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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Let's just wait to talk about all the interesting things that happened on the island until we are no longer on the island???

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#monsterdon And the marching band is still there.

They just stand on that pier playing constantly.

#monsterdon The alarm tone eventually became an optional phone ringtone on Cisco VOIP phones.

And here I was worried there wouldn't be any egregious racism. Thank's 1960s!
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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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You can tell from his accent that he's basically from everywhere. #Monsterdon

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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#monsterdon Worlds most whiney klaxon…

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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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

#Mothra #Monsterdon #Mothradon

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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@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

@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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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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[vengeful flapping continues]

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Oh that's a good depth of field. Nice work, DoP. #Monsterdon

Are military hats/helmets considered “Matching Hats?” Asking for a #MonsterdonBingo friend. The friend is me.

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Also Christianity is just a corrupted form of Mothraism?

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"Bad acting guy is right! If we don't return the fairies quickly, then New Kirk City will be destroyed!"

(shouts of agreement)

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Love that the priest had bling on his wrist

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Some Mothra's do 'ave 'em

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sorry, department store mannequins, mothra's pissed.

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@yatsu The smartass from that jellyfish thing, yeah! #Monsterdon

So the doll women like? Cilmbed up its butt or something? You know what, I don't want to know. #monsterdon

“If you want to, come back one day!”
Next year: *Mothra returns, carrying the fairies*

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hey, wasn't that guy in the hat on the stairs the detective from the other movie? (wow, so specific, but like, you know what i mean, right?)

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If I recall correctly, the American distributor of this film insisted that its finale occur in an "American-style" city, which is why "New Kirk City" in Russamerica is the target city of Mothra.

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Just in time, I got my bingo!

Bingo!

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Super fun. Thanks #monsterdon ers. Take care. See ya soon.

gotta love it when bad guy gets shot
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@Louisa charming, isn't it?

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hey! there's the Brookkirk Bridge!

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Well, looks like our uber is here. Gotta run!
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Mr. Nelson isn’t speaking Japanese any longer. It’s time for asshole English.

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The plane usually survives if it's an actual airline.....

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@floatybirb oh no! they never try fire! #StillBitter #monsterdon ((stupid phone))

THE BELLS, THE BELLS #Monsterdon

Everyone blame Nelson

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Gonna be honest I forgot what was happening

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Isn't Mothra just the cutest invulnerable giant bug ever

#Monsterdon #Mothradon #Mothra1961

"Boss boss! Dat big moff is dead. We got away wif it after all boss." Love these goons.
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Nelson has such a classic evil laugh

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While Nelson is fleeing, I guess the real Russamerican ambassadors has decided to help by loaning the Japanese an atomic heat ray cannon, which looks like a satellite dish delivered by a truck.

It's now day time and Mothra has transformed herself ina giant silk peanut.

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Ok so those looked like bluescreen, and not as good as the previous optical compositing shots. The lighting didn't match at all. #monsterdon

Nice clock. Where did you film this, Metropolis?

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Nelson has decided to flee the country by pretending to be an embassy staff member and just taking a commercial flight back to Russamerica; he has the kidnapped faeries in his carry-on and uses diplomatic immunity to avoid a search.

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@MatthewTitus88 called "Air-hen" #monsterdon ((geeze my old man phone skills suck!))

Release the Epstein Files! What happened to the girls, Nelson?!

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The Mothra peanut has everyone worried

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"ATOMIC CANNONS!"

excellent

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cya on the flipside Nelson

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Mothra-crafted anti-helicopter spray. The perfect gift for anyone in your life.
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Use of pistols on a fleeing suspect seems very in character for Rolisican cop. #Monsterdon #Mothradon #Mothra1962

@davesdogmaggie For me it's.....#monsterdon

the peanut!

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Presumably not sure where the faeries are at, Mothra has contented herself with attacking Tokyo Tower, because its really tall I guess. The army surrounds it and starts shooting her with missiles, tanks and different missiles, eventually knocking her to the ground (and breaking the tower, uh oh)

This causes Mothra to remember that she's a moth and so she starts spinning a cocoon, knocking down a helicopter as she goes, for bonus points.

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