Talk:Gamera

Shouldn't
Shouldn't we disambig. this with a link to the AOL client? --andrew 00:45, 13 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Well, it depends. What the heck does Gamera have to do with AOL? ~ Jeff Q (talk) 01:33, 18 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Gamera was AOL's linux client, released/leaked around 1999/2000, I believe it was actually a hacked-to-work version of their "internet-device" client. --andrew 04:36, 30 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Do you have some sourced information about it? If so, perhaps you could write a stub and add the following line at the top of this article:
 * For the America Online Linux client software, see Gamera (AOL).
 * — Jeff Q (talk) 06:08, 30 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi this is my first wikipedia post ever, so I hope I'm doing this right. Gammera is spelled with two M's in some films, just search and replace.  That probably solves your software problem. - metaldoggy Metaldoggy (talk) 03:08, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

MST?
I like mst3k as much as the next nerd, but the whole gamera and MST section has got to go, its mentioned in the intro and thats enough. Goodbye MST section.--71.97.135.183 20:06, 1 November 2007 (UTC)


 * I understand your point, but to be honest the first Gamera film was not that great. 173.218.201.54 (talk) 21:41, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

...and where is it mentioned? Looks like someone removed all references to MST3K.

-SJ —Preceding unsigned comment added by SmokestackJones (talk • contribs) 19:42, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

Height and weight
Gamera height and weight is not here and I have no clue big the naw one is, please gather up the info and add this


 * Someone goofed on Gamera's weight. I believe it currently reads 80-120 tons.  There are a few zeroes missing from these estimates.  I'll make the change 216.168.238.7 17:14, 24 September 2007 (UTC)


 * This is really interesting - I did a Web search on Gamera's weight, and the same mistake seems to be repeated on many English speaking Web pages. Looks like someone just copied the error to Wikipedia.  Here is where I believe the mistake to have been made - Japanese childrens' books with monster stats usually list the weights in single or double western digits followed by the character 'Man' (meaning ten thousand).  As a kid, translating monster stats for my friends, I misread this and multiplied by ten or one hundred rather than ten thousand.  I can't remember if it was a simple error, or my reluctance to believe that Godzilla was such a fat ass. 216.168.238.7 17:24, 24 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Why did someone revert the weight changes? This is an obvious error.  I checked other Web sites, and found one reference to 30,000 tons, but can't search for the original Japanese with my browser.  80-120 tons is an obvious error.  The average blue whale is a rather long, thin animal (check pictures: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Blue_Whale_001_body_bw.jpg), is 75-80 feet long, and large specimens can reach 100 tons.  Gamera would be approximately 4.5 times longer than a large blue whale.  So how could he weigh less?  And if you would compare a portrait silhouette of a blue whale and gamera, you would see that he is not only 4.5 times longer, but also at least 7 to 12 times wider from side to side, and 3 to 4 times 'thicker' (perhaps more...let's assume 10 times thicker to accomodate the weight of Gamera's huge-assed shell which would be solid, and thus denser than the water and fat that comprise most of body weight).  Let's do a quick calculation - 100 tons (weight of blue whale) x 4.5 (Gamera is 4.5 times longer) x 12 (gamera is MUCH wider than a blue whale) x 10 (Gamera is a bit of a fatty, and has a giant, solid shell) = 54,000 TONS!!  OK, I can't believe the internet just made me calculate the weight of a giant, imaginary turtle.  My girlfriend still hasn't stopped laughing.  I am going to re-do my changes to Gamera's weight because I think we can all agree that 80-120 tons is ridiculous unless Gamera is made of styrofoam.      —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.135.99.0 (talk) 04:41, 24 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Folks, this is an absurd argument. Gamera is a fictional creature. He obviously does not obey many laws of physics, so trying to apply them to him selectively is pointless. The only legitimate way to include "statistics" on a fictional creation is to explicitly cite sources for that information (see Footnotes on how to do this). Anything else is forbidden original research, as uncited claims supposedly from unnamed books are totally worthless to Wikipedia. Please find one or more specific reliable sources to cite for this information, or we'll just have to remove the data. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 04:49, 19 November 2007 (UTC)


 * I believe the prior comment says that Japanese children's books often use a symbol that means 10,000 -- so any of the prior citations (if they were in the article) would be fine. Correcting a prior false reading of a source is not OR.  Chesspride 216.144.161.51 (talk) 18:00, 18 October 2019 (UTC)

Redirect?
Why exactly does Zedus redirect here? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.79.21.109 (talk • contribs) 21:50, 12 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Please sign your talk page posts. To answer your question, it appears there was a stub vs. speedy-delete battle over Zedus, which was resolved by someone redirecting the page to Gamera. In the meantime, Gamera the Brave, an article about the film featuring Zedus, was created, at least partly answering the issue raised by the speedy-deletion nominator. I've restored the stub article (with a little copyediting). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 02:06, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Pee-Wee
Didn't Gamera make a cameo on Pee-Wee's Playhouse one time? I seem to remember that. It was a clip from one of his black and white movies. Bobafett424242 18:03, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

I looked around a bit and I couldn't seem to find any evidence of an appearance by gamora on any media related to Pee-Wee Herman. Perhaps you're thinking of another massive laser-firing turtle ? - ToxicReap (talk) 21:20, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

