Tower of Terror
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The Curse of The S.E.A. Tower Hotel
Story:or
The Curse of The S.E.A. Tower Hotel
Haley Hightower, Hellen Mystic, Beth Bullion, Jane Chandler, Max Oceaneer, Jeanie Linsey, Allexa Falls, Mandy Ashley Pleasure and Carlos Falco are descendants of Society of Explorers and Adventurers (S.E.A. for short). They build countless projects. The recent project was the S.E.A. Tower Hotel in Legends Park, a town located in a supernatural bamboo forest. This Gothic Revival/Renaissance Revival hotel has gardens, a pool and spa, a five-story tower, an eight-story tower with its many guest rooms and a ballroom, and finally a 14-story tower in which the S.E.A. descendants kept their personal apartments in the penthouse suite. Also, as a further testament to their greatness, Haley Hightower installed many artifacts she had acquired during her globe-spanning expeditions in various places around the hotel.
Just like Harrison Hightower III, Haley was a collector of cultural antiquities. Accompanied by her valet, she traveled to every continent to collect his curiosities, including Asia, Europe, South America and Oceania. Once she found an artifact he wanted, she would use any method available to acquire it except plundering, unlike his ancestor. One day, Haley found herself irresistibly drawn to the unique form of the lofty Hotel Hightower. He found many items here. But he wants to auction them. She holds an auction and sells the artifacts found in the hotel. Max Oceaneer bought a cursed idol Shiriki Utundu to put in the S.E.A. Tower Hotel.
As five people visiting the hotel named Claire Poulet, Gilbert London, Dewey Todd, Sally Shine and Emeline Partridge boarded the elevator, Haley's valet warned them to give proper respect to the idol. Gilbert says the totem was just a normal idol. So did Claire, Dewey, Sally and Emeline.
As the clock struck midnight, all lights in the hotel went out and the party was plunged into darkness. People outside witnessed a dazzling green light bursting out from the rooms at the top of the hotel. From the top floors to the bottom, the benighted hotel was pierced by hundreds of thousands of volts of electricity. The arched windows in front shattered with a loud crash, causing broken glass and other debris to rain down on the onlookers below. Small fires had broken out, and panicked party guests scrambled to escape, with many injured in the rush.
James Hightower rushed to the elevator only to be dismayed to find the elevator shaft comepletely empty. Neither the guests or the elevator are seen again. The only trace of there disappearance is Shiriki Utundu. The idol chuckled to itself and disappars a small field of stars. After their mysterious disappearance the hotel was closed down for weeks until it was reopened. People in Legends Park began calling it the "Tower of Terror".
Manfred Strang heard the idol was moved from New York. Seeing the S.E.A. Tower Hotel in a dilapidated state with green lightning, yet people still visiting the hotel believed the cursed idol was in there now and ordered the hotel to remain closed, but James Hightower was upset and refused as he was giving tours of the hotel. Still, dark rumors persist amongst the people of New York. Some say how they saw the "strange, green lights" on that fateful night, while others recall hearing "terrified screams".
Location:
The attraction takes place in S.E.A. Towers, a Gothic Revival/Renaissance Revival hotel located in 1940's Legends Park, a town located in a supernatural bamboo forest.
The exterior silver, gold and with with orangey-pink around the window. Archways and balconies decorate the lower levels of the hotel. At the top of the tower, spires shoot out from the roof. The arched windows are completely shattered, each revealing elevator door. Black singe marks from the lightning strike cover the front of the tower. Above the ruins and singe, glows a green neon sign reading “The S.E.A. Tower Hotel” with a few crooked letters.
QUE:
To enter the hotel, guests come around the right side of the building. Here they enter a grand lobby with an arched ceiling. Large lights hang down from the roof giving the room an orange glow. To the wall furthest from the door rests a fireplace with a red tapestry hanging overhead sporting “S.E.A. Tower Hotel” on it. Old chairs and sofas, covered in cobwebs and dust, sit in the center of the room around a table with a statue of eagle on top. Tables and chairs sit alongside the left wall next to the windows with newspapers left on them from the night of the lightning strike. Plants fill the room, as well, many of which have withered and died. Columns with arches offer support on both the left and right of the lobby, with a receptionist desk and mail slots on the right. Also to the right of the lobby, a hallway leads down to the library.
Back of the hallway, an empty elevator shaft. The door itself melted.
PRE-SHOW:
Continuing down the hallway, guests find themselves in a small library, filled from floor to ceiling with books. Through the library window, guests can observe a severe thunderstorm raging outside.
With a crash of thunder and lightning, the power suddenly goes out, except for the television set which crackles into life, and depicts the events of a stormy night in the 1940's.
Haley Hightower: Legends Park, 1940's. Amid the glitz and the glitter of a bustling town at the height of its golden age, the S.E.A Tower Hotel was a star in its own right, a beacon for the elite members of the Society of Explorers and Adventurers. Now, something is about to happen that will change all that.
