Best Godzilla Toys

Last Updated: Dec 22, 2021 @ 7:04 pm.

A Brief History Of Godzilla!

Godzilla first debuted in a 1954 Japanese film, born out of the recent (for the time) experience of the nuclear bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Essentially Godzilla is a dinosaur awakened by nuclear radiation . . . and he isn’t very happy.

Here’s how Ben Mankiweiz, host of Turner Classic Movies, described the first Godzilla movie:

Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships explode and are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by paleontologist Professor Kyohei Yemani soon discovers something more devastating than imagined in the form of a 50-meter-tall monster whom the natives call Gojira. Now the monster begins a rampage that threatens to destroy not only Japan, but the rest of the world as well.

While dinosaur toys are always a perennial favorite, the recent boom in Godzilla toys is thanks to the 2021 movie of Godzilla vs. Kong. Of course, that wasn’t the first meeting of these creatures—the first King Kong vs. Godzilla movie dates back to 1962.

Here are our favorite Godzilla toys, as judged by actual kids.

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