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To be fair though an episode of Supernatural did this too and this is substantially less embarassing

This is a UK tape of the first half of Ultraman: Towards the Future, released in 1993...though they decided to try and make it seem like a movie called Ultraman: The Alien Invasion. The end of the tape tells you to watch out for "Ultraman 2: The Battle for Earth", but I don't think that ever came out in the UK. There is a release called Ultraman 2 we got, but it's a dub of The☆Ultraman anime that came out BEFORE this release (and I can't find out if we got The Adventures of Ultraman either ironically). Imagine seeing a tape for Ultraman 2 and holding off on seeing it until you've seen the first one only to wait a year to find what you THINK is the first one (when actually the contents of this VHS are a 1992 Australian Live Action Show edited into a movie and Ultraman 2 is a 1980s anime dubbed and edited into a movie) only to get to the end of the tape where they tell you the ACTUAL sequel to this "film" is coming out NEXT YEAR and so you wait until then but Ultraman 2: The Battle for Earth never comes!

(Also yes I live in the UK but more specifically I live in Scotland, don't want anyone thinking I'm English)

Only seen this in Episode 13 of Ultraman Tiga so I'm not sure how often this happens but up to this point he was giant so seeing him normal sized like it's an episode of Kamen Rider was a bit jarring lol

Seriously the scene of him getting his jaw peeled off is one of the most upsetting things I've seen happen to a Kaiju, poor guy, it's so needlessly cruel. He'd go well with my Jirass too.

Featuring a completely normal and unedited GMK Godzilla (background removed)

I'm more of a Godzilla fan than an Ultraman fan (and some of my favourite movies were written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, to whom Ultraman is the bane of his existence), but my interest in Kaiju and practical effects means I occasionally dabble in Ultraman media that catches my attention for one reason or another. For an idea of how little Ultraman media I've seen, the ones I've watched are a single episode of the original 1966 Ultraman (more specifically The Secret Dinosaur Base, since it had Jirass in it), the 4Kids dub of Ultraman Tiga (so not even the GOOD version) and Shin Ultraman (which probably informed the way I wrote this rough outline of a story). So I'm not entirely sure why I decided to write this. My limited knowledge of the series almost certainly shows here (though the whole Venom deal Ultraman has going on was a conscious decision, thought it might be interesting), aside from the aforementioned Ultraman stories I've seen I've snooped around the Ultra Wiki a little but that's about it. There are more pages, but I think this is all you need to see.