Grading Godzilla vs. Megalon VHS Covers
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- I riff on VHS cover art for Godzilla vs Megalon. Hey all, thought I'd try something different this week. Let me know if you'd want to see more of this format.
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2:52 - I misread this; it actually says the world is safe again FOR atomic testing. Which is somehow even funnier.
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I would love to see more of this! Cause there are tons of weird Godzilla vhs covers.
I was just about to make the same comment. This was a fun trip down memory lane.
@@dphinton2003 We are the space time pair of ducks we are the god of time and space
King Kong vs. Godzilla "Anniversary Edition" for the win!
@@spacetimepairofducks8726
*Godly Quack*
I have a Star Classics video of public domain Looney Tunes shorts from the 30's with a similar cover, just white instead of yellow. And it did feature at least period accurate Looney Tunes box art. I think it had the same stock art of the silhouette audience looking uninterested.
Did you change your logo cuz ITS SO GOOD!!!
i like two of vhs cover 4:08
When will it be the next monster Island bodies episode
This sounds like the premise for a Brendaniel video
Jet Jaguar is actually the name of Robot.
I miss VHS cover art in general. It was so much fun to walk into a video store and look at the box art. I guess spectacular and colorful cover art has been responsible for a lot of crappy movies being rented because the cover made the movie look a lot better than it actually was.
If only streaming could have killed the mockbuster. jk
@@Bezaliel13 We are the space time pair of ducks we are the god of time and space
@@spacetimepairofducks8726
RABtoon's Brad: "... Awesome!"
Same thing happened with games back in the day.
There actually is a reason why Godzilla vs Megalon was so common. It was wrongly believed to be in the public domain for a long time. Which led to all sorts of shit like this. In fact, back when Rhino had the rights to distribute Mystery Science Theater 3000. They got in hot water with Toho for releasing the Godzilla vs Megalon episode.
The U.S. versions of "Godzilla on Monster Island", "Godzilla vs. Megalon", and "Godzilla vs. the Cosmic Monster" are in public domain. However, Godzilla and Megalon, registered trademarks of Toho, are, of course, not. Toho owns the rights to the Japanese and international versions, but not the U.S. versions. If you had an original U.S. version print of these three movies, you could show it, but you could not use Toho's trademarked characters in the advertising. Toho might try to come after you, but you'd beat them in a court of law. Using the name of Toho characters is what got Rhino in trouble. If they had called it by some other title, Toho couldn't have legally done anything to them.
@@ConstantineFurman Jeez, copyright is weird
@@Duncaster The other guy is wrong, the DUB is in the public domain, meaning, you can't use any of the footage of the movie
You'd only be able to screen the audio, and would have to remove any copyrighted songs
This is taking me back from way way back over at the Hollywood store, I used to be infatuated with looking at all the vhs cover art and how goofy or cool. I miss having to do that just from looking at this tbh. I guess it’s nostalgia talking.
UAV and Goodtimes is the reason I had this movie twice. Parents thought the UAV was a sequel because of the city in the background
Makes me wish Megalon would make a comeback. Always liked Megalon.
@Valin Summers maybe he should appear in the monsterverse universe
@@kennethjayobusan9419 ..ah NO !
Well he sorta does in Godzilla Singular Point, I say sorta because he's one of the monsters used to make one of the kaiju
He'd fit in the new continuity with the Hollow Earth.
@@williamwilkinson381why?
Twin Towers one is so Iconic, definitely my favourite
I agree. While the concept might not have aged well the in our timeline, the image of two kaiju going toe-to-toe atop of them would have made for such a spectacle.
It's a shame it was never used in a King Kong remake or something.
The criterion collection cover is actually really cool. Jet Jaguar is striking a pose straight out of a gainax Mecha anime
Godzilla though.... IDK what the artist was even thinking.
I wish someone would make a book about all these old Godzilla VHS Covers, maybe they could track down and do some interviews with the People who did the art for these cover's. I Would Assume alot of these artists never actually saw the movie they were doing the cover art for.
