The Imagineering team settled on a 1930s-era Hollywood hotel with a Twilight Zone theme, but a new ride system had to be built, which would allow both more capacity inside the ride and make the drop fast. With the project in firm development, Disney licensed the rights to use the Twilight Zone intellectual property from CBS. Imagineers mused that the attraction would be able to take guests into the Fifth Dimension that Serling always described as unlocking in every episode of the series. Walt Disney Imagineering eventually took inspiration from Rod Serling's anthology stories featured in The Twilight Zone, as a foundation for the attraction's original story.
#TWILIGHT ZONE TOWER OF TERROR MOVIE#
There had been several proposed ideas for haunted attractions, including a ride based on Stephen King's novels, a Vincent Price ghost tour, a Mel Brooks-narrated ride, a real hotel, an awards show honoring classic movie monsters starring Godzilla hosted by Eddie Murphy and Elvira, and a whodunit murder mystery, but none progressed into development. Still needing a major " E-ticket" attraction, the idea of a drop-shaft ride came up and was chosen. Several attractions had already been proposed, including " Dick Tracy's Crimestoppers", which would be later made into Indiana Jones Adventure at Disneyland. The plan was scrapped, but was picked up by Disney's Hollywood Studios (then named Disney-MGM Studios) as part of a massive expansion to their U.S. It would have been part roller coaster and part free-fall ride that shot guests up a vertical shaft. Included was a free-fall type ride in Frontierland that was to be named Geyser Mountain.
In the late 1980s, a second phase of development was being designed for Disneyland Paris (then known as Euro Disney). The original Tower of Terror at Disney's Hollywood Studios
At Disneyland Paris, it is the second tallest attraction. After its retheme, the 199-foot (60.7 m) structure at the Disneyland Resort is still the tallest building on the property, as well as one of the tallest buildings in Anaheim. At 199 feet (60.7 m), the Florida version is the second tallest attraction at the Walt Disney World Resort, with only Expedition Everest at Disney's Animal Kingdom being taller by 0.5 feet (0.2 m). The Tower of Terror buildings are among the tallest structures found at their respective Disney resorts. The California version closed in January 2017 and was replaced by Guardians of the Galaxy – Mission: Breakout!, which was later incorporated into Avengers Campus in 2021. The California and Tokyo versions of Tower of Terror opened in 20, respectively, while financial problems delayed the opening of the Paris version until 2007. In California and Paris, Disney sought to use the popular attraction to boost attendance at the respective resorts' struggling new theme parks. A decade later, Disney began plans to add similar versions of the attraction to their newest parks at the Disneyland Resort in California, Tokyo Disney Resort in Japan, and Disneyland Paris. The original version of the attraction opened at Disney's Hollywood Studios, then named Disney-MGM Studios, at Walt Disney World in July 1994. All versions of the attraction place riders in a seemingly ordinary hotel elevator, and present a fictional backstory in which people have mysteriously disappeared from the elevator under the influence of a supernatural element many years previously.
The Tokyo version features an original storyline not related to The Twilight Zone and takes place in the fictional Hotel Hightower. The attraction is inspired by Rod Serling's anthology television series, The Twilight Zone, and takes place in the fictional Hollywood Tower Hotel in Hollywood, California.
#TWILIGHT ZONE TOWER OF TERROR SERIES#
The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, or simply Tower of Terror, is a series of similar accelerated drop tower dark rides located at Disney's Hollywood Studios, Tokyo DisneySea, Walt Disney Studios Park, and formerly located at Disney California Adventure. Guardians of the Galaxy – Mission: Breakout!
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