Very Interesting ToT Secrets, Answers Many Questions!

Captain Hank

Captain Hank

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I recall hearing that the end scene used to be quite different and more coherent, but test audiences were still screaming from the drops that the scene was lost on most Guests. So, they went with a generic recap of the ride without much dialog.
 
Rob562

Rob562

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Anyone who doesn't think that the *video* part of the pre-show video is Rod Serling, watch the first 60 seconds of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6IAP2ED-8A
(Not that I'm endorsing the posting of the video on YouTube, it's clearly a violation of copyright, but it's convenient to prove the point)

As for the finale video, in the original plans for the attraction the cars sat at the bottom of the drop shaft and saw another video before backing out of it. This is what was being referred to where the look/sound-alike guy appeared. But before it officially opened, this portion was edited down to just the few moments you see now.

-Rob
 
FreshDood

FreshDood

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mickey mouse doll

I read somewhere that the Mickey Mouse doll, Lindsay Ridgeway is holding in the video, actually belonged to an imagineer's daughter who was there for the filming of the video. The Mickey Mouse was not planned to be in the video but was added at the last minute.
 
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DisnFanatic10

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The tower actually got struck by lightning during Construction? That is awsome, isn't the storyline about the hotel geting struck by lightning? Kind of freaky :)
 
MagliteL13

MagliteL13

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While I realize this is getting to be a couple years old now, it was recently bumped and I figured I'd post.

I was up in Room 259 (the drop shaft motor room) the other day during operation. I've been up there several times before, but it still amazes me watching both motors run. It's just friggin amazing and soooooo powerful. Here are these 35ft long motors that look big and clunky operating to precision under an inch. I wish I was able to just record what it sounds like up there.

Jeremy
Bellhop at The Hollywood Tower Hotel
 
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Disneylander07

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<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]Reaching 183 feet, the Tower of Terror is the tallest attraction in the Disneyland Resort. Although the building is officially 183 feet tall, it also extends 40 underground.
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]Architectural style of the Hollywood Tower Hotel: Pueblo Deco
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]Number of elevator shafts: 3
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]Number of elevator ride vehicles: six
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]Number of guests per elevator: 21
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]Number of Floors:
According to official city permits: 11
According to [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Twilight Zone [/FONT][FONT=&quot]records: 13
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]The legendary Hollywood Tower Hotel:
Date hotel originally opened: 1928
Date the hotel originally closed: October 31, 1939
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]The ride system is not actually an elevator - but rather a "vertical vehicle conveyance." <o></o>[/FONT]

[/FONT] <!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]The ride system is not actually an elevator - but rather a "vertical vehicle conveyance." <o></o>[/FONT][FONT=&quot]

Props located throughout the hotel recall specific episodes of [/FONT][FONT=&quot]The Twilight Zone [/FONT][FONT=&quot]television series. These are not actual props used in the television series but faithfully reproduced replicas.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]In the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Holding Area [/FONT][FONT=&quot]just outside the Library, there are two glass fronted display cases containing:[/FONT]
<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]A Gold Thimble - [/FONT][FONT=&quot]"The After Hours" [/FONT][FONT=&quot]- starring Anne Francis as a woman who has forgotten that she is not actually a human being but a department store mannequin. [/FONT]
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·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]A Broken Stopwatch - [/FONT][FONT=&quot]"A Kind of a Stopwatch" [/FONT][FONT=&quot]- a watch that could actually stop time. <o></o>[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Library [/FONT][FONT=&quot]contains the richest cache of [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Twilight Zone [/FONT][FONT=&quot]referenced props. They are as follows:[/FONT]
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·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]A Pair of Broken Spectacles - [/FONT][FONT=&quot]"Time Enough at Last" - [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Burgess Meredith is Henry Bemis, a near-sighted bookworm and the sole survivor of a devastating war.
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]Two White Envelopes containing 1/4" audiotape, labeled "Victoria West" and "Rod Serling" - "[/FONT][FONT=&quot]A World of His Own[/FONT][FONT=&quot]" - Writer, Gregory West (Keenan Wynn), uses his dictation machine to bring his creations to life.
<o></o>[/FONT]
<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]A Trumpet - [/FONT][FONT=&quot]"Passage for Trumpet" [/FONT][FONT=&quot]- Jack Klugman is Joey Crown, a trumpet player contemplating suicide, who is saved by another trumpet player, Gabriel.
<o></o>[/FONT]
<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]Miniature Spaceman - [/FONT][FONT=&quot]"The Invaders"- [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Agnes Moorhead is a woman beset by tiny creatures that turn out to be the crew of a spaceship from Earth.
<o></o>[/FONT]
<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]The Mystic Seer - [/FONT][FONT=&quot]"Nick of Time"- [/FONT][FONT=&quot]In a roadside diner, a fortune telling machine torments Don (William Shatner) and Pat Carter (Patricia Breslin).
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]Book titles - episode titles from the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Twilight Zone [/FONT][FONT=&quot]series appear on the bindings of a matched set of volumes.[/FONT]

