"mutated toad crossed with a demon shark" is now my favorite way to describe a crocodile

Considering the marketing for Godzilla vs Kong really favored Kong in its trailers having Godzilla’s name be given this fancy font while Kong gets nothing is oddly cathartic

Love these videos, I have the Godzilla vs The Sea Monster canadian version sitting on my shelf haha

I owned several of these covers as a kid, because I always thought they were different movies. I had like 6 different copies of the same movie at one point.

2:31 "Special effects are above average" Truly some high level praise

8:20 that's the specific Ghidrah VHS I had all those years back! Probably the most played and replayed VHS tape at my parent's house to this day, lol. I never caught the detail of the spine art however, things you miss as a kid I guess.

An individual could make an entire series based around bad box art and never run out of material.

3:06 Godzilla looks like an alligator in this art.

It's actually fascinating that most of these case art had the same vibes as those infamous hand-painted Ghanaian movie posters where the artists were probably just told scenes that happened (or never happened) in the movie, and they just painted whatever they imagined in their minds.

Such a niche little video that’s extremely pleasant to watch thanks to your narration.

1:48 This one brings back memories when I saw this in Walmart when I was so young 8:15 Yo! I remember those. I had Mechagodzilla, 1985, and Ghidorah. 9:53 That one I had and would stare at it for a long time. Something about the artwork caught my attention.

Ayyy I was actually thinking about you making a video? Kinda shocked by this but I needed this today! Your vids always make me interested in things like strange Kaiju art, or that alien star fish film etc.

I actually had a VHS of that 35th anniversary version of Kong vs Godzilla when I was a kid (before replacing it with a DVD version), and I still remember catching on to how the designs used weren't the correct ones in the film

I’ve just started watching your channel and I think you deserve more attention because you put so much devotion and effort and you get barely 1 to 5 thousand views. Overall, keep up the good work

12:00 Just beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. That one got me the most in terms of laughing, but there were some pretty good ones in there. I have seen cover art for Godzilla vs Megalon where they are standing on the World Trade Center towers, sometimes I wonder if the people that make the art have even seen a Godzilla movie, or know a single thing about the character aside from. "Big monster that shoots fire."

that video cover with the green Godzilla and the volcano in the background is extremely nostalgic to me, because I think if I remember correctly, that was my first Godzilla movie that I picked out from the store

Love these vids. 3:06 Kinda reminds me of the poster for Schlock, or the Minnesota Ice Man. 'Godzilla' in the same cover looks like a blurry photo of a crocodile with painted-on spines and extra teeth. If it wasn't sandwiched between two other versions of Godzilla vs. Gigan, I'd have no idea what film Extermination 2025 was supposed to represent.

9:20 DUDE THEY RENAMED IT "LA ISLA DE LOS BAMBÚES ROJOS", THAT'S SPANISH FOR "THE ISLAND OF THE RED BAMBOOS". They were clearly referring to the evil organization from the film, but it's just so bizarre as a title for this movie. From what I've seen, it's the argentinian release. I'm very intrigued since few kaiju flicks get distributed here, at least nowadays, and it's mostly the american adaptations, so this might be one of the first and few times a japanese one got here.

The approach Anchor Bay took with their 1997 Godzilla VHS tapes with the full image that you get with all the tapes’ spins together reminds me a lot of the VHS releases Star Trek movies with the OG cast. Essentially, having Star Trek 1-6 would give you a very nice artwork of the Enterprise, but getting more than one box set would give you a bigger Enterprise artwork. It was honestly really cool!

Great video! I have the goodtimes and new world vsh tapes after all these years but sadly I didn't preserve the covers and later made my own haha. The Gigan one used to confuse me too and it made me think the 2 woman were separate characters as a child lol

I actually have the Anchor Bay Ghidora VHS at home. Never realized it formed a pic with the spine art. Can't remember what else it came with since it was in a two-pack. And I also have the original Good Times Ebirah. Still some of my favorite box art.

Extermination 2025 is straight up baffling to me. Like, that's just an existing image that they reused. It's like the designer was told "it's a science fiction film" and nothing else

I almost never comment on videos but your channel never disappoints. I love seeing all the old weird Godzilla stuff. I would love to see a video about posters and vhs art that is actually good. If you can find any :)

I remember having a vhs copy of Godzilla vs Gigan as a kid which not only had a very inaccurate artwork of Godzilla fighting King ghidorah, seriously ghidorah looked more like the Hydra from Jason and the Argonauts . But the tiles was changed to War of the monsters of all things. I didn't even know it was Godzilla vs Gigan till i read the info on the back of the cover.

