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Hiya Toys Godzilla: King of the Monsters Exquisite Basic Series King Ghidorah 2.0
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00:00Well, I guess three heads are better than one, but is a version 2.0 better than one?
00:05Here's your look at the Hiya Toys. This is Godzilla King of the Monsters Exquisite Basic King Ghidorah Version 2.
00:30First discovered Frozen in Antarctic ice at Outpost 32, King Ghidorah was unleashed to manipulate the Titans but proved impossible
00:37to control, challenging Godzilla's dominance and commanding the others to wreak havoc.
00:42This newly designed figure stands at an impressive 13.5 inches tall and a massive 22-inch wingspan, capturing the
00:49three-headed kaiju in stunning detail, featuring a brand new paint job and clear parts for the necks and wings.
00:54Every aspect of this figure faithfully recreates the monster's on-screen appearance.
00:59Enhanced neck articulation allows for a wider range of motion, perfect for dynamic poses.
01:05The set also includes three gravity beam effect parts and three stands, allowing you to recreate King Ghidorah's most iconic
01:12battle moments from the film.
01:13I have a feeling Godzilla may need to compete with him for the status of King.
01:17Before though, we get a closer look at Godzilla King of the Monsters King Ghidorah 2.0.
01:21Let's take the tape measure and see how tall the figure stands.
01:23This figure, by the way, is slated to drop in March 2026, the asking price online, $109.99.
01:30What's interesting about saying it's $109.99 is that the version 1, King of the Monsters King Ghidorah, sold for
01:38the same.
01:39Despite having upgrades, and we're going to talk about those upgrades more in a moment,
01:42despite having those upgrades, Haya still locks the price in at the same price as the version 1.
01:48Speaking, though, of Haya Toys, I'd also like to thank the folks there that did provide this sample.
01:52There's a lot going on here. There's a lot.
01:54So we're going to grab first again the tape measure.
01:56We're going to go to the highest head. Actually, no, that's not true.
01:58We're going to go right to the top of his wings. That would give us at least the highest height.
02:02You're looking at King Ghidorah standing with his wings, 11 inches in height, or about, I would say, 29 centimeters
02:08tall.
02:09If you just want, though, the height of the monster without its wings, not that you really would be able
02:13to remove the wings,
02:14because the highest head makes the monster stand at 9 inches, or roughly 22 centimeters high.
02:21As for, again, its wingspan, I'm sure that's something you may want to factor in when it comes to putting
02:25this guy on your shelf,
02:2622 inches. That's from tip to tip, working then out to be about 56 centimeters wide.
02:33Now, I never got the chance to get the first King Ghidorah from the King of the Monsters line.
02:37However, though, we did look on this channel that the Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah 1991 King Ghidorah
02:42was an exquisite basic series and sold online for $90, $99.99.
02:49I have, unfortunately, though, since parted ways with that King Ghidorah,
02:51and ended up giving to a friend of mine's kit who loved King Ghidorah,
02:55decided to give it to him, and now he has it on display.
02:57There is, though, again, not much that I can really then be able to compare,
03:00because I never got the original version, one King of the Monsters, King Ghidorah,
03:04but again, I know that there's a lot of drastic changes that have been made,
03:07and again, we're going to kind of digest this all together.
03:10What will probably be digested if he doesn't get too close.
03:13Here's what the figure also looks like with a 2000 series movie Godzilla.
03:17A little bit also, as you can see, smaller in size.
03:19Not one, not two, but three display stands come included with King Ghidorah.
03:25The stands themselves seem to all be identical to one another.
03:28If you're also well familiar, though, with the exquisite basic series or exquisite super series figures,
03:32these seem to be the same types of display stands that they also use for their display-based stands.
03:38On the back, though, you can see that there's some slots on the sides.
03:41In fact, actually, if you look at this side, and this side,
03:44and oh, would you believe, also on this side as well, there's all these little slots.
03:48You don't seem to get, though, the eye brackets.
03:50The eye brackets normally would come with stands like this,
03:53so if you had multiple stands, but it just so happened to have,
03:55you'd be able to attach multiples together.
03:58They don't have those eye brackets, not that at least that I can see.
