Editing Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (section)

===Special effects===
[[File:KIDS prop model right front view at Akashi City Museum of Culture July 29, 2018.jpg|thumb|A prop of the time machine KIDS on display at Akashi City Museum of Culture]]
The Godzilla suits used in ''Godzilla vs. Biollante'' were reused in ''Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah'', though with slight modifications. The original suit used for land-based and full body shots had its head replaced with a wider and flatter one, and the body cut in half. The upper half was used in scenes where Godzilla emerges from the sea and during close-ups during the character's first fight with King Ghidorah. The suit used previously for scenes set at sea was modified with rounder shoulders, a more prominent chest, and an enhanced face, and was used throughout the majority of the film's Godzilla scenes.<ref>Robert Biondi, "The Evolution of Godzilla – G-Suit Variations Throughout the Monster King’s Twenty One Films", ''G-FAN'' #16 (July/August 1995)</ref>

The redesigned King Ghidorah featured much more advanced wirework puppetry than its predecessors, and effects team leader [[Koichi Kawakita]] designed the "Godzillasaurus" as a more paleontologically accurate-looking dinosaur than Godzilla itself as a nod to American filmmakers aspiring to direct their own ''Godzilla'' films with the intention of making the monster more realistic.<ref name="Kalat"/> Ōmori's original draft specified that the dinosaur that would become Godzilla was a ''[[Tyrannosaurus]]'', though this was rejected by creature designer Shinji Nishikawa, who stated that he "couldn't accept that a tyrannosaur could become Godzilla". The final suit combined features of ''Tyrannosaurus'' with Godzilla, and real [[octopus]] blood was used during the bombardment scene. Because the Godzillasaurus' arms were much smaller than Godzilla's, suit performer [[Wataru Fukuda]] had to operate them with levers within the costume. The creature's distress calls were recycled [[Gamera]] cries.<ref name="Wong"/>