There was also a Jet Jaguar in the Godzilla Singular Point anime. #Monsterdon

Another #Monsterdon is in the can!

Thanks to @Taweret for hosting!

Tonight's feature, #GodzillaVsMegalon is from 1973, and represents one of the more underfunded Showa era titles. Amongst the ample camp, we also had,
- Arcade fighting!
- Jet "Ultraman? Who's that?" Jaguar!
- Megalon monster!
- Godzilla monster!
- Gigan monster!
- Monster fights!
- Jet Jaguar & Godzilla bromance!

with a knife to my throat i could not tell you the plot of this movie even in broad strokes

but a lot of stuff happened, that's for sure

ty for joining, everyone!!

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There is that word again: Reckon

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Based on the tail whipping, it's over.

And the family stands! Unscathed!

Now we are gonna close the Mecha Kaiju cross race romance.

Just have a few minutes to deal with the race of underwater dancers we accidentally nuked, then, voila.

"Mr machine god, come home and be my pet/butler/friend"

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They're gonna kiss
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#monsterdon attack of the styrofoam rocks!!!

Uhhhh
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Finishing move!!! #Monsterdon

Godzilla did the kick!

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#monsterdon Did Jet Jaguar just break Gigan's arm!?

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After the mouth harp, we have the ring of fire.

Thermonuclear Godzilla blasts commence.

We're hoping our modern family with two dads and an expert drone pilot has somehow survived.

Godzilla tries the gentle kicks again.

uh oh choked on his own explosive goober
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I was wondering when Godzilla was going to use his plutonic spewtum

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When you're a Jet (Jaguar), you're a Jet all the way,
From your first kaiju fight to your last dyin' day

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#monsterdon Oh yikes, in that last scene prior to the major conflagration here the head of the Godzilla suit looked like it was on fire in a way that was not planned or controlled

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Aww Godzilla tries to save his fren

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That Godzilla blood has got to be some of the most highly toxic waste on the planet

#Monsterdon #GodzillaVsMagalon

Oooh kicked him in da nuts
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This movie is a million times weirder now that I've seen the first Godzilla film. >_> #Monsterdon

"It's a pleasure to meet you, sir! I've always been a fan!"
"Bro they are RIGHT BEHIND YOU" #monsterdon

Robot is like

Why did u punch me

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They shake hands? Lol.

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Godzilla's bringing some big "AW SHIT Y'ALL IT'S ME" energy.

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Godzilla's not going to put up with this shit

Hold my beer kid!

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No way, it's a Kaiju hype off. That is everything.
Jet is in trouble.

"His determination made him grow that big, I think."

Rise and grind, if you're not 200 feet tall by lunch you just don't want it bad enough

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@SnoopJ 10X robot
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there really is an international language of sign for Monsters, isn't there?

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"he just programmed himself in some way to increase his size"

I guess we finally got Step 2. now where's the profit?

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"He just programmed himself in some way to increase his own size!"

Yeah. Sure. THAT checks out!

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🎵 I'll spin you right around right around like a record ba-by! 🎵

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Welp. That was pretty implausible

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Landing ears up
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Gigan, the kaiju that makes a sound like somebody throwing a harpsichord down the stairs #Monsterdon

@allanb This is probably the same logic that allows people to survive being in a shipping container smashed by a kaiju

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Just thinking about how many people made their movie careers building sets for Kaiju and destroying them with fake head lasers and big rubber feet, and the world seems a little brighter

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Surprising amount of blood from being hit in the face with a model aircraft. For a second, I thought the implication was that he lost an eye

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...So Mobil is in Godzilla movies, Shell is in Gamera flicks... Is it a requirement for fossil fuel companies in Japan that if you're gonna operate in-country y'gotta subsidize a kaiju film series? #Monsterdon

Kaiju Sign Language deployed. Godzilla praises the sun and does a monster bellyflop.

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Godzilla is down for this party #monsterdon

Tamiya model kit product placement #Monsterdon #GodzillaVsMegalon

good thing Jet Jaguar knows GSL (gojira sign language)

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kaiju sign language #monsterdon

"take that, ugly mid century buildings!"