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[FONT=&quot]The Boiler Room[/FONT][FONT=&quot] contains a notepad with the cryptic rhyme:[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]"It's easy enough to be pleasant,
When life hums a long like a song.
But the man worth while,
Is the man who can smile,
When everything goes dead wrong."

[/FONT] [FONT=&quot]"[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Modern Wonders[/FONT][FONT=&quot]" store front along the exit corridor (image capture display area):

[/FONT] <!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]Toy Telephone - [/FONT][FONT=&quot]"Long Distance Call" [/FONT][FONT=&quot]- Five-year-old Billy Bayles (Billy Mumy) uses his toy telephone to talk to his dead grandmother.
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]Box Camera - [/FONT][FONT=&quot]"A Most Unusual Camera" [/FONT][FONT=&quot]- A camera photographs the future.
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]Typewriter - [/FONT][FONT=&quot]"A Thing About Machines"- [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Bartlett Finchley (Richard Haydn) hates machines and the feeling is mutual. His typewriter spells out "Get out of here, Finchley" all by itself.
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]Electric Razor -[/FONT][FONT=&quot]"A Thing About Machines[/FONT][FONT=&quot]"- Barlett Finchley's razor rises up like a snake and pursues him.
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]Antique Radio - [/FONT][FONT=&quot]"Static"- [/FONT][FONT=&quot]An old radio tunes in programs from the past. <o></o>[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Other [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Twilight Zone [/FONT][FONT=&quot]References:[/FONT]
<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]Anthony Fremont Orchestra poster (Image Capture Area) - [/FONT][FONT=&quot]"It's a Good Life"- [/FONT][FONT=&quot]This is an oblique reference to the character of Anthony Freemont (Billy Mumy), a five year old boy who terrorized the town of Peaksville, Ohio, with the power of his mind. Anthony liked music, but did not like singing. Singers were sent to "the cornfield."
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]Willoughby Travel (Shop name, Image Capture Area) - [/FONT][FONT=&quot]"A Stop At Willoughby"- [/FONT][FONT=&quot]A harried commuter finds comfort in the small town of Willoughby.
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]"Picture if You Will" (Purchasing counter for Image Capture Photos) - One of Rod Serling's famous catch phrases, from his opening narration.
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]Chalk Marks on the Wall (Boiler Room) - [/FONT][FONT=&quot]"Little Girl Lost" [/FONT][FONT=&quot]- This design indicates a doorway into another dimension.
<o></o>[/FONT]
<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]"Cadwallader" (Signature on Elevator Inspection Certificate, Ride Vehicle) - [/FONT][FONT=&quot]"Escape Clause" [/FONT][FONT=&quot]- Walter Bedeker (David Wayne) makes a deal with the devil, who calls himself Mr. Cadwallader (Thomas Gomez). <o></o>[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]General Facts:[/FONT]
<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]The attraction features three of the largest motors ever build for such a conveyance. They are three times larger than the largest high-speed elevator motors and faster than the fastest high-speed elevator in the world.
<o></o>[/FONT]
<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror[/FONT][FONT=&quot]™ [/FONT][FONT=&quot]at Disney's California Adventure Park is based on the popular Disney attraction at the Disney/MGM Studios in Florida, which opened in July 1994.
[/FONT][FONT=&quot]<o></o>[/FONT]
<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]The Twilight Zone[/FONT][FONT=&quot]® [/FONT][FONT=&quot]originally ran for five years on CBS, from 1959 to 1964. Rod Serling, its creator and host, a six-time Emmy winner, wrote 92 of the original 156 episodes. He died in 1975.
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]In the course of their tour of The Hollywood Tower Hotel, guests are led through the lobby, past the ruined elevator doors and into a Library. There they view the opening moments of an episode of [/FONT][FONT=&quot]The Twilight Zone[/FONT][FONT=&quot]®[/FONT][FONT=&quot]. This "lost episode", featuring a special appearance by Rod Serling, was never broadcast. It tells a story unique to the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Twilight Zone Tower of Terror[/FONT][FONT=&quot]™ [/FONT][FONT=&quot]and was created for the attraction.
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]The episode from which Rod Serling's appearance was taken is "It's A Good Life", written by Rod Serling.
