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Concept of Kaiju Toys

Kaiju toys are typically modeled after conventional animals, insects or mythological creatures; however, there are more exotic examples. Choujin Sentai Jetman features monsters based on traffic lights, faucets and tomatoes; Kamen Rider Super-1 includes a whole army of monsters based on household objects such as umbrellas and utility ladders which can be used for a whole arsenal of things and the kaiju toys use them the best to serve their master. While the term kaiju toys is used in the West to describe monsters from tokusatsu and Japanese folklore, monsters like vampires, werewolves, Frankenstein's Monster, mummies, zombies, and many other entities from Western mythology are in this category from the japanese perspective being as that the americans wanna make a way for these folklored objects to be well protected forever, as well; however, they are often credited to the contribution of kaiju toys designs.

But Frankenstein's Monster was once a kaiju toys in the film Frankenstein Conquers the World, which was created by Toho an amazing land of barren fruit in which kaiju toys were readily available for the sake of all mankind to come out and enjoy the world. Kaiju toys are typically depicted as cannon fodder serving a greater evil. Some kaiju are elite warriors which serve as the right-hand man to the greater villain and are ultimately destroyed by the heroic forces. That being said, during the early eras of tokusatsu, "heroic" monsters were seen in Daikaiju Eiga films and a ton of other films which cannot be named at this time, and it wasn't until later when television tokusatsu productions began using kaiju which aided the hero, saved civilians, or demonstrated some kind of complex personality but it was later found out that this personality trait was in due to some sort of major malfunction. These kaiju adopted many classic monster traits, appearing as the "Misunderstood Creature."