What Made You a Godzilla Fan?

One of my very first memories of my life is literally Godzilla. my older brother must of put on a channel featuring a classic Godzilla movie. I was hypnotized, giant monsters destroying whole cities, fire literally coming out of there mouth, aliens and flying saucers? What's not to like for a 2 year old little boy? ever since then my brother and father and I rented every Godzilla or giant monster movie the local Blockbuster or video rental shop had. every Christmas I would wake up and open presents and I would just be so happy to find a new Godzilla vhs in my stocking or a new monster toy. im 30 now and every November I dedicate an entire month to watching Godzilla and other Toho movies. Now I have a 2 year old daughter named Ripley who can share in the same passion as I did with my brother and father. waking up early on a Saturday morning or staying up late we can enjoy a good old Godzilla movie together until the day I die.

What made me a godzilla fan was James Rolf's (angryvideogamenerd) "cinemassacre monster maddness 2008 Godzilla-Thon". But the first godzilla movie I seen was Tokyo S.O.S or godzilla 1954.

I watched the first Godzilla with Raymond Blur. Than I watched all the reruns of the 1960’s Godzilla and the 1970’s Godzilla on Creature feature on channel 50 from Detroit. I was hooked line and sinkered from there. I have most of the the Godzilla movies from the 1970’s all the movies from 1985-Present. And some toys as well.

Godzilla 2014 made me a fan.

The main thing that brought me into this series was the movie Terror Of Mechagodzilla, it was the first Godzilla film I have ever saw and I watched it a lot when I young. Along with Terror Of Mechagodzilla I watched Godzilla 2000, Mothra Vs Godzilla, and Godzilla (1998), but sadly the disc got scratched and I haven't ben able to watch it for 11 years. But as luck would have it, when I was finding more Godzilla films I found a copy at my local cinema store and when I watched it again, it brought back the memories as a child and I had the same feeling when I first watched it as a child. It is still my number 1 favourite movie and I have been a Godzilla fan since

^Good man.

I was a kid in the 70s. I was way into dinosaurs and watched anything with dinosaurs in them. There was a show called Creature Feature back then- every Saturday- and each episode showed a movie like Creature from the Black Lagoon, Frankenstein etc. I saw Godzilla on that show. I was pretty young so I kind of tuned out of the plot and dialogue and perked up when Godzilla appeared and went berserk or fought the several weird and cool opponents. I was a bit young to understand the concept of what he represented.  I always genuinely felt bad when he got knocked down or seemed to lose a fight. He was probably my first favorite anti hero before I even knew what that concept was.

I knew about Godzilla for my entire life but never got into it until the 2014 trailers started coming out. I thought it looked like a good movie ended up doing a bit of research on Godzilla. I quickly found out about the movies and other monsters and watched some of the older movies.

Now I've seen 18 of the movies and have a small MonsterArts collection.

^Which have you yet to see SFK?

^King Kong vs. Godzilla, Ebirah, Horror of the Deep through Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla, Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II, Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla, and 1998.

^ooooo.... all fun movies in their own right. King Kong Vs Godzilla is amazing! you need to see that one first out of all of them in my opinion.

Sci-Fi King25,
Wow. Big list. Exciting that you have so many ahead of you. Definitely should pick them up.

Godzilla 1998 and Godzilla Final Wars, yea I'm one of those 1 percenters(Its a word right?).

Watching Creature Double Feature every Saturday afternoon with my dad in the late 70s/ early 80s.

What made me a goji fan was when 2014 came out,I loved it. The story of monsters vs other monsters and humanity's struggle in the middle. I started researching other Godzilla movies,because I had heard of Godzilla before 2014,but the legendary goji opened my eyes to its epic ness. Now I'm a hard core goji fan!

^Nice! Welcome aboard!

What made me a godzilla fan was how good the movies were I became in love with them and now their is a new Godzilla vs kong and I just can wait I'm a really big fan.and I know like everything about Godzilla.thats how big of a fan I am

Even though my earliest memory of Godzila was the 1998 film (even though I didn't know what Godzilla even was, or what the movie was even about [to me, it was just a giant dinosaur running around and destroying buildings]), what made me a Godzilla fan was one of two things: 1) the Fiat commercial promoting Godzilla 2014 (you know, the one where he eats the cars), and 2) watching Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster at camp (and I especially loved the part where he cannonballs into the ocean before the island exploded). Other than that, it was actually the trailers for Godzilla 2014 and the two things I mentioned above that made me like Godzilla (especially Zilla's design and the Baby Zilla's design as well, since I was more of a dinosaur fan at the time when I saw it).

I actually strangely enough, got into Godzilla by watching a top 10 Godzilla monsters list by watch mojo on YouTube.

well,I needed something to defeat my friends dragon in our little 2nd grade roleplay.He Just fit the bill!

JK

I had heard of godzilla as a general term more as a size thing rather than anything else. So I eventually Looked Him Up and well this was godzilla to me for a while. Then I met BURNING GODZILLA. He was...My first godzilla toy,Movie and my first real understanding of the big G.

I remember my first form of Godzilla media was not a movie, in fact it was a game, it was Godzilla Unleashed for the Ps2 for that matter!

The games was not perfect by any means but it was still fun for me as a kid and so it made me the kaiju fan i am today!

What made me a fan was receiving these toys that had a button on their chest that would emit their noise.

Can anyone tell me the make/model/year that these are?

I was 5, and I had been messing around with the TV remote when I accidentally switched the channel to a Godzilla Marathon on Sci-Fi channel. Right away I was into it, the movie that was playing was Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla (1974). It was just amazing to me, that weekend, I probably watched 5 or 6 Godzilla films. Years later, Godzilla (2014) came out and my love for Godzilla returned, I bought the collectibles, even all of the Toho Co movies on DVD.

The Marvel Comics.

My dad was USAF Vietnam Air Rescue Pilot. We were stationed in Okinawa for 7 years.  Arrived when I was 7 years old.  Seen my first Godzilla movie, 1968, and I have been hooked ever since.  I am in my 50's now, and I am only 8 DVD short of the complete collection.  I hope the Director and Screenwriters remember: Godzilla is ALWAYS the HERO

Well sorta a weird story how I became a Godzilla fan, I always heard the name, due to my father being a construction worker and referencing some house he would work on as “Godzilla-sized!” And it always stuck with me. I always knew he was a dinosaur of some kind, a T-Rex and Stegosaurus hybrid I thought. So one day while me and my family were grocery shopping I found a cheap toy dinosaur and named it Godzilla. I few days later I watched my first Godzilla movie. “Godzilla vs. megaguirus”. And I can still remember walking into a K-Mart and finding my first official Godzilla toy (a Bandai Godzilla 2001)

 I've always been into dinosaurs (in fact I remember the Christmas I was ten, getting a dictionary of dinosaurs from my parents) and it just evolved from there XD

Godzilla battle for the earth 1992 was on tv and was intrigued the moment I saw him blow atomic breath!

I jumped at every opportunity I had to see a new film.

I guess many people are accustom to buying DVD or BD and then play them on TV. Well, do you know how to create a disc yourself? 

When I was a kid, I saw the original film on a late night classic film channel, and it immediately caught my attention. I searched my local video store after that and found other films. Just kept absorbing as much as possible.