@Zerofactorial probably out buying Texas with his reward money. #monsterdon

#monsterdon The creature's last dying rowr: "I never saw Venus" :rimshot:

"Guns don't work!"
"OK, what about REALLY BIG guns?"
"What the fuck do I know, I'm only a scientist."
#monsterdon #20millionmilestoearth

"T'was beauty killed the beast." #Monsterdon

Monster without a heart or lungs grabs eir's chest in death throws.

#Monsterdon

Good night, sweet prince, flights of angels sing thee to thy rest #monsterdon

Nooo! Poor monster. Hold on! #monsterdon

So, still up for that glass of wine?

#monsterdon

Scientists: Guns don't work
Military: Wait, hear me out, bigger guns?
Scientist: Um, yeah that works
#monsterdon

are any of these soldiers wearing their standard issue plot armor? #monsterdon

so how much money do we think the US gov't is going to have to wriggle out of paying for f-ing up the Colosseum like this. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon Artillery! Bazookas! Flame-throwers! How hot is Venus?

shooting up the antiquities, taking lessons from the french then are we?

#monsterdon #20MillionMilesToEarth

I guess the troops didn't get the memo about "no lungs, no heart" #monsterdon #pointlessgunplay

@Taweret that was the main plan at first, but then as soon as we started not leaving the creature alone we committed pretty hard to it #monsterdon

It’s half as tall as the coliseum but they had trouble spotting it. Doesn’t add up. #Monsterdon

why not get a bigger electro-net? #monsterdon

That place is ruin, should be demolished anyway.

#monsterdon
#20MillionMilesToEarth

What a fate, crushed by styrofoam blocks D: #Monsterdon

@gnomon @Taweret That's crazy talk in #Monsterdon world

Stupid soldiers. You go squish now! #Monsterdon #20MillionMilesToEarth

Ray Harryhausen made a great looking monster. Human/people stop motion suffers uncanny valley and can't be helped. #monsterdon

@Taweret this is not the American way #monsterdon

#Monsterdon Wow, these steps are a bitch. Why did I skip leg day? --each of the soldiers, maybe

"There it is"

yes, it's a giant screaming monster from another planet. we all see it.

#NotHelpful
#monsterdon

have we at any point considered leaving the creature alone?

#monsterdon

The monster on the Coliseum is giving me definite vibes of the space pope making a public address

#Monsterdon

Harryhausen obviously having a *fantastic* time with all this ancient architecture. So familiar... #monsterdon

@davesdogmaggie The creature is jonesing for sulphur - it's been hours since it's had that sweet, sweet taste #monsterdon

at least he loaded it in the right direction. small favours.

#monsterdon #20MillionMilesToEarth

That's why they call him Bob "Bazooka" Jackson.

#Monsterdon #20MillionMilesToEarth

Wee babby creature pulls a Samson! #Monsterdon

The most important part of a crowd reaction shot, is that the crowd actually react.

These guys just saw a monster taken down with an artillery shell. I guess that's just another day in Rome.

#monsterdon

Monster sure can shout and vocalize a lot for something with no lungs. #monsterdon #20millionmilestoearth

I really hope Paul signals the bazooka guys to begin firing with a thumbs down. #Monsterdon

My name is Venusian
Taken from my home world
Shot and electrocuted for my troubles
And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next!!! #monsterdon

okay, why is that kind of a good shot tho, wandering past the arches. #monsterdon

@wohali There have been lots of random things getting blown up so I'd say so

#Monsterdon

@brooke can they hurry it up, I got a bingo on the line here #monsterdon

at 5 minutes remaining, little hope of the monster fucking off into anything except off of this mortal coil :( #monsterdon

You're telling me you lost the twenty foot high monster in a shallow river? #monsterdon

... ok, the falling stone columns are a separate problem. #Monsterdon

Lions and tigers and gladiators, oh my!

#monsterdon
#20MillionMilesToEarth

#Monsterdon You know Bob, in the days of the Romans, they would fill this with water and have sea battles.

#monsterdon Bazooka!

@jonny he's got elephantiasis now #monsterdon

@jonny Its probably the high sulfur content of elephants. #monsterdon #20millionmilestoearth

@aburka Probably tastes great though

#Monsterdon

why do all the cars look so fake when they're actually real?

#monsterdon #20MillionMilesToEarth

"There it is!"

Yeah, we know. It's 40ft tall.

