Varan

This monster was from a movie by the name of Varan The Unbelievable. This was Toho Films 5th movie to feature a kaiju and the last to be made in black and white by them. It came out in 1958 after Godzilla and Rodan but was not so successful so that the monster only made one more brief appearance in the movie Destroy All Monster.

The movie starts out in a remote area of Japan called the Tibet of Japan. The people spoke of a god that lived in a lake. Well you can imagine its not nice to wake up sleeping gods. Varan comes out of the lake smashes up the local village and the military then flys away to the ocean by climbing up a mountain and jumping into the air revealing hidden flaps of skin like a flying squirrel. He then comes ashore at Tokyo airport where he is destroyed by swallowing a bomb which blows him up from the inside.

Varan is about 160 feet long and weighs about 16,500 tons. His only weapons are gliding flight, claws, teeth, and spines, and being an excellent swimmer.

The gasphon figure below is about 3.5 inches long and is nicely detailed. It fits in very nicely with the rest of my collection.

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