S.H.Monsterarts Godzilla 90's

Tamashi Nations and S.H. Monsterarts have come together to produce the

highly collectible and sought after Godzilla series of action figures. The series was originally available only in Japan many online retailers are currently carrying the figures, including Amazon. This is where my obsession began and where I go to for the most current figure available. Tamashi Nations generally makes high quality, highly articulated, anime characters such as Dragonball Z, One Piece, and now the much sought after Pokemon line. The amount of detail and thought that goes into each character is astounding and is easily on par with Sideshowtoy collectibles. However, you do pay for what you get and in this case it is worth it.

The first character is Godzilla. While there is only one Godzilla, there are many Godzilla figures. Godzilla 90’s is shown here, lifted from the Heisei series, and sculpting is a masterpiece. Many of the original creators of the characters have come back to sculpt the figures, including the much sought after Biollante. Godzilla has over 29 points of articulation. Able to turn his head left and right, nod, arms and legs on ball joints, tail is broken into segments so it can lash side to side. Basically, any pose you’ve seen Godzilla in any of the movies you can recreate with the figure. There are also many videos of the characters in stop-motion animation showing off exactly what they can do. The paint job is spectacular although the figure I received has a fleck of blue spike paint on his neck. Not a big deal but is distracting. The first edition of Godzilla came with a  beam weapon and clear stand, which I was lucky enough to get. However, the newer release of the figure no longer comes with any accessories. The figures are fragile though and break easily, but usually snap back together. Overall, the figures are amazing and I am very pleased.

The box artwork itself is equally as impressive. Full color artwork with a clear window to see the figure and on top of the box is a another clear window with the character’s name. All the photos on the box are from the figure itself and easily look like scenes from the movies. On the back are many poses of the figure and almost all the text is in Japanese with very few English words on the box. The presentation is awesome and even displaying the figure in the box would look nice. However, I have all of my figures out and posed for a monstrous presentation.