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I like monsters and similar things.

From an interview with Nicolas Cage in the October 2016 issue of Eiga Hiho Magazine: "I love Japanese movies! ... The Ring series is the best! ... Also, Attack on Titan! I watched it on the plane the other day, and it was awesome!"

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The sky ignited, the Earth shook, buildings collapsed, and life swayed towards extinction. Godzilla, however, was unmoved. It was not from here, it did not know him, and it would not survive this incursion upon his home.

Godzilla braces against a building as he charges up to fire a blast at Monster X, who hovers menacingly in the sky, backlight by an apocalyptic glow from the sky

Thunderbirds Are Go was quite popular in Japan when it was imported and aired there, so, of course, supplementary material made exclusively for that country would throw in some giant monsters for good measure - it was the late 1960s, after all.

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Giant Glyptodont statue at Thunderbeast Park, once located north of Chiloquin, OR along Hwy 97. The park opened in 1962 and featured about a dozen brightly painted examples from the Eocene Epoch. The park closed in the mid-1990s (Photo: Vintage Roadside on Facebook).

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