#monsterdon

Poor monster. Poor historic architecture. #monsterdon

Ah, pieta under columns. Classic. #Monsterdon

@blue Sadly, yes. #monsterdon #20millionmilestoearth

@jonny And he only ate a little bit of elephant too!

#Monsterdon

It screams because it’s three days old and wants it’s mother. #Monsterdon

don't they know? shooting it has no effect because it has no lungs #monsterdon

are giant flamethrower tanks... a thing...? #monsterdon

#Monsterdon - Perry Mason was intercut into a Godzilla movie. And Paul Drake is in another movie? I'm having trouble.

American tanks and artillery in the streets of Rome? This must've caused some unpleasant flashbacks for folks. "Oh no, not again!" #monsterdon #20millionmilestoearth

he just wants to speak to the senate! he has a right to speak!

#monsterdon #20MillionMilesToEarth

I got it now! #monsterdon is the modern day equivalent of H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1938_radio_drama) Here I was looking at various news sites, trying to figure out what had happened while I had stepped away from the computer this afternoon.

@CactuarJoe he's invoicing it all to perry, he doesn't care. #monsterdon

@diazona Death becomes eir?

#Monsterdon

Good idea. Hand the rocket launcher to the astronaut. He'll know how to use it. #monsterdon

@diazona Of course, it all makes sense now :P #Monsterdon

minutes ago that guy was as big as an elephant, but eating the elephant seems to have grown them to the size of a bridge. we should avoid getting the elephants further involved in this matter #monsterdon

Yup. Thats-a a bingo for me! 🎉

#Monsterdon

now for a nice tour of everywhere that didn't get bombed in world war II

#monsterdon #20MillionMilesToEarth

@plaidtron3000

When I saw this as a kid, that body dangling limply from the "paws" really affected me. Still remember the chill.

#Monsterdon #20MillionMilesToEarth

Paul's running up quite the Uber bill here in Rome. #Monsterdon

bridge appears to have the approximate structural integrity of a chocolate bar #monsterdon

@CactuarJoe They probably heard "seas fire"

#Monsterdon

@Configures @moira Perhaps a male elephant in musth #monsterdon

At least the Kaiju has had a nice tour of Rome
#monsterdon

#monsterdon Throws hand grenade in the water "Now _that's_ how to fish"

@moira #monsterdon

We've established the monster is only aggressive when not annoyed. Maybe stop annoying it for a bit. Get it a cup of tea. Take it the cafe you keep talking about. You know. Chill. #monsterdon #20millionmilestoearth

@socketwench Our official national motto is "kaboom"

#Monsterdon

wow, the ancient romans built their bridges out of styrofoam... #monsterdon

Start blastin’! Keep blastin’! #monsterdon

Fuck them up, Trumpy. They deserve it. #Monsterdon

whoops, found him. #monsterdon

I mean if it was a bear, we'd know something! But this thing?

#monsterdon #20MillionMilesToEarth

so... we're gonna hand grenade the Tiber??? i mean okay, but... #monsterdon

He wears those high-waisted pants

#monsterdon

"I can't tell what that thing'll do or where it'll do it! But it's got to poop somewhere, sometime, somehow!"

#monsterdon #20MillionMilesToEarth

Hey, remember back in the barn when Paul Drake said the monsters weren't ferocious unless provoked?

Does driving a car into one count as "provoked"? #Monsterdon

Hot damn that's a good stop motion person getting dropped by the creature, almost real looking and VERY creepy

#Monsterdon

@apLundell This WAS a working vacation for Harryhausen. #monsterdon #20millionmilestoearth

Fountain alert! Take the poll now if you can!
#Monsterdon
#20MillionMilesToEarth

And the colosseum! It must have a tourist map of all the town's attractions. #monsterdon

Back in the day women did a lot of screaming out windows for some reason. Current events demand this practice be reinstated. #Monsterdon

Stomp! The! Pope! Stomp! The! Pope! #monsterdon

a hit-and-run'll get you 5-10, chet. better lawyer up!

#monsterdon #20MillionMilesToEarth

Monster picks up human! By jove, I think we're going to tick all the #monsterdon bingo boxes tonight!

The reptile punching through the wall is quality cinema #monsterdon

Elephant was left alive and breathing! This monster is not a killer. #monsterdon

It's not exactly Godzilla vs. Kong, to see a scared alien kill an enraged zoo elephant, more sad all around

#Monsterdon

shot: Italians screaming from windows. go! #monsterdon

That blond scream queen in the window is going to be a #Monsterdon gif, I expect.