"You know what a love letter from me is? A bullet from a fucking gun." Mothra probably. #monsterdon

Tonight on #Monsterdon : the entire life cycle of a moth

#monsterdon The little kid needs a propeller attached to the top of his cap.

Shinji. Get in the big chicken, or Rei is going to have to pilot again.
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Kinda jealous of people watching the Tubi version getting to watch kaiju smashes 7 minutes earlier than I do

It's okay though, it's worth the wait

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Obviously Nelson has no problem gagging a child...

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this kid starting a famous career as lupin sansei.

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#monsterdon It's the Japanese version of the Hoover Sham!

we all hate Nelson

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Day for night? I think that's bingo

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@paco there's a youtuber retrofitting a car like this with an electric powertrain

it's diy but it can be done

actually easier in those old boats, there's so much room you don't need for other stuff

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Hey, I just realized. The caterpillar is a Juvenile Kaiju, which means I have a #MonsterdonBingo! #Monsterdon

i wonder how big is the #Mothra they built for the aerial shots in the ocean. as big as a boat or a mini-submarine?

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LMAO the audio in this subtitled version has misqueued sections, so the lips move but nothing is said.

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How exactly did Mothra get *upstream* of this dam by swimming 🤔

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Dam. #monsterdon

Team Journalism and Team Science have now combined into Team Ethics and are trying to rescue the faeries to stop a kaiju attack. Naturally the faeries are kept as prisoner beyond a college staircase and protected by goons trained in fisticuffsmanship. But the journalists have better fisticuffsmanship and so defeat them and communicate with the faeries who are like "i dunno we can't do anything i think ur fucked"

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Oh, I missed that Mothra hasn’t evolved yet and is basically just a giant Caterpie #Monsterdon

it is all Nelson's fault

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you can tell the plane is moving by the fact that it's going up and down and the clouds are staying completely still in the background

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Energy and radiation shielding do not work like that

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“Ah, we can make a box out of this and put the girls in it to cut their communication with Mothra!”
“Exactly. A fairie-day cage.”

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Uh oh, a caterpillar sank our toy boat! Oh no!

On the plus side, this movie has a toy boat!

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I've ascertained the origin of the mysterious organ music

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Bingo acquired!

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@devilgirlbot There is one thing: Telepathy

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Appreciate how the song is paired with the Mothra attack, well done Film

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So the miniature work isn't rotoscoping? It looks more like optical compositing? Whatever it is it's really good for 1961. #monsterdon

there she is!

grow grow GROW

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Well, I have to give bonus points for giving the kaiju a justification to attack. Although I may also have to deduct a point for making that reason totally weird and a little creepy. #monsterdon

They woke Mothra. She'll be here in a day or so. She has to shower first.
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I WANT TO GO TO THE MOTHRA RAVE!!!! DAMMIT

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reminded of

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A large egg the size of a large boulder the size of a small boulder

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These fairies are doing a great job of projecting their voices

They must be classically trained

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I find it very odd that the captured fairies are taken to perform in a little flying golden car that hovers over a stage, because that makes no sense.

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The Mothra song!

Is this the song that summons Mothra? Will Mothra come to their rescue? Will Mothra rip into the theater and wisk them away to safety?

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If they sing "O Fortuna", then they summon Yeti instead.

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#monsterdon Secret Fairies aren't secret any longer, if you, you know, give them some fanfare and reveal them to everyone. Now they are just plain fairies.

Try to imagine the gritty and realistic remake. It doesnt work. Mothera is an entity composed of whimsy. A defender of the silly. A champion of tiny pop stars. #monsterdon

That definitely looks like trafficking to me. #Monsterdon #Mothra 🪰🎥

That was a brilliant bit of special effects, opening their golden carriage.

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So this one is kind of a double folly of man, use nukes, steal women

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fairy trafficking :(

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This movie is much odder than I was expecting. Doll sized women and mice. And "natives". Wtf. #monsterdon

Ah, I see the locals have met 'Civilisation' now....

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actual shriek as he steals the little fairy ladies away!

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"For use in entertainment"

That's a 😬 euphaemism

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I kinda want a direct American remake of this but only if we can get Steve Buscemi to play the bug eyed villain.
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#monsterdon And the marching band is still there.

They just stand on that pier playing constantly.

And here I was worried there wouldn't be any egregious racism. Thank's 1960s!
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@blogdiva I was thinking thought that the Mothra exploration team is more logically equipped than Star Trek away missions were - like they have actual protective gear instead of just their clothing.

