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Mysterious Giant Cockroach Spotted near Toronto’s Waterfront!

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Hint: It’s a popup promotion that opens April 12 for a new Prime Video series

A mysterious shipping container being attacked by a giant cockroach has been spotted in Toronto with a larger-than-life installation that will stop the city in its tracks! Fall into the future and enter the world of Fallout to find out more.

To celebrate the premiere of the highly anticipated new series Fallout, Prime Video is creating a bold and immersive pop-up on 18 York Street that will be open to the Toronto public on April 12 from 12:00-8:00 PM. For this experiential stunt, Prime Video pulled creative insights directly from the Fallout series, showcasing a massive 10-ft “Radroach” bug overtaking a large shipping container with branded elements signature to the world of Fallout.

The shocking design and immense scale of the roach is unlike anything the city of Toronto has experienced and will surprise and engage curious locals to venture further inside the container where guests will be given a one-of-a-kind photo opportunity to immerse themselves in a Toronto wasteland. Special-edition Fallout posters will be gifted to visitors on a first come, first serve basis.

Fallout is a new binge-worthy live-action series launching on Prime Video

The live-action series is set in a future post-apocalyptic Los Angeles, presenting a distressed landscape to introduce viewers to the world of Fallout. The series is an original story based on the best-selling video game franchise of the same name, but it’s not just a must-watch for fans – this is a binge-worthy story for newcomers too.

Radroaches

The premise follows the inhabitants of luxury fallout shelters, who emerge two-hundred years after the apocalypse and are left to navigate the horrific aftermath. The wasteland landscape they are faced with is an eradicated, violent world, crawling with Radroaches and other unsavoury challenges.

Based on one of the greatest video game series of all time, Fallout is the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have. Two-hundred years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind—and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird, and highly violent universe waiting for them.

Ella Purnell is Lucy, an optimistic Vault-dweller with an all-American can-do spirit. Her peaceful and idealistic nature is tested when she is forced to the surface to rescue her father. Aaron Moten is Maximus, a young soldier who rises to the rank of squire in the militaristic faction called Brotherhood of Steel. He will do anything to further the Brotherhood’s goals of bringing law and order to the wasteland. Walton Goggins is the Ghoul, a morally ambiguous bounty hunter who holds within him a 200-year history of the post-nuclear world. These disparate parties collide when chasing an artifact from an enigmatic researcher that has the potential to radically change the power dynamic in this world.

Fallout premieres on Prime Video April 11

About the installation in Toronto

The installation is heavily inspired by iconic imagery from the video game and encourages both fans and passersby alike to immerse themselves in the Fallout world. The one-day pop-up invites visitors to experience a wasteland in the middle Toronto’s bustling Maple Leaf Square.

What: Prime Video’s Fallout Pop-Up

When: April 12 – 12:00 pm – 8:00pm ET

Where: 18 York Street at the corner of York Street and Bremner Street.

Admission: FREE!