Godzilla Retrospective - A Challenging '90s Childhood Fandom
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- Опубликовано: 6 авг 2024
- "What is this," you ask? It's a Godzilla retrospective, baby! This chronicles my interest as a Godzilla fan starting in the early '90s, which as an American, was not the easiest time to celebrate the King of the Monsters. We talk Toho, Trendmasters, Dark Horse, TriStar...even a little stop motion along the way!
Hope you enjoy the video!
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Words can’t describe how much Godzilla has changed my life for the better. I may not have been born in the 90s, but I was happy with how I was introduced to the series. Seeing Godzilla 2000 for the first time ever, I was blown away with everything I saw. A giant monster destroying everything, causing chaos and even fought another big monster, it was the coolest thing ever. I then saw the new movies at the time, which were the Millennium series, and I loved every single one of them. I then learned of the Heisei series and that immediately became my favorite series of Godzilla due to the awesome kaiju during that time such as Biollante, Mecha-King Ghidorah, Battra, MechaGodzilla 2, SpaceGodzilla, Destoroyah, and many more, and of course the fights. Truly mind blowing stuff as a kid, and when I learned of the Pipeworks trilogy afterwards, I played the shit out of them all, especially Save The Earth. Overall, this franchise means the world to me, and I’m happy it’s still going with the MonsterVerse and Minus One is definitely looking to be a great time. Excellent retrospective, dude. You nailed it and I’m definitely looking forward to more of your content now.🙂👌
Thank you so much for watching! I really loved those Pipeworks games, they were so much fun to just pick up and destroy everything on the screen. Overall I think Heisei is probably my favorite series as well, but I’ve got a lot of love for what the Monsterverse has done and I’m absolutely excited for Minus One. Glad you liked the video!
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Growing up in the 80's and 90s it was Godzilla 85 and the old Showa era films. But in 96 i hit the goldmine i found out a comic shop close to me had bootleg heisei era fims. I didn't even now Japan was making new films. It felt like i hit the lottery. I will never forget how exciting i was.
That would have been a dream come true for me as a kid. Being used to the Showa stuff definitely painted a mental image of Godzilla movies in my head, so I think I would have been blown away at that age if I saw Heisei movies with a budget and better effects haha.
Dude this is so awesome. I've been dying for more Cap retrospectives, and the ending to this one is sweeter than I ever could've imagined. I'm proud of you, brudda. So awesome.
Huge thanks man! Not a dry eye in the house hahaha. This whole thing was an idea I’ve been kicking around forever, and now with the way things worked out, it was finally the right time to do this video. Glad you liked it!
Being a Godzilla fan in the uk was actually painful from the 90s to the mid 2000s only thing we had was the 98 movie , the Atari games and then legendary is what gave us so much more for Godzilla like , 9 year old me would be jealous of 29 year old me
That’s something I was actually curious about. As an American, I knew my experience, but I wasn’t sure if other countries were having the same availability issues that I was dealing with. Thanks for the insight! And yes - we’re much better off today!
Thats gotta be fulfilling to see your work on the big screen!
Was definitely crazy haha. The whole time I was like “other people in other theaters are watching this too”
Godzilla Final Wars was my first all time Godzilla figure back in 2007 and then came Animal Planet’s it came from Japan where other introduced me to Kaiju toys. I still love it very much.
wow, that end is SUPER inspiring for me- as i do stopmotions- thanks for the motivation boost, awesome video!
Thanks for watching! Glad the ending was able to hype you up haha.
You got to see your work on a big screen right before the newest Godzilla movie?!?!? That’s fucking wild, man! Congratulations!
As a 90’s Godzilla kid, I completely relate to your experiences here. Not much for us outside of the movies that occasionally appeared on TV or in a video rental store until Godzilla 98 dropped. I had Godzilla and MechaGodzilla from that 90’s wave (the 5 inch poseable figures). I loved them. Used to make paper and cardboard buildings for them to smash through.
Major thanks man! It was definitely one of those crazy “never woulda seen this coming” experiences haha. I’ve got some behind the scenes stuff for an upcoming Between the Frames that I think people will dig. And man, I REALLY wish I kept all my Trendmasters Godzilla figures. They’re expensive now, but they were definitely awesome as a kid.
Been waiting for a Godzilla retrospective from you ever since the Batman toy retrospective all those years ago. And I'm glad you took it out of the collecting specifics of lines and brands and applied your own history with the franchise. I know you and I have talked for hours about these movies over the years, but the toys from the 90s and the lack of knowledge of the Heisei and Millenium era was something I never experienced.
Speaking of, grew up in the 2000s and always had knowledge of the different eras, different designs, etc. So I can't really relate to that, but I can relate to being the only Godzilla fan in my class for years. It's only been in the last few years or so when I graduated high school that I could talk to people in person about these movies. I know that feeling of bringing up a Godzilla movie and getting weird looks from people. But thanks to the Monsterverse and Toho really pushing the brand in the US, that isn't the case anymore, and that's awesome!
