Gamera

Gamera (ガメラ) is a giant, tusked, flying turtle from a popular series of tokusatsu kaiju films produced by Daiei Motion Picture Company in Japan. Created in 1965 to rival the success of Toho's Godzilla during the first "Kaiju Boom" of the mid-to-late 1960s, Gamera has become the other famous Japanese giant monster.

Specs

• Gamera is 60 meters tall and weighs 80 tons. (In the Heisei Series, Gamera is 80 meters tall and weighs 120 tons)
• Gamera is powered by both atomic energy and fire, thus he eats fire and atomic energy as well as being able to shoot fire from his mouth (usually red) and from his breast-shell (under-torso).
• Gamera pulls his head and limbs into his shell, and from inside, atomic jet propulsion fires from the holes where the limbs used to be, and he flies, spinning like a top. In some instances, he was mistaken for a UFO! Sometimes, Gamera can just fly forward, with his head and arms still out of his shell, and the rockets are fired from the holes where his hind legs are. Gamera's flying speed is Mach 3 (3.5 in the Heisei version).
• Gamera's swimming speed is 150 knots (180 knots in the Heisei version).