The DKE List's 3nd Giveaway Contest:
The Destroy All Monsters Remake Contest

by Bob Schneider

They say the third time's the charm. If so, the DKE List launched it's best giveaway contest ever on Sunday, September 29, 2002. This third contest was intended to celebrate the unveiling of the new DKE List Web Site as redesigned by Richard Cox and now hosted on the Club Tokyo / Monster Zero server. In keeping with this theme of "makeovers," we asked list members to respond to the following question:

Suppose you were hired by Toho Studios to write and direct a remake of the classic Godzilla Movie Destroy All Monsters. What ten monsters would you select and why?

We gave list members ten days (till Friday, October 11) to reply, then randomly selected a winner from all the entries. Joe (bassjogo@yahoo.com) emerged as the lucky list member who won the grand prize, a set of ten Godzilla SD Finger Puppet Remakes pictured above. All the other participants received runner up prizes as tokens of our appreciation.

Congratulations to Joe, and thanks to everyone who joined in the fun. If you didn't get a chance to enter the contest, don't worry. Another will be coming your way soon!

Joe's Winning Entry: Destroy All Monsters Remake

A team of scientists, led by Dr. Chii Muroketto, proposes that the monsters can no longer be left to roam around at will and that they must be studied. This creates a fierce debate in the scientific community, with the opposition feeling too much money will go to house and care for the monsters when it should go to eliminating human disease and famine. However, Dr. Muroketto manages to win her case and her plan proceeds. Construction begins on Ogasawara Island. Then, using surprisingly advanced vehicles that Muroketto has developed, and with the help of robots (like Jet Jaguar and Giant Robot) and monsters under human control, such as Mothra and Gamera (under the control of a young boy named Gata Getamahru), Godzilla et al are rounded up and moved to the renamed "Monster Island". All seems well at first until the monsters suddenly turn up in pairs in major cities, fighting each other and wreaking havoc. Dr. Muroketto reveals herself and her team as aliens from the planet Kilaak. They have placed control devices on the monsters to force them to battle to test their potential as war machines. Gata Getamahru has Gamera lead the other monsters/robots against the Monster Island monsters but they are only able to fight them to a standstill. Suddenly, a ship belonging to another race of aliens known as the Guren-Gurenda arrives and destroys the orbiting Kilaak ship. The Guren-Gurenda send a message to Earth warning that mankind must be wiped out because it is on the verge of discovering a dangerous weapon known as Solaronite that would threaten the entire galax with destruction. They beam down an army of space monsters and robots, including Mechagodzilla, King Ghidorah, Guiron, and Guilala. Unable to return to space, Dr. Muroketto and her team offer to help defend the Earth. They release the controls of the Monster Island team which, with the Gamera team, attacks and defeats the invading space army. Gamera, acting on his own, flies into space and sacrifices his life to destroy the Guren-Gurenda ship. Dr. Muroketto offers to use the advanced Kilaak knowledge to help rebuild Earth's cities in exchange for clemency, and everyone is happy, except for poor little Gata Getamahru. But Dr. Muroketto reveals that she has the power to fly, makes Gata an honorary spaceman, and they fly over the ruins of the world as the closing credits roll.

(oops--that's way more than ten monsters! does that disqualify me? umm, err ... I know! stock footage to the rescue! and we'll just use a couple of paper plates painted silver for the Guren-Gurenda ship ... that'll free up some money, too)

--Joe "Make it or fake it!" :-)