{"id":98293,"date":"2026-11-08T16:16:34","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T08:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=98293"},"modified":"2026-11-08T16:16:34","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T08:16:34","slug":"how-godzillas-appearance-has-evolved-over-70-years-from-puppet-to-costume-to-cgi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=98293","title":{"rendered":"How Godzilla\u2019s appearance has evolved over 70 years, from puppet to costume to CGI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/11\/06\/39d079dc-6f68-43fd-be3f-3ba79908b44e_5c32abf1.jpg?itok=6YDekL-s&amp;v=1793961309\" \/><br \/>By Christopher Borrelli<br \/>\nSeventy years ago, Godzilla, King of the Monsters! debuted in Chicago theatres as half of a double bill with a Roger Corman prison flick, Swamp Women.<br \/>\nInfamously, the monster movie underwent an extensive facelift between its Japanese premiere in 1954 and its landfall in the United States two years later: two independent production companies bought the American rights on an agreement that anything too Asian or unsettling be removed for American audiences.<br \/>\nOut went all the&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/entertainment\/article\/3373559\/how-godzillas-appearance-has-evolved-over-70-years-puppet-costume-cgi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Christopher Borrelli Seventy years ago, Godzilla, King of the Monsters! debuted in Chicago theatres as half of a double bill with a Roger Corman&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1040,26874,2445,4672,32498,22816,59],"class_list":["post-98293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-appearance","tag-cgi","tag-costume","tag-evolved","tag-godzillas","tag-puppet","tag-years","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/98294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}