what did you do with those little girls, Nelson?

this line, this time, OUCH

#monsterdon

THE PEANUT 🥜

#Monsterdon

🦖#MONSTERDON 🎞️

⁉️ TRIVIAZILLA 🦋 🏙️💥🐛

Columbia Pictures threatened to cancel the entire film if new budget-friendly scenes set in fictional "New Kirk City" were not included.

These scenes were mostly created from library footage from California.

With the additional funds from Columbia Pictures, Mothra became
🦋 Toho's most expensive film ever made up until that point
🦋 the most expensive film ever made in Japan at the time.

#Mothra1961

Sure, shoot openly among a throng of people. Totally cool. WTF?
#Monsterdon
#Mothra

A moth flaps it's wings in Tokyo....

#Monsterdon

Interestingly, it looks like this Tokyo Tower was actually inspired by the Eiffel Tower.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Tower

#Monsterdon #Mothra #Mothra1961

@blogdiva Tokyo Tower

#Monsterdon #Mothradon

"It's Nelson!"

Quick, knock him off the column! #Monsterdon

RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE! #Monsterdon #Mothra

Daihhhhhhhhhhhhh!

#monsterdon #mothradon

#monsterdon What if New York was in southern California?

Apparently, no one likes Nelson.
#Monsterdon
#Mothra

New Kirk City, consisting of several different coastlines, stitched together...

#monsterdon

@blogdiva

Yep

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Tower

#Monsterdon

If the Feds ever want to look in my bag I'll tell them I am the Ambassador to Roslinka or what ever

#Monsterdon

Mothra's on the highway, she's taking the 105 downtown! #Monsterdon

_That's_ Los Angeles. The highway, I mean.

#monsterdon #mothradon

i fell asleep and missed #monsterdon :(

Just like Superman, Nelson P. T. Barnum can be disguised by a single pair of glasses

#Monsterdon

New Kirk City sure seems like a lot of different places. #monsterdon

But New Kirk City is... not close to Tokyo. She can *move*. #Monsterdon #Mothradon #Mothra1962

Building all of these miniatures jut to smash them, this is what art is about

#monsterdon

#monsterdon #mothra #mothradon

Pan Am!!

Mothra spews forth but IT'S NOT DONE YET the best is yet to come #Monsterdon

negotiate with Mothra

well, I guess you can try many things once.

#monsterdon

The humans have horrible aim for such a slow moving giant moth.
#Monsterdon
#Mothra

Yanked that itty bitty copter right out of the sky!

#monsterdon

"If Mothra comes out as an adult, we're all in big trouble"

Well maybe you should have been more supportive when Mothra was younger. #Monsterdon

In non-kaiju related news, the fookin' Bears lose!!! #Monsterdon

Deploy giant candle! #Monsterdon #Mothradon #Mothra1962

"Mothra's headed to Rolisica!"

"Welp, it's leaving Tokyo! Have fun, Mothra!"

#monsterdon

the fire shots are legitimately terrifying

y'all, we aren't afraid enough of fire

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon #mothra #mothradon

Mothra. One of the greatest creatures of all time.

Oh sure just cease fire the moment Mothra trips

(I mean, it's probably good for Mothra though) (unless the explosions tickle)

#Monsterdon #Mothradon #Mothra1961

The string showing was intentional. Nice.

#Monsterdon #Mothra #Mothra1961

Where's your atomic ray now? #Monsterdon

But you've got its vulnerable impenetrable armor plates exposed now is the time to blast it?

#Monsterdon #Mothra

America: "we're sending over to you our newest weapons!"

Japan: "Thanks, but we're good."

#monsterdon
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#monsterdon I gotta be honest, I didn't expect Mothra to be a gross larva for most of the movie, I can't blame everyone for bombing her to hell

I guess you're not gonna call Ghostbusters now...

#monsterdon

Mothra went from egg to cocoon in like 30 minutes. I'm sure it doesn't have long.

#Monsterdon

🦖#MONSTERDON 🎞️

⁉️ TRIVIAZILLA 🦋 🏙️💥🐛

To make the wings flap more realistically, the Mothra models were suspended on wires from an overhead motorized brace that would open and close.

The wires were attached at the center of the wings, allowing the wings to flap at the edges.

#Mothra1961

Yeah, mothra, I had to rescue a monarch from doing that on our watermelon plant this summer.

#monsterdon #mothra

I do love Mothra
#monsterdon

Wheeeeeee down comes the tower!

#monsterdon #mothra

Is Mothra going to metamorphose hanging from Tokyo Tower like a giant Monarch butterfly?