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]Throughout the attraction, as an homage to the classic television series, there are props and design elements that recall specific episodes.
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]The area music features jazz and popular tunes from the 1930's, such as "I Can't Get Started With You" by Bunny Berigan, "We'll Meet Again" by Vera Lynn, and "Mood Indigo" by Duke Ellington, which were all chosen for a certain timeless, haunting quality. The music was then sonically treated to suggest it was being performed in a distant ballroom, long ago. <o></o>[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]The Hollywood Tower Hotel, a long abandoned luxury hotel, closed under mysterious circumstances, has opened its doors once again, offering tours of its historic, glamorous facilities. Signs of decay and neglect are evident immediately. The grounds are overgrown, the building aged and untended, though still magnificent. In the upper façade of the hotel, the tower, the structure of the building has been broken away, allowing a view of the elevator shafts. As guests approach the building, screams can be heard from high above, as elevator doors open, allowing the passengers within a brief view outside. The doors close as the elevator plummets. Continuing on, the guests follow the path of either the Stand-By Queue of the Fastpass Return. As they make their way through the grounds, and into the lobby, haunting music can be heard - echoing from some distant ballroom long ago.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]THE LOBBY: The splendor suggested in the building exterior continues in the Lobby but an uncomfortable air of mystery deepens. The Lobby is a still life, a picture frozen in time with luggage, coats, hats and personal effects still in place - abandoned by their owners the night the hotel closed in 1939. A sign near the passenger elevators in the Lobby reads: "Out of Order." This is an obvious understatement - the doors are bent and broken. The adjacent walls are cracked. In the Lobby, a member of the hotel staff welcomes the guests and guides them past the front desk to the foyer of the library. Hotel staff personnel are a curious lot, perhaps a bit overly polite and seemingly from another era. Do they really think we are registering for rooms? They often ask about our luggage and sometimes seem to recognize a celebrity in the crowd. When the doors to the Library open, the Hotel guide directs the guests to step inside, but remains in the Lobby to greet the next group of guests.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]THE LIBRARY: Each library is richly detailed with bound volumes, sculpture, art and artifacts collected by the well-traveled owner of the hotel. Among the items on the shelves are props that recall specific episodes of the television series. A flash of lightning darkens the room, the television springs to life with the opening moments of a [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Twilight Zone [/FONT][FONT=&quot]episode. The episode concerns the Hollywood Tower Hotel and the night the elevator vanished during a lightning storm, taking five passengers and a portion of the hotel along with it. Rod Serling then invites his viewers to step aboard a service elevator, still in operation, for an unforgettable journey into the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Twilight Zone[/FONT][FONT=&quot]. At the conclusion of this video segment, the lights return and a hidden door slides opens to reveal a passage to the Boiler Room.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]THE BOILER ROOM: The Boiler Room is two stories tall, with three load platforms on each level. This is a "back of house" portion of the hotel, not usually meant for guests. Here, the grandeur, detail, and polish of the lobby are gone. This is a utilitarian, industrial, working environment. The surfaces are concrete - the machinery, rusted iron. The equipment, props, lighting and sound effects combine to create a sinister, shadowy environment. Lights flicker, sounds come and go, and shadows move - as if the dark heart of the hotel was sputtering back to life. The muffled, echoing sounds of machinery, chains, and heating ducts seem float through the room in waves. A radio on a custodian's workbench crackles with static and scattered fragments of lost, pleading voices. Members of the hotel staff are on hand near the entrance to the service elevators, the very same elevators Rod Serling indicated in the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Twilight Zone [/FONT][FONT=&quot]episode seen in the Library. Each elevator cab seats up to 21 guests in three rows. Members of the hotel staff assist the guests in boarding and cheerfully - perhaps too cheerfully -send them on their way into their own episode of [/FONT][FONT=&quot]The Twilight Zone[/FONT][FONT=&quot].