Kaiju Gallery: Lygon from Giant Robo

Nothing too spectacular for today, just another image gallery based around one of my many, many, MANY favorite giant monsters from Japanese fiction. The header illustration, by-the-by, was drawn by yours truly.

From the 1967-1968 series Giant Robo comes Lygon, a giant Egyptian-style android statue monster built and operated by the intergalactic criminal organization known as Big Fire, or The Gargoyle Gang as they were renamed in The American International Pictures dubbed version, Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot.

Similarly, Lygon was renamed Ligon-Tyrox for said American broadcast. 

Lygon appears in episodes 4 (Monster Ligon-Tyrox, A Strange Monster) and 10 (The Transformed Humans) and is probably my top favorite monster from the whole series as Egyptian-themed monsters are always cool which Japanese fiction seems to have an abundance of while android monsters, giant robots made to look like living breathing beasts as opposed to more obvious machine-based ones and temporary disguises (see Fake Godzilla), are a rare sub-genre that's barley been played around with.

Lygon perfectly captures the fun aspects of both creature motifs / sub-genres in-my-opinion while also being a real bruiser when in combat against the titular Giant Robo despite his virtually thin and tall feline frame.

Plus, the guy fights with an optional drill horn and a gold metal chain! How ridiculously cool is that!?!?

The following set of screenshots were taken from a very old Angelfire (Tripod?) web-site and slightly cleaned up by yours truly, again. Unfortunately, I've long lost the link and cannot give adequate credit to the screen-captures' originator. Apologizes in advance to you, good sir.

RELATED LINK: Lygon's Page on Tokupedia