#Monsterdon

@socketwench yeah true

I suppose we can always riff off the characters making terrible decisions and such but there's a certain underlying respect

#Monsterdon #Mothradon #Mothra1961

Ah yes the mothra creamy shower

#monsterdon

ATOMIC TYPHOON WING POWERS, ACTIVATE

#monsterdon terdon

Guess who's back!! #Monsterdon #Mothra 🪰🎥

Those are some slow ass rockets

#Monsterdon

Is Mothra looking to cocoon on wrong Eiffel Tower?

#Monsterdon #Mothra #Mothra1961

Mothra used Gust! #Monsterdon

"Down goes Mothra! Down goes Mothra!" #monsterdon

Here she comes, with her big wing wind! #Monsterdon

@blogdiva I especially liked when the cute tanks had to turn around and run away quickly.

#monsterdon

#monsterdon I still can't help wondering what it was like for the fairies to be bouncing around in the briefcase.

How are they even still alive?

22 hundred hours 15 minutes. Mothra has reached Tokyo Tower. I have finished my muffin.
#Monsterdon #Mothra

Ishirō Honda watching King Kong climbing the Empire State Building: "write that down, write that down!!"

#Monsterdon

Mothra will blow you away!

#monsterdon
#Mothra

Oh shit. Now Y'all are in it. #Monsterdon #Mothra

you know, you didn't need to be all in the fairies' faces about the death of mothra

#monsterdon

Momthra! #Monsterdon

🗼🐛💥🔥🔥🔥🏚️🔥
#Monsterdon #Mothra

head only looks a little like Stitch

#monsterdon #mothradon

Self congratulatory villain laughter, with extra hubris. To make the next scene extra satisfying. #Monsterdon #Mothradon #Mothra1962

h e r
#monsterdon

"this isn't even my final form!"

#monsterdon

I just this minute thought to wonder if Empress Bulblax is a Mothrapillar homage #Monsterdon

oh no not the Eiffel Tower!

#monsterdon
#mothradon

pew pew pew pew

#Monsterdon

There are the wings. And big, wind creating wings they are. 😀
#Monsterdon
#Mothra

there's nothing to stop us from showing our weird little vaudeville act!

#monsterdon #mothradon

He may be evil, but that red vest looks sharp! #Monsterdon

@davesdogmaggie That atomic heatray definitely should exist now. We were robbed. #Monsterdon #Mothra 🪰🎥

[atomic sounds intensify]

#monsterdon

Making these scenes must've been fun what with all the toy tanks and helicopters and Smol Destruction #Monsterdon

Peeekabooooo

#Monsterdon

I study nuclear science, I love my classes. I've got a crazy general who wears dark glasses. Things are going great, and they're only getting better...

#monsterdon #timbuk3

[Imagine I made this joke about 30 minutes ago when the fairies were in their golden carriage]

More like CIRCUS PEANUTS, amirite?!

#monsterdon #mothra

LANDMARK ALERT

#Monsterdon

Woof, goin' up like the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. #Monsterdon

Are they trying to roast the giant peanut? #mothra1961 #Monsterdon

Mothra has just arrived at the fireworks factory in my version. But it's yet at the tower.
#Monsterdon #Mothra

@arrjay the heat is stored in the balls

#monsterdon

That burning cocoon odor, smiles like....victory. #Monsterdon

"mission accomplished"

#monsterdon

Note how much damage is being done to the city by Mothra vs how much is being done by the military

and compare to last week

#Monsterdon #Mothradon #Mothra1961

City of Townsville in flames. #Monsterdon

How is it 2026 and those energy beam weapons whatever they’re called still don’t exist?

#Monsterdon

It's Clobberin' Time!

#monsterdon #mothra

Ohoho the cute little tanks

(a phrase I have never before said in my life and never will again)

#Monsterdon

🏢🛣️🏢🏫💥💥🐛💥🔥💥🔥🔥

#Monsterdon #Mothra

#monsterdon #mothra #mothradon

Typical teenager. Get mad and strike out. Then cocoon yourself away.

ouch, macrowaved in the balls.

#monsterdon

model day-for-night requires using a tiny sun

#monsterdon

They got that tech from the spy sent to live inside Godzilla's mouth. #Monsterdon #Mothradon #Mothra1962

what if they're just making mothra more cozy in there?

#monsterdon

Mothra Larval Form uses Dig. It’s Supereffective

#Monsterdon

It looks like a big Styrofoam peanut. #Monsterdon #Mothra