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Original Animated Series: Godzilla, Vol. 2

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This DVD is called "Godzilla: The Original Animated Series Volume 2."

This DVD contains 4 episodes of the 1970s Hanna Barbera Godzilla cartoon. They are:

The Seaweed Monster - A monster made of seaweed attacks the Calico. Godzilla comes by and saves the day. But a few pieces of seaweed have broken off the creature. These pieces start growing into new monsters. And one of them is on board the Calico. This is an excellent episode.

The Energy Beast - A spaceship lands on earth. A giant alien comes out of the spaceship. The alien disguises itself as a tree. Later on, the Calico's crew is stunned to see Godzilla attacking a city. This is a wonderful episode.

The Colossus Of Atlantis - This is one of my favorite episodes of the series. The city of Atlantis rises out of the ocean. The Calico's crew visits the city. The Calico gets destroyed. It seems that the people of Atlantis liked to watch movies on DVDs, which Dr. Darian calls "history discs." A giant robot that was built to guard Atlantis ends up malfunctioning, and becomes a danger to the city and its inhabitants. This is an excellent episode.

The Horror Of Forgotten Island - This fantastic episode combines science fiction with ancient mythology. A long time ago, some friendly aliens visited the earth. They landed on a small island. They discovered a giant cyclops monster. In order to prevent the cyclops from leaving the island and terrorizing the people of earth, the aliens built a giant electromagnetic force field to keep the creature trapped on the island. But now a lightning storm has caused the force field to malfunction. The Calico's crew has to reactivate the force field. This episode is one of the reasons why I love this show so much.

If you buy all 3 volumes,you should have the full 13 excellent eps.
Hopefully they'll release the 2nd Godzilla series (1979 Hanna Barbera) too.
HB made another great show JANA OF THE JUNGLE around that time, which I'd love to see come out on DVD,

Well worth the money I say. I am really enjoying being able to buy the DVDs of cartoons I grew up with. Godzilla is a really cool series especially with it being centered around water with the Calico and it's crew. Godzooky adds a nice humorous touch to the mix. Highly recommended.

My grandchildren really enjoy "godzilla" shows. Thank You. Lin

THIS IS OLD SCHOOL GODZILLA ONE OF THE VERY BEST ANIMATED CARTOONS OF THE 80'S JUST LIKE [TEEN WOLF, THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS, BRAVESTARR] . THIS TOON IS GREAT FOR YOUR YOUGER KIDS [ 6-12 ] ITS SIMPLE . CARTOONS [NOW] ARE NOT ALL BAD BUT FOR ME AND MY KIDS OLDIES ARE STILL GOODIES. TRY IT , HECK FOR THE PRICE YOU CANT GO WRONG .

I watched these cartoons the FIRST time around--when they actually aired on t.v.! It was wonderful to be able to share them with my son (who is an IMMENSE Godzilla fan)and have him to enjoy them with. He likes them as well as I do and we also purchased volumes 1 and 3!

These shows are just what I remember on Saturday mornings! I bought these to watch with my grandson, but turns out, I have watched them all time & again. A must for anyone who watched these as a kid on Saturday mornings!

Great service. We love it and our 3 yr old watches it (sigh) every day. Thanks

THIS IS A MUST FOR ANY PERSON WHO LIKE TOONS OF THE PAST GODZILLA RULES ITS A SHAME THEY NEVER MADE A DECENT MOVIE OF THE CHARACTER.-

This volume contains the second four episodes of a great " Monster of the week show"".It was around this time that the programs title was changed from Godzilla Power Hour to The Godzilla Super 90. Every week Godzilla
faught a new monster. What made this a little better than other american incarnations such as the Marvel
and Dark Horse comics was the use of monsters who were completely original in concept. The comics always used Toho rip off monster. (ie. Monsters who are vaguely similar to Toho characters). There are no fake King Kongs, Rodans or Mechagodzillas here. Its all original creations, like an Ultraman show. Some fans have complained about the lack of classic toho characters, but I think the repetitious over use of the same characters is what bogged down the later Showa Godzilla Movies and the more recent ones. (Will you guys at Toho please give Mothra and King Ghidorah a vacation!) Introducing a new foe each week is a much better approach.

Monsters episodes:
Episode 5: The Seaweed Monster is an ever growing patch of kelp.
episode 6: Alien Energy Beast is a giant glowing size changing centepede type creature that arrives in a flying
saucer and can assume the form of anything, including Godzilla.
episode 7: Collossus is agiant one eyed, tentacled alien robot from the lost civilisation of Atlantis, revealed to be a giant flying saucer.
episode 8: Cyclops. An ancient alien civilization left behind an invisible energy field on a lost island, to keep the mythilogical Cyclops, here depicted as a crad like biped with lobster claws. We are never told where the cyclops came from. Is he an ancient earth creature or did he arrive with the aliens.

This is supposedly the last volumeto be released and there are no plans to releae any more.