Board Thread:General Discussions/@comment-25657117-20141110200654/@comment-25067731-20141128123011

Except Shogo Tomiyama and   Ryuhei Kitamura, who own the rights to the character,  already confirmed that they DID, in fact, change its name to "Zilla", nice try, though, OP. Not to mention this guy makes blanket statements left and right in said interview, such as "Toho not being able to change the name if they wanted to" despite the fact that they own the rights to the character, and claiming Sony still owns the rights to Zilla when their rights expired back in 2003, so his credibility is stained right off the bat, I find it laughable that anyone takes Aiken's claims seriously here when a little fact-checking pokes holes in almost every single one of his statements in said interview. He also uses a BS theory of "Toho re-released the movie in Japan as Godzilla, and not Zilla" as "proof" of his claims when they CAN'T rename the movie because they don't own the rights to the individual film, just the character, so that is circular logic in and of itself and a total cop-out.

He's wrong about the character still being trademarked as Godzilla, too, BTW, from an official trademark website. But wait, it gets better, notice the circled dates on the two linked pics.

So... yeah.