I would love to see more like this. All this art is so good!
Hey, you included the one I owned! I remember buying it at Toys R Us years ago… the second Godzilla movie I saw. It was the first one you showed with the Twin Towers I think
That was the one everyone born in 80s had
The good times cover for godzilla vs the sea monster will always be my favorite
I remember when I young, I had a VHS of Mothra vs Godzilla, and it started with a clip show of Godzilla movies with Blue Oyster Cult Godzilla playing in the background. I could never find another copy, who made it, or anybody talking about it online. Its properly going to be mystery forever for me.
This was fun! I enjoyed the rapid-fire riffing and it was really interesting to see all the odd takes people have done on the covers over the years. Would definitely watch more with this sort of format!
3:30 Sorry if I am nitpicking here but...THAT'S HEISEI ART!!!! THEY USED CLIP ART FROM THE WRONG MOVIE AND THE WRONG ERA!!!!!
Oh nah, they turned my boi MIB into a PNGTuber
10/10 content, would like twice if I could
Actually love this idea! The art of movie and book covers have been lost in the ruins of the 1980s due to the dark terror of reaganomics.
All book covers are now simply black squiggly lines over a soothing color and movie posters and covers are simply the cast looking either at the camera or off in the distance.
Next one should be Godzilla vs Gigan.
@Dugon man . Dark terror of reganomics? What the F does even mean dude ? How you liking brainless Jo and $5 a gallon gas huh .. talk about f dark terror don't forget obama
@@williamwilkinson381 its a joke my man, nothing more.
@@dugonman8360 imagine if cthulhu ruins the intro and monster island buddies will kick cthulhu's ass
The uav looks awesome! When I was a kid I loved the art on the ones with what looked like the Japanese flag on the back, the artist did amazing work on those! I too miss the days of traditional art on home media
I just noticed the new PFP! LOOKS SICK! when can I see it on the side of a van?
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It's a shame you didn't look upon the foreign VHS covers like from Germany. It's funny how they were more accurate to the movies than the US ones..
4:55 The reason it has Godzilla and Megalon on the Twin Towers was either because the poster was probably made after King Kong (1976), or to promote King Kong (1976).
1:29 you could argue the second person from the left is also looking at the screen.
2:15 this VHS copy and the Goodtimes Double Feature copy were both available to rent at the old video store close to my childhood home. But what the store did with some of the videos is cut the front, back, and one side of the VHS covers so they could be put in thick plastic covers (kind of like what Blockbuster did with their movies).
Any chance you'd review that Godzilla Ate My Homework book? I looked it up and it's in name only, but I still want to hear what you'd have to say about it.
Telling movie studios to get a foreign movie cover art right is like tell a toddler to not eat Lego. It's not gonna happen
I got the GoodTimes poster art VHS copy from my local pawn shop when I was about 6 or 7. Love that cover.
i watched "Godzilla vs. Megalon" on The Criterion Collection Blu-ray with My Little Brother on Summer 2020 and it's My Favorite Godzilla Showa era films in 1970's and i loved it! also Box Art/Cover/Artwork look petty cool better than Lots a Crappy Public Domain VHS Covers.
Omg the scary horror classic of robot named robot and mothra and mechagodzilla
Hey you should really review Japanese PS2 Ultraman game and gundam psp game
Godzilla VHS covers? Now you have my attention.
This is new I like it
I had the double feature with the Snow Creature. I also had My teacher is an Alien. 😎
FINALLY! Been hoping someone would pick up on that book. I had the whole series XD
@@MonsterIslandBuddies I read the whole series too! My Teacher Fried My Brains, My Teacher Glows in the Dark, and My Teacher Flunked the Planet!
You should do Terror of Mechagodzilla box art.
I absolutely love the drawings of MIB in this video.
I can see why Goji73 finds this his favorite Godzilla movie, because Toho thinks so too, it seems.