04:01So you have to use these separately.
04:03You probably will be using them separately anyways,
04:05because then you also get, as well, adjustable neck stands.
04:08These adjust in three places,
04:10although I won't likely use all three of the knuckle joints,
04:13but they do bend if you're interested.
04:15You can detach these if you want.
04:16You just take yourself the display stand,
04:19plunk them in where you want to plunk them,
04:20and obviously you have nine holes to work with.
04:24And you would want to rinse and repeat the same steps times three.
04:27Now, again, I don't know, though,
04:28you may not necessarily need to have all three knuckle joints joined.
04:32So, again, I may just connect the one, detach the one, and have two instead.
04:36Once you get three of these things going,
04:38grab the last one here as well, because, again, you get three of these.
04:41Then you get three different post supports.
04:44You get a middle one here that, as you can kind of see,
04:47I mean, it's all done here in a clear acrylic plastic.
04:51The idea with this is it's supposed to hold the undercarriage of King Ghidorah's body,
04:55just to help support some of the weight.
04:57Support some of the weight.
04:58That basically just attaches onto the bottom like this.
05:02And then this, just bend it a little bit.
05:05This will then go right underneath.
05:07Actually, you know what I'll do is I'll just attach this,
05:10pick up King Ghidorah, who's got a fair bit of weight to him,
05:13and just show you, though, that when you attach this,
05:15you kind of want to cradle the torso right around here, right?
05:19So with that idea in mind, you're then going to attach onto the display stand,
05:23and the display stand is then going to prop up the King.
05:26I know Godzilla is shaking his head right now.
05:27What are you talking about the King?
05:29You also get something similar to the hold the wings.
05:31Instead of, though, actually having something that looks like this,
05:34you get something that looks like this.
05:36They look like plastic tuning forks.
05:38These would then help to support the wings,
05:40and they plug onto the exact same way.
05:42And then you just slot them underneath the wings.
05:45And we'll just kind of get them going here.
05:47Just basically like that.
05:49Can you see that okay?
05:50I hope you can see that okay.
05:51And we'll do the same thing on this side as well.
05:54I like that they factor things in like this,
05:56because especially when you look at the weight,
05:58and you look at how large the wingspan is,
06:00having some additional things to help support and strut it up
06:03is probably all the better idea,
06:05especially if you're looking to have this long-term on your shelf.
06:07We'll move those things out of the way here.
06:10Just get this one from underneath the wing.
06:11We'll move it to the side.
06:13You also get, as well, anti-gravity beams.
06:16Get three of them, after all,
06:17because, of course, you get three heads.
06:18These don't look that much different from one another,
06:21so if you're looking at all three of them,
06:23it would be safe to say that they're probably using the same mold.
06:26Let's just flip this around.
06:27They look like tiny little firehands.
06:31Tiny, tiny little firehands.
06:33Oh, hold on.
06:34That looks too hot.
06:36Well, it's too hot,
06:37because it's being held by tiny little firehands.
06:40They're adorable.
06:41They also look like pasta, uncooked pasta.
06:45As a kid, I used to love eating uncooked pasta.
06:47Probably not the best thing to be doing.
06:48But these plug in, though,
06:49to the mouths of each of the King Ghidorah's heads.
06:52Again, you've got three of them to work with.
06:54We'll do that in a second.
06:55We'll just put those off to the side.
06:56And now we'll look at King Ghidorah.
06:58Now, there is changes made.
06:59Unfortunately, though, I don't have the original King Ghidorah,
07:01but I can tell you if you were to go off
07:03and check off the list of things that are different,
07:05color really being the biggest one.
07:07And the original King Ghidorah kind of went with more yellows and golds,
07:10whereas this goes more much darker in the color scheme of King Ghidorah.
07:13They also have now enhanced a lot more of like the veins, for example,
07:17that he would have had in the wings.
07:18The original one wouldn't have had that as well,
07:20but the original one would have gone again with much more of a lighter yellow,
07:23not this dark kind of bronze that we're getting now treated to King Ghidorah.
07:28Something also that gets now changed,
07:29I think there's some slight new tooling that they've done to the heads,
07:32incorporating now the glass eyes,
07:34something that they've now started to do with a lot of the Godzilla figures.