7:49 this cover make Godzilla look like the villain, why did they have to make ebirah look so helpless

Loved this! I didn't want it to end haha

I like how there's so much other chaos going on, it wasn't even worth mentioning the purple Gigan at 8:56

*8:29* hey there is a showa gigan rex also seems we now know from where kotm posters took inspiration

Keep up the great work 👍

Hey I got that Godzilla vs Hedorah Simitar VHS. My parent's almost didn't buy it for me when I was a kid because they thought it was a cartoon. Thankfully they caved in. And I managed to get a double Laserdisk set that had X From Outer Space and Yongary Monster From the Deep too that day :P

The VHS at 1:47 was the first godzilla related movie I bought back in 2003, found it a a flea market. Though in my opinion, it always looked like Kong was gunna karate chop Godzilla while he was distracted

This made me laugh out loud far more than I expected it to.

I love these arts so funny and just so creative and great video

3:17 I love Croczilla! He's my favorite Kaiju!

0:52 Hey! It's the old Australian Rating and Classification for movies.

He looked sooooo cool, I've seen VHS tape covers in the 90s as a kid on paper ads, but I could never tell 'how' to get them and that was what grated me.

These damn weird vhs covers is why I bought multiple copies of the same movie

another great video you definitely do your research keep them coming LOVE THE CHANNEL

3:04 I think that version of Godzilla looks like an alligator

Great video! Thanks!

6:20 Don't go throwing shade at a masterpiece like this. It was a perfect byproduct of the era it was released in, encapsulating a feel that had been honed to a razor thin point. It would go over the heads of most too young to remember, or too old to relish the opportunity to celebrate its brilliance, but for my generation, we are savants of such classics. We not only appreciate this art, we celebrate it as an achievement. That is the majesty of fandom.

The Simitar Hedorah cover made the Smog Monster look very smug 😆!

I like how I own most of the monster flicks they show in the commercial at the end of the video. Anyway, I really like the Gorgo cover. It is so badly made.

Paper finz im a fan of your differences videos and weird posters videos of Godzilla and other kaijus keep up the good work 😃

This puts a smile on my face

To be completely fair, it’s a losing battle to try and make a giant crayfish look cool and tough. Much easier when it’s a 3-headed space dragon.

The 1984 Godzilla and 1976 Kong poster kinda makes me wish we got a Godzilla vs King Kong movie in the Heisei era with both monsters fighting in a fiery city and destroying it, it looks kinda cool

6:00 I can say for sure the legs are from c3po

I still have a lot of these on VHS. I love Godzilla Videos.

I remember the Simitar video sets, I loved those.

3:17 Bro... That's litterly just an alligator...

Good Video I’m still loving you’re ugly odd poster cover

3:05, OK, that is Mighty Peking Man representing Kong.

Great video. 👍

One good thing about the 4fronts Godzilla VHS tapes is that they have the uncut English dubs of the films

Great video. I think I still have the vhs of Godzilla vs. Megalon with the two monsters depicted battling atop the Twin Towers.

12:27 4frontvideo hell yeah. Man I miss those covers.

the vhs tapes that has the spine art making G84 are the main ones i grew up with seeing. I honestly never knew that so many people fucked up these movies this much...without even touching the actual movie

the DEC KKvG cover...that image of Kong is Mighty Peking Man. What a strange choice.

I got the Good Times Home Video Ebira VHS and the New Worlds Home Video MechaGodzilla and Gigan VHS from Sam Goody like 25 years ago or so, so I was quite pleasantly surprised to see them.

3:05 really reminds me of one of those ai generated images

9:54 I still have that VHS, it’s not one of my favorite movies but I always liked the way Godzilla looked in this cover.

The monster in that last Ebirah Metafilms cover kinda looks like Rick from Splatterhouse. Maybe the artist had the third game's cover on the mind when making it.

It ALWAYS comes back to King Kong looking like a sasquatch, doesn't it?

I’ve been a life long fan of the monster movies. Especially Godzilla and Gamera. And yes I do own the Godzilla vs King Kong ( original one) I still get a laugh when Godzilla does the drop kick

10:38 I have the double set and it was how I was introduced to Godzilla besides the Trendmasters toyline.

3:21 you . A frog who merged. With a demon shark Me . A. L. I. G. A. T. O. R. 💀💀

For King Kong vs. Godzilla VHS cover. The best one is the 1st Good Times cover as it is much more authentic minus the 80s neon coloring.