I had the one where they're shaking hands. Got it at the grocery store; it was so much fun finding random VHS tapes in random places back in the day
Ooh, I still have my Godzilla vs Megalon vhs from back in the day! It has the same “deep-fried Godzilla” and derpy Megalon art as the one at 04:30 ! The tape itself doesn’t work anymore due to moisture damage, but the sleeve is still in surprisingly great shape. I have fond memories of digging this one out and watching it on summer vacation.
My first copy was the Good Times poster one. It came with a a blank sticker label so you could write the title of the movie and stick it to the VHS tape because they didn't even bother to print any kind of label for it.
Just in time for the 50th anniversary
Mines got a B for the handshake lol
Damn... these brings me back
i still have all my vhs taps some more beat up then others cause i was a crazy young godzilla fan. but out the cases you showed off i would have to say i like the goodtimes vhs cover the most for godzilla vs megalon. while i do not own a single vhs copy of the movie i do believe on one of my two tape double feature godzilla vhs sets i own it shows the goodtimes cover for godzilla vs megalon
I like Godzilla vs. Megalon.
Aww, come on! That cartoon one where they're giving each other a good solid business handshake is A+! Also, you know this, but it's worth mentioning that the Twin Towers poster is a copy of the 1976 King Kong poster!
Awesome job mib
3:53 LMAAAAAAAAAO 😂🤣😂🤣
I wonder, does the cover at 5:50 say "the original live action classic" because they figured American audiences at the time would only recognize Godzilla from the Hanna-Barbera cartoon?
4:06 that was hilarious
This one 4:30 looks like the KingGoji suit
The VHS cover by GoodTimes was my first encounter with this movie at an old video renting store in town. It’s no longer there but wow, looking at the cover bought me back.
Maybe you just misspoke, but at 2:50 the back doesn't say the world is safe again *from* atomic testing, but that it's safe again *for* atomic testing.
I'm only brining this up cuz the real text, which seems to imply *a pro-atomic testing message in a Godzilla movie*, is somehow even funnier lol.
Oh shit you’re right, the real text IS funnier!
@@MonsterIslandBuddies We are the space time pair of ducks we are the god of time and space
"Godzilla vs. Megalon" does feature Godzilla unknowingly fighting for the continued proliferation of atomic testing. Fukuda did write a line in the script (which made it into the manga adaptation) where Goro mentioned that it was ironic that Godzilla was born from atomic tests and fought off a threat that wanted them to stop.
Another scripted but unused scene had Emperor Antonio stop and ponder if he was no better than those that had destroyed his country with atomic tests by sending Megalon to the surface.
Godzilla vs megalon was actually I think my first Godzilla film I ever saw at age 3 or 4. It wasn’t the uncut English dub one it was re edit in 1986. The one that cut the noodie mags out in the kidnappers truck!
2:15 that’s the copy I had growing up as a kid!!!
Not gonna Lie MIB I've honestly wanted to do a collaboration with you sometime! Like Mabey I could feature in one of your top 5 videos or something?
I never had this mo in until I was like 18 years old when Tokyo shock released the film on DVD, is not the best but it's certainly worth watching
I think the UAV Green Megalon art was based off the Trendmasters toy.
Cool 😎
First
3:57
Did this VHS come out after 84 Godzilla because Godzilla in the background looks like a stylized version of the 84 Godzilla poster cover.
When shouting "What th' hell is THAT??!!!" in the final moments, you sounded almost like Simon Jones' version of Arthur Dent upon seeing the Vogon Constructor Fleet! Great "take"!
I owned the with the logo of a.... pirate with it pistol underneath it's eyepatch?
Godzilla vs megalon Is one of the favorites even though there’s not a lot of Godzilla
1:16, if I recall correctly, the first Godzilla film I owned on home media was, fittingly enough, a DVD release of the original film.
I have the Front Row Entertainment cover, which squeezes tinier versions of all three other monsters around an extra giant Godzilla in the same shot. You can justify it for flying Jet Jaguar, Megalon and Gigan not so much, let alone the scale of the buildings which actually implies Godzilla is the odd one out. Otherwise the screenshot blending is fairly creative and depicts the monsters accurately, save for some green colorization added to Godzilla. Maybe a solid B or B+
Also, thank you, because of this video I realized I have the StarMaker covers for both GTTHM and vs. Mechagodzilla, and I just lined the sides up next to each other for the first time in the ~20 years I've had them without ever knowing they could do that.