07:37It's one of the things that I'm really liking a lot about the new Godzilla figures
07:39is that they have the glass eyes.
07:41They're doing that as well.
07:43All three of these.
07:44And one thing, I guess the biggest thing too,
07:46is that the figure now does have some additional neck articulation,
07:49where the original King Ghidorah never had that in the first place.
07:52It's all fine and good for us to talk about this while this thing's far enough away.
07:55But why don't we bring it a little bit closer here
07:57so you guys can see what's all going on.
07:59Now going back to those anti-gravity beams,
08:02we can go ahead, open wide.
08:04There we go.
08:05And if you look inside the mouth,
08:06there is not so much a swat,
08:09but you kind of have to get in there to fish the tongue.
08:11The tongue kind of will be the thing that fits inside the hole of,
08:15like again, the anti-gravity beams.
08:17Really without not having that.
08:19Let's see if I can grab the one in the middle here.
08:21You almost really do feel like you got to get yourself some tweezers
08:24to fish out the tongue,
08:25because the tongue gets really rooted in there.
08:27But with the tongue sticking out,
08:29essentially you're basically just going to fit
08:31the anti-gravity beams into his mouth just like that.
08:34It holds certainly though a lot better
08:35if you can get those blasted tongues out.
08:38Each of though the heads now,
08:40I think there is a little bit of change
08:42that they've done now to the new anti,
08:44well, to the new heads here.
08:45There's definitely a lot more detail
08:46than I didn't think we had before.
08:48The glass eye is also something now new for these figures.
08:52Each of the heads, as you can see,
08:53is very carefully, meticulously hand-painted.
08:56The tongue itself again,
08:58get your finger in there.
09:00Do I have tweezers?
09:01I have myself a knife.
09:03Not that I really want to be using a knife,
09:04but I'm just carefully going to grab McCutcheon's here
09:07just to kind of fish down the knife,
09:09or fish down the tongue.
09:11The tongue, this will be something
09:13that will move constantly.
09:14So when you think that you've got one of the tongues down,
09:17see, there it is right there.
09:19The moment you go to close the mouth again though,
09:21the tongue is going to just go back to where it was.
09:23So you want to make sure, of course,
09:25to get yourself the anti-gravity beam
09:27and just sort of slot it onto his tongue.
09:32Now, I honestly wish there was a better way to do this.
09:35I mean, it does the job in the end,
09:36but it does rely so much though on the tongue
09:39having the tongue being the only sole thing
09:42to hold the flame intact.
09:44And again, you do this by three.
09:47The heads themselves, again,
09:48all look very nicely painted.
09:51Now incorporating again the glass eyes.
09:53They do look like they're a little bit different
09:54from one another.
09:55I went to go look online
09:56just to see if I can see some cross-referenced images
09:59of the original version one King Ghidor.
10:01And it does look like maybe the head sculpts
10:03have been retooled.
10:05Of course, all of them do have posability
10:07where it counts.
10:08So again, you can open and close the mouth.
10:10You can also as well bring down the tongue.
10:12Just not the easiest thing to do.
10:14But the big talking point though,
10:16is the fact that now version two King Ghidorah
10:18does have now better articulated necks.
10:21So you can move the necks.
10:23They've actually shown images online
10:25where the necks can almost go a full turn.
10:27I don't know how confident I really feel
10:29by bringing the neck as far down as I can.
10:32I would certainly say go slowly, cautiously,
10:36because again, you don't want to damage these.
10:38But there's definitely a lot more neck articulation
10:40than version one King Ghidorah had before.
10:42A lot more color too.
10:44The original one had more of like lighter yellow here
10:47all along the undercarriage of the necks.
10:49Obviously a lot brighter of a yellow down below here too.
10:52He seems to trade a lot of that up now
10:54really for a lot more of this darker brown.
10:56I think like a lot of the sculpting
10:58is mostly the same, I would think, for the body,
11:00but just a lot more brown
11:02and a lot less more of that kind of dark, dark gold.
11:06The feet themselves, as you can see too.
