Rise of the Beasts gets giant touring statues, character posters

Paramount has unveiled statues, character posters and a new app to celebrate the release of Transformers: Rise of the Beasts.

Ahead of the June release of Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, Outstanding debuted at SXSW with giant statues of key characters, in addition to fresh character posters and an AR app that allows fans to get more content.

The Rise of the Beasts Statues on display included Optimus Prime (just under 20 feet tall) and Optimus Primal (just over 13 feet), in addition to the Auto Mirage, a Porsche 911 Carrera RS 3.8 voiced by Pete Davidson. You can see them below, with stars Tobe Nwigwe, Dominique Fishback and Anthony Ramos, and producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura and director Steven Caple Jr. for the scale.

The statues can be seen in the following cities until June release Transformers: Rise of the Beasts: its current location, the SXSW Festival in Austin (March 10-17); Las Vegas CinemaCon (April 24-May 12); Chicago’s Navy Pier (May 16-26); and Times Square in New York City (June 2-8). Around the world, the statues will be installed on March 15 in Brazil, March 16 in Singapore and sometime in early August in Japan.

The touring Rise of the Beasts Statues also have a companion augmented reality app that fans can use to scan the statue to unlock exclusive posters, bonus videos, social stickers, and stats about the statues. For those who can’t make it to any of the above cities, don’t worry – you can scan pretty much any object and it will unlock the features. For example, the alt version of my pug is obviously a semi, just like Optimus Prime. You can check out the new posters below:

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts attempts to revive the franchise, which hasn’t seen a new entry since 2018 bumblebee. It is also the first entry since 2017 The Last Knight to have that transformers designation in the title.

The plot according to Paramount: “Returning to the action and spectacle that has captivated moviegoers around the world, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts will take audiences on a ’90s globetrotting adventure with the Autobots, introducing a whole new faction of Transformers – the Maximals – to the existing fight on Earth between the Autobots and Decepticons.”

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts rolls into cinemas June 9th.

Will you try to catch them Rise of the Beasts statues? Will you see the film in the cinema? Let us know!