Rodan in Pacific Rim?

Definitely similar! But I think Rodan was a bit bigger. ;) Still a very cool Kaiju to see, I wonder what this one's name will be! Also, that's an awesome GIF, so cool.

I highly doubt that it is actually Rodan. I think it is a creature that resembles Rodan quite a bit. Pretty sure Toho, or whomever holds Rodan's rights wouldn't let del Torro use him in a movie, especially with the new Godzilla movie due in 2014. Because if the new Godzilla hits it big, then we will probably see a new run on the Japanese Kaiju movies, and Rodan would be a prime choice to have a big time solo movie.

A lot of the Kaiju are probably going to look familiar to long time monster fans anyway. Del Torro did say the movie is a way to celebrate all those old monster films. Hell...the beast that crawls up the Kaiju wall and gets batted in the head at the end? It looks a lot like the Cloverfield monster.

I'm more interested in how the hell Gypsy Danger (I refuse to spell it with an 'I') survives that long fall from near orbit....

@Great Cthulu I think Rodan caught him and then slammed him into that building.

But I think 'Rodan' got beheaded by Gypsy Danger's arm blade which is why he was let go to fall all that way?

Perhaps.

Looking at several pictures and watching the trailer a few times I think that isn't rodan it looks like it has a long tail and tow horn things on its head but it does fly.