I'm ashamed to admit that I missed your BBTS ad in theaters. Godzilla 2000 is far from my favorite Godzilla movie and I wasn't took keen on seeing it again, even in theaters. So my apologies on not supporting your piece in Godzilla's history haha.
Great video, Cap, and congrats on the BBTS animation!
After seeing Godzilla 2000 again, I think I remember why I went 23 years without watching it haha. Definitely not one of the better ones, might even be the weakest of the Millennium series. But it’ll always have a special place for me, being the first new Toho movie I saw in theaters upon release, as well as now being involved with the animation. I didn’t hype it up because part of me was waiting for that last minute “plans changed, we’re not playing the ad” but thankfully it did happen haha.
Makes sense to hear that even in the 2000s Godzilla wasn’t super well-known among school aged kids. The lack of new movies from 2004-2014, plus the fact they were all foreign, makes a lot of sense. It was always cool finding that one person who DID know about Godzilla, made you feel like part of an exclusive club or something haha. Glad you enjoyed the video man - as you said, I’ve been throwing this idea around since that Batman video came out. Finally seemed like the right time.
Great vid Cap’n!! You buried the lead! Congrats on being part of it!
Thanks! Glad you liked it!
I feel like I was born around the perfect time to be a Godzilla fan considering my childhood was the 2000s so even though the 98 film was my introduction to Godzilla, the countless showa era vhs tapes combined with unsupervised internet opened up a whole world to me in the blink of an eye, I especially remember sitting at the computer watching the G98 animated series which hypnotized me. I even remember getting the Final wars and GMK dvds for christmas as well as the mini figure playset for gmk. I also had my mom rent out destroy all monsters on the gamecube everytime we visited blockbuster until she eventually bought it for me. so yeah, the stars aligned at that time. its just crazy hearing the perspectives of 80s and 90s Godzilla fans only having access to so little. Also I had no idea that was your stop motion animation during the G2K screening! So cool!
Just seeing this comment now - sounds like you had a great time enjoying the fandom! I was already in college when the Xbox/GameCube/PS2 games came out, but man did I love them. Godzilla 98 didn’t exactly blow the fans away, but I gotta give it some credit for putting Godzilla front and center in pop culture at the time. Thanks for watching the video!
Wow, to know that Captain McKay's childhood in the 90's was a real struggle. And also oh, yeah I agree Godzilla has become a pop culture icon and we're loving it.
Haha my entire childhood wasn’t a struggle - just the parts with Godzilla! Thanks for watching!
@@CaptainMcKayRandom My bad should've added Godzilla somewhere in that "struggle sentence". And you're welcome.
Pluto TV has an entire Toho channel... all Godzilla, all the time. All the classic films, all in their original form... and ALL FREE!
My nephew and I could not have enjoyed this in the 90's... aside from the fact that he was still 10 years away from even being born... there was no way to watch without owning all the movies... which 12 year old me did not in 1992 when I became a fan. My nephew is 18 years old now, and I'll be sending him this way so he can watch this fine video. He is an aspiring stop motion animator as well!
Nice shirt by the way. Ian sent me.
R.I.P. Patches Lugosi
Ayyyy, I love when the DanDans come over to the channel. That’s awesome your nephew is into stop motion, hopefully he likes some of the animated videos here on the channel. If I had that PlutoTV channel as a kid, I wouldn’t have watched anything else haha. Thanks for watching!
@@CaptainMcKayRandom Yeah, Pluto came into my life way too late... but its here now, at least. I know Collin (my nephew) will love your channel... we already watched the compilation of your Mortal Kombat series fatalities... as Shao Kahn would say, "Well Done"!
Long live stop motion animation!
New sub here. I'm sure Collin will too!
It's really cool that your animation played in a movie theater. I really like your retrospective videos. I hope we see a Between The Frames episode soon.
There’s one ready to go! I want to give this video a little time before I release it but a new Between the Frames is next up
Congratulations Cap! I’ve been following you since you entered 4Star918’s 1500 subscribers contest and I’m so happy to see you get this far!
That’s SUCH a throwback. I love that you’ve been here for so long, thanks for sticking around!
As a kid in the 1970s (born in 1967), we had the Showa films (saw some on TV and some in the theater at the time), the Hanna Barbara Godzilla cartoon, my Shogun Warrior Godzilla with the flame tongue and shooting fist, and the Marvel Comics 2 year run of Godzilla (wanna see Godzilla fight the FF and the Avengers?). It was actually a great time. Still have my Shogun Godzilla (got a new lever for his flame tongue and FINALLY got my Shogun Rodan that Santa never brought me). Now I have a number of X-Plus Godzillas (12 & 18 inch), the Ultimate Godzilla from Mezco, and a bunch of the Super 7 figures (including the Mecha Godzilla Shogun figure). It's even a BETTER time today to be a G-Fan!
That’s a great story, thanks for sharing! I knew a little about the Godzilla Hanna Barbera cartoon but I never caught reruns too often. Part of me didn’t care for it because it was so similar to other HB cartoons.