I owned the double feature VHS with The Snow Creature as a kid.
At least none of them said that King Kong will be in the movie like what some countries did
Brilliant new concept. Hope to see King Kong vs Godzilla cover grading. My Cover had Showa Godzilla blowing fire at the 1976 version Of King Kong n that woulda been awesome.
If I were to design a VHS cover for that film, I would draw it in a similar art style to the Scott Pilgrim comics
I really don’t like 80% of the showa era films
Pretty much any thing that isn’t
Gojira
King Kong vs Godzilla
Mothra vs Godzilla
And ghidorah the three headed monster.
Wait a minute.....GoodTimes? As in that company that made mockbusters to Disney movies as well as other animated movies that were popular at the time? The same company whose animated movies had been mercilessly made fun of by Phelous, just like Dingo Pictures (and as of now, Bevanfield)?
I got the Star Classics VHS one Christmas morning as a kid back in the early 80s and lost my damn mind. I also questioned why Mecha Godzilla was on the cover of it. I wore that tape out....LOL!
I don't remember MechaGodzilla being in Godzilla vs Megalodon.
I used to own the video treasures Godzilla Vs Megalon VHS cover, but unfortunately I lost it and the movie, still can't remember what happened to it.
I actually like Godzilla and Megalon standing on top of the Twin Towers.
It's a Cool Image, Even though It's not in the Movie.
"The Original Live Action Classic"
Did this tape come from an alternate universe where Godzilla vs. Megalon was the original film?
My favorite is the first cover that’s yellow with Godzilla and Mecha Godzilla because this cover was the most common in video stores I visited
Here in the UK the VHS cover had a red out lined silhouette of godzillas head against a black scaly skin backdrop. Though on the up side the UK VHS release of the film had the uncut version of the English dub.
I just got the German DVD of godzilla vs Megalon, and that has pretty good artwork with Godzilla, Jet Jaguar, Megalon and Gigan on a firey and lightning covered background, and they actually look they way they do in the film.
I cant remember the company you said. But my favorite Godzilla vs Megalon cover is the first one showing him. Megalon I mean.
There are women in Godzilla vs Megalon if you count the nude photos in the bad guys truck.
I have the twin towers Godzilla vs Megalon as my phone number profile
I get that double feature VHS from my grandparents for my 7th or 8th birthday in 1990 or so
I had that Godzilla vs Megalon/Snow Creature VHS when I grew up. Watched it so much. So much that eventually the VCR chewed it up one day :( Man, I don't miss those days when your technology just ups and one day decides to eat your movie and destroys it :/
Huh, so you changed your profile pic! looks epic man! still the best Goji tuber!
A great video! But MIB don't forget the female dancers of Seatopia! Their appearance was not edited out on most VHS releases.
I had the original World Trade center and the double feature tapes. Wow... Haven't seen those in years! 😂
My favorite one was Godzilla fighting megalon with Godzilla's head looking up at the title.
4:13 omg i have that one somewhere my cousin gave me alot of godzilla vhs and thats one of them
I cant remember what made me comeback to your channel but I think it was this core memory and it was Godzilla playing cards with Rodan
Ah, the Good Times release of this movie makes me feel warm and fuzzy when I see it. Right before the sadness train hits. That was the first Godzilla movie on VHS I ever owned, and my grandfather gave it to me when I was in Kindergarten. Thanks, gramps Filthy. I miss ya down here ten years later.
MIB should do a video in parts about ALL of the Godzilla VHS art!!
Why every single time someone is looking angry while looking at a Godzilla poster or not even looking at it
Can you also cover the cover art for Godzilla 1998 by Tristar?
MIB this is gonna sound like a plug but I have been binge watching Godzilla movies on tubi and Pluto tv and they use the covers like the very last one