11:08Now, had I brought in the King Ghidorah
11:11from the 1991 Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah,
11:13there was drastic changes made to that figure.
11:15It didn't have like nearly the levels
11:17of posability on the wings.
11:18If you've seen my review of that,
11:20it only really just had a hinge right here
11:21and one wing would just hinge back and forth.
11:24Even though in the review,
11:25I also mentioned that I wish that
11:27that had been ball-jointed,
11:28because again, the wings could only really move
11:30back and forth.
11:31These wings, I don't think,
11:33have been changed at all
11:34from version one King Ghidorah,
11:36in that all of them are actually
11:37independently ball-jointed.
11:39So there's a ball joint right here
11:40that works with having,
11:41moving this bottom of the wing out.
11:43There's a ball joint that works right here
11:45to operate mostly this part
11:47that goes right around here.
11:49And then you can also see as well
11:50that the wings branch off
11:51into three separate parts,
11:52which have independent posability.
11:55The posability will have to be moved individually,
11:57because obviously if you want to have
11:59like the wings going up, for example.
12:01I don't know though,
12:02I mean, this is hard for me now to say,
12:04because obviously I don't have the version one,
12:05but I think if the version one was in hand as well,
12:08I probably would have said the same.
12:09I don't know if I would have had
12:11so many levels of posability,
12:12so many points that could be moved on King Ghidorah.
12:15I feel like moving things around like this,
12:17you're only going to find yourself
12:19finding separated gap spaces
12:21where you have to always kind of keep compensating,
12:24moving the wings back.
12:25I feel if anything,
12:27they probably should have had
12:28maybe this as one wing,
12:29this as a separate one,
12:31and then this one as a separate one down below.
12:33It just means like there's a whole lot
12:35of separate things
12:36that you have to move on the wing.
12:38There's also my worry too
12:39with the weight that's going on
12:40with the socket for the shoulder here,
12:42because it's holding so much more wing.
12:44Probably also one of the more reasons why too,
12:47you may want to make use
12:47of those cleared neck display stands
12:49or the cleared display stands
12:50that you can help prop up the wings.
12:52But again, very nicely detailed overall for the wings.
12:55Nice dark now color
12:56that they've used for the browns.
12:58The veins would have still,
12:59I think, been there
12:59from the original version one.
13:01You just see a whole lot more of them though,
13:03now that they've washed it
13:03with a darker brown.
13:05But again, like I feel like the wings,
13:07the wings are fine and okay,
13:08but you might find yourself actually,
13:10and I've noticed this also with these wings,
13:12they tend to kind of drop back.
13:15You really want to make sure
13:16that they're sitting sort of on the spines,
13:17because if they don't,
13:18like this wing,
13:20you'll see it will drop behind it.
13:21So like this part of the wing
13:23has to support the majority of the weight
13:25that's on the wings above it.
13:27And then again,
13:27you're adding so much extra weight.
13:29So all the more, again,
13:30reasons why you may want to use
13:31these display stands.
13:33For King Ghidorah's
13:34version two articulation,
13:36if you're familiar with the first,
13:38you'll probably be familiar
13:39with the second.
13:39I don't think that they've changed
13:40all that much articulation,
13:42other than now just enhancing
13:43what you can actually now do
13:44to the next.
13:45Each of the individual heads,
13:47again,
13:47you've got yourself a ball joint,
13:48so those heads do somewhat
13:50technically rotate
13:51all the way around.
13:52The mouth can also open and close,
13:54and you've also got the tongue inside
13:56that can also hinge too.
13:57Then you've got yourself
13:58one, two, three, four, five, six,
14:01seven, and eight.
14:02Eight individual linklets.
14:04Eight individual ways
14:05that the neck can move around.
14:06So you can move the neck back
14:08and forth, up and down.
14:11Fair bit.
14:12I mean, again,
14:12like if you want to take
14:13to the extent of these.
14:15Now this one in the middle
14:16doesn't seem like it moves as much.
14:18I mean, again,
14:18if you're looking at the link count,
14:20we got one, two, three, four,
14:21five, six, seven, eight, nine.
14:23It seems to be the same,
14:24but I find though that these ones,
14:26maybe because they're further down
14:27at the front of the body,
14:29they move a little bit more freer
14:30than the one in the middle.