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*pretending we have all not heard more than enough about small girls on islands*

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Anyway, while we're confused in the forest two women appear and start beeping at one of our explorers. The beeping is so annoying he falls asleep.

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Anyway, we land and start wandering around. While the outside of the island is just gravel, the inside has a regular forest, and the inside of the forest has a cave with a mushroom forest, and inside the mushroom forest we find an inscribed stone plaque written in an unknown language, which is cool.

This account is very pro inscribed stone plaques in unknown languages.

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This reporter is a menace, he shouldn't have a gun! 😓

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Wurlitzer intensifying

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Are you TRYING to get Matango? Because that’s how you get Matango

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"Hey! Who are you calling giant abnormal mutation of mold?!" #monsterdon

This movie so far does not seem to have toy boats but it has lots of aerial footage of boats.

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"We all get Radiation suits, right?"

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You can tell from his accent that he's basically from everywhere. #Monsterdon

My top most watched actors for 2026 got a boost from this movie (Mothra). Logged early cause I have seen it a lot and didn’t want to forget.

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Good for us all to be informed on the latest advances in guillotine technology

That's just culture

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Curious about whether the thing that was translated as "atlantis" was that in the original or something else

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Shinji, get your mouse! It’s under the robot.

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ooo, a bit of 'Atlantis' quakery is it? Excellent!

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LMAO

the one guy with the radioactive symbol on the jacket was the only one with a mask and nobody batted an eye til he was revealed to be a muckracker

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We send out search party to find the people from the sunk boat (or maybe just tossed overboard?) with some helicopters and some boats and then they are rescued. but this is a Big News Story because there is radiation on them and the press subconsciously realizes that this is a kaiju movie.

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Well that White Guy speaks Japanese better than I can, can't say if he's insulting a nation with this tongue though...

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Fukuda-san is so cute :blobfox3c:

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this reminds me we watched a version of Robinson Crusoe with Pierce Brosnan not succeeding with a Scottish accent and the dog died...

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@diazona @Taweret @aburka @RobynGoodfellow Yes, I went through the old toots to get the movies and their starting time. I don’t think I missed any, but only people active in 2022 know if Mothra was the first #monsterdon

Why dub it in English and not switch out 'miles' for 'meters'? #monsterdon

How will that toy boat survive in a typhoon?!

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Yayy! Models!

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WE GOT MOVIE SIGN!!!!!

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GOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOOGOGOGOGO

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I love the Definitely Not The Space Needle Hotel

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@RobynGoodfellow Good point, we'll have to check the toot velocity as well

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The Lady did us proud tonight! #Monsterdon #MonMothra #Mothra

@Violinknitter she can code too... #Monsterdon

Smol ladies released

They hitch a ride with the Magnificent #Mothra and eff off over the sea!

THE END

Y'know Nelson and the military really seemed to be the real problem all along

Thanks for bringing us this excellent classic for #Monsterdon tonight @Taweret !

Coda where the girl reporter jokes that she forgot to take pictures and then Mothra flies back to her weird island and the natives have a celebratory dance party in front of their column diorama and also two misshappen easter island heads?

We learn that the diorama's true purpose is as a set for the faeries to sing on. Then a rock levitates and prays for world peace in a deep voice.

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All hail, Mothra! All glory and worship to our lord and savior, Mothra! Here’s a cross, for no particular reason.

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ooh, double feature! #Monsterdon #MarsAttacks

Okay so what we did was we painted the funny island cross, which I guess is Mothra's symbol, on an airport so she will land there after all the church bells mollify her.

Then we release the faeries who are like "k thanks we hope that there will be world peace one day!" and then go board Mothra who then fucks off into the sky. Everyone on the ground waves because they're swell.

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@jadebees And the 90s Mothra was even fluffier! #monsterdon

@nev "Heyyyy, Macarena"

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Thanks @Taweret & the whole #Monsterdon gang.

Tonight we cocoon on Tokyo Tower, for tomorrow we will emerge FABULOUS!

Goodbye, longstanding Mothra reference twins

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I love Mothra's fluffy mothy face.

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reporter trying to make the sign of the cross and instead drawing a whole ass Kabbalistic Tree of Life

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Aw, smol road paint trucks!

Gerry Anderson would approve.

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Miniature destruction 💥🏢💥

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Is that Caterpillar equipment?

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Is this like an air show for truck enthusiasts

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while we recover the Faerie box, Mothra is busy destroying New Kirk City. However, because we used all of our budget up already on toy tanks and explosions, the destruction scene is less interesting than the Tokyo attack.

It mostly involves Mothra flapping cars away and knocking the odd building over while anti-aircraft guns shoot uselessly at her.

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