Wednesday, February 14, 2024
Fire Fighter Jet Jaguar (Godzilla ReAction/Super 7)
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Medical Jet Jaguar (Godzilla ReAction/Blind Box)
Friday, November 3, 2023
Friday, October 27, 2023
Wednesday, August 4, 2021
What's New Kaiju?

I've made no secret of my love for the Playmates Godzilla line. It's a
fun series of relatively cheap kaiju figures found easily at my local
big box stores (formerly exclusive to Walmart, but now available at
others). The figures are sometimes re-releases of Bandai figures, or
brand new toys that admittedly can be hit or miss. Though they've been
mostly hit after the initial batches. Pretty good, actually.
Recently
new listings of upcoming toys have been making their way through
various kaiju groups. This is pure joy as the new toys are fan favorites
and like I said, never Playmates figures have been pretty good. From
the list of figures, I'm sure the Jet Jaguar
is a re-release of the one from earlier this year. However the rest are
all brand new and I'm freaking stoked. Rodan, Mecha King Ghidorah, and
original King Kong are the ones I'm most excited for. Though the others
aren't too shabby either.
| I'd gladly credit whomever found the listing once I find out myself. |
Tuesday, June 29, 2021
The Singular Point Of Godzilla
Godzilla : Singular Point debuted on Netflix here in the states this weekend after what felt like forever. The prior Godzilla anime trilogy on Netflix was hard to enjoy. Sure there was good stuff, but by part three I was done. Singular Point, however, has been more enjoyable so far (I'm about halfway through).
Singular Point manages to be both frantic and in no hurry. The story revolves around two different groups performing different investigations. They are brought together by the ongoing chaos that's just fun to watch. The show is funny and weird and kind of gives me SSSS Gridman vibes. I'm surprised by how much that I like Rodan. Going by all the lead up material, I wasn't completely sold.
Like everything else, Singular Point isn't for everybody. Your experience may vary, and that's ok. It kind of feels like a Millennium era story. Which would be the ideal era for a Godzilla anime to take place from. It's hard not to love the Otaki Factory. I want to hang out with them.
Friday, April 23, 2021
Godzilla Burns While Jet Jaguar Isn't King Kong
I happily found Playmates new Burning Godzilla and Jet Jaguar figures while at Target last Saturday. These are part of the 6.5" Godzilla line that was previously exclusive to Walmart. I've been a pretty big cheerleader for Playmates Godzilla toys and happy to see more. Playmates has seemingly improved their work on this line as these are soft vinyl figures closer in detail to a Bandai figure as opposed to the hard vinyl ones from earlier releases. At first glance, I honestly assumed they were Bandai reissues. A big step up from that Shin Godzilla.
Burning Godzilla represents the big guy as he appeared in Godzilla vs Destoroyah. Jet Jaguar is Toho's attempt at an Ultraman like superhero of their own before going with Zone Fighter. Jet Jaguar doesn't get much love here in the states, so I was pretty happy to get this toy. Hopefully this part of Playmates Godzilla line continues as I'd love more stuff like this at my local stores for pretty reasonable prices.
Friday, May 17, 2019
Godzilla Store Invasion!
GODZILLA STORE INVASION
A Godzilla Pop Up Shop
595 River Road
Edgewater, NJ 07020
Mitsuwa Marketplace
100 E. Algonquin Road
Arlington Heights, IL 60005
Uwajimaya Village
525 South Weller Street
Seattle, WA 98104
Japan Center
1281 Webster Street
San Francisco, CA 94115
Little Tokyo
123 Astronaut E. S. Onizuka Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
6929 Airport Blvd.
Suite 121
Austin, TX 78752
Carrollton Town Center
2540 Old Denton Road
Suite 114
Carrollton, TX 75006
*Thanks to Rogers & Cowan for providing Zone Base with this news*




