Engineers are able to reprogram new drop sequences in the ride due to the advanced technology it employs. Riders are currently launched to the top of the tower at breathtaking speed, then dropped faster-than-free-fall to the bottom again and again. Ride engineers tested 33 versions of the Tower of Terror before coming up with what they felt was the best and most thrilling attraction.
Imagineers watched each episode of the original Twilight Zone series at least twice before developing this ride. Many of the items in the queue and other areas of the attraction are from actual episodes of the original Twilight Zone series, such as the poster for the Anthony Freemont Orchestra in the queue, and the small metal robot on a ledge in the library.
On December 31, , the Tower of Terror debuted a new drop sequence. This was the fourth show enhancement and placed the computers in control of the ride making each sequence unique and random. The Tower of Terror was constructed with 1, tons of steel, , cubic feet of concrete, and 27, roof tiles.
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Not only is the ride inspired by popular and classic hit series The Twilight Zone, which first debuted in , but there is, in typical Disney fashion, an overall story to the attraction. The storyline is as follows via Disney Parks Blog :. A party of five entered the elevator — a couple, a bellman, a child actress and her governess — and with one crack of lightning, each of them vanished.
More and more drops have been added to the attraction over the years. There is also a pre-show narrated by Rod Serling from the original Twilight Zone series that sets the whole tone before guests enter a queue in the boiler room and board an abandoned elevator shaft for a thrilling ride.
Tower of Terror has numerous vertical drops that go up and down. Each ride vehicle, or elevator, has a total of 21 seats that can fit seven guests per row. There is also an aisle that separates four guests on the left and three guests on the right. Its popularity even spawned a TV film Tower of Terror , becoming the first theme park ride to have a film adaptation.
In the attraction's premise, inspired by themes of the television series, guests visit the legendary Hollywood Tower Hotel. Once a lively resort for the Hollywood elite, it closed after a disastrous accident where lightning had struck the building, causing several wings of the hotel to vanish and kill five people in an elevator that plummeted on October 31st, The hotel, now dilapidated and haunted, has mysteriously "reopened" having guests experience the events of that fateful night aboard one of the basement freight elevators as they go on a bizarre, frightening journey through the Twilight Zone.
The hotel's exterior features a big, blackened scorch mark across the front of the facade where lightning had struck that eerily glows purple at night.
Elevator doors leading to the missing floors of the building are exposed, opening and closing upon the arrival of screaming riders.
All of the cast members wear a costume that resembles a 's bellhop. At over one thousand US dollars per uniform, it is the most expensive costume in the entire chain. At feet, it is the second tallest attraction at the Walt Disney World Resort, shorter only than Expedition Everest 's From to , the Tower of Terror was third tallest, as the wand decorating Spaceship Earth temporarily added 41 feet to that foot tall attraction.
The Tower of Terror is feet high at Walt Disney World because of FAA regulations that require a fixed red light beacon to be added to the top of any foot or taller building. Imagineers thought that the beacon would take away from the hotel's theme, but still wanted to make the tower as tall as possible.
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