Monster Island: Latest Addiction

So, I've had this game for a while. I've only played it a couple of times, but it's a fun little Kaiju (giant monster) tabletop miniature (war?)game. If you are a fan of Godzilla (Gojira), then this game is a must!

I've got the following books: Monster Island, Escape from Monster Island, and Invasion of Monster Island. While Monster Island is enjoyable in it's own right, Escape from Monster Island makes the game even better. Why? Because in Escape from Monster Island, the monsters get to ravage cities and fight human armies. Then it really does feel like the Gojira movies!

Anyhoo, the game is only a book. You have to find your own monsters and military units. Although there are cardstock cutout standees, it's more fun to have the 3 dimensional aspect of minis to round out the game.

With that said, the monsters themselves are relatively easy to find. Any toy monsters around 2 to 3 inches will work great. The military units are more troublesome to find.

So, I thought I'd just build some. And here's the result:

The first wave of the military getting ready
for action


Mobile Atillery and Towable Artillery
getting ready to shoot a Kaiju
on top of a building


Kaiju trying to hide amongst the buildings
and a tank taking aim


Parking is never an issue, when
your ride looks like this

All it takes is 1)time, 2)scraps of foamcore, 3)bunch of BBQ sticks/toothpicks, 4)gobs of glue, 5) little paint, 6)lot of bloody patience!

So far, I've got 1 fighter chopper, 1 transport chopper, 4 tanks, 1 personnel carrier, 3 towable artillery cannons, 2 jeeps, and 1 mobile rocket launcher.

In the middle of construction are: 2 armored personnel carriers, 2 mobile cannons (basically trucks with big gun on the back), 1 flatbed truck (to haul around people and cannons), and one 1950's super flying tank (it's Gojira type science, remember?).

On the planning table: 2 1950's style laser cannon, 2 more attack choppers (redoing them, cause I ain't happy with the first one), 2 transport choppers (same thing here), gobs of little soldiers, gobs of civilians, 2 firetrucks, 2 police cruisers, 1 nuclear plant, 1 chemical plant, 1 oil refinery.

After I typed this, and read it back to myself, I'm like...great googley moogley, what am I thinking???

Zhen