So, while I feel like this is a problem I'm going to ultimately fudge and forget about, I'm suddenly very interested in trying to find scale appropriate stuff to go with my Heat Ray Hokkaido. So in the movie he's from he's around 328 ft tall. This makes the figure just over 1/560 scale. I think a 1/500 building is close enough as I'm using this Godzilla as my Heisei era general stand-in. So everything from Return of Godzilla through Spacegodzilla. He ranges quite a bit in height over that period so should look just about right.
I also picked up a Super X Gashapon that's 1 inch long, making it roughly 1/1000 scale if what the internet tells me is true that the Super X is 88 ft. But then I look at this still from Return of Godzilla (Godzilla is supposed to be 260 ish ft here) and I just don't buy that the Super X stood on its nose is 1/3 as tall as the big guy. The Super X seems more in the foreground and seems like if it were in the same plane as G it would be closer to 1/4 or 1/5 as tall if stood on its end.
Anyway, this is all to circle back to me saying "whatever" and just fudging it. I'll get some 1/500 scale buildings and call it a day. But uggh, scale models, why must I obsess over this?
Hmm, I was looking at the listing and videos and they seemed to have him just a smidge over 7"
The super X set sounds fun but just be aware that technically from a canonical standpoint. The 1991 Godzilla never faced off against the Super-X due to the whole time travel thing. It’s not the same Godzilla that attacked in 84 because that was the Godzilla that got blasted with radioactivity on Lagos island in 1944 had the futurians not intervened and then it would have gone on to destroy Tokyo in the 50’s and again in the 80’s.
Due to the futurians involvement, the Godzillasaurus was moved from Lagos Island to another corner of the South China Sea, where it was spared from the initial blast of radiation after world war 2 but bathed in deposits of radioactive material thanks to illegal dumping of nuclear waste so a second Godzilla (or technically 3rd) was born and its first appearance was in 1991
In other news though I got my Godzilla 91 figure yesterday and I love this guy. But I did feel the need to touch up the paint to make it look more film accurate so I restored the dusty browns on his body in a faint dry brushing and darkened the eyes so they are more of that hazelnut/walnut brown color. Gotta say I love this figure through. The sculpt is and likeness is on point and the articulation is perfect. I haven’t had a single joint fall off on me once. And the articulation in the tail!! Omg the engineering in this tail is marvelous!! I think full stop I’m dropping SHMA and I’m sticking with Hiya from here on in
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Oooh yeah that's a great improvement.I just received my notification from INS hobby that my replacement 1991 Godzilla heads with the corrected eyes have shipped. They look incredible can’t wait to see what they look like in person.
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