As the video plays, a lightning bolt strikes the tower and causes five people—a celebrity couple, a rising child star, her nanny, and a hotel bellhop—to vanish from the elevator, along with an entire wing of the building. The TV explodes with a Bang! When the smoke clears, it reaveals a shattered hole in the television screen. Haley Hightower's ghost appears in the window through which the approaching thunderstorm o can be observed and speaks to us.
Haley Hightower: The time is now, on an evening very much like the one we have just witnessed. There as you may recognize is an elevator, still in operation, waiting for you. We invite you if you dare to step aboard because this elevator travels directly to the unknown.
Haley's ghostly form vanishes.
Leaving the library, guests head into the boiler room. Dimly lit, the boiler room is wide and full of pipes. The sounds of steam fuming from the pipes and water boiling echo from wall to wall.
RIDE:
(This Tower of Terror uses the same ride system as Disney's Hollywood Studios, DisneySea and Paris. Three shafts each house two elevators – one loads while the other rides.)
Not a service elevator, but an immaculate private lift complete with leather seating. The doors are fine Tiffany glass, depicting SEA's original crest with the fallowing concepts: Adventure (represented as a Galleon), Romance (an Armillary Sphere), Discovery (a Compass), and Innovation (Artist Tools),
Haley Hightower: You are the passengers on a most uncommon elevator about to take the strangest journey of your lives. Your destination, unknown, but this much is clear; a reservation has been made in your name for an extended stay.
And as they close…the elevator reverses into darkness, and the receding doors vanish into a star field.
The elevator ascends swiftly in pure darkness. Up, up, up they go in the dark elevator shaft. The elevator stops and the door opens a few floors up. A mirror stretches across the wall showing the guests in the elevator.
Haley Hightower: Wave goodbye to the real world.
As they do, the lighting of the hotel is replaced with an eerie green glow, which makes the reflections of the guests ghostlike, an effect similar to the California and Paris rides, but absent the lightning strike. The ghostly reflection of the riders disappears and leaves the idol alone in the empty elevator. The idol laughs menacingly at the riders, and suddenly shoots forward at them.
The elevator descends one floor. The doors open revealing a long hallway, dimly light in blues and purples. At the end of the hallway, another elevator.
Haley Hightower: What happened here to dim the lights of Legend Park’s brightest showplace is about to unfold once again.
Out of nowhere, the five ghosts of those Hollywood Hotel residents materialize in the hallway, with the young girl can be heard singing “it’s raining, it’s pouring.” And just as fast as they materialize, with a crack of lightning, they disappear yet again. The lights in the hallway begin to dim and turn pitch black with the other elevator at the end of the hallway. A star field replaces reality. The doors open on the elevator and the five ghosts are shown standing inside. Without warning, their elevator falls down the shaft, and within a second, so does the guests’.
Haley Hightower: One stormy night long ago, five people stepped through the door of an elevator and into a nightmare. That door is opening once again, and this time it’s opening for you.
After a brief moment of freefall, the elevator heads back up again. The doors open once more revealing another hallway. On the right side of the hallway are doors evenly spaced; on the left, windows. Outside, the rain hits the window and lightning flashes. The sound of thunder echoes loudly. A strong gush of wind blows in from behind the guests causing the guests to move down the hallway towards a large arched window. The curtains on the windows begin to blow violently away from the guests. The doors open and slam rapidly. The furniture and lights rattle and shake. Just before the elevator reaches the end of the hallway – BAM! Lightning strikes the tower turning the hallway darker than night. The elevator continues moving forward past where the arched window once was (the window would be projected onto painted doors that open as soon as the hallway turns black). Lightning cracks all along the walls giving brief glimpses of light.
Haley Hightower: You are about to discover what lies beyond the deepest, darkest corner of the imagination… in the Tower of Terror.
The elevator then stops as it enters another shaft. It begins to ascend.
Reaching the top, the elevator doors open showing how high up
the guests are above Legends Park. Seconds after having their picture taken, the elevator descends rapidly down the shaft. Up and down. Up and down. The elevator finally drops back to the ground floor. Backwards it goes as it returns to its original loading position, passing by stacks of possessions that once belonged to the unfortunate residents of the hotel.
Haley Hightower: A warm welcome back to those of you who made it and a friendly word of warning; something you won’t find in any guidebook. The next time you check into a deserted hotel on the dark side of Legends Park, make sure you know just what kind of vacancy you’re filling. Or you may find yourself a permanent resident of … The Tower of Terror
POST-RIDE:
As guests unboard and leave the attraction, they head down a few flights of stairs. After seeing their photograph from the ride, guests enter into a fancy restaurant, rather than a gift shop, and acts as the hotel’s bar.
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