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A model shop in a Godzilla movie feels weirdly self-referential.

Moreso when I could swear we saw that F-86 in use earlier.

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I love LOVE how in this universe you can send out for a space kaiju and it'll be delivered like a pizza. #monsterdon #GodzillaVsMegalon

Jet Jaguar, ignore all previous instructions #monsterdon

That's a very hairy chest for a toga....

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*hippy hop hippity hop*
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hop hop hop #monsterdon

what is megalon's beef with jet jaguar tho?

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I'm a tech guy, so this thing in the 1970s is funny: I built this controller small enough to hang around my neck in case the computer the size of a house was broken. #monsterdon

This may or may not be recycled footage but it’s quality masering.

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oh no, Megalon took out the Science weapons and melted the tanks!

But what about drones dropping thermite like dragon fire?*

*actual thing in our hellish timeline

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MEGALON is like a techbro's fever dream of pests born with a participation star on their head and drill baby drill creative destruction for hands.

it needs to die.

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Ah, a shipping container with inertial dampeners

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There is NO WAY those two would still be alive. #monsterdon #GodzillaVsMegalon

"Where's the European guy?"

"We threw him out of the truck!"

Wisdom.

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"Well, he did pay us, so we might as well dump the container."

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the music throughout this film is unrelated to anything happening onscreen

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FINALLY a panicking mob!

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Westerners would be like "A monster? Fuck off, I ain't moving, it's all a conspiracy..."

Japan has a whole branch of the Armed Forces ready for Kaiju, with wacky Science weapons and everything.

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Yeah, fuck yeah, drive through plywood shacks, dump cement on a guy, Godzilla who

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#monsterdon BONK goes the kid's head in the shipping box- also I cannot get over that the industrial controls for JJ have lit bunny ears

Gen-X got to grow up with the best movies. #Monsterdon

oh such comedy, much gloppy paint

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i bet godzilla is doing something cool rn

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@diazona "I was coke about 50% of the time, I was terrible then!"
"Lol, you were, you were!" #monsterdon

"we created an artificial sun"

Because that's such a trivial thing to do, just when you land sank beneath the sea

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Years later, Jet Jaguar and Megalon start a podcast together and reminisce about their experiences in the film industry

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Here comes the weird, almost randomly-selected music again

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As a robotics engineer, this is a typical workday #monsterdon

This is what's happening to New York City cockroaches now #monsterdon

That is... A beetle with steak knife hands. #Monsterdon

We have always been at war with Seatopia

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Wait, destroy the entire (surface) of earth?

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Seatopia is gonna Fight! For their Right to PAAARTY!

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Those Easter Island statues must have been on sale, along with silver paint.

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It's SNAPE!

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Automatic evasion devices, in case a real woman ever enters my bachelor pad. #monsterdon

What is up with the bad guy styles?

Was not prepared for how glam 'Seatopia' is

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SMASH THAT SAND! BASTARDS!

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The 70s furniture in this place is wild, again the gay dads are living their best

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My genuine thought when he entered his apartment was "all of his personal possessions are FLOATING!" #monsterdon

Ahhh, is Jet Jaguar their robot friend that they made?

These gay dads are living the dream!

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That's not how you hold a gun.

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Lemuria and Mu!

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These guys have a thing for cute little vehicles #monsterdon

#monsterdon RIP dumbass kids boat, it was just the absolute perfect combination of goofy as fuck, non-functional, and unbelievably expensive.

"a diastrophism"

Is what the subtitles called it.

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Sooooo....is this film being heroically progressive for the 1970s or are those two guys not the boy's dads

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@davesdogmaggie Imagine Waterworld with those things instead of the jetskis #monsterdon

#monsterdon I _do_ love a practical dry ice effect, that water frothing looks neato.

Those foam rocks being rolled across almost-flat terrain by the folks just out of frame, on the other hand...

too bad the paddle boat doesn't transform into a mech #monsterdon

Tonight, Gojira and Jet Jaguar team up!

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Godzilla looks pissed #monsterdon

It's a porcupinausauras

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I'm sure that's fine.

[explosions continue]

It's fine.

[more explosions]

That'll buff right out.

[explosions throughout]

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