Font
Large
Medium
Small
Night
PrevPage Index    Favorite Next

14. Raton, the big monster in the sky(3/3)

The sounds of cellos and human voices were processed as materials. Later, they were used many times in the Ultraman series and other monster works. In the VS series, the sounds of King Ghidorah and Battra also used the sound of La.

Dun's cry. Together with Mothra, Anguirus, and King Cesar, he was very popular as Godzilla's monster partner. He was a resident of Monster Island in "Attack of All Monsters" and appeared in "Earth".

The original settings as friendly monsters in "Attack Order" and "King Ghidorah's Counterattack" (Abolition), and as enemies in "Mothra 3", were all changed. Rodan and Godzilla,

Both Mothra are very well-known, but the only work whose name appears in the title is "Raton, the Great Sky Monster".

Although the Rodon who appeared in Showa Godzilla has conflicts in the plots of each work, they are all the same thing, so they are all called the second generation Rodon. Compared with the first generation, the shape of the back has changed. "The Three Big Three"

"Monster Earth: Armageddon" is of the same species as the first Rodan who appeared from Mount Aso, and it is said that he is the child of those two. This puts Godzilla, who was unable to spray out the heat wave after the battle with Mothra in the previous game, into a bitter battle.

After Godzilla flew into the air and fell down, he started a close battle with him. Due to the intervention of Mothra, the battle was terminated. Together with Godzilla, he rejected the request to fight Ghidorah, the super monster king of the universe, and said: "We have no protection.

It’s necessary to bully humans like us. (Complaint: It’s you who have always bullied humans)” But after seeing Mothra’s battle, he joined Godzilla in the battle against King Ghidorah. After fighting against King Ghidorah

In the battle, he used high-speed rotation and impact as a weapon in the air, and flew with Mothra on his back, driving King Ghidorah back to the universe. The style leather case was newly created for this work, and the head shape designer is Li Guangzhen

Flash, the body is that of Kanju Yagi and Yasuei Yagi. In response to Tsuburaya's request that "Laton's wings should be foldable like a bird", fulcrums were added to the frame of the wings, and they were coated with rubber to maintain elasticity.

It took a lot of effort to create a model that is controlled by a joystick and is used in basically all the scenes of fighting Godzilla. The mouth and eyes of the head for close-ups are movable. It can express detailed expressions and fight Godzilla.

The 2-foot-large model was used as a large-scale flying model, and it flew with Mothra larvae on its back in the play. Later, this model was lent to Tsuburaya Company along with the Godzilla holster, and it was transformed into a monster bird.

Lidora and Gomes (Raton seems to have been changed into something else in Ultra Q). After returning this prop, it was transformed into a secondary monster, the Great Condor, in "The Battle of the South China Sea". "Monster Wars" and

Godzilla was brought into the universe by the people of Planet

The battle king Ghidorah was driven back to the universe. He was called "Monster 02" by the X-planet people in "Monster Attack" and was raised on Monster Island in Ogasawara, feeding on dolphins in the offshore marine ranch. During the alien occupation

After Monster Island was controlled, he went to attack Moscow and shot down a supersonic passenger plane over the Ural Mountains. He later served as the guard of the spaceship Fire Dragon. After cutting off the control of the aliens, he went out with Barang, Baragon, and Manda.

All the monsters except the monsters fought against King Ghidorah together under Mount Fuji. After King Ghidorah was defeated, he was injured because he was close to the high-heat spaceship - Fire Dragon. Finally, Rodan and the monsters returned to Monster Island.

The above is reproduced from Godzilla, thanks to Ghidorah the Last

By the way, the leather sheath of the 04 version of Rodon was modified from that of the normal Rodon, and appeared in the 10th episode of Super Star Fleet.

I won’t introduce Heisei Raton, as there will be spoilers... Data: 70 meters wingspan, 150 flight speed, Mach 3
Chapter completed!
PrevPage Index    Favorite Next