I’ve seen a lot of really excellent X-Plus pieces, and that new Mezco Godzilla looks amazing. I got their King Kong a while back and it’s gorgeous. Space and budget are an issue for me, so I’ve gotta stick to my smaller figures for the most part haha.
Thanks for watching!
I've had a lot of runnings with gigantic creatures, through the years from King Kong to Mr. Statepuff to Godzilla and Mothra, and even TV shows like Ultraman and Super Sentai, which have had similar monsters.
The Sentai stuff is a whole world that I’m not really familiar with, but I know there are a lot of fans who love it. It’s great that there’s so much common ground!
@CaptainMcKayRandom Yep, I own 9 seasons of Super Sentai, one of which was Dairanger, and I got from Hastenings before they went out of business along with Ultra Q, Spacegodzilla, and Gigan.
Congratulations on your advertisement! You did excellent work. I love your description of the impact of it being presented in theatres with the King. Agreed.
I share a similar history with Godzilla. This current Renaissance is wonderful. My four year old son is a Godzilla fan. He was the Japanese Godzilla for Halloween this year! He hasn't seen everything yet, but so far, his favorite movie is "Tokyo SOS".
Dude YESSSS. That’s awesome to hear that he’s into it. Tokyo SOS is a good time, and I’m long overdue to revisit those Kiryu movies. It’s great that he’s gonna be able to get all the Godzilla stuff he wants, and I’m really happy that the quality of the last decade of movies has been good overall. Thanks for watching bro!
I’m gonna be honest…to this day my only real experience with Godzilla is the 1998 movie which I’m pretty sure I saw at the drive-in. This was still a super fun and interesting retrospective video though. I appreciate the fandom.
Thanks for watching man! After all the years and all the dust settled, I think Godzilla 1998 is still a fun enough movie. It’s just one of those weird things where they could have called it something else and people wouldn’t have any issue with it, but they wanted to make it “Godzilla” despite being way different from anything recognizable as Godzilla. On its own, it’s a cool little piece of the overall Godzilla canon.
Awesome video and congratulations on your animation work being shown before Godzilla 2000, that is an amazing achievement! I had a very similar experience growing up being a Goji fan in the 90s too. I remember being so excited seeing the trendmasters figures in Walmart for the first time lol. It's still kinda jarring to me that Godzilla became so mainstream but in the end I'm not complaining haha. Keep up the inspiring work man!
I never would have thought Godzilla would be such a household name, but I’m glad he’s getting the recognition that he is. Well deserved IMO. And man…I wish I had those Trendmasters figures today. They were great for their time. Thanks for watching!
Awesome content and I absolutely love the Patches shirt!!!!
Thank you!
In the early nineties Walgreens was great for Godzilla tapes. I also loved your first movie. Had the tape from Walgreens and I even taped it on blank tapes to spread the love at ten years old.
That’s great! I used to be able to rent them from one video place in my area (the other places didn’t have any Godzilla movies), and when I got old enough to figure out how VHS copy guards worked, I would copy them for myself. Let’s hope the FBI doesn’t come looking for me all these years later.
❤ your channel. This was a great video
Thank you!!
@@CaptainMcKayRandom No problem
Fahkin amazing video my friend!
Thank you!!
3:50 yeah I only heard of Godzilla with that 90s movie. Had the novelization lol
Haha that movie and all the merch put him on a lot of people’s radar. Thanks for watching!
@@CaptainMcKayRandom really great video!
Imagine your 8 year old Godzilla fan self and Kong fan seeing Godzilla x Kong the new empire
This is a video I am grateful exists knowing that there are people who grew fond of something that wouldn’t become well-recognized to many people in the states until the years have passed where journey still continues with new fans not only learning about the character, but OG fan’s history with the titular gorilla-whale. That section at 16:25 is something I’m happy to see happen then with DGDX Animation and now you Captain.
Slightly irrelevant, but eight years ago from this video’s upload, Smashmaster12 released a review of Diamond Select Toy’s Minimates Godzilla Series 1 Box Set; ruclips.net/video/mL3tffdWurM/видео.htmlsi=Ha3lrTFgUWyHMExc to which I started collecting all three sets and have made stop-motion animations both influenced by Smashmaster12 and CaptainMcKayRandom.
The whole thing came together perfectly. I’m really glad DGDX put Big Bad in touch with me, and it all worked out great timing-wise because I’ve been kicking this video idea around for a long time now. Everything fell into place nicely. And I never did get those mini-mates, but they looked like a lot of fun!
In the UK, we have hardly any of the classic movies available, so that sucks!!!!
Ah man, that does suck. I hope they become available soon!
My favorite/first Godzilla movie was Godzilla vs Monster Zero if I was not for that movie I well not a fan to the greatest film series ever
I never had that one but I used to rent it from the video store once in a while. The idea of aliens “borrowing” monsters was great haha. Thanks for watching!
@@CaptainMcKayRandom spoiler godzilla fights king Gadorah in space
are you ever going to make a sequel to your old Godzilla stop motion series?