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Now here's info about Sanda's trivia:
 * The ambitious first draft of Destroy All Monsters included both Sanda and Gaira, along with just about every monster Toho had a suit for. A later draft gave Sanda a cameo as a Monsterland resident, although the Kilaaks left him out of their invasion plans.
 * During the long hiatus between Terror of Mechagodzilla and The Return of Godzilla, Toho and UPA considered making a film in which the Godzilla fought a Gargantua.[9]  This may have been one of the concepts they considered after Toho announced a new Godzilla film in 1978, under the vague title US-Japan Collaboration: Godzilla. Whether this would have been Sanda, Gaira, or a new monster is unknown. At some point, UPA owner Henry G. Saperstein also planned to produce a sequel to The War of the Gargantuas where Godzilla would battle a cyborg version of one of the monsters.
 * The Sanda Plain is an area on Godzilla Island in the show of the same name.
 * Sanda's first appearance in Godzilla: Rulers of Earth, as he runs away from a helicopter, is an homage to the iconic pose struck by the Bigfoot in the Patterson–Gimlin film. Like his brother, Sanda does not appear in the cave painting on Infant Island showing ancient monsters aligned with the four elements.