Now THIS is pure kaiju candy through and through. I remember watching this on rainy winter days on TBS while vanilla sandwich cookies into milk tea. Sometimes it would be followed up by or come before an airing of The Last Dinosaur, which was also a Rankin-Bass production.
Heck, even the voice actor for Dr. Who is the same one that voiced multiple characters in the various Rankin-Bass Christmas specials.
King Kong Escapes gifted us the second of the four dinosaur kaiju: Gorosaurus! Up until this last year, next to no merch existed for him or the other three, but Bandai and Playmates have finally remedied that by releasing vinyl figures of him, Varan AND Baragon, leaving only Titanosaurus left now.
Another one of the Mondo Island inhabitants was the Giant Sea Serpent. Kong humorlessly clocked him with a house-sized boulder before plunging into the sea to fight with it hand to scale.
And then you have the main adversary and one such character that to this day has shown no indication of getting new merchandise: MechaniKong!
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