor who.
What the heck 😂😂😂😂😂
17:04 Godzilla Vs. Megalon, What A Chilling Horror Classic 😂🤣😅😆
11:45 this reminds me of a dvd cover of Godzilla vs Hedorah which had the Mire/Giragoji suit
These are certainly the arts of all time.
*8:00* guess they knew how ghidrah's wings as mecha king ghidrah would look like in shape
Great video! I wish I cold find some of these old VHS releases they look cool.
15:56 that's straight up looks like AI generated art
The heads on the first “monster zero” ghidorah look a lot like zuul from ghostbusters
“There is no Ghidorah, only Zuul!”
1:14 I now expect Godzilla to fight a giant robotic… ant? …or something, while getting air support from Rodan, and would have been VERY disappointed when that didn’t happen ☹️
Carnotaurus 10:47
Hey Paper Finz, Should i Make my Own VHS Art of Terror of Mechagodzilla with Cartman as Godzilla, Towelie as Titanosaurus, and Scott Tenorman as Mechagodzilla?
I Also Should Make My Own VHS Art of Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla. with Cartman as Godzilla, Scott Tenorman as Mechagodzilla, Token Black as King Ceaser, Heidi as Anguirus, and Cartman from Jesus vs Frosty (One of the South Park Pilots) as Fake Godzilla?
18:15 Godzilla looks like he got dropped in a deep frier
Man, People back in the Days were a bunch of Nut Jobs by doing these Posters. I mean, HOW HARD is it to draw a Simple Godzilla Poster to promote the Movies? They ain't getting the point here
That dinosaur on one of the covers is a Carnotaurus
I remember the Scimitar VHS covers from 1998, that's how I was introduced to many other Godzilla movies besides Godzilla vs the Sea Monster and Godzilla vs Megalon.
Now I wanna watch After Holocauste. From the posters alone it looks like one of those low budget Mad Max ripoffs and I’d be all over that shit. Oh well…
I haven't watched the video yet, but I just want to say that I really like your videos!
Thanks!
@@PaperFinz same I’m also a fan of your videos.
@@Emmanuel-ms8pr Glad you like them!
11:07 I’m still scratching my head over this one… 😵💫 I’m gonna take a wild guess that “Chlorett-proof breath” is an attempt at making a joke about “Clorets”, a breath-freshening gum popular in the 70s & 80s… i’d even give them the benefit of the doubt that the misspelling is _intentional_ for trademark reasons, but i think that would be _way_ too optimistic, seeing as how “Mega-decimal shriek” no doubt should have been “mega _decibel_ shriek” so… yeah 🙄
It's not exactly a godzilla movie but I have the VHS tape called godzilla trailers and sci pie monsters And it has the craziest artwork ever it's super hard to explain you Have to see it
I actually got a magnet or something i got at a flea market that looks exactly like that 17:54
Expect that the title is replaced with ”I love you!” For some reason
I assume for the ones with good artwork depicting stuff from the wrong movies that the artist was just working with whatever reference material they were given. Remember, back then they couldn't just go to the internet and look up images of what these things were supposed to look like. These are artists hired to paint whatever they were told to paint. They might not have ever seen a Godzilla movie. (Or might not have been told which Godzilla movie their artwork was to be used for.) And it's possible this reference material was black and white, or even something sent to them over a fax machine in low quality. (This very low detail issue is why many characters in the old Transformers cartoon look very different from their toys. The artists were only given crappy photocopies of photos of the toys to work with. They had to make up a lot of details on their own because they simply were not visible in their reference material.)
Oh wait i have an idea let's put a terminator poster and say it's a poster for gmk really it makes more sense then putting a cy warrior poster on godzilla vs mechagodzilla
Many low end European video publishers had a very bad habit of just throwing random images on their video covers.
It would be cool to do a video where you track down some of these artists for interviews. The UAV ones at the end aren’t so bad.
6:27 that's a meh interpretation of a mothra larva. But at least this vhs art is accurate to the film.
mothra is a tic tac
Is it true that we are seeing nothing but bootleg version of Ghidorah? 5:59
A lot of the artists used old publicity paste-ups as reference, and those images often depicted the beam weapoms inaccurately and used shots of models or different suits for Godzilla. The Paramount MOTHRA VS GODZILLA cover, for example, is just an artist's rendition of a pretty common publicity still from the film, best known here in the west for being included in Ian Thorne's Crestwood House kids book on the series.
15:20 I will forevermore see the title on the center box as “Gadgilla Us Wegalou” since MIB pointing it out a while back 😆
R-Truth wouldn't make fun of me for watching godzilla 😭
10:47 Ah, yes, Godzilla is my favorite Carnotaurus.
A lot of the designs look like they're done by some sort of AI program
17:21 I love that VHS cover!
5:50 im pretty damn sure im the only one who actually likes this lol
Some strange freaking covers. I actually dug all the SImitar ones they did for their dvd releases. Yeah all the monsters looked way off model, but I still appreciate the effort for the artist to make something that stands out on a wall.
Also.... Winters used a promotional still for the g vs mothra for the paramount cover. It actually is very faithful to the photo. Godzilla looks exa6like that in the photo. I think it was an alternate suit used. In the actual shot. They even drew in the breath
They dont make covers like they used too x
Showing Ghidorah's.....Asset on the cover mix with Filipino Godzilla's Hands would be Unspeakable.
People complaining about the fan headcanons of San (left Ghidorah head) being goofy: Ghidorah would never look this dumb back in the old days
The "Ghidorah: The three headed monster" VHS cover: I BEG YOUR PARDON
Loved these odd VHS pics. They reminded me of those weird video game box arts (*cough, cough, MegaMan*) that are still something to talk about XD. Good video!
