Monster of the Day #3266

Updated on September 12, 2022 By Ken Begg 10 Comments

So the Watch Party saw Voyage into Space, the compilation show of Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot. That’s the Ultra Man knock-off about a Kenny (yes, with short pants) who ends up controlling a Egyptian-themed giant battle robot. Needless to say, it was pretty fun.  The show only ran one season (26 episodes) and the movie does a good job of picking cool monsters. This is Nucleon, and it might be hard to get a sense of it from the still, but it’s a very fun monster. Anyway, next Watch Party is a week from Friday.

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  • I think watching the individual episodes would be better. It’s too rushed, too disjointed, and doesn’t make a ton of sense.

    Flipside of that, had I seen it as a kid (a very young kid) I’d have loved it to death.

  • “Mr. Robot, are you trying to seduce me?”

  • Beckoning Chasm

    One of the monsters we didn’t get to see is called Ganmons. He looks pretty cool. Apparently lots of these ended up at toys.

  • 🐻 bgbear_rnh

    No one made the comparison to Gigantor/Tetsujin. I believe they were both created by the same guy.

    Wow, I think I will miss my first watch party. Suppose to visit the old man that day. Maybe can join by phone on the drive home.

  • 🐻 bgbear_rnh

    Nucleon reminds me that the rolling ball robot idea is not new. I recently watched an episode of Terrahawks from Gerry Anderson and they had cute little Zeroids rolling about.

  • Eric Hinkle

    So that monster’s name was Nucleon? Huh, I saw this show as a boy and I always just thought of him as this giant robot WW2 naval mine. But he is one of my favorite monsters from the show, along with the giant flying hairy eyeball and the giant robot claw.

    But as great as the giant monsters were, the human-size bad guys were even better. The Space Mummy, who disguised himself as a cute nun despite looking like a shriveled corpse and put poison into the city’s water supply, leading to the deaths of hundreds of little boys. Seriously, they showed the kids’ bodies withering the decaying right on the screen! To a little kid in 70’s America that was messed up!

    Then there was Fangor, the peg-legged buck-toothed space pirate(?) who sort of looked like the Hamburglar and had a bulging balding forehead. And their boss Emperor Guillotine, who looked like Disco Cthulhu. Man that was one wild show for a little boy to watch.

  • Gamera977

    I was joking about you using him as a MotD Ken! But I’m glad you’d already decided to use him. I love non-humanoid monsters like this!

  • Gamera977

    Yeah, i watched a Korean action movie a few years ago and it didn’t make a lick of sense. Then I found that it was about twelve one-hour episodes condensed down into a two hour movie. Sheeeeeesssssssshhhhhhhh…..

  • The Rev.

    I got the series a couple of years ago and loved it. Very full of action, monster and otherwise, and an astonishing body count throughout, as well as a cool as hell robot, some great oddball monster designs, and a delightful rogues’ gallery of weirdos. I also like that the robot had a different Vogue dance for each attack.

    I’ll probably check this out at some point just because, but if I had to miss a movie this was probably the one to miss for me.

  • It definitely had a Spectreman feel to it, which I liked.