The closest with the Extermination 2025 cover to connect to Godzilla vs Gigan is arguably slightly insectoid-like helmets on those guys and possibly alien to relate to the cockroaches, with the screens on the back showcasing entertainment which would be connected to the theme park. But this is of course, bein' supergenerous.

i think the carlton home videos tried to make it like this "GODZILLA: Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla" but jsut forgot the colon (or whatever its called) and tried to make it like it was a trilogy, like the anime trilogy

On the first Smog Monster VHS box, the inside of the top flap has a snipit of the Godzilla vs. Monster Zero box cover, running along the edge. Not sure if that’s just my particular copy, or if all of them are like that, but it’s interesting to see.

For some reason the second Godzilla vs Ebirah cover makes me think of the incredible hulk

I wish I could go back in time to be a graphic designer in the 80s and 90s, when you could just get away with this shit and everyone else just had to go with it.

3:16 - Kinda looks like the Mighty Peking Man.

11:56 That is awful box act for a GODZILLA film. But… they look really really sick honestly. Also 10:50 “look how the massacred my boy”

The main reason why many of those tapes had art that had absolutely nothing to do with what happened in the movies is because of lot of them did not have the rights to release the films. So bizarre, misrepresentative cover art would hide what movie is actually on the tape.

That mechagodzilla looks like mogura crossed with the 74 design and a crocodile

"Nothing screams 2025 more than 70's fashion" honestly if you think about it - not that far off.

Almost all the official Japanese posters have the wrong color breath.

3:25 godzilla looks like a crocodile or alligator, if that's what your lookng for

I'm pretty sure I owned the 'Forefront' VHS releases of Godzilla Vs. Astro Monster, Godzilla vs. Gigan and Terror of Mechagodzilla at one point.

I had most of the Godzilla movies on VHS, back in the day. (I think some of them might have been bootlegs, but shh! 🤫😉) Some of them were taped off of tv (I also had the two that were on MST3K), but I distinctly remember having a release that had Godzilla vs Gigan and Godzilla vs Megalon, if only because I’d never seen a box that just had two VHS tapes shoved in it, before - or since. 🙂

@6:05 Mechagodzilla makes me think of the real life robot Robosaurus.

Nice dkc2 music

11:03 Well at least Ghidorah actually appears in “Godzilla vs Gigan”. He’s not the main co-star of the show but still.

3:20 That is just a picture of a crocodile with its mouth open.

Had a few of these and some others over the years but sold them all when i upgraded to DVD and then Bluray… kinda wish i had held onto them, as collecting weird Goji VHS releases actually sounds fun 🙂 …not that i really **need** something _else_ to collect 😅

1:36 i have this siren release of king kong vs godzilla and can explain why some of it looks a little off… this was a series of i believe 6 tapes (of which i only have 5 to base this off :( ) of godzilla specifically for australian audiences, where (at the time) there wasn’t really as much of a market for these sort of films and not many releases came here without being imported from the US. “godzilla” is stylised as he is the selling point for the series and every one of them has that same big coloured font of his name, then the rest of the title beneath it. i think you were onto something with how he looks like a toy - if you have a look at the australian siren release for godzilla vs monster zero or godzilla vs sea monster, it becomes more obvious that they just phoned elements of it in and used some colouring techniques over models or toys or something. however, godzilla: king of the monsters and especially destroy all monsters have some great original artwork that is debatably one of the best posters for these movies imo. i believe there’s a godzilla vs mechagodzilla release as well although i could be wrong, it’s really hard to find info about these specific releases outside of maybe ebay and australia unfortunately does not have much of a collectors market/archive for a VHS like this… hope this helps and apologies for such a long comment!

The "nose piercing" looks more like an eye to me

The clamser video realise of King Kong vs Godzilla I think it’s poster is kinda cool even though there are not the same as the original film but idc it still looks cool and that’s all

On 12:55 Hedorah on the vhs poster of Godzilla vs hedorah he kinda looks like the ufo from Godzilla 2000

Don't even pay attention to cover art. VHS is ancient history.

I think what's meant to be Godzilla in the DEC cover, looks more like an alligator or crocodile. 3:07-3:27

Godzilla at 3:17 looks like an alligator

wait, GOODTIMES DID FREAKING GODZILLA VHS RELEASES? ah crap

Bro , they turned Godzilla into a alligator 3:05

The 1st Goodtimes Godzilla vs King Kong, GoodTimes Godzilla vs the Sea Monster, New Worlds, UAV Mechagodzilla grew on me. I dont think its his Heatray on the UAV, i took it as Sparks. I would love to see Zina Saunders do a Godzilla Book

7:40 Not gonna lie. That monster look amazing.

To me the DEC godzilla on the poster looks more like a mutated alligator

Maybe Godzilla was trained by Master Roshi and both Goku and Godzilla fought in a martial arts tournament at night. Then Goku saw a full moon transforming him into an Oozaru.