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December 04, 2007

Monster Destroys City

gorilla climbs buildingUnleashing movie monsters on cities is a sure fire crowd pleaser (think New York City and King Kong), but no monster has destroyed as many cities to as much general acclaim as the great Japanese movie monster Godzilla. In fact having your city destroyed by Godzilla is such a great publicity stunt and tourist attractor that Japanese cities compete to be destroyed.

The original Godzilla movie in 1954 saw the low budget king lizard destroy Tokyo and establish ...

a gorilla model climbs a Japanese building 

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