A boxed set of five wood-mounted rubber stamps from Japan, drawn from Toho’s Millennium-era Godzilla films: one large Godzilla and four minis, each rendered in sharp line work from scenes across the series. Officially licensed, with the rubber made by Tokyo Seihansho.
WHY IT’S SPECIAL
Between 1999 and 2004, Toho tried something unusual with its most famous employee. Rather than one continuous story, the Millennium series reset the world with nearly every film, so each Godzilla arrived with a different history, a different temperament and, in some cases, a different set of teeth. The five films in this set cover that experimental run, from Godzilla 2000 through a mechanical Godzilla built on the bones of the 1954 original, ending with Godzilla: Final Wars, the 50th anniversary film. The line drawings keep the angular, more aggressive design of the era, and the large stamp and four minis can be combined into small scenes of your own, which is more control over Godzilla than most cities in these films ever had. The high-definition natural rubber prints cleanly with very light pressure, so the result looks drawn rather than stamped, whether it ends up in a planner, on an envelope or across the back of a postcard to someone who will understand.
DETAILS
Set of 5 rubber stamps: 1 large Godzilla, 4 mini Godzilla
Scenes from Godzilla 2000: Millennium, Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack, Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla, Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. and Godzilla: Final Wars
Natural rubber mounted on wood
High-definition rubber by Tokyo Seihansho
Officially licensed Godzilla product
Package: 10.5 x 14.8 x 3 cm (4.1 x 5.8 x 1.2 in)
Weight: 290 g (10.23 oz)
Made in Japan
THE BRAND
Toho Co. is the Tokyo film studio behind Godzilla since 1954. In the Millennium films the studio treated its monster as something to be reinterpreted rather than continued, a habit that has served him well for seventy years. Here the designs are translated into line drawings and cut into high-definition rubber by Tokyo Seihansho, a Japanese specialist whose rubber holds the detail at a scale Godzilla is not used to.
