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Last week, I discovered a vintage American (and other countries) Godzilla collectible that I had no idea existed, and Hanna-Barbera Godzilla, no less. In 1979, you could buy a sticker album that held "Collectors' Stamps" of about 200 HB characters. Each TV show got at least a half-page in the album, and the stickers filled in missing spaces that completed a mural for each show. (Of course, these sorts of albums have been around forever, and still are.)
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As you can see, they don't give him much text...here are the 3 stickers ("stamps") that belong in his section (#58-60). The stamps themselves are smaller than a trading card, and I would think they were sold in packs, but I haven't found any photos of a wrapper in my research.
And now, brace yourselves...through the miracle of modern digital technology, scientists have been able to use computers to reconstruct what this completed page would have looked like. As far as we know, no experiment of this type has ever been conducted before:
Are some things more canon than others when it comes to this animated series' backstory?
ReplyDeleteReading that: the mighty monster who used to terrorize the world works on the side of justice through his friendship with a min-monster known as Godzooky - makes me imagine that Godzilla was doing typical kaiju stuff until he found out he had a nephew and sobered up and took responsibility for the kid.
Sure it could be that they just are talking about the movies that people would be used to before seeing this animated Hanna Barbera cartoon, but they didn't even mention how the Calico crew plays into this specifically what with rescuing Godzooky and Godzilla deciding to stick with them because of this action.
Do you know if the Cinnamon House books like the Puzzlers or the Crossword Search-A-Word reveal any other or more about this world's lore with regard to Godzilla?
I don't remember any revelations in those books--early production art included a synopsis that said Godzooky was Godzilla's COUSIN, but that was never spoken of again...in fact, I don't think the exact relation is ever mentioned anywhere in the show!
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