Ayo the second godzilla revenge VHS tape thing had the trandmaster super kumanga, which if I'm correct never came out. How the hell did the artist know off its existence.
2:22 one thing that Terror of Mechagodzilla cover has in common with the original poster is that Xilien UFOs are featured instead of the Black Hole Alien's actual ships
There IS such a thing as 'bad' art
The UAV art for "Godzilla vs. Cosmic Monster" at the very end is a (well-rendered) take-off of the U.S. poster art by the great Basil Gogos, done for Cinema Shares when the company released GODZILLA VS. MECHAGODZILLA in 1977 as GODZILLA VS. BIONIC (changed to COSMIC) MONSTER. The art was repurposed as the cover of Famous Monsters of Filmland issue 135.
I love that issue of Famous Monsters, although the inclusion of Ghidorah, "protector of the land" confused me since he didn't do battle in the film. Actually, GODZILLA VS. THE BIONIC MONSTER was released in US theaters in late 1976. That's when I saw it. I can't prove that but even if I could, it wouldn't affect the price of gasoline so....
@@ronnieburton1312 You might have seen it that early. That was still when small distributors had to milk a small amount of theatrical prints for all they were worth and send them out to theaters, region by region. GODZILLA VS. MEGALON (50 years old this week in Japan!!!) definitely came out in 1976 because the marketing aped (pun intended) in advance the World Trade Center tower setting of the KING KONG remake, which opened at Christmas '76. I at least remember the latter, since it's the earliest movie I remember seeing in a theater, and I'm still miffed to this day that it had no dinosaurs. :p
@@cuconfidentialheadquarters8510 I also recall MEGALON being advertised on tv but I didn't see it untill it's "premiere" on NBC. I am certain about when BIONIC MONSTER came out because I used some Christmas money to go see it. I was a freshman in high school at that time.
@@ronnieburton1312 I remember seeing MECHAGODZILLA spots on TV and sitting at the bar we had in the basement, drawing a comic about what I thought the movie was going to be like. It seemed like the ads ran for-ev-er by the time we went to see it.
@@ronnieburton1312 The difference may have been when the distributor had to pull BIONIC MONSTER due to the threatened lawsuit from Universal over use of the word "bionic" they were banking on with SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN, and then sent it back out to theaters eventually as COSMIC MONSTER. Also, I would love to see the Belushi broadcast if it ever turns up..
Strange art aside, I always thought “Godzilla’s Revenge” was a bizarre title for the NA version of “All Monsters Attack”. Mainly because it’s a movie where Godzilla himself does not seek any sort of revenge.
Looking up Greg Winters, he's responsible for SO MANY iconic game covers!
Tons of stuff for Capcom, Streets of Rage, Shinobi, Super Star Wars and Rebel Assault, bunch of ads.
Yeah, some of it looks a tad off, but the detail and VOLUME in the time period is incredible!
Hat's off and salute him. The dude's awesome.
The one from Studio Canal looks like Gamera without the tusks. Really enjoyed the video! Thanks! I saw GODZILLA ON MONSTER ISLAND at the theater in 1977 and some of these vhs art covers remind me of the cool poster art for this film.
I don’t know if anyone noticed this, but on the semi cool looking one for Destroy All Monsters at 9:30, but you can clearly see like three images from Godzilla vs King Ghidorah from 1991. They almost had it, everything turned out so good until that part lol
I own the Hollywood house video Godzilla vs the thing tape and it does have a picture of the actual Godzilla on the back
Meatwad Godzilla is my favourite Godzilla.
Honestly I never really took notice of the depictional accuracy of each cover as a kid, all I wanted was to watch monster mashup Godzilla fights. LOL
You may not be aware, but ghidorah was supposed to be rainbow colored, or at least a red white and blue palette.
No matter what you say, I will always post a redundant comment.
5:58 predates the kevin meme..
Someone needs to edit this and add the 2 meanincingly heads on the left and middle heads while the right head stays dumb as shit
9:15 you should have Godzilla’s face against a black background with lightning behind him
“Ok, here ya go!”
11:39 that’s terrible
17:27 there's 2 godzillas
You know the Terror of Mechagodzilla poster at 3:24? Yea, Mechagodzilla is actually a bit smaller than whatever he’s supposed to be.
Dayum, you really brought the sass for this one. Love it.
The carnotaurus jumpscare omg
7:07 ghidorah in pride month
I remember being about 9 years old, 1998 at a dollar store in Australia called "Crazy Prices" and getting a copy of the Hollywood House Video VHS release of Godzilla vs the Thing, with that ridiculous cover shot of a Carnotaurus (I believe) it had a bonus wierd cartoon at the end of "Godzilla vs Bambi"..... The quality of EVERYTHING on the tape was so terrible.... It seemed pirated actually.... It was like they took a grainy 8mm film camera and recorded the actual movie playing on a projector.... It was years later I saw the film how it was meant to be and was surprised to see the quality wasn't grainy filled with these wierd film crackle/blotch things and the color was good etc.
The one at 5:52 looks like Ghidrah if all three of his heads were "Kevin"!
14:35 the dropkick
Art at 18:00 is a rip-off of Basil Gogos' G vs MechaGodzilla/Bionic Monster artwork. I hated most Godzilla VHS art, & wished there was a way to convey how no one (adult) cared about Godzilla movies at the time(80s-90s). Just calling Simitar Entertainment in 1998 and asking about details of their forthcoming Godzilla releases was enough to get me hired to work on the DVDs. It was shocking how little they cared about the video transfer, which edit,etc but were very into the new digital art they had commissioned.
Is Rodan supposed to be the Giant Condor?
The ‘Cosmic Monster’ cover shown at 18 minutes is a tracing of the FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND cover from when the movie was originally released in the USA.