[Baltan II]

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Originally Posted by SPLIT LIP

Just like the original Godzilla!

In that regard, well put. Despite his frequent presentation as a dinosaur or prehistoric reptile, Godzilla has never been any single perfect creature, all the worse as "movie science" radiation is taken into account.

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Originally Posted by SPLIT LIP

Honestly that doesn't look like the actual movie design. The head isn't the same, there's about a third of the spikes, and it's proportions are off. It doesn't match the movie design at all.

I've still got the Godzilla Encounter footage and can reconcile the sharp-angled snout, flattened brow, and cheeks to the Empire cover design. The Jakks 24" toy head is a little more different, but its sparse amount of spines that others attributed to some being shortened/removed for safety reasons is actually in line with Godzilla's back here. Other than the heavy darkness of the Empire cover obscuring spines and skin detail, this cover fits the Godzilla tail poster. The neck does look different, but this may be thanks to the style of the image and the awkward angle, and the arms look more muscular. The most glaring differences I see are when Godzilla is compared to the leaked headshot poster and the shopped-looking images seen with the book-and-toy and the paper plates, and that could be explained as pre-final art to fill the necessary evil of licensing a design you haven't been ready to officially reveal until now, and even that art isn't wildly off-base. Course, this could in itself be pre-final art.

We probably don't have very much longer to wait and see the legitimate final product.