Kaiju Big Battel is an American performance entertainment troupe, founded by
David and Randy Borden, whose performances are parodies of both professional
wrestling and the tokusatsu kaiju movies of Japan. Their performance events,
called Big Battels, are performed in the style of professional wrestling
events, with the costumed "wrestlers" playing the roles of giant monsters
similar to Godzilla and Gamera. The misspelling of "Battel" is intentional,
supposedly due to a misprint of an early t-shirt design.
In-jokes abound, targeted at both fans of professional wrestling (especially
Mexican wrestling), superhero comic books and Japanese popular culture. Many
of the names of the characters are in mock-Spanish or mock-Japanese, and
Engrish is liberally used for comic effect.
http://www.kaiju.com/
They have podcasts too!
Toodles,
Katherine
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