Los Angeles, CA – Where do giant city-crushing monsters, super-sized freedom fighting plantains, intergalactic insects, and a diabolical mad doctor do Battel for control of the Universe? KAIJU BIG BATTEL, a top-secret monster fighting tournament where the most powerful forces in the galaxy meet to wage war in a tournament-style spectacle held in a steel cage lined with miniature cityscapes, oversized Japanese monster-movie props and other surprises.After sold-out East Coast Battels, Kaiju Big Battel is set to make its Los Angeles debut with its largest, most elaborate event ever—Kaiju Big Battel: Tinsel Town Showdown—at Avalon (formerly the Hollywood Palace) on September 8th, 2004.
Come experience the national cult phenomenon known as Kaiju Big Battel as a hoard of monsters, aliens, and Heroes conspire to bring the city of Los Angeles to its knees through urban destruction, white-knuckled action, and seismic surprises. Tinsel Town Showdown will also feature Kaiju Jumbotrons, the patented Kaiju Danger Cage, and over 40 blocks of crushable cityscape.
Special musical guest, Tarantulas recording artist, Darker My Love will kick off the live monster mayhem.
Tickets available at all Ticketmaster outlets, including Tower Records, Robinsons-May, Wherehouse Music, and Ritmo Latino locations, or online at ticketmaster.com. Tickets also available at the Avalon box office on show day PENDING AVAILABILITY. Charge by phone at 213.480.3232.
The schedule of events for Tinsel Town Showdown:
– Super fun Kaiju slide show
– Musical prelude by Darker My Love
– Introductory Feature: “What is Kaiju?”
– Battel 1: Eternal Justice of the Aquatic Kind: Neo Teppen vs. Call-Me-Kevin
– Battel 2: Mystery Hero Debut Battel: Gomi-Man vs. ???
– Musical Tribute to Silver Potato starring J-Pop Superstar Chikako
– Battel 3: Fruit and Fauna Face-Off: Los Plantanos vs. The Grudyin & SDS-1
– Battel 4: Kaiju Championship Belt Contest: Unibouzu vs. Hell Monkey
Visit www.kaiju.com for more info and full descriptions of the match-ups!
About Kaiju Big Battel
Kaiju big Battel is a modern conflict of epic proportions. Planet Earth is under threat: scattered throughout the galaxy is a monstrous mob of maniacal villains, menacing alien beasts, and giant, city-crushing monsters that are waging war against one another. Presiding over this mayhem is the Kaiju Commissioner, an enigmatic human-arbiter appointed by a clandestine cadre of world leaders to regulate Kaiju rage. If the Kaiju Commissioner doesn’t do his job perfectly the entire world could get caught in the crossfire.
Currently, the Kaiju Universe maintains an active roster of approximately 30 monsters, including a blue alien-glutton names Sky Deviler, a factory-worker-turned-soup-can called Kung Fu Chicken Noodle, a dirty hare-sage dubbed Dusto Bunny, Uchu Chu the Space Bug (self-explanatory), and a despicable, square-headed mad scientist known as Dr. Cube. In addition to the Kaiju Commissioner, a few other privileged humans also get a piece of the action, including Referee Jingi, a mustachioed official who enforces fairness and civility in the ring, Anthony Salbino, an urban renewal expert who reconstructs crumbled cityscapes between Battels, and one tuxedo-wearing, mouth-running MC.
About Studio Kaiju
Studio Kaiju, an independent Boston-based performance and media group, is the creator of Kaiju Big Battel, the world’s only live monster mayhem spectacle. Producer of consistently sold-out events, Studio Kaiju is best known for its live tournament-style performances, which are character driven, tongue-in-cheek hybrid of American pro-wrestling, Japanese monster-movies, and lowbrow pop-culture. These multi-media events, complete with over-sized monster-movie props, a towering “Danger Cage”, and miniature cityscape, can also be enjoyed from a safe distance thanks to the Kaiju Big Battel DVD series from Redline Entertainment and the Hyperion Books release, Kaiju Big Battel: A Practical Guide to Giant City-Crushing Monsters.
Thanks to David from Studio Kaiju for the official Kaiju Tinsel Town Showdown press release! SoCal UNCENSORED have some Kaiju merchandise to give away via promotional contests or giveaways. Stay tuned for more details on how to win Kaiju Big Battel stickers, magnets, “monster meat”, and DVD’s!
EDIT: If the wackiness of this show doesn’t intrigue you enough, maybe a DVD promo disc courtesy of Kaiju Big Battel will? The kind folks over at Studio Kaiju have provided the even kinder folks at SoCalUNCENSORED.com (we won’t be outkinded!) all kindsa promo goodies ranging from DVD’s, magnets, stickers, “monster meat” (dead aka retired monsters are cut up into pieces aka “meat”), etc. Maybe that DVD will sway your decision to check out this show on September the 8th at the Avalon in Hollywood.
So how do I enter this contest and what does it entail? Well, if you’re a big fan or not, you have a chance at winning! If you rememeber KBB’s appearance live from the Jimmy Kimmel Show way back when, you’re in luck. All you have to do is name participants in that match. One participant, two participants, all participants? The better your response, the better the prize (aka the DVD).
Email your responses to Scrub. Contest will go on until the end of the week. Answer and contest winners will be posted on Saturday. If more than one person has the most complete answer, the first person to send me the email wins. Good luck!
*SCU Staffers are ineligible.
