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Godzilla to Subway: I Got Your 12" Right Here

Posted Apr 18th 2008 11:35AM by TMZ Staff

The company that owns the rights to Godzilla is so mad at Subway for using the giant lizard's likeness without permission, they might go storming the streets of Tokyo knocking over buildings and swatting away helicopters!
Godzilla vs. Subway: Read the lawsuit
Toho Co. is suing the house that Jared built, claiming they used a Godzilla-alike in their latest ad campaigns. In their suit filed in Federal court, they claim the creature bears an overwhelming resemblance to Godzilla himself. Guess they have the market cornered on giant creatures crushing Asian cities.

Calls to Subway were not returned. Mothra and Rodan were unavailable for comment.

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1. Good, those new subway commercials are annoying. Bad marketing.

Posted at 11:45AM on Apr 18th 2008 by Jon

2. Brutal TMZ.... just brutal.

have you no good gossip to write about??????

Get out there and find some good stories.

Posted at 11:47AM on Apr 18th 2008 by Hula Hunter

3. really tmz?... really? thats all ya got?

Posted at 11:47AM on Apr 18th 2008 by phdguru

4. Knew that was coming as soon as I saw the commercial the first time.

Posted at 12:45PM on Apr 18th 2008 by Robdalec

5. Oh for crying out loud...this is stupidity at it's highest degree. Get in line with JK Rowlings you idiots!!
So call it the creature from the black lagoon or something equally dumb. Did someone tell them it's a
MAKE BELIEVE creature???

Posted at 12:45PM on Apr 18th 2008 by NShado

6. mothra and rodan were unavailable for comment. LMAO

Posted at 12:46PM on Apr 18th 2008 by thats right

7. TMZ- News must be slow!!!

Posted at 12:48PM on Apr 18th 2008 by CTS

8. I haven't seen the commercial, but unless they called the creature Godzilla, I don't see how anyone can own the rights to T. Rex, the dinosaur.

Posted at 12:53PM on Apr 18th 2008 by Hyde

9. I know i thought they were porn ads! Until I saw the colors of Subway plastered all over the place. But that would mean that anyone who uses a giant lizard will be sued?

Posted at 1:20PM on Apr 18th 2008 by monique

10. You're a moron. Look at the photo again. It doesn't resemble a T-Rex at all.

Posted at 2:19AM on Apr 19th 2008 by robdal.ec

11. You could argue forever and a day regarding the exterior soft-tissue features of the T-Rex. Anyway, I wonder about owning the rights to something for perpetuity; even pharmaceutical companies give up their patents after a set amount of years. Private things are released upon the person's demise. Copyright law is fairly new in the grand scheme of things.

Posted at 1:06PM on Apr 18th 2008 by Flames Fan.

12. Subway are lunatics when it comes to protecting their logo so the asses knew better.

Posted at 2:25PM on Apr 18th 2008 by me

13. yo quiero Taco Bell!!!

Posted at 2:37PM on Apr 18th 2008 by good greif!

14. I wish Subway would copy someone else's sandwiches. They put so little meat that it tastes like I'm eating all bread. They suck!!

Posted at 2:38PM on Apr 18th 2008 by Sofia5

15. What. I like Subway. They put in enough meat for three people at all the Subways where I live. I guess 'enough meat' is relative. Then again, It takes me two sittings to eat a foot long, so there you go.

Posted at 3:22PM on Apr 18th 2008 by Canada

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