Los japoneses en esta caso no tienen razon..., ademas que son tan cerrados que cuando Emmerich hablo de esta nueva pelicula, expreso el porque su Godzilla era tan diferente:

Emmerich says that due to copyright obstacles, he was not able to make his Godzilla look anything like the classic Toho Pictures character. "The director before me, Jan de Bont, couldn’t [make the movie] because it looked funny – [the monster] was very bottom-heavy, and I said, 'That's not good.' I just made my own Godzilla and had to go [to Japan] with the [small-scale model] – [the studio execs] all crowded around, and the next day they said, 'Okay, you can make your Godzilla, but we will still make the old Godzilla.' So it was a really unique situation, and some people loved it and some people hated it, but I kind of thought it’s the only way I could make this movie. … I don't know what they did [for the new movie]. I'm so curious how Godzilla will look, because if it's the old Godzilla, I hope they will also do a new [design]."

Dicho por el propio Emmerich, que en esencia dice que: Toho queria seguir con su diseño de Godzilla, mientras que para el mercado internacional, Godzilla tendria un diseño diferente.