It's a little weird to be watching a 50s Toho movie I not only haven't seen, but don't remember even hearing about before. I guess there are always new things left to find. New tales once told yet to be found.
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Ooo we're going with the racist voice dub for the Japanese newscaster. #Monsterdon

life's a bridge and then you die #monsterdon

1965 was so futuristic

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that's a 1965's space station if I've ever seen one #monsterdon

@wohali @jonny @trixter Well at least you didn't miss any kaiju because there werent any #monsterdon

@Zerofactorial
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holy crap is #monsterdon still going on I was cooking dinner and I thought I missed it

@trixter That must have snarled up traffic from Marin for hours #monsterdon

@aburka @strangefour ... I am _genuinely_ surprised. It looked _so much better_ than I would've expected with a technique like that. Nice work, Toho... #monsterdon

@moira @strangefour Well, apparently not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_in_Outer_Space#Special_effects #monsterdon

> To simulate buildings being torn and thrown up into the air, miniatures were mostly made of lightweight materials such as cardboard, wafer-thin paraffin, gypsum and Styrofoam which was pre-cut and assembled. Some pieces were trained on the miniature set, blowing everything upwards thanks to multiple compressed air tanks underneath the set.

Sunday Night already. I missed #monsterdon Ate well, saw family, the dogs got to play and we got the lawn cleaned up. Trying to get one more productive cycle in before the sleep. I think I'll flesh out some City Charter stuff. I hope everyone is having/had a good weekend.

@Zerofactorial you could say he... faded away #monsterdon

@Taweret Were the moon monkeys explained at all in the Japanese cut? #monsterdon

@Taweret This is Red Leader. I have the enemy in sight. That is all! #monsterdon

@Taweret You know what would make the prequels better? Two Words: Wiener Mobiles. #monsterdon #battleinouterspace

wait. the moon monkeys were never explained. what was their deal?

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@moira @strangefour I also liked the Golden Gate Bridge collapse that was clearly done in a bathtub. #monsterdon

@Taweret The writing and character development was simply atrocious 😂 #monsterdon

@aburka @strangefour Yeah, gotta be. Looked _great_. Triggering the collapse must've been tricky as hell, I wonder how they held it all together before it came down? #monsterdon

But yeah, that movie didn't so much end as just kinda stop. #monsterdon

not much of a story but fantastic aesthetics, fun space battles and top tier city destruction

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Another fun week #monsterdon - see everybody next time!

(It was a nice break and I'm super glad we watched this one but I'm definitely looking forward to more monsters next week. :D )

@strangefour I was thinking it must be upside down. #monsterdon

Huh. How did they do that? Wind machines? Or did they build the set upsidedown?
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Meanwhile, out in space, "...guys? Guys? Where'd everybody go? Guys?" #monsterdon

#monsterdon Let's all get shit faced on sake!

@trixter Boy I hope not. :-) #monsterdon #battleinouterspace

Fella trying to erase the space plot board suddenly realizes someone used sharpie.

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meanwhile, just another friday for the wypac, looking forward to the weekend #monsterdon

oh, wait—was anyone aiming? or were we just firing? #monsterdon

@Taweret The ray gun effects in particular. They did that so much better than the US. #monsterdon #battleinouterspace

God bless America~ Land that I--- OH CRAP!
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Fully operational Death Star ... I mean heat ray!

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mama mia, it's katsumiya! #monsterdon

Yay, tons of commercial real estate flying up into the sky! #monsterdon

#monsterdon Now we cookin' with gas.

There goes the world supply of No3 #monsterdon #battleinouterspace

It is funny tho' how much Japanese Cinerama building apparently looked like ours. I mean, big rectangle building is big rectangle building but still #monsterdon

use the masers, you fools

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not the cinerama! #monsterdon

#monsterdon Not the Cinerama!!

