# From a distant planet man, comes a hero of our land!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-a-distant-planet-man-comes-a-hero-of-our-land/724489
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [July 7, 2015, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-a-distant-planet-man-comes-a-hero-of-our-land/724489 "2015-07-07T17:03:17Z")
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### Author:  [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2015, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-a-distant-planet-man-comes-a-hero-of-our-land/724489/1 "2015-07-07T17:03:17Z")
Talk about nostalgia! Today’s google doodle was tribute to Eiji Tsuburaya, creator of Godzilla and Ultra Man.
(I just know somebody’s going to tell me those lyrics are wrong)
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### Author:  [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2015, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-a-distant-planet-man-comes-a-hero-of-our-land/724489/2 "2015-07-07T17:06:54Z")
Wow. that clip was a real flash back. Each one of those silhouettes was laying dormant in my memories until I saw them just now and they jumped right back into the front of my head.
And yet, I remember almost nothing of the show.
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### Author:  [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2015, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-a-distant-planet-man-comes-a-hero-of-our-land/724489/3 "2015-07-07T18:23:47Z")
It took me a while to realize the Google Doodle was interactive. Then the timer is so quick, you have literally 2 seconds in each scene, it took me at least one second to figure out what I was supposed to be doing, despite the graphical instruction beforehand. I ended up with an Ed Wood movie.
That is to say, I loved it.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2015, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-a-distant-planet-man-comes-a-hero-of-our-land/724489/4 "2015-07-07T18:26:20Z")
Already a thread on this in MPSIMS, started this morning:
> **[Today is Eiji Tsuburaya's 114th birthday!](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=761564)**
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> The guy responsible for the Godzilla suit, Rodan, Anguirus, and those other Toho kaiju effects, not to mention Ultraman (who seems to be featured on the initial Google homepage doodle today) I just read his biography, Eiji Tsuburaya: Master of...