While cool, Titanosaurus '75 is a character that tends to not show up as toys very often. He showed up in Terror of Mechagodzilla and you can tell he's a little fishy. He's got fins! Not on his hands and feet, but his back and tail look something like a Spinosaurus, with flourishes of what the average adult probably thought a dinosaur should look like in the pre-pre-Jurassic Park era. He's clearly a man in suit, standing upright on two legs, made by someone who saw the marketing materials for Sea-Monkeys.
The figure does a great job capturing the style of a 1970s Japanese monster movie costume, with articulation of a toy you might have seen in the 1980s, but with deco that's way too good to be something you'd have seen in the 20th century. At $20, Super7 had some extra pennies and made sure to use them. Were this a toy in the 1970s or 1980s, it would probably be a hollow roto-molded toy with minimal sprays of paint.
With two wide feet and a tail, Titanosaurus is in no danger of falling over. He has a v-crotch, plus a tail, so it is unlikely you'll accidentally knock him over. Those legs aren't going to fall out from under him. He also has painted claws on his hands and feet, with arms jointed at the shoulders. His tail is jointed, and amazingly it's done so in a way that still allows it to serve as a way to prop up the figure. Kudos, Super7.
As Super7 generally tries to ape the style of Kenner, to get a retro figure "right" you want to get it a little bit wrong. All of the major markers of our monster pal are present - bumpy skin, a red-to-yellow fin, a narrow snout, fin ears, you can see it all. But, there are deco restrictions. The bumps aren't painted black - instead, he's mostly a rusty red color. The fins on the back, head, and tail are more yellow than red, and also their shapes are a tiny bit different than the movie. The tan parts on the figure tend to have more color variation and shading on the costume which, again, would go against this looking like an old 1980s or 1970s toy.
If you look at the head, Super7 did a really nice job making it look good - but not too good. The mouth is open a little, like some old dragon or dinosaur toys, with a bit of a tongue dangling out. The eyes are yellow with a black outline, and look amazing. His ears have a light dusting of orange paint, more subtle than the movie, and are the kind of thing that would likely have been too fragile in the 20th century. It looks better the way Super7 did them.
Due to the figure's design, he can't sit or pilot a ship. That's not what this toy is about - so you'll want to buy him to fight your other Super7 monsters. As a kid in the 1980s, licensed Godzilla toys were really hard to come by in the USA. You might win a bootleg in a pizza place skee-ball ticket counter, but things like Super Shogun were long gone - so it's nice to see that eventually, someone came to the rescue and made this kind of figure.
I picked up this figure because my wife loves this movie and this character in particular - and it was a good choice. Titanosaurus is a distinctive beast who rarely comes up for sale as a new product, let alone an affordable one in American stores. If you think you will some day wish to own a toy of this character, go buy this one now. It's cool, it looks nice, but it comes with a warning - I may go back and buy some of the monsters I missed because I liked this one so much. That's not going to be cheap!
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