An iconic West Hollywood restaurant has been taken over by a massive “slime monster” as part of the promotion for the upcoming animated movie “Minions and Monsters” from Illumination.
Drivers heading down Sunset Boulevard will get more than an eyeful as they pass the 50-year-old Carney’s Train to see the whole place has been taken over by the creature named Irene.
The 80ft creation almost completely covers it and is filled with tons of little yellow Minion characters along with 14 animatronic eyeballs that move around and watch you, bringing the creature to life, according to an Instagram message from the fabricating team over at Monster City Studios.
There’s even a little green alien guy on top of the monster, named Goomi, who the studio said is there “directing the monster.”
And if you look long and hard, you will be able to find all 18 minions hiding inside and on top of the slime monster.
The fabrication crew who created it said they happily answered the question, “Can you make an 80 foot long, 14 feet tall slime monster on top of an 80 foot long train?”
“Of course we can,” answered one of the creators from the studio in the behind-the-scenes clip.
The studio said it was a “pretty big build” for them and heavy one too, so they had to create a structure above the train in order to not damage the 80-year-old train.
“It took a massive truss structure that we had to build over top of the train because it couldn’t set on the train,” one fabricator explained, in the clip building it.
The giant slime monster on top of the restaurant is expected to be up for the next month, so they are encouraging people to come by and see it, take pics with it and send it in to the studio
It’s all in part of a massive promotion for the highly anticipated “Minions” movie, marking the 7th film in the “Despicable Me” franchise, following the initial film’s release in 2010 featuring the Gru and his crazy little sidekicks.
The trailer for the new film came out in May generated tons of excitement with hundreds of thousands of views on X since.
Fans can expect the classic, rowdy Minions — this time, the story reveals how the Minions conquered Hollywood, became movie stars, and unleashed monsters into the world.
The movie “Minions and Monsters” is due out July 1st and should be another summer hit for the studio.
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