Legendary arrived at San Diego Comic-Con in a big, bad way, presenting a killer booth experience that includes Pacific Rim: Jaeger Pilot -- a new virtual reality attraction that incorporates Oculus Rift to put the user inside the Gypsy Danger Conn-Pod -- and a gallery display featuring props from Guillermo del Toro's upcoming horror film, Crimson Peak.

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Behold... the Legendary booth (#3920).

Guillermo del Toro alongside the movie's skull logo.

A sampling of the Crimson Peak props.

The moth (left) and the butterfly (right).

Butterfly/moth gallery, designed by Del Toro.

On Wednesday, IGN got a chance step into the fully-realized Jaeger combat simulator and experience what it feels like to pilot a 250-story robot. Fans lucky enough to test the demo will immediately recognize the setting, which recreates the movie's opening scene featuring pilot brothers Raleigh and Yancy.Created with original film assets from ILM and developed within Unreal Engine 4, Pacific Rim: Jaeger Pilot provides a thrilling first-person battle between Gipsy Danger and the kaiju codenamed "Knifehead." Needless to say Del Toro's vision for kaijus vs. robots has never felt so real as it does in Oculus Rift. After the climactic battle has ended, the simulation goes black and flashes a UI header: "Enrollment begins in 2017."Later, we got a preview tour of Legendary's Crimson Peak Gothic Gallery, a physical experience handcrafted by Del Toro himself. Here, the filmmaker was on hand to give us a personal look behind the curtain of his forthcoming film, and an early tease of his ultimate haunted house. "This is a theatrical display that I put together and designed myself," Del Toro explained to us. "I curated it, organized it, made up the objects -- the whole thing -- to give you a taste of the atmosphere of the movie and of the house... The real set was three stories high, a full construction of a gothic manor."He continued, "This is organized like the beginning, middle and end of the story. If people toured the attraction, they can try to put together the love story, the travel to England, what happened -- how is that knife put to good use. [Laughs] How is that knife put to good use. It's also a good sampler of the very carefully orchestrated color coordination of the movie. "I wanted you to see the level of detail on the props, the craftsmanship on the dresses," he added, referencing the two dresses worn by characters Lucille Sharpe (Jessica Chastain) and Edith Cushing (Mia Wasikowska). "We hunted for real Victorian fabric... We pleated the fabric by hand, to give it a fairytale aspect. The shoulders are meant to echo a butterfly."Gesturing to other aspects of the room, Del Toro continued, "The movie has a 'butterfly vs. moth' theme, and you can see it also in the wallpaper. You have the butterfly here and the moth in negative form. The butterfly has the word 'fear' in it." In addition to arranging the gallery's mise en scène, Del Toro helped score the inside booth's ambiance. "The atmosphere [music] I mixed two weeks ago," he said. "I was at Skywalker Sound with Randy Thom. We curated the atmosphere. I wanted to try to have a really good, low-base frequency at the bottom, to avoid most of the booths leaking in. So we've been able to create its own atmosphere here."Crimson Peak hits theaters on October 16, 2015.

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