Rock and his brother’s Godzilla suit on TV….

Updated on July 16, 2010 By Ken Begg 9 Comments

Awesome. I’d seen stills, but yeesh, that’s a great suit! I can’t wait to see his Ebirah!

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  • GalaxyJane

    Man, that is a truly,truly beautiful thing.

  • The Rev. D.D.

    I had been wanting to watch all the videos for that together, but I couldn’t resist this.

    HOLY @#$& that costume is amazing. It BLINKS for God’s sake. I can’t wait to watch it at home…I get the feeling it roars too.

    How much did that cost to make, and how long did he/they work on it?

  • My speakers at work suck, but I think they say here that materials-wise it cost like $600-700. Now that he has the molds, I’m sure he could whip up another one, although I’m not sure when this sort of thing starts hedging into copyright infringement.

  • Gamera

    I thought the suit looked fantastic in the slideshow but WOW! I had no idea it had that much flexibility. Rock, KUDOS to you and your brother!!!

    If you should ever get up to Virginia I’ll buy you two supper at my favorite Japanese resturant if Kyle will walk in wearing his suit.

    Rock and Kyle posted a series of slideshows on YouTube that show the constuction in great detail from start to finish. Enter ‘Atomic Stick Figure’ into YouTube’s search engine and it should come up. I’d be tempted to try my own Big-G or Gammy suit but I’m the type to get halfway though a big project like that and then burn out.

    Again, Rock and Kyle awesome work guys!!!

  • Rock Baker

    Thank you so much for the kind words! I agree that Pop and Kyle did a fantastic job (and I’ve had to eat some of my words because at the start of the project I wasn’t crazy about some of their ideas)!

    One thing I should make clear is that I had very little involvment, this is all Pop and Kyle (who are interviewed in an earlier segment that’s also up on YouTube). True, I did carve one of the fins and helped coat rubber on the legs, but my proximity to the suit has sort of given the impression that I was more involved than I actually was. (One thing I DID do was help design it in the early stages, but ultimately they nixed my sketches and started over from scratch.)

    They wanted to make it roar too, but that got 86’d eary one since there was already plenty of hardware stuffed into the thing’s head.

    I think the rough estimate on final cost was around $500. Most of that went to the liquid latex and electronic gizmos.

    There are no molds. It was built up from a base of foam and coated with rubber. What you see is what you get, pretty much. (The fingers and toes were molded, but I think one of those plaster molds broke. The teeth were molded too, the material was poured directly into a modeling clay slab that had been poked with a carved stick.)

    Again, thanks for the kind words!

  • Rock, all I can say is that I’ve seen a fair amount of suits over the years, and this one blows EVERY one of them completely away. Again, I was just flabbergasted at how mobile it was.

    I hope your brother gets some kind of job / living out of this, because, man, that’s just fine.

  • Rock Baker

    Kyle wants nothing more than to get a job doing this very thing! For his sake, I hope we can stamp out CGI before its too late! One hoped for side-effect of the G-Fest: attention from the movie-making community. (One thing that did happen, Pop and Kyle were interviewed by a Japanese newspaper doing coverage of the convention. The lady reporter asked if they were there on behalf of Toho!)

    Oh, and I checked with Pop, the final cost was more in the $600-700 rage. I think they added more rubber since I last asked that question.

  • The Rev. D.D.

    The only one I’ve seen that comes close was a Gamera costume at the only G-Fest I ever got to attend (’95 or ’96). I recall that it won, which rankled some hardcore Godzilla fans, but it was a damn fine piece of work. Still, this thing is easily the better of the two. The detail in the molding is superb.

    And the blinking. OH MY GOD I LOVE THE BLINKING.

    I would proudly wear that suit around every chance I got. I would totally show up at T-Fest in it.

  • Rock Baker

    If you want to know a little bit more, here’s the earlier segment where they’re interviewing Pop and Kyle about the suit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbEIhLUJ40o