This year’s hot holiday toy flying off shelves ... For ages 4 and older; $149.99 from Playmates Toys. This close to 2-foot-long remote-control Godzilla walks, stomps and whips its tail.

Surprisingly, toys even helped bring Hideaki Anno's subversive and weird vision of "Shin Godzilla" to life. "Shin Godzilla" is a fascinating experiment in how to reinvent a popular franchise ...