1godzillafan's Toku Corner (Ultra Q)

Stan Winston's Godzilla concept model for the scrapped 1996 Jan De Bont film is getting an action figure.

Just as April brings us the slightly delayed Superior 8 Ultra Brothers and Ultraseven X, while Ultraman Mebius is scheduled for May, the next Ultraman releases have been announced for June: Ulraman Kids 3000 and a double feature of the Ultraman Zearth films. Both are listed as DVD, but it's possible that Zearth is actually a Blu-ray as Ultraseven X turned out to be a misprint and high definition materials were available for it.

Ultraman Kids 3000 seems to be relatively obscure in the Ultra community as very few fans seem to know much about it. Apparently it's a animated show targeted at young children from the 80's that spun off of a movie, but very few fans in the US seem to have actually seen it let alone a subtitled copy of it. It will be interesting to gage fan reaction on that one, but I assume disinterest.

Ultraman Zearth however is a pair of parody movies that were made for Ultraman's 30th anniversary as Tsuburaya were prepping the launch of Ultraman Tiga on TV to push the series back into the limelight. I'm curious about those.

And with those all Mill Creek has left on their contract are Neos, Cosmos, Nexus, Max, and their accompanying films, unless they want to release the bundled films on DVD sets on blu-ray. After that it's a waiting game to see if this merchandising push paid off and they'll release the newest Ultra shows of Taiga, Z, and Trigger on blu-ray. I've got my fingers crossed.

Since it's Fangoria, I'm assuming they have some sort of reflection from Carpenter of at least the first flick coming up.

whoa

Has anyone else tried out the Godzilla Channel on Pluto TV?  I watch the Pluto TV MST3K Channel regularly, and the commercial breaks aren't that big a deal.  On the Godzilla Channel, there is more time spent on commercials than on the bloody movie!  When I first tuned in, it was commercials.  I came back a couple minutes later, it's still commercials.  Another couple minutes, and it's still commercials.  I decided to stop popping back and forth between web pages and just stay on Pluto TV.  The commercials are constant, and the duration random.  At one point, after a commercial break ended I got literally about ONE MINUTE of movie before another commercial break started.  This is not hyperbole.  ONE MINUTE!  At that point, I decided it was time to try the stopwatch function on my phone.  When the commercials ended, it was exactly seven minutes of movie.  Another two minutes and fifteen seconds of commercials next.  At that point, I'd had enough.