Above, no, this is not a photo from Legendary Pictures Godzilla movie, it is of Yuu Asakura with "The Monster Movie Fan's Guide To Japan" and my Bandai Museum King-Goji toy from the photo-shoot of last month. Photo by Armand Vaquer.The April Fool's joke on the supposed "leak" of the plot to the Legendary Pictures Godzilla film garnered unexpected responses. Some were of the same vein on message boards.
The respondents didn't fall for the joke (although Ken Hulsey seemed to fall for it), but did note that they liked the plot I came up with. Damon Foster said it interested him more than the plots to the last bunch of Godzilla movies.
The story I came up with was that a Japanese scientist invented a shrink ray that reduced Godzilla to about 8" (gee, if such a thing were true, then Bandai could make a 'full-size' Godzilla toy). The scenario goes on with Godzilla being sent to the United States for study and is befriended by a Japanese girl on vacation there.
What I didn't mention were the adventures of the girl, with Godzilla in her overnight bag, trying to elude the authorities. Eventually, Godzilla regains his full size as the shrink ray effects ended up as only temporary and proceeds to trash Los Angeles.
It was fun to do. Wouldn't it be funny if this is actually used?
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