Godzilla is one of the most recognizable movie monsters of all time. There's a good chance you can picture Godzilla right now, but the design has actually changed a lot over the years. In fact, it changed almost every time a new Godzilla movie was made.

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The changes were sometimes practical: the suits needed to be more flexible to work with the action in the script. But in one case, the design change was necessitated by the fact someone flat-out stole the suit and it was never recovered.Some changes were relatively minor, while others, like the design for the 1998 Matthew Broderick movie, were bad and should never be revisited.

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