Tower of Terror in Australia

[Timekeeper]

"Riding the fastest, tallest thrill ride in the southern hemisphere, Dreamworld's Tower of Terror, is an experience like no other. Peaking at 38 stories high and stretching the equivalent of three football fields across the park, the Tower of Terror is the world's leading edge thrill ride, achieving unprecedented speeds of up to 100 miles per hour."

Curious yet? Go here:

http://www.ultimaterollercoaster.com/thrillrides/towerterror/

Has anyone else heard of this? (I did a search and found nothing.)

This is *not* an advertisement. I just came across it by accident while surfing the web and was obviously surprised by it's name. It appears to be very similar to Magic Mountain's "Superman the Escape." Why not call it "Tower of Fear" or something else? Seems kinda shady if you ask me.

:brick:

Tk

 

[Mission: SPACE]

Yep... Looks like a Superman-type ride... But I don't know how they are using Tower of Terror... I would have imagined Disney copyrighted that?!? :veryconfu

 

[Coaster Guy]

It's Not a Disney Ride

Their Tower of Terror is not a Disney elevator ride. It is an Intamin shuttle coaster that launches riders down a 900 foot straight piece of track then curves skywards. The trains reach 380 feet, but the tower is 415 feet tall. It is a clone to Superman: the Escape at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California, for those of you who are familiar with that ride. It has nothing to do with broken plummeting elevators! sorry

 

[Timekeeper]

copyright

Originally posted by 1QKLIMO
I would have imagined Disney copyrighted that?!? :veryconfu

You cannot copyright a title. Whether it be for a book, a song, or even a theme park attraction. Universal Studios has "Twister," and if I wanted to build a roller coaster in my own theme park called "Twister," I would be within my legal rights to do so. Whether that's good or bad, it's just not something that's given protection under federal copyright law.

I think that regulation is good - otherwise someone could copyright each word in the dictionary and small combinations of words as "titles" and bar them from use by others. Now whether or not this Tower of Terror ride was named in poor taste is a subjective matter.

(Trademark law bars the use of the visual depiction of words and marks, but not necessarily the words themselves. Now, if Dreamworld used Disney's "HTH" [Hollywood Tower Hotel] emblem from the MGM attraction, they would be in BIG trouble.)

Tk

 

[ToTBellHop]

Trademarked

check here:

http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/wa...ionindex?id=DSTheTwilightZoneTowerOfTerrorAtt

You will note that "The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror" is a trademarked title...they just don't use that full name on the Tower of Terror in Australia, so they are all good.

 

[DarkMeasures]

Tower of Terror in Australia takes place in an abandoned factory where the ride vehicles look like spiked hot-rods.

The ride reached 100 mph before Superman did also.

Another thing is that on the tower on tower of terror, there is a free-fall ride stretching up the 415 feet. It is nothing like Disney's tower of terror though.

The one in australia is like Giant Drop and SFGAm, Hellivator at SFKK, and PitFall at Kennywood.

 

[CrashNet]

hmmm...Sounds kinda like superman at six flags.

 

[Mission: SPACE]

Re: copyright

Originally posted by Timekeeper
You cannot copyright a title. Whether it be for a book, a song, or even a theme park attraction. Universal Studios has "Twister," and if I wanted to build a roller coaster in my own theme park called "Twister," I would be within my legal rights to do so. Whether that's good or bad, it's just not something that's given protection under federal copyright law.

I think that regulation is good - otherwise someone could copyright each word in the dictionary and small combinations of words as "titles" and bar them from use by others. Now whether or not this Tower of Terror ride was named in poor taste is a subjective matter.

(Trademark law bars the use of the visual depiction of words and marks, but not necessarily the words themselves. Now, if Dreamworld used Disney's "HTH" [Hollywood Tower Hotel] emblem from the MGM attraction, they would be in BIG trouble.)

Tk

Makes sense... Thanks

 

[darthdarrel]

Cedar points Top thrill dragster is taller and faster.

 

[Mission: SPACE]

Originally posted by darthdarrel
Cedar points Top thrill dragster is taller and faster.

Yeah, and this ride really made me realize how well Disney's forced perspective really works... To me, Tower of Terror looked just as tall as TTD... Would have like to have gone on it... too bad they were having so many problems with it when I was up there...

 

[Thrawn]

You cannot copyright a title. Whether it be for a book, a song, or even a theme park attraction. Universal Studios has "Twister," and if I wanted to build a roller coaster in my own theme park called "Twister," I would be within my legal rights to do so. Whether that's good or bad, it's just not something that's given protection under federal copyright law.

I think that regulation is good - otherwise someone could copyright each word in the dictionary and small combinations of words as "titles" and bar them from use by others. Now whether or not this Tower of Terror ride was named in poor taste is a subjective matter.

(Trademark law bars the use of the visual depiction of words and marks, but not necessarily the words themselves. Now, if Dreamworld used Disney's "HTH" [Hollywood Tower Hotel] emblem from the MGM attraction, they would be in BIG trouble.)

Tk

Well, you can technically copyright a title. Say, for instance "War of the Worlds". However, lawsuits are tough to win, AND not to mention the park isn't in the US and thus federal copyright law wouldn't be applicable.

 

[FigmentJedi]

Can I still quote a classic Far Side comic?
"And so the islanders sent their fiercest lawyers who started chanting "Sue Him! Sue Him!" "