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Once used as Godzilla substitute in Hyundai ad.



......During the nineties Hyundai, the South Korean auto maker, once ran an ad where crowds were running from a monster as announcer said, "The only thing that frightens the Japanese, more then us, is this guy." It was an obvious reference to Godzilla and Hyundai's Japanese competitors...........The give away the scene was lifted from Gorgo, not one of the "Godzilla" films, was the people were running from the approaches from the Tower Bridge in London. Best guess: the folks who own the rights to Godzilla wouldn't permit the agency, making the commercial, to use any scenes from their movies.
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I've been searching for your reference, but couldn't find any info or video. However, I can't see why Hyundai would use Gorgo when South Korea had their own knock-off Godzilla named Yongary http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061549/.

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a scene from Gorgo was also shown on a CSI Episode. In this episode Grissom and his girlfriend were watching it on TV. But Grissom commented wait till the oxygen destroyer. thought Grissom knew everything but apparently he didn't know the oxygen destroyer was in Godzilla-not Gorgo.

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