14:32Again, the articulation
14:33would still remain the same,
14:34I would imagine,
14:35with all these.
14:35So again,
14:36you can move them forward
14:36and back, up and down.
14:38Then when you get to this part
14:39of his body,
14:40this section right here
14:41does move.
14:42It's also on a ball joint.
14:44The legs do move forward and back.
14:46You can also split the legs out,
14:48but only just a little bit.
14:49There's a knee joint right here,
14:51and luckily though,
14:52the knee joint is super tight.
14:54This would be something,
14:55again, once this starts
14:56to develop looseness,
14:57and I hope that it doesn't,
14:59that would again cause stability issues
15:01with keeping the king upright.
15:02I know Godzilla keeps looking at me
15:04when I say that.
15:05There's a hinge joint here
15:06for the back of the hind leg,
15:08so you can move it forward
15:08and back that way.
15:09This can also rotate as well.
15:11There is individual foot articulation too.
15:13I find though that the feet
15:15are a little harder to move,
15:16but they do have some bit
15:17of posability to them.
15:19The tail on the back,
15:20again,
15:21when you have multiple links like this,
15:23I think like maybe the tail
15:24might be a little bit smaller,
15:25but again,
15:26I didn't have the first one,
15:27so I can't really be 100% sure.
15:29These burrs,
15:30though they has on the ends
15:31of the tail,
15:32look just dangerous.
15:33But again,
15:33like if you look at the count
15:34of how many links
15:35keep these tails moving,
15:37I think there was also perhaps
15:39assembly that was required
15:40for the initial tails
15:41on version one.
15:42These tails are fully now intact
15:44when you get this figured
15:45out of the packaging.
15:45In fact,
15:45actually there's nothing at all
15:46for King Ghidorah
15:47that has to be assembled
15:48the first time you get
15:49this guy the packaging.
15:50Then for his wings.
15:52So again,
15:52like each of these wings
15:53you would think though
15:54basically has a hinge joint.
15:56So these all independently
15:57move forward and back,
15:59up and down.
16:00And you can do that again
16:01by this one,
16:02by this one.
16:03The larger wing
16:04that's right here,
16:05which again does move
16:06forward and back,
16:07twists as well,
16:08up and down.
16:09And the same can also be said
16:11down below here as well.
16:12I just don't know though.
16:13I like though the look
16:15of King Ghidorah.
16:16I mean,
16:16he's an amazing looking figure.
16:17But my one worry though
16:19is again like these wings.
16:20The wings especially
16:21I feel in the shoulders
16:22and I would think though
16:23if I had this conversation
16:24about the version one,
16:25I probably would be
16:25saying the same.
16:27I feel like the weight
16:28of the wings,
16:29especially here and here
16:31in the shoulders.
16:32Because again,
16:33like you're really
16:33looking at this
16:33and you can almost
16:34even see like this one wing
16:36developed a little bit
16:37of looseness.
16:38All the more again,
16:39reason I keep going back
16:40to these.
16:40I know I keep going back
16:41to keep talking about these,
16:42but this was certainly
16:43I feel help to hold
16:45the weights of King Ghidorah.
16:46Probably do a little bit
16:47better of a job
16:47than I'm doing right now,
16:48but just enough
16:49to hold the wings
16:49because then you're not adding,
16:51you're taking a whole lot
16:51less stress away
16:52from the weight
16:53that's going to be
16:53in the shoulder joints.
16:54I like also that
16:55they also include
16:56the anti-gravity beams.
16:57They do again have to
16:58attach though by the tongue.
17:00So the tongue say,
17:01ah, ah,
17:01has to stick inside that hole
17:03in order for them
17:04to blast the beams.
17:05I like that they include that.
17:06I love that they also include
17:07as well that the display stands.
17:09But biggest thing though,
17:10my takeaway from this
17:11is that the fact
17:12that the version two
17:13is selling
17:14for the exact same price.
17:16version one
17:17was selling online
17:18for $109.99.
17:19The version two,
17:21which hasn't dropped yet,
17:22it's going to be dropping
17:22again in March,
17:23is selling for the same price.