CINERAMA NOOOOOO #monsterdon

The soldiers flying up in the foreground is awesome. #monsterdon #battleinouterspace

Oh. Oh, it's not a fried egg, it's an angry alien Roomba #monsterdon

that looks good as fuck

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Ultra prime city destruction. Top marks. #monsterdon #battleinouterspace

@trixter i imagine those are much easier to aim #monsterdon

Up up, and away!

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I'm having a hard time coming up with an earlier film with the term "Mother ship" that also had Mother ship - smaller ship shots. #monsterdon #battleinouterspace

Oh shit yeah! FINALLY New York gets blown up in a Japanese movie! #monsterdon

Wait... Now this is just Star Wars.
Oh George. You silly old so and so.
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eagle 2 to eagle 1, alan, bail out! #monsterdon

...Guys, didn't this movie used to have a main cast? #monsterdon

oh no! a space torpedo!

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Oh no, the aliens have superior non-squiggly-laser technology! #Monsterdon

The space torpedo looks kinda gnarly #monsterdon

@Taweret truth #monsterdon

The armies of Earth are launching to defend her from invasion!
Launching from... North Africa?
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Man. We're getting clobbered! #monsterdon #battleinouterspace

The alien ships look like space tadpoles.

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"Get them." #monsterdon

(That was your plan?!)

stache raider, here #monsterdon

@CactuarJoe they're fighting the space pancakes. #monsterdon

Urge to shoot off some model rockets... growing... #Monsterdon

Gentlemen, we must produce more ships like giant sausages. We cannot allow a breakfast gap! #monsterdon

The model rockets are fun but I'd give a lot for a good old office building that can fall to splinters #monsterdon

Keep it together Porkins. #monsterdon #battleinouterspace

Science! Technology! Industry! Matet paintings.
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Sounds like an Alan Silvestri composition.

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I legit wonder if the designs in the movie didn't inspire a whole ton of eighties video games. #monsterdon #battleinouterspace

My god, they've advanced from fried to over-easy! #monsterdon

uhhh why is there like an 8yo in the war room #monsterdon

At least the guy from Texas briefly got a silly accent too. #Monsterdon

Humanity unites. Unites for one clear goal. Unite to kill all aliens.
Uh hmm. Well they are asshole aliens.
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@Taweret the best place for absolute-zero antigravity #monsterdon

So far, my takeaway from this week's #Monsterdon is:

We need to commandeer the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile fleet for Earth's defense.

https://www.oscarmayer.com/wienermobile

Oh, they've got a Hipac! My grandma had one of those, it's like an off-brand Interocitor. #monsterdon

yes. YES.. Bring on the model city destruction! #monsterdon #battleinouterspace

now, on how it’s made #monsterdon

under the warm, bright sun of the cold siberian plains

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Siberia, Texas, and Japan.

That's everybody.

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@aburka too real #monsterdon

"...space technique, Doctor, I said _space_ technique"

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that is INCREDIBLY close to Laura’s Theme(?) #monsterdon

Natal spacemen? You mean they're from South Africa? #monsterdon

#monsterdon Death to Space Dickweeds!!!

'you guys save yourselves. ill stay and hold off-'

'cool, thanks! bye!'

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"...it's so sad he had to die"

-looonnnnnng pause-

"I never really liked him."

"Jeff!"

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Jesus, broke my neck in that jump cut 8| #monsterdon

is this the Twin Peaks music #monsterdon

Anyone else expecting the moon to blow up in that shot? #monsterdon #battleinouterspace

and then everyone clapped #monsterdon

It feels weird that it just hit me they made models to mack a life size tracked weinermobile they made. Not that the life size one seems like it can move, but still.
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he just lost all opacity #monsterdon

I'm actually kind of impressed that little rifle can actually roast a full-size ship, really #monsterdon

@cheribaker Well at least there'll be more beer for the rest of them #monsterdon

TOPPA THE MOON, MA! TOP OF THE MOON! #monsterdon