A promotion for what must be the umpty-jillionth film appearance of Godzilla has a sliced up TTC car — one of the old Bombardier numbers — poking up out of the street (or seeming to) on Yonge St. near Elm St. The movie opens the middle of this month so there’s no time to lose. Run for your life! That’s the way it’s been with Godzilla, a product of the fertile minds of Japanese monster-makers in the post-war world of movie escapism. This TTC subway car comes with some nice accessories — like old mattresses and what not to keep the car in place No seriously, it was apparently torched into two pieces on an angle at some factory in Hamilton to create the effect of “the tube train from down there.” Lots of fun. Gareth Edwards, the director of Godzilla, and some of the cast will be appearing at the disaster scene Thursday night ahead of the movie’s premier at the Yonge-Dundas IMAX. Destruction enthusiasts will be allowed to pose with the wreckage until Sunday, when the whole thing will be dismantled. Warner Bros. is also producing a short film about the promotion. Wikipedia notes on Godzilla are fun too.