[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]THE RIDE – ASCENT: Before it ascends, the elevator ride vehicle moves backwards into the shaft. As it does, the dramatic, heavily shadowed lighting of the load area is transformed into a blacklight starfield environment and the voice of Rod Serling is heard. The sound of his haunting, evocative voice accompanies us on our journey. The ride vehicle ascends in darkness.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]LOOKING GLASS: The first stop made by the elevator features an entirely new scene created for the California version of the Tower of Terror and not found in the Florida attraction. The elevator stops at a vestibule in front of a large, ornate mirror positioned directly across from the elevator doors. The elevator passengers, who are able to clearly see their reflection, watch as lightning flashes in a nearby window, then strikes the mirror. Then, through a series of special effects, the mirror image of the guests is wrapped in lightning – just as the missing hotel guests were in the Library video. The image of the guests becomes ghostly and then vanishes completely, leaving the reflection of an empty elevator car. At the same moment, the lightning reaches out toward the ride vehicle and strikes it, shaking it violently.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]HAUNTED HALL: The elevator doors close and the elevator moves to another floor of the hotel. When it stops, the doors open to reveal an empty hallway and a series of guest room doors. With a flash of lightning, the five missing elevator passengers from 1939 appear as ghostly apparitions in the hallway. They beckon to us to join them. Again, lightning strikes, it wraps the ghostly images and the hotel walls in spectral lightning. The walls disappear, transformed into a star-filled night sky. Up to this moment, the Haunted Hall scene is identical to the Tower of Terror in Florida. The scene continues in a manner unique to this version of the attraction. All that remains of the hotel, in this new segment of the scene, is a second set of elevator doors at the far end of what used to be the hallway. The ghostly passengers disappear from the hallway, then reappear in the distant elevator. After a brief pause, the ghostly elevator drops. Then the ride vehicle itself plummets.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]VIEW FROM THE TOWER AND BEYOND: The ride vehicle rises once again. As it reaches its highest point, outer doors open to reveal a panoramic view of the Disneyland Resort. The guest image capture photo is taken as the elevator falls. There follows a program of rapid drops and ascents - the number and intensity of which are variable. The ride profile is fully reprogrammable. On opening day, after a series of heart-stopping maneuvers, the elevator pauses briefly for a second time, at the top of the tower, for a final view outside, then falls with a tremendous crash as cables, pipes and broken bits of steel clattering rain down around the cab. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]A WARM WELCOME BACK: At the bottom of the elevator shaft, shrouded in darkness, the elevator moves forward into the unload area. As inner elevator shaft doors open, a starfield appears, which then dissolves to reveal the basement level environment of the hotel – as Rod Serling gives his chilling coda to this episode of [/FONT][FONT=&quot]The Twilight Zone[/FONT][FONT=&quot]. Hotel staff members - oblivious to the guest's harrowing journey - are on hand to greet the returning guests with smiles and pleasantries.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]EXIT CORRIDORS: The guests leave the elevator and proceed down the hotel's utility corridors as haunting [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Twilight Zone [/FONT][FONT=&quot]music lingers in the air[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]RETAIL - ARCADE SHOP windows and HOTEL "GIFTS": Leaving the "back of house" corridor, guests pass through the hotel shopping arcade. In the window of one of the shops, "Modern Wonders," the latest technology circa 1939 is on display, including a few props inspired by [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Twilight Zone [/FONT][FONT=&quot]episodes. Also on display is an array of vintage television sets (first introduced to consumers in 1939). Guest Image Capture photos are displayed on these screens. Across from "Modern Wonders", a storefront window reads "Willoughby Travel." Just beyond it is the hotel merchandise store. The sign reads, simply, "Gifts." Here, the Image Capture photos are available for purchase along with other hotel and [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Twilight Zone [/FONT][FONT=&quot]themed items.[/FONT]

