So I did a thing yesterday. Longtime readers of Roads Lesser Traveled will remember an older post on this topic.

As a kid, my two favorite toys ever were the Star Wars 1978 Death Star playset which I managed to replace a year ago. The other was a 1977 Godzilla from Mattel’s Shogun Warriors line.

I had one of the mecha bot warriors to square off against that classic Godzilla. Both could launch their fists. Godzilla had plastic fire breath you activated with a lever behind his head. The Shogun Warrior fired missiles from his boobies, lol.

Not quite the same as the old days, buuuuuut…

You just know as a kid, I often played cross genre and staged their epic brawls in the vicinity of my Death Star, which of course meant Godzilla got to mash it up. Not even Vader had enough dark side Force to stop Godzilla!

I thought about getting that replaced lately as well until Godzilla: Minus One drove the collector market out of its mind with asking prices of a grand to $1,800.00. Lo, comes along a half-sized replica of my beloved Godzilla toy from Super7 and their Shogun Ultimates line.

TJ is being such a good sport with all this Godzilla chicanery I am putting her through, but I got this at an absolute steal, and it does all that the original does except roll on its feet. I am beyond nerdy content.

–Ray Van Horn, Jr.