‘Monarch: Legacy of Monsters’ Godzilla Drone Show Sets Guinness World Record in Los Angeles [Watch]

The city might be fine, but world records were destroyed.

Last night, in the heart of Hollywood, Apple TV celebrated the highly anticipated second season of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters with a record-breaking aerial display that filled the sky with the biggest monsters from Legendary’s Monsterverse. 

“Godzilla, Kong, and the new Titan X were ready for their close-up as they took over Los Angeles in the Guinness World Record’s tallest aerial display of a fictional character formed by drones, hypes a press release, and, series stars Kurt Russell, Wyatt Russell, Anders Holm, Mari Yamamoto, and Joe Tippett were on-hand to watch the Titans face off.

“Set to a score developed by the show’s composer, Leopold Ross, the 12-minute three dimensional drone show included 3,000 drones that flew nearly 500 feet in the sky (taller than the Statue of Liberty!) with a square footage of 1000’ x 1000’, or the size of three football fields, was stationed over the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, but due to it’s monstrous size it was viewable from three miles away at any direction. 

“While drone shows often appear as a sky spectacle, this 12-minute production plays with the Hollywood landscape to situate Godzilla, Kong, and the newly introduced Titan X amidst the landscape to feel like they’ve truly taken over the city. The show also integrates pyrodrones in the air and on the ground, acting as visual effects for key moments like Godzilla blowing his atomic breath. The activation was created with creative agency, Heads in the Sky.

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Based on the Monsterverse from Legendary, this dramatic saga — spanning three generations — reveals buried secrets and the ways that epic, earth-shattering events can reverberate through our lives.

Season one of “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters” tracks two siblings looking to uncover their family’s connection to the secretive organization known as Monarch. Clues lead them into the world of monsters and ultimately down the rabbit hole to Army officer Lee Shaw (played by  and ), taking place in the 1950s and half a century later where Monarch is threatened by what Shaw knows.