‘City-smashing’ installation appears in London – featuring two beasts in film

Godzilla’s bristling pink spikes, brimming with atomic power, were seen poking up from the river Thames next to Kong's giant hand, crushing an iconic London red phone box on Southbank.

The giant titan’s spine stretches an impressive 65 feet, the length of a tennis court. Kong's hand is a mammoth 16 feet tall, with a head seven metres in diameter – 45 times that of a human.

A team of 40 worked around the clock to create the two sculptures, spending a colossal 6,326 hours over two months, and it took 51 days just to paint the two giant beasts, which collectively weigh more than a tonne.

A beastly collaboration

The city-smashing installation was created to launch Warner Bros. Pictures’ new movie Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, released on Friday 29th March.

The sculptures were fabricated from 3D references from the filmmakers, built in a combination of poly, fibreglass and steel framework, as well as interactive lighting.

Godzilla contains over 70 individual pulsing pink lights to achieve the atomic effect, a spectacular addition in the new film, which sees him team up with Kong as a greater threat to earth materialises.