John, the only one I ever got on VHS was Vs. Biollante, which is now available on DVD. For 20 years I hunted for Godzilla 1985 aka Godzilla: the Legend Reborn, never getting closer than $200 a pop on VHS on greedBay. Found it late last year or so on a print-to-order site, where I also got a version of Destroy All Moonsters that has the monsters' conversations subtitled. I think I have like 25 of the 34-ish movies accepted as Godzilla canon (in which I do NOT count the 1998 US-made Jay Leno Lizard).
I love the fact that Mr. Chujo from the original 1962 Mothra is the same actor who played Mr. Chujo in Against Mechagodzilla in 1992!
Plus I got my 50something biker neighbor so hooked on Godzilla that not only is he doing the driving for this because HE wants to see the new one, but when his cerebral palsy necessitated trading his Dyna Street Bob in for a trike, he got said trike a permanent plate reading KIRYU.
I have a BUNCH of Godzilla toys, and many of them are in the 7" scale because that goes great with our "Christmas village" display stuff. We slacked off last year but this year I'm hauling that outta storage and putting up our Kaiju Christmas Village display on the breakfast bar
. The 7" plush Godzilla also does duty at potlucks--he has a string of mini lights wrapped around him (and they light up radiation-warning yellow, too perfect!) but it's pretty easy to rig up a little ribbon harness and strap him to the little wicker sleigh that I like to fill with cookies.
The real jewel among the toys, however, has company. It's a vinyl Final Wars edition Godzilla with a slightly melted leg; I have it propped up on a rock. Up on the shoulders stand the action figures comprising the rest of my "goon squad", which are a very recent Loki and an original 1978 flexible-cape Darth Vader (long since out of its original packaging as it spent most of the 80s actually getting played with).
I live a fun life
