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Titanic Creations Gorgo


The latest figure I got was from the company Titanic Creations, who make action figures and comics. It is an articulated monster named Gorgo, from the 1961 British film of the same name. Some fisherman capture a giant sea monster and take it to London, for public exhibition. Soon enough, the creature’s much larger mother rises from the sea and invades London in search of her offspring, destroying everything in her path. Gorgo was clearly one of the many Godzilla knock-off films, and its plot would later be ripped off by the 1967 Japanese kaiju film Gappa The Triphibian Monster aka Monster From A Prehistoric Planet. Titanic Creations started accepting their pre-orders months ago, adding more extras each time they would meet set goals of a certain amount of orders. The figure is now ready and was delivered last week.










Gorgo resembles a dinosaur with red eyes and fin like ears. They did a great job accurately capturing her look, from her goofy face, sharp teeth, armor-like scales on her back, curved claws, big feet and small tail. She’s painted in grey with highlights and wash throughout, with a tan coat that starts at her neck, runs down her torso and through the underside of her tail. The sculpt and paint are consistent, everything well done. For accessories, she comes with 3 small plastic jets, 3 bendy wires that you can attach them to, a round, plastic stand to hold up the wires, a small submersible, a small building that’s supposed to be the famous London landmark Big Ben that gets destroyed in the movie, a small plastic baby Gorgo, and an alternate head. Big Ben is hollow and can be pulled apart, with perfectly aligned breaks, for battle damage display. All the accessories go well with the figure, and it’s nice to get a lot of extras.


The difference between the 2 heads are the eyes. One has them painted all red, while the other has them red with orange irises. The ones that are painted red can glow in the dark if you hold that head in front of light for a few seconds.











Gorge’s articulation includes head on a ball peg, neck on a ball peg, hinged mouth, ball peg hinged arms, elbows and knees, swivels at the elbows and knees, waist cut, ball peg thighs, ball peg wrists and ankles, toe hinges, and a multi ball jointed tail. The toe hinges on the figure are loose, but everything else is fine. I may add some Kiki to tighten the toes, but otherwise, all is dandy with her engineering. She can look up, turn and tilt her head and neck to the sides, spin her waist fully around, bring her arms up to a T pose, bend her arms or have them out to the sides, kick her legs forward and back, crouch, duplicate a swimming pose, and curl her tail up or side to side. She can do a variety of monster rampage poses.
















For being their first highly articulated figure, Gorgo is a success. She is painted and sculpted well, the articulation is good, and she comes with plenty of accessories. Since she is in the 1:12 scale, she fits right in with the rest of my kaiju figures. If Titanic Creations decides to make more fully articulated kaiju, I’m hoping they can give us some figures from monster movies (provided they get the license). I would love to have a highly articulated Gappa, Guilala (The X From Outer Space) and 67 Yongary. Their Gorgo turned out good, so I’d love to see how any future releases would be.










 

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