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Ultraman Monsters (image-heavy post)

You know, Ultraman has, in some form or another, been on the air almost continously for nearly forty years. Each episode has its own giant rubber-suited monster, and when you think about it that's pretty impressive. Sure, sometimes they took shortcuts (one monster was obviously a godzilla costume spray-painted gold with a frill around its neck), but my hat is off to anybody who can design, fund, and build.

With that in mind, I have to wonder. What does each monster say about the people who designed them? What can be gleaned from their varied appearances? To this end, I have selected a few monsters and tried to state what their design says about them. I used toy pictures, because I can't be bothered to remember all their names (and they're not easy to remember. Gan-Q? Gatanozoa? Astromons? Pedoreon?). Also, please do not tell me about how "disrespectful" this is to a "grand cultural tradition." It's okay to joke about things.

Also, anybody who hung around me at SDCC 2007 probably recognizes these guys:

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y18.../monster01.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y18.../monster02.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y18.../monster03.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y18.../monster04.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y18.../monster05.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y18.../monster06.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y18.../monster07.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y18.../monster08.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y18.../monster09.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y18.../monster10.jpg

I must have seen a few of them on MXC's Halloween Mascots vs. Monsters episode a couple years ago under made-up names. One of them was Calmulica, the last one in post #4 was the Queerwig, the little bugger that made teenagers gay.

Finally, Brian! I was worried. :D

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Originally Posted by bloonuggets (Post 71779)

I think "Queerwig" is actually named "baltan," but I'd have to go look it up again.

And yes, "Brian" is somewhat of an inside joke.

...Okay, it's an entirely inside joke.

Now that was a brilliant session of interpreting monsters! I would love to see you tackle Power Rangers next, Ridureyu.8D

I also think one of them in that Monsters vs. Mascots show was Allahzilla Babaganoosh.

Those are pretty funny. I especially like "I like panda bears."