I seem to remember this as well. I'll have to check the peewee tape my dad recorded for his kids in the early 90's...a full 4 years before we were born because he loved it so much. - Truewhit (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 05:44, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

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Shout Factory DVDs
Can somebody find a real entry and not a blog entry for citation on whether or not Shout Factory will actually release DVDs of the Gamera movies? Sierraoffline444 (talk) 23:09, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Word meaning
カメ (ka-me) = turtle 🐢 הראש (talk) 19:35, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

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Unmentioned Gamera DVDs
In the Home media section, these DVDs from Retromedia should be mentioned:


 * Destroy All Planets/Attack of the Monsters
 * Gamera vs. Monster X/Monster from a Prehistoric Planet
 * Return of the Giant Monsters/The Magic Serpent

Thank you.Malcolmlucascollins (talk) 19:50, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

Millennium Series
This page claims that Gamera the Brave is part of the "Millennium series." While the Godzilla films from 1999 to 2004 are considered part of the Millennium series, this doesn't apply to the Gamera franchise. Gamera the Brave is simply considered the fourth entry in the Gamera Heisei series. This can be seen by its inclusion in the informational book Heisei Gamera Perfection and more recently Kadokawa's Heisei Gamera Blu-ray box set.

The King of the Monsters (talk) 23:47, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

Accusations in this article
Well, once again I'm being threatened with being banned for "persistent vandalism" and all that I did was fix a few grammatical errors.

First of all, Gamera the Giant Monster is properly written with no comma after "Gamera", similar to Gamera the Brave.

Second, Gamera, Super Monster is properly written with a comma after "Gamera", not a colon.

Third, I've seen the first film in the Heisei series more than once and the actual on-screen title is Gamera the Guardian of the Universe. The title is written the same way for the Dark Horse comic book miniseries. There's no colon in the title of either of them.

Fourth, I did not write that statement in the Gamera article about the 2015 trailer being merely a short film and not the basis for a reboot. That was there for a long time before now. If you want proof about this, go to Toho Kingdom, then go to their forums and look up "General Gamera Thread", p. 80 on the section "Monster Manor'. That's how I found out about this information. Someone put that in there, but it wasn't me.

I'm getting upset about all these statements being made about me. Please, this has just got to stop. I especially don't like to be accused of something that I am not responsible for.

Thanks. I hope that we can work something out here.Malcolmlucascollins (talk) 02:13, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Grammatically correct or not, we must go by the titles that the films are officially marketed as. For example, various sources for the first Gamera film go by "Gamera, the Giant Monster", with the comma, as shown here. The film's subtitles even use the comma, as shown here. The titles are gone by what verified sources market them as. In this case, Shout Factory themselves have gone with the title using the comma. Whether it's grammatically correct or not it's up for debate. And who has been accusing you? I haven't seen any accusations made against you in the last few days. Armegon (talk) 03:38, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Would a screen shot of the ACTUAL FILM title card settle this? After all -- for films with typos in their title cards (like Rat Pfink a Boo Boo) -- the error has become the standard title.  Chessspride 216.144.161.51 (talk) 22:46, 11 November 2022 (UTC)

Reply to above
Thanks for the explanations. I had no idea that that's what it was. That explains everything.

Sorry for the venting, (no offense meant to you, of course) but I had the same problem with the main article on the Monkees.Malcolmlucascollins (talk) 21:09, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

Garasharp
Garasharp deserves more than a brief mention as an unfinished movie -- given that the vinyl figures of the kaiju are sold by various companies. It is remarkable in itself that a character that never appeared on-screen -- but only in plans for a movie -- has such toy demand. Of course, such an article would only be a stub. Perhaps like Zedus and other lesser Gamera opponents, a paragraph in the main Gamera article would suffice. Chesspride 216.144.161.51 (talk) 01:14, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
 * I doubt that such an article would pass WP:NF. Gamera vs. Garasharp is already briefly mentioned in the main Gamera article. I don't think that devoting a whole paragraph to it would be warranted. In regards to the existence of Garasharp toys, I can't find any sources beyond wikis and forums that mention them. — Matthew  - (talk) 03:40, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
 * They are sold on Ebay with some regularity. Large ones are hard to find/expensive.  Small 3 inch ones are more common.  Chesspride216.144.161.51 (talk) 22:50, 11 November 2022 (UTC)

Missing DVDs
Three Gamera DVDs were released by Retromedia sometime in the 1990s. They were:


 * Destroy All Planets/Attack of the Monsters,
 * Gamera vs. Monster X/Monster from a Prehistoric Planet,
 * Return of the Monsters/The Magic Serpent.

These DVDs should be included in the Home video section.Malcolmlucascollins (talk) 19:54, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

Names
It's mentioned that Gamera is the "Friend of all Children" but the first title he is given (and in the film mind you) is "The Devil's Envoy". Maybe include this? 75.162.118.106 (talk) 04:22, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Opposed. It's not a name or title. It's only cited once and never mentioned again in the film or the remainder of the franchise. Armegon (talk) 04:24, 31 May 2021 (UTC)