M1Go GID Gezora ゲゾラ

M1 Go reissue of the Bullmark Gezora (Toho edition). This is a standard size glow in the dark vinyl version, limited to 100 figures worldwide. Issued in February 2006.












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Gezora, a giant cuttlefish (octopus, squid), appeared in the tokusatsu science fiction film "Space Amoeba" or "Yog: Monster from Space" (南海の大怪獣 - Giant Monsters of the South Seas). The film was produced and released by Toho Studios in 1970. This was one of director Ishirō Honda's last kaiju movies, and the first kaiju movie made by Toho after the death of special-effects director Eiji Tsuburaya. Teruyoshi Nakano did the special effects for this film. [Source: Wikipedia]

In the movie, an alien force comes to Earth on a returning spaceship, intent on world conquest and using giant monsters as its tools, first Gezora, then the turtle-like Kamoebas and the giant crab, Ganimes. Over the course of the monster battles, it is revealed that Gezora can be hurt by ultrasonic frequencies. One notable thing about the movie, is that although the monsters are giant, they are smaller-scaled than in movies like Godzilla. This smaller scale allows more intimacy and realism in the attacks by the monsters on humans and their villages, and the humans' response as they fight back against the monsters.



[Promotional poster © 1943-2007 Toho Co. Ltd. and its related entities. All rights reserved.]

スタンダードサイズ 蓄光成型 ブルマァク復刻 ゲゾラ

南海の大怪獣

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Moguera 1957 (モゲラ Mogera)

This Moguera figure is an original mold with an old toy style, reissued by Marusan in 1998. It is about 6 inches tall. Notice the drill-like nose and the steam shovel-like lower jaw to help the monster burrow its way through the earth underground. (Moguera is Japanese for "Mole.")

Moguera (モゲラ Mogera) is from the 1957 Toho Studios tokusatsu film "The Mysterians" (地球防衛軍), directed by Ishirō Honda (drama) and Eiji Tsuburaya (special effects). The Mysterians was the first tokusatsu filmed in TohoScope and the first Toho film to use stereophonic sound. It is also known for its use of color, in particular its heavy use of day-for-night shots and bright alien costumes. (Alternate titles for the movie: "Chikyu Boeigun" (Japanese) and "The Earth Defense Force".)

In the Mysterians, scientifically advanced wanderers from the destroyed planet Mysteroid request a plot of land on Earth... and earthling women to breed with! After a demonstration of their destructive abilities, mankind must decide whether to capitulate or to resist.

Moguera is a robot used by the alien Mysterians to assist in convincing the earthlings to cooperate. Moguera attacks a small village with its optic heat blasts, but is destroyed when the bridge it is standing on collapses due to the military dynamiting it.

A second Moguera appears as the Markalite beam cannons assault the Mysterians' base. This Moguera trys to destroy one of the Markalites by burrowing underneath it, but the weapon falls on top of it, crushing and destroying the robot.

[Sources: Adapted from Wikipedia.]

Here are some images released in connection with the movie in its various forms:









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