Godzilla (21/54) - Super7 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive Rodan (2023)

In the late '70s, Shogun Warriors were among the coolest Japanese toys to find their way into the American market via Mattel. I still have my 2' tall Great Mazinga with firing rockets. One entry in their large figure line that I didn't have as a kid (but did get later) was Godzilla (with a shooting fist and a — for lack of a better description — flaming tongue). A couple of years later, Mattel surprisingly released a large scale Rodan, with flapping wings, clutching claws, and screeching beak. I did have one of those as a kid (which I loved, and only decided to sell a few years back when someone made me an offer I couldn't refuse).

So when Super7 released a 3-3/4" scale Shogun Rodan (matching the scale of their small-size Shogun Godzilla which they had released a few years earlier), I had to jump on it. It was initially released as a carded figure, and it's impressive how closely it maintains the look (if not the exact functionality) of the original large Mattel figure.  

Last year, as a Comic Con exclusive, Super7 released a limited number in a miniature box designed to look like the original Mattel box from 1979. This version touched a nostalgic nerve even greater than the reproduced figure, which is why I chose to highlight it for this entry. So yes, I have both the carded and boxed variants.

Come back next week to see another item from my Godzilla collection.