NECA NES Godzilla Re-Issue

Today I picked up the NECA NES re-release Godzilla from my local shop, Zonkey Toys. It’s based on the NES video game.

It’s basically a repainted Godzilla 84 figure with re-sculpted dorsal spines that are quite large. The paint is green and grey, with pixelated patterns. The eyes are colored red.

This is basically the same figure that they released several years ago. The articulation points are on the head, neck, mouth, shoulders, elbows, wrists, waist, thighs, knees and ankles. He also has some articulation points on the tail.

Since this figure is a re-release, they gave us the old NECA style tails, with a long section at the end that has a bendy wire in it. It would’ve been nice if they had re-sculpted the tail to be segmented like they did with their G62 figure. That would’ve been a good improvement. Other than that, the figure is pretty cool.

I did notice that the section where the head attaches to the neck seems to have a bit of a gap whenever you move it in certain directions. All of the joints are smooth, except the knee joints which are a little stiff. The tail segment, which comes in 2 out of the package, also popped on the ball hinge fairly easily.

This figure is really nice. The head on the 84 sculpt has always been big, and since that sculpt sports too small dorsal spines, the head can come off too large at certain angles. Since the dorsal spines on this figure are quite large, it helps to even it out.

It’s cool that NECA did a figure like this. Along with their Reactor Glow version, and S.H. Monsterarts’ Ohrai Noriyoshi poster version, it’s nice to have figures with different, interesting color schemes.

I’ve always wanted to get this figure, but since the original was a few years old, it was quite pricey. I’m happy NECA re-issued it. I can already tell this will be one of my favorite NECA Godzilla figures.

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