The Japanese countryside just can’t get any rest, these days – hot on the heels of the Doraemon/Broadband slug-out, we bring you another desperately one-sided confrontation: 100 grams of hamstery cuteness against 250 tons of radioactive dinosaur.
Just joking, of course…Hamtaro isn’t actually going up against Big G, he’s just helping him promote his movie.
‘What has Hamtaro got to do with Godzilla, anyway?’ you ask? A grand total of absolutely nothing, but that has never stopped cross-marketing, has it? The 2003 release of ‘Godzilla – Tokyo S.O.S.’ (‘Godzilla vs Mothra vs Mechagodzilla’ in Japan) was accompanied by crossover merchandise only available in Japanese movie theatres: You had a choice between Hamtaro wearing either a Mothra, Godzilla or Mechagodzilla mask, Hamtaro in a soft rubber ‘Mothra larva’ costume (3 different colours) or Hamtaro piloting Mechagodzilla (4 different colours). Yeah, that’s merchandise for a monster movie. No, seriously, it is! Yes, I can’t believe it either, but there’s just no denying it…
Anyway, if you always wanted something cute, yet utterly absurd, dangling from you key-ring, the little Hams are available as imports here.
If you want the full experience, also get the DVD here , and try for yourself to make sense of it all.
Bye-Q!
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