17:24$109.99.
17:26Any time any company
17:27could see a chance
17:28to re-release
17:29or give us a version two,
17:31a better than before,
17:32could see that
17:33as an opportunity as well
17:34to jack the price up.
17:36And that's a bad thing.
17:38Hyatt Toys though,
17:38on the other hand,
17:39doesn't do that at all.
17:40They kept the price
17:40exactly the same.
17:42So whether you had
17:42the original King Ghidorah
17:44from the King of the Monsters,
17:45he would have at that point
17:46sold for $109.99.
17:47And nothing at all again
17:49changes if you get
17:49the version two.
17:50The version two again
17:51is slated to drop
17:52March, 2026.
17:54So what,
17:55we're into like November
17:55or February.
17:57We're into February.
17:58But jump it by again
17:59another month.
18:00In sometime during March though,
18:02they will be dropping it
18:02for $109.99.
18:03Same price,
18:04better looking figure,
18:05better looking paint
18:06and better articulation.
18:07Something I didn't get
18:08the chance to mention though
18:09in the review
18:10was that King Ghidorah
18:11version two
18:11does now also sport
18:13clear parts.
18:13Mainly more for the neck
18:15and in the wings.
18:16It's kind of really hard
18:17to see the wings.
18:18I suppose if anything,
18:19if you had a light source
18:19probably shine behind
18:20the plastic,
18:21you'd be able to see it.
18:22It's a little bit more
18:23of a translucency
18:24going for it.
18:25Why they probably
18:25also did it for the neck
18:27was so that the neck
18:27looked like it was
18:28charging up its blast,
18:30about to blast
18:31his gravity beams.
18:32Which as you can see,
18:32I've got all three of them
18:33firmly planted,
18:35firmly attached
18:36to the tongues
18:36of King Ghidorah.
18:37It really does rely
18:38on the tongues
18:39in order to properly
18:40hold them.
18:41Without that though,
18:41these beams don't do
18:42a great job at all
18:44of staying inside
18:44his mouth.
18:45As you probably
18:46would guess it though,
18:47the gravity beams
18:48does add a little bit
18:49of extra weight.
18:50I wouldn't say
18:50unnecessary weight,
18:51but extra weight though
18:52on the front of the necks.
18:54So that may cause
18:55looseness over time.
18:56Oh, I will again,
18:57I know I said this
18:58a couple of times
18:58in the review,
18:59make use of those
19:00clear display stands.
19:01They come with a figure
19:02after all,
19:03help to support the weight
19:04of the front of the figure
19:05just to help alleviate
19:06some of the stress
19:07for the ankles
19:07and maybe do again
19:09the same for the wings
19:10to help alleviate
19:10some of the stress
19:11for the shoulders.
19:12I know it's not as cool.
19:14I mean,
19:14most people probably
19:15would just love
19:16to really have their
19:16King Ghidorah
19:17just displayed
19:18without display stands,
19:19but then you'll
19:19thank me later.
19:20It'll just help support
19:22and prevent looseness
19:23over time
19:23because a King
19:24that looks this cool,
19:25sorry Godzilla,
19:26you'd want to have him
19:27on your shelf
19:28for all the rest of time.
19:30A big thank you again
19:31to the folks over
19:32at Hyatt Toys
19:33that did provide
19:33this sample
19:34of King Ghidorah
19:35from King of the Monsters
19:36and this was version 2.0.
19:39I know I said this already.
19:40I'll say it again though.
19:41This guy's slated to drop
19:43March 2026.
19:44The asking price though
19:45online,
19:46$109.99.
19:48The same price,
19:50the same price
19:51that version 1 King Ghidorah
19:53was selling for before.
19:54If you have
19:55the original King Ghidorah,
19:56let me know down below
19:57in the comments section,
19:58is it worth the upgrade
20:00with the changes though
20:01that Hyatt has now done
20:02to the version 2?
20:04Or looking at this one
20:05and seeing yours,
20:06are you happy
20:07just to stick
20:08with the version 1?
20:09I guess he wouldn't
20:09have been called
20:10version 1,
20:11he just would have been
20:11called King Ghidorah.
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