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What's a Kaiju story without a little movie inspiration?

As we continue our journey through World Turner, we're pulling back the curtain on some of the films that helped inspire Lou's approach to the world of Port Akabor, its monsters, and the people unfortunate enough to encounter them.

From Cloverfield and Pacific Rim to Shin Godzilla and King Kong, Lou (and Mel) have put together a collection of favorite monster movies, complete with personal stories, cinematic inspirations, and some very strong opinions.

Now we want to know: What's YOUR favorite monster movie? And which one do you think we absolutely should have included?

And that's not all for BONE CONE!! For World Turner fans, we've got a little something to help you get your bearings! We're sharing an official map of the city so you can follow along with the action, explore its neighborhoods, and get a better sense of the world our characters are navigating. Shout out to Britt Anderson who designed it, beautifully!

Take a look around, get to know the lay of the land, and maybe start planning your evacuation route. You know. Just in case.

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Zarita

Ooh maps!

Dodo

For some reason I read that in the foxes voice like "Ah, shapes"

T

Roundabouts!!

Nichelle

I hadn't visualized a street grid but it's very cool to see that my mental vision of port akabor lines up pretty closely to the map! Testament to Lou's storytelling.

Thomas Flott

Wow can't believe Akabor is just Boston

Sven the Scribe

And, yes, Mel a certified Bong-head is a thing but likely not the way you mean... (but, hey, one can always be both)

Alyssa

If Port Akabor is Boston (which it looks like), those would be “rotaries”

Alyssa

It really is, but with more grids. Lou using his college years for some inspiration…

T

Roundabout, traffic circle, rotary! An important feature of efficient road design

T

Unless we wanna get into the technical differences. I think in that region of the US the term "rotary" is used for all types of circular junctions. But I am not from there so correct me if I'm wrong.

Allegra Fortin

I grew up outside Boston. That’s correct

Jill K.

So where’s the university?

Lily Hammer

I KNEW Cloverfield was an inspiration (LOVE THAT), so when you got to the episode about Vix Bridge, I was like...no...oh no... no, not the bridge...TURN BACK.

ChosenOfAeterna

Potentially hot take (no pun intended), but I would maybe even count Reign of Fire as a kaiju movie. Post apocalyptic London taken over by dragons. You’ve got human in full military gear on trucks with mounted guns out there picking fruit from a garden. Something so mundane turned into an absolutely nail biting experience. And what a cool movie about human determination and persistence. I really enjoyed it.

Lael Newton

map! map! map! makes me want a subway/streetcar system overlay. but maybe I'll just have to design my ideal transit network so I can be extra sad about it getting destroyed.

Wit & Whimsy

Are we not getting an episode today?

Morgana Evenstar

When I say "I knew exactly what would be on this list," I say it not to tout my own cleverness. I say it because you can FEEL every bit of this list in World Turner, every entry is a "well if that's what you were going for...uh, fuckin' nailed it." Stoked to get back to Solari, but I could easily stay in Port Akabor for a good while.

Jonathan Helland

I love seeing appreciation for Peter Jackson's King Kong. I feel like it never gets the love it deserves. It's a beautiful movie and a worthy successor to the 1933 original. In fact, the only think I'd change about this list is to include the original King Kong (which I checked out from the library on VHS when I was, like, 9).

Gogo M

But wait, where is the big tree on here?

Wambling Wombat

Only one place it could be - the big empty spot.

Wambling Wombat

The "Welcome To" giving me Mountport feels. I love this map.

Weston Bradshaw

Today is Godzilla’s birthday 🎂 nov. 3!

Annie Packard

Thank you so much!! I really appreciate how thoughtful and detailed the explanations are for each movie.

Annie Packard

The map is killer! I love the detail of the northern coastline of South Ak. It really shows the development of the waterfront in the contrast between the more curved natural coastline of North Ak and the precise rectangular edges of South Ak.

Stiltpuppy

"you can't get there from here"-ass city

nic

Cool you were inspired by godIlla -1. I bought the popcorn bucket for godzilla -0 and id love to get lou to sogn it one day!

Rhian Price-Constable

This reminds me of when I found out Pawnee was Christchurch, New Zealand

Rhian Price-Constable

I don't watch monster movies bc I am a scared cat. I was listening to episode 3 while driving home at 1am on empty country roads and I got SO scared 😂 Love this campaign though so it was worth it.

Ebony Voigt

I was the same! I was dreading getting to that bridge and the kaiju coming up underneath it! 😅

Aaron J. Shay

I gotta submit "Independence Day." Is it a conventional kaiju/monster movie? No. Is it a flawed film? Oh, on so many levels, yes. BUT. It also showcases the humanity of so many people throughout the film. You get to know so many people who are affected by the destruction wrought by the aliens. You get to spend time with so many aspects of humanity: the misguided demonstrators, the unwitting bystanders, the exhausted survivors. It takes great effort to show how disaster can be a great equalizer, bringing people together from disparate social classes, who would otherwise have little in common. It was a film so optimistic as to say without irony that a global catastrophe had the power to unite the whole world.

worldsbeyondnumber

Nope, this week is our regularly programmed Patreon week. New ep drops next week. Make sure to take a look at the calendar posts!

Beignet Gesserit

Port Akabor has the most Silverlake spiderweb street layout

June Walker

Does anyone else think that the middle of the city looks like the head of a dragon with Northak and Southak as the wings and Westak as the body?

akodorokku

The thing I remember best about Godzilla 98 is that Jean Reno's character fucking ruled. Just the coolest motherfucker in the world. I could have watched 5 more movies about whatever that guy was doing at any given time.

The Witch of the Written Word

Not Kaiju, but I love the movie Pitch Black starring Vin Diesel as Riddick. Probably more environmental and adapted monster movie than Kaiju, but if the entire planet is built to kill, it's kinda Kaiju size 🤷‍♀️

Benjamin Smith

I'm still head cannoning this as it being set in Port Talon after hundreds of years since WWW visited

Benjamin Smith

I'll say it again for the Kaiju fans, watch Monarch Legacy of Monsters on Apple+

Phoenix Vizva’i

Maps! I love how you can tell exactly where the big tree is 😂🌳

Jess A

Map! Map! Map! Map! Thank you for the lovely map, and as always, for crediting the artist who made it.

Athena

What’s the middle of the city (the red part) called?