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Disneylander07

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<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]Reaching 183 feet, the Tower of Terror is the tallest attraction in the Disneyland Resort. Although the building is officially 183 feet tall, it also extends 40 underground.
<o></o>[/FONT]
<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]Architectural style of the Hollywood Tower Hotel: Pueblo Deco
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]Number of elevator shafts: 3
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]Number of elevator ride vehicles: six
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]Number of guests per elevator: 21
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]Number of Floors:
According to official city permits: 11
According to [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Twilight Zone [/FONT][FONT=&quot]records: 13
<o></o>[/FONT]
<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]The legendary Hollywood Tower Hotel:
Date hotel originally opened: 1928
Date the hotel originally closed: October 31, 1939
<o></o>[/FONT]
<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]The ride system is not actually an elevator - but rather a "vertical vehicle conveyance." <o></o>[/FONT]
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[/FONT] <!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]The ride system is not actually an elevator - but rather a "vertical vehicle conveyance." <o></o>[/FONT][FONT=&quot]

[/FONT]Number of Floors:
[FONT=&quot] According to official city permits: 11
According to [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Twilight Zone [/FONT][FONT=&quot]records: 13[/FONT]
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Props located throughout the hotel recall specific episodes of [/FONT][FONT=&quot]The Twilight Zone [/FONT][FONT=&quot]television series. These are not actual props used in the television series but faithfully reproduced replicas.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]
[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]In the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Holding Area [/FONT][FONT=&quot]just outside the Library, there are two glass fronted display cases containing:[/FONT]
<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]A Gold Thimble - [/FONT][FONT=&quot]"The After Hours" [/FONT][FONT=&quot]- starring Anne Francis as a woman who has forgotten that she is not actually a human being but a department store mannequin. [/FONT]
<!--[if !supportLists]-->
·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]A Broken Stopwatch - [/FONT][FONT=&quot]"A Kind of a Stopwatch" [/FONT][FONT=&quot]- a watch that could actually stop time. <o></o>[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Library [/FONT][FONT=&quot]contains the richest cache of [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Twilight Zone [/FONT][FONT=&quot]referenced props. They are as follows:[/FONT]
<!--[if !supportLists]-->
·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]A Pair of Broken Spectacles - [/FONT][FONT=&quot]"Time Enough at Last" - [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Burgess Meredith is Henry Bemis, a near-sighted bookworm and the sole survivor of a devastating war.
<o></o>[/FONT]
<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]Two White Envelopes containing 1/4" audiotape, labeled "Victoria West" and "Rod Serling" - "[/FONT][FONT=&quot]A World of His Own[/FONT][FONT=&quot]" - Writer, Gregory West (Keenan Wynn), uses his dictation machine to bring his creations to life.
<o></o>[/FONT]
<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]A Trumpet - [/FONT][FONT=&quot]"Passage for Trumpet" [/FONT][FONT=&quot]- Jack Klugman is Joey Crown, a trumpet player contemplating suicide, who is saved by another trumpet player, Gabriel.
<o></o>[/FONT]
<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]Miniature Spaceman - [/FONT][FONT=&quot]"The Invaders"- [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Agnes Moorhead is a woman beset by tiny creatures that turn out to be the crew of a spaceship from Earth.
<o></o>[/FONT]
<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]The Mystic Seer - [/FONT][FONT=&quot]"Nick of Time"- [/FONT][FONT=&quot]In a roadside diner, a fortune telling machine torments Don (William Shatner) and Pat Carter (Patricia Breslin).
<o></o>[/FONT]
<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]Book titles - episode titles from the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Twilight Zone [/FONT][FONT=&quot]series appear on the bindings of a matched set of volumes.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot] <o></o>[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The Boiler Room[/FONT][FONT=&quot] contains a notepad with the cryptic rhyme:[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]"It's easy enough to be pleasant,
When life hums a long like a song.
But the man worth while,
Is the man who can smile,
When everything goes dead wrong."

