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Why isn't Minilla fully grown in this movie?

posted 11 years ago by Horror_Metal
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Since this movie takes place in 1999, wouldn't Godzilla's son Minilla (who was born in 1967, assuming that's when the events of Son of Godzilla took place) be fully grown by now? I would think that after 32 years he should at least be as big as Godzilla but he looks exactly the same as he did shortly after he hatched from that egg. It's been a while since I've seen this movie and can't remember if they had all the monsters frozen or something but maybe someone can shed some light on this.

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[–] rsreed13 11 years ago

It's probably just a goof due to them not thinking out the timeline and/or not having the funds to make the new suit. Alternatively Godzillas may just grow very slowly.

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[–] Horror_Metal 11 years ago

Yeah that's what I figured.

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[–] The_Keeper_of_Angela_Baker 10 years ago

If you'll remember, Minya (Minilla, whatever) did not HATCH from his egg in "Son of Godzilla", his egg was yanked open by the Kamakiras. Think a very premature birth. It is likely because of that, Minya never got any bigger than he did in "Son of Godzilla." Fridge brilliance?

[–] Chrispy_G 9 years ago

I like that a LOT.

Plus, if you think of Godzilla...and his 'species' as capable of living for perhaps centuries(Godzilla kinda sorta shows no signs of aging across multiple decades) then maybe as a species it takes them a long time to mature. 2-3 decades might be the equivalent of a year in their lifespans.

[–] MAGolding (1231) 2 years ago

So you think that you should know how long it takes for godzillas to become fully grown?

Back in the 19thy century, whalers and maybe scientists believed that sperm whales took a century to mature. A century later around 1950 marine biologists believed that sperm whales only lived for 10 years. And both beliefs seem to have been unfounded according to present knowledge.

[–] MeYouFools (171) a year ago

Godzilla is not a natural animal. Godzilla is a monster created by atomic bomb tests (they even make this demarcation in the Japanese dialogue of "King Kong vs. Godzilla"). There is no such thing as a "natural lifespan of a Godzilla" (although, Tomoyuki Tanaka once wrote in one of his several Japanese books that Godzilla would live for 10,000 years).

Minya is not Godzilla. He's a similar species or may even be of the species that became Godzilla, but Godzillas are not a natural occurring animal and we cannot know what their stages of life are.