Infinite Lance Gigan [Godziburst]

@robfromzonebase Infinite Spear Gigan [Godziburst] #zonebase #godzilla #godziburst #kaiju #monsters ♬ MELANCHOLIA - KNIFE BRIDE

Gigan is basically Toho taking something completely batshit crazy and making it super awesome.

Originally in the Showa era, he looked like something out of a hallucination. A mixture of chicken, robot, and dragon... with hook hands and a saw in his belly.

Then this ridiculous thing absolutely kicked the shit out of Godzilla.

Gigan is a force to be reckoned with!

After some off appearances in Zone Fighter and various other media, Gigan returned in the insanely awesome Godzilla: Final Wars in 2004. Now upgraded with a sleeker body and FREAKING CHAINSAWS!

Gigan later got another upgrade in TV Magazine in 2007 with Armed Gigan, now sporting armor, a dual-hooked hand, and another hand with DUAL GATTLING GUNS!

Basically, how much more dangerous can they make Gigan?

Hold Toho's beer. Any day now they'll make him a politician.

Then he'll endanger EVERYONE'S LIVES!

There have been other Gigan developments like Gigan Rex, but I'll stop there because it's the ones I've been talking about that influence today's post the most.

A Godziburst figure of Gigan, reimagined as...

INFINITE LANCE GIGAN!

Actually, this is a repaint of a prior Godziburst Gigan figure from Japan named Gatling Gigan, which combined the look of Final Wars Gigan with the Gatling guns from Armed Gigan in a wonderful black and green deco.

Infinite Lance Gigan is a repaint and remold of that Gigan, with a MUCH larger right Gatling gun arm and now including a lance that can plug into his left arm's Gatling gun.

Because why not?

Infinite Lance Gigan also sports a new red and gold deco that looks amazing and is pretty similar to Gigan Rex, whom I feel is the inspiration for the new colors.

This is a damn fine figure of Gigan on its own as well. There's several points of articulation, and the smaller scale just makes him so satisfying. Like other Godziburst toys, you can mix and match his parts to make the freak even freakier.

And honestly, what more could you want from Gigan?

I clearly adore this toy and Gigan in general. His appearance in Final Wars has always been one of my go-to awesome moments in Godzilla movies.

Final Wars gets a bit of a bad name for being so... nuts, but I love it.

Admittedly, having an appreciation of Japanese cyberpunk helps, as the film is absolutely in the vein of movies like Zeiram, The Guyver, and Mechanical Violator HaKaider while somehow still being a love letter to Godzilla and the works of Toho.

Infinite Lance Gigan is definitely the monster spirit of “kill everything,” and I just want to hug it.

Trick or Trek

If you were a kid in Oakland County trick or treating on Halloween night 1995... you probably ran into the biggest wieners in the galaxy. Somebody's cousins decided to dress as a Klingon and host a 'fun' trick or treat party on public access TV. There, kids could have a safe and happy holiday while learning about Klingons. You can tell the kids loved it by Robin's excitement. No, no... he was excited... not ... the free candy wasn't worth it.

Originally Posted 9/01/2022

Weekly Update 10/5/26 — Put Out Your Pumpkins

It sure is Monday yet again, Zone Base readers, and time for another week of robots, monsters, and misadventure!

It's October and officially Halloween time for the rest of the world. We've been going steady for the past two months, but now it's time for the main event!

You can be sure that the annual assault of Pumpkin Spice Mayhem isn't going to let up, and rest uneasy knowing that it's going into overdrive!

As usual, I've got a fun week planned for the thousands of you that read every day. The TikTok and Instagram project are going well, with views and likes steadily climbing. I really hope more of you choose to follow me over there, as I'm really trying to grow those sites as a fun side to the main site.

Zone Base has never been big on social media, but really, I just want to use it to share things with my readers like I do here. It's pretty fun!

Thank you all for reading and supporting Zone Base. As usual, my thoughts on some things are following, as well as my poorly written weekly update!

Don't forget to be excellent to each other!

For the record, I misspelled "usual" so badly that spellcheck thought I was saying something completely different, and every attempt to correct myself was even worse.

What the hell, self?

Transformers-

There's been a scattering of news recently, but the thing that I'd like to talk about most right now is the recent Generations release leaks.

Of course, these are technically rumors, but they're from the source on TFW2005 that's always right, so they're most likely true aside from small things changing along the way. Like the Energon Monsters planned for Legacy that never materialized, but instead resulted in a few Decepticon Pretender homages.

Well, following the whole "Studio Series is for media adaptations, Generations is more experimental" plan, it looks like Age of the Primes will be coming to an end in 2027 and leading the way to the Megatron Rising series in Generations.

From what I gather, the storyline takes place after the end of the Great War, with the Autobots victorious.

However, they're corrupted and evil now.

So basically like Shattered Glass, but not specifically Shattered Glass.

I'm guessing that means more traditional colors on the corrupted Autobots than Shattered Glass featured. I'm hoping that means the Corrupted Autobots are more sinister-looking, as that could be pretty fun.

In response to the Corrupted Autobots, Megatron is joined by other Megatrons and Transformers from alternate dimensions to rise up against them.

While multiversal stories have definitely worn themselves out in almost all recent media, this is actually a pretty nice framing story. Generations tends to be updates of characters from various lines anyway, so the story bits basically work as a framing device for throwing all kinds of crazy versions of Transformers together.

And this looks like the storyline toys might be pretty interesting, as there looks to be an all-Megatron combiner and a Leader Class Scorponok.

What I'm most excited for is a Deluxe G2 Gobots Megatron and an Armada Demolisher that look to be coming.

Hopefully more G2 Gobots and RID Spychangers are released. I'd prefer something like Core Class or Cyber Changers for these guys (they were always small! ) but modern Deluxe Class versions of these designs might be pretty great!

The Weekend (as written on my phone while eating breakfast)- 

My weekend was just right. Saturday, the Mrs and I got our weekly shopping in and enjoyed a viewing of The Backrooms while enjoying some pizza. Sunday turned out to be quite rainy and while it's been cooling down, was the first autmn day that actually felt like autumn this year. I decorated the front yard for Halloween, which was a lot of fun. At our old place, our front yard was bigger than the back, while it's the reverse at our new home.

So we've taken to a little less yard decorations (the inside is packed). It felt a little odd after years of holiday decorating being a pretty big ordeal, but I'm still happy with how it all turned out. I spent a little time organizing the garage before enjoying a barbecue dinner the Mrs had made in the crockpot. Perfect for a chilly rainy day. I finally ordered the new Blokees Defender Version case this weekend with plans on ordering the new Wheels case next weekend. I can't wait to blog about some of the kits here! Battlestars!

Witches Night

Last year I was pretty bummed. Witches Night Out had been bought up by some distributor and disappeared from all my streaming apps. Thankfully, it's now on Tubi, so it's easily watchable again! This is one of my favorite Halloween specials and it's admittedly pretty whacked out. I've posted it here every Halloween... but every season is someone's first. You've got some kids who are disappointed that their costumes didn't scare anyone and they meet a Witch who feels unwanted. Mayhem commences as the grown ups boring Halloween party gets a taste of the spooky shit! One thing that everyone notices is the solid colors the characters are represented in. I think first seeing this on Disney Channel made me make comparisons to Monsters in My Pocket and drew me in. Either way, it's pretty weird... and pretty great.

originally posted 10/28/2025