Hoo boy, I remember the rush to get this movie when it appeared in 1998. There were several full-page magazine ads hyping its release, along with all those cool little Toho trademark symbols showing who would be appearing in the film. I remember what excited me most were Baragon, Varan, Manda, and Gorosaurus simply because my only interaction with those particular monsters at that point was in video game and book format.
And man, was I disappointed on every front except for Gorosaurus, for while all of those monsters were present at the base of Mt. Fuji for the final battle against King Ghidorah, only Gorosaurs participated in the fight. Vatran never amounted to much more than a close-up shot of him flying away which admittedly just added more to the mysticism I had built up for him by that point.
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