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Gamera vs Garasharp was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 22 July 2009 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Gamera. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

Shouldn't

Shouldn't we disambig. this with a link to the AOL client? --andrew 00:45, 13 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it depends. What the heck does Gamera have to do with AOL? ~ Jeff Q (talk) 01:33, 18 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Gamera was AOL's linux client, released/leaked around 1999/2000, I believe it was actually a hacked-to-work version of their "internet-device" client. --andrew 04:36, 30 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have some sourced information about it? If so, perhaps you could write a stub and add the following line at the top of this article:

For the America Online Linux client software, see Gamera (AOL).

— Jeff Q (talk) 06:08, 30 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi this is my first wikipedia post ever, so I hope I'm doing this right. Gammera is spelled with two M's in some films, just search and replace. That probably solves your software problem. - metaldoggy Metaldoggy (talk) 03:08, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

MST?

I like mst3k as much as the next nerd, but the whole gamera and MST section has got to go, its mentioned in the intro and thats enough. Goodbye MST section.--71.97.135.183 20:06, 1 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

...and where is it mentioned? Looks like someone removed all references to MST3K.

-SJ

Height and weight

Gamera height and weight is not here and I have no clue big the naw one is, please gather up the info and add this

Someone goofed on Gamera's weight. I believe it currently reads 80-120 tons. There are a few zeroes missing from these estimates. I'll make the change 216.168.238.7 17:14, 24 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This is really interesting - I did a Web search on Gamera's weight, and the same mistake seems to be repeated on many English speaking Web pages. Looks like someone just copied the error to Wikipedia. Here is where I believe the mistake to have been made - Japanese childrens' books with monster stats usually list the weights in single or double western digits followed by the character 'Man' (meaning ten thousand). As a kid, translating monster stats for my friends, I misread this and multiplied by ten or one hundred rather than ten thousand. I can't remember if it was a simple error, or my reluctance to believe that Godzilla was such a fat ass. 216.168.238.7 17:24, 24 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Why did someone revert the weight changes? This is an obvious error. I checked other Web sites, and found one reference to 30,000 tons, but can't search for the original Japanese with my browser. 80-120 tons is an obvious error. The average blue whale is a rather long, thin animal (check pictures: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Blue_Whale_001_body_bw.jpg), is 75-80 feet long, and large specimens can reach 100 tons. Gamera would be approximately 4.5 times longer than a large blue whale. So how could he weigh less? And if you would compare a portrait silhouette of a blue whale and gamera, you would see that he is not only 4.5 times longer, but also at least 7 to 12 times wider from side to side, and 3 to 4 times 'thicker' (perhaps more...let's assume 10 times thicker to accomodate the weight of Gamera's huge-assed shell which would be solid, and thus denser than the water and fat that comprise most of body weight). Let's do a quick calculation - 100 tons (weight of blue whale) x 4.5 (Gamera is 4.5 times longer) x 12 (gamera is MUCH wider than a blue whale) x 10 (Gamera is a bit of a fatty, and has a giant, solid shell) = 54,000 TONS!! OK, I can't believe the internet just made me calculate the weight of a giant, imaginary turtle. My girlfriend still hasn't stopped laughing. I am going to re-do my changes to Gamera's weight because I think we can all agree that 80-120 tons is ridiculous unless Gamera is made of styrofoam. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.135.99.0 (talk) 04:41, 24 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Folks, this is an absurd argument. Gamera is a fictional creature. He obviously does not obey many laws of physics, so trying to apply them to him selectively is pointless. The only legitimate way to include "statistics" on a fictional creation is to explicitly cite sources for that information (see Wikipedia:Footnotes on how to do this). Anything else is forbidden original research, as uncited claims supposedly from unnamed books are totally worthless to Wikipedia. Please find one or more specific reliable sources to cite for this information, or we'll just have to remove the data. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 04:49, 19 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect?

Why exactly does Zedus redirect here? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.79.21.109 (talk • contribs) 21:50, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Please sign your talk page posts. To answer your question, it appears there was a stub vs. speedy-delete battle over Zedus, which was resolved by someone redirecting the page to Gamera. In the meantime, Gamera the Brave, an article about the film featuring Zedus, was created, at least partly answering the issue raised by the speedy-deletion nominator. I've restored the stub article (with a little copyediting). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 02:06, 13 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pee-Wee

Didn't Gamera make a cameo on Pee-Wee's Playhouse one time? I seem to remember that. It was a clip from one of his black and white movies. Bobafett424242 18:03, 15 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:G325.jpg

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BetacommandBot 22:22, 6 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:GAMERAfire.JPG

Image:GAMERAfire.JPG is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot 22:42, 6 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Shout Factory DVDs

Can somebody find a real entry and not a blog entry for citation on whether or not Shout Factory will actually release DVDs of the Gamera movies? Sierraoffline444 (talk) 23:09, 13 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]