The film's first teaser trailer began appearing in theater a full year before the film was released. The trailer contained a shot of Godzilla's foot coming through the roof of a museum and crushing a T-Rex skeleton. This scene was cut from the final version of the movie. It cost $600,000.

In the scene where Colonel Hicks says “Let me spell it out for you, I want you to blow up Madison Square Garden”

This what he was going to say “No I’m not drunk, I want you to blow up Madison square garden”