Musings of an Inkd Geek

After waiting an extra month, I finally received my preorder of the Hiya 1991 Godzilla. It had originally dropped in late May. However, fans quickly took note of the head sculpt, particularly the eyes. They were painted a shiny gold, with large black pupils. Many complained that this was far different than what the promo pics showed, not to mention, inaccurate. As a result, Hiya listened to the feedback and immediately got working on a new head sculpt that would be ready by July, with plans to send it out to all who had already purchased the figure. I preordered mine through Kowkis, and they decided it was more logical to wait until the new heads came in and then mail them WITH the figure. So last week, my figure arrived, with both the first head, and the newly produced one. The figure is based on the Hokkaido suit used in the 1991 film Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah. The design is similar to the 1989 suit, with a longer neck, leaner, fiercer face, thick legs, very long tail, leaner torso,...

Let's take a look at my latest purchase from Ricsan Custom Toys. It is one of their newly produced figured: Final Wars Lizard (aka Zilla, Goji's American counterpart, first introduced in the 1998 Tristar film). Ricardo based the sculpt on the monster's appearance from the 2004 Toho film Godzilla: Final Wars, where aliens from planet X attack the Earth with an army of giant kaiju. The sculpt is pretty accurate to what Zilla looked like in that film (he was entirely CGI). He resembles an iguana with a large head and mouth, with a patch of spikes on his back. The figure is painted in various shades of blue, with tan running along the underside of his belly, down to the tail, bone white for his teeth, black for the finger and toe nails, and light pink on the insides of his mouth. The very small eyes are yellow with red pupils, and for being so tiny, they're painted fairly well. For an accessory, a hollow, silver Xillian spaceship is included. It's a cool extra that goes...