Apple's promotional drone display for "Monarch: Legacy of Monsters" has set a new world record, by creating life-size replicas of monsters from the Apple TV show in the air.
The Apple TV epic Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is all about larger-than-life titans roaming the Earth and causing carnage. In its promotion for the second season of the show, Apple TV commissioned a giant drone display from Heads in the Sky to match that scale.
Shown in a brief recap video on YouTube, Apple TV and Legendary's drone display took to the skies of Los Angeles on February 20. The display used a fleet of drones to create dot-based models of Godzilla, King Kong, and Titan X that will feature in the second season.
The display lasted 12 minutes and used 3,000 drones to create the visual effects. The drones occupied a space approximately the size of three football fields over the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, with some flying as high as 500 feet.
For reference, Godzilla measures between 355 feet and 393 feet tall as part of Legendary's "Monsterverse" era.
As part of the promotion, the display also managed to snag a world record for the tallest aerial display of a fictional character formed by drones. Previously, the record was held by Marvel, creating a giant Wolverine at San Diego Comic-Con in July 2024.
The second season of Monarch kicks off on February 27, with weekly releases running through May 1 on Apple TV. Resuming with a weakened Monarch, the show returns to Skull Island and uncovers more of the organization's history, as well as introducing the new Titan X monster.
