I don’t collect Godzilla items per se. That said, I still have many Godzilla (or Gogira. the famous Japanese Kaiju or giant monster) items, including kit models, action figures, movie posters, lobby cards, pressbooks and stills, record albums, puzzles, nonfiction books, novels various comic-books series, magazines, souvenir postcards, trading cards, records, DVDs and videos, games, ashtray, banks, ceramic figures, model kits, toys, even a roaring Godzilla head, speaking telephone receiver cradle, squirt gun and cigarette lighter) to show, but here is a small sampling of some “Big G”-related items. Among my more prized Gojira (the giant prehistoric monster’s Japanese name) items is the head from the movie Godzilla 1985, pulled from a mold for one of the film’s special-effects miniature models (above right). Many of the older resin and vinyl Godzilla kits and figures were gifts of the Kaiyodo company in Kyoto, Japan.
For a look back at my 1985 Godzilla Anniversary Party, click HERE. To see Godzilla as he (and other monsters) appeared in my 1964 amateur movie Son of Tor click HERE. And to see my homemade Godzilla albeit ephemeral “collectible” formed from snow. click HERE.
And for collectibles pertaining to other Asian movie monsters click HERE… Godzilla’s unbilled “cameo appearance on the Ultraman television series click HERE … and for some Godzilla-inspired “knockoff” toys CLICK HERE
