Godzilla Destruction City set Gallery
 

With a little over a month to go until Godzilla stomps into theaters, street dates have been broken and this reviewer has gotten his hands on the Destruction City set!

The set includes a Godzilla figure, a 'Muto' figure, 7 building pieces, 2 bridge pieces, 2 jets, 2 helicopters, and 1 battleship.

Godzilla stands at approximately 3 inches tall and only has limited forward and backward movement at the shoulders and hips. Despite it's small size, there is a lot of intricate sculpted details all over the figure and the paint applications are minimal but effective.

The 'Muto' figure also stands at approximately 3 inches tall and does not have any articulation. The figure has some detailing on the head and is cast in a reddish-black plastic.

All of the vehicles in the set a little over in an inch in length and are cast in a mid-grey plastic. The helicopters do have moving rotors despite the reduced scale.

The buildings are simple, molded in a single color, but they do have a lot of fine details on them from the windows to the numbers on the 'warehouses'. The different pieces do not clip or lock in place to form buildings, they just sit on top of one another.

Overall, the Destruction City pack from the Godzilla line is a fun set with a lot of playability.

It was a shame, but also a nice surprise to see that of all the Godzilla toys I expected to see at Toys'R'Us, the Destruction City was all gone. This set definitely is one of the more popular options, seeing as it ZOMG SPOILERS includes a Muto SPOILER OVER and has loads of playability without relying on any gimmicks.

Also worth noting that two variants exist, with the buildings in grey or olive green, and apparently the grey ones will not be in production down the line, so yaaaaay artificial collectability.

So... How does this scale with the Retrofire Megazords or SRC Daizyujin?

not well, the buildings are wayyyy too tiny, otherwise I would have picked up the set myself :(

They're just a tad too big and tower over the buildings. I did shoot a photo with SRC Daizyujin but left it out of the final upload. I'll post it for you tonight.

I've got this set and the figures are rather tiny. Godzilla come up the to crotch of all the new deluxe Generations TFs.

Orange Arms Godzilla. :lol

gah...if it wasn't so tiny I'd pick it up in a heart beat...

Muto looks like something that'd be in Evangelion. I'm guessing it's gonna be an original monster for the film?

Ditto. Neon Godzillus Evangelion.

what the hell?.. why are all the sets that i've seen have the buildings molded in an army colored green?.. it's SOO lame and has completely turned me off from getting it.

i'm still surprised that they gave godzilla gills.

:lolOrange Arms Godzilla = the end of the world as we know it.

No, that would be Kachidoki Arms Godzilla.

All the buildings are modeled in gray, not green. :)

There are sets with olive green buildings as well, which are visible around the web even if you've only encountered the gray ones. As I mentioned earlier, it's a running change, one that apparently exists with the Packs of Destruction as well, but those haven't shown up in stores nearly as widespread as the action figures or the Destruction City yet. The buildings for those sets are red (Godzilla) and blue (Winged Muto) or gray (both).

As for the reason why the change was made, via a Toho Kingdom interview:

that reason is probably the dumbest thing i've ever heard.. i mean.. seriously.

well hey, at least i'll save money on this set and hopefully he'll understand that there isn't a city in the world that comprised of green buildings. ..

i'm not sure how that military green color is "more fun".. oh well.

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97...ps3bdbd385.jpg

Or maybe you'll encounter one of the gray ones and pick it up. They're all over eBay too, although obviously at varying degrees of being overpriced. BBTS and Amazon have all three different sets available and might have them all in gray, but that's something of a gamble. Or, because they're still shipping and available, you could pick one up from a friend or acquaintance who's found the gray version.

I don't entirely understand Bandai America's reasoning behind the running change, but on the other hand I actually want to own both varieties of colors eventually, having an even bigger cityscape with some colorful variety.

And here I opened the gray ones. Should have kept them MISB. Collectors item I tell you!!!

they should've made godzilla teal.. i mean.. all reptiles aren't dark green.. it would've been more fun!

What happened to the comparison pic?

this^

This would be pretty cool if it was bigger.