Thread:Altair LA/@comment-3542924-20130322191803/@comment-3542924-20130323182805

Well let me tell you something, Godzillas are way different from dragons. To be a Godzilla, the monster would have to look like it has the body of a Tyrannosaurus, the spines of a Stegosaurus and the arms of an Iguanodon, whereas Zilla looks like the offspring of Xenomorph and the Jurassic Park Tyrannosaurus, so Zilla's design is nowhere near identical to a Godzilla's at all.

Originally, before production of Godzilla 1998 got started, Godzilla was originally supposed to look like either this, this or this  (I think), anyone of these three designs would have been acceptable for the film just as long as it look like Godzilla which is this , this  and, of course, this. However, because Roland Emmerich does not like the original Godzilla film and its following franchise or the direction they were taken into... he pretty much scrapped all three designs and Godzilla's trademark character, so that he'll deliver his own take on the character, despite the fact that he knew he was hurting the character. Toho even gave him some notes to tweak the design to make it look more like Godzilla, but unfortunately, he refused to do it.

So in conclusion, the whole "Zilla is Godzilla" nonsense cannot be entitled to anyone's own opinion, this is proven fact.