Talk:Destroy All Monsters/@comment-1060835-20140901185329

The Gaira and Kamacuras thing was mentioned on TK by kpa, a man who interviewed many staff members who worked on DAM. In VERY early planning stages, they intended to use all of the kaiju that appeared under the Toho/Godzilla series, this included

King Kong, for obvious reasons, they could not use him.

Maguma, due to the suit deterioration, could not be used, replaced by Minya/Anguirus/Gorosaurus

Ebirah, who was meant to guard the Kilaak base with Maguma and Baragon, was left out due to water damage and not being able to really fight on Land.

Oodako, the giant octopus. With Mothra, Rodan, Manda, Kumonga, and Ghidorah already hogging all the wire work, and with the added tails of Gorosaurus, Anguirus, Minilla and Godzilla, the only option would have Oodako be a live octopus, which would clash with the scale of the other monsters.

Gaira, was mentioned by Nakajima somewhere, that Godzilla's scene about chasing the soldiers was meant for the Green Gargantua.

Kamacuras same as Oodako, but minus the live mantis part.

Mothra, yeah, Adult Mothra was meant to be in this in early stages, but was opted out for the larvae.

Varan and Baragon were meant to take over Ebirah and Maguma's roles in being 'guard dogs' of the Kilaak base in Mt. Fuji. This meant they were going to be on screen, but due to Varan's suit being a pile of mold by this time, and Baragon's suit suffering from so many plastic surguries, plus building a completely new Godzilla and Anguirus suit, repairing the Rodan suit, modifying Manda, the props, Mothra Larvae, and fixing the burnt Kumonga, they were ignored. So they used the newer Anguirus suit and the completely new Gorosaurus for Baragon's attacking on Paris.

You can actually SEE Baragon attacking Paris in one of the Monster Island control room monitors.