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 Over the past several months dozens of rare photos from the Toho Studios archive of their most famous monster and science fiction films have been released online. Once I started seeing them I started saving them and now I have decided to start posting them. I actually have so many of these images that I'm going to have to separate them into three separate posts.  If you are a fan of Godzilla and his many monstrous friends then I'm sure that you will get a real thrill from seeing these images. Most of them have never been published anywhere that I am aware of.    Godzilla (1954)(aka Godzilla: King of the Monsters - 1956) Godzilla Raids Again (1955)(aka Gigantis the Fire Monster - 1959) Rodan (1956) Mothra (1961) Check Out: Fathom Events Is Bringing Godzilla x Mechagodzilla (2002) Back To US Theaters For A One Day Event! Toho  Releases First Godzilla vs Gigan Rex Teaser Trailer Toho Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of Godzilla vs The Smog Monster with a New Short...

  After the success of the first two Godzilla films, Ishiro Honda and Tomoyuki Tanaka would take on the ambitious task of creating a flying monster epic. The film, which would be later titled, “Sora no daikaiju Radon”, was initially penned by writer Ken Kuronuma who drew inspiration from a story he had translated for the Japanese version of Amazing Stories magazine about a Kentucky Air National Guard pilot, who had crashed his plane while chasing a UFO. Kuronuma’s original story would be reworked by Takeshi Kimura and Takeo Murata who replaced the UFO with a pair of flying dinosaurs and added the smaller insect-like Maganuron, who were modeled after the giant ants from Warner Bros. hit 1954 film “Them!”. The flying monster, Rodan, presented several technical problems for Eiji Tsuburaya and his special effects team. Elaborate rigging had to be created to support the 150 pound Rodan suite, and the actor inside it. The use of special cameras created excessive heat and prevented the ...