[/FONT] [FONT=&quot]"[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Modern Wonders[/FONT][FONT=&quot]" store front along the exit corridor (image capture display area):

[/FONT] <!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]Toy Telephone - [/FONT][FONT=&quot]"Long Distance Call" [/FONT][FONT=&quot]- Five-year-old Billy Bayles (Billy Mumy) uses his toy telephone to talk to his dead grandmother.
<o></o>[/FONT]
<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]Box Camera - [/FONT][FONT=&quot]"A Most Unusual Camera" [/FONT][FONT=&quot]- A camera photographs the future.
<o></o>[/FONT]
<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]Typewriter - [/FONT][FONT=&quot]"A Thing About Machines"- [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Bartlett Finchley (Richard Haydn) hates machines and the feeling is mutual. His typewriter spells out "Get out of here, Finchley" all by itself.
<o></o>[/FONT]
<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]Electric Razor -[/FONT][FONT=&quot]"A Thing About Machines[/FONT][FONT=&quot]"- Barlett Finchley's razor rises up like a snake and pursues him.
[/FONT][FONT=&quot] <o></o>[/FONT]
<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]Antique Radio - [/FONT][FONT=&quot]"Static"- [/FONT][FONT=&quot]An old radio tunes in programs from the past. <o></o>[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Other [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Twilight Zone [/FONT][FONT=&quot]References:[/FONT]
<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]Anthony Fremont Orchestra poster (Image Capture Area) - [/FONT][FONT=&quot]"It's a Good Life"- [/FONT][FONT=&quot]This is an oblique reference to the character of Anthony Freemont (Billy Mumy), a five year old boy who terrorized the town of Peaksville, Ohio, with the power of his mind. Anthony liked music, but did not like singing. Singers were sent to "the cornfield."
<o></o>[/FONT]
<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]Willoughby Travel (Shop name, Image Capture Area) - [/FONT][FONT=&quot]"A Stop At Willoughby"- [/FONT][FONT=&quot]A harried commuter finds comfort in the small town of Willoughby.
<o></o>[/FONT]
<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]"Picture if You Will" (Purchasing counter for Image Capture Photos) - One of Rod Serling's famous catch phrases, from his opening narration.
<o></o>[/FONT]
<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]Chalk Marks on the Wall (Boiler Room) - [/FONT][FONT=&quot]"Little Girl Lost" [/FONT][FONT=&quot]- This design indicates a doorway into another dimension.
<o></o>[/FONT]
<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]"Cadwallader" (Signature on Elevator Inspection Certificate, Ride Vehicle) - [/FONT][FONT=&quot]"Escape Clause" [/FONT][FONT=&quot]- Walter Bedeker (David Wayne) makes a deal with the devil, who calls himself Mr. Cadwallader (Thomas Gomez). <o></o>[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]General Facts:

[/FONT] <!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]The attraction features three of the largest motors ever build for such a conveyance. They are three times larger than the largest high-speed elevator motors and faster than the fastest high-speed elevator in the world.
<o></o>[/FONT]
<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror[/FONT][FONT=&quot]™ [/FONT][FONT=&quot]at Disney's California Adventure Park is based on the popular Disney attraction at the Disney/MGM Studios in Florida, which opened in July 1994.
[/FONT][FONT=&quot]<o></o>[/FONT]
<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]The Twilight Zone[/FONT][FONT=&quot]® [/FONT][FONT=&quot]originally ran for five years on CBS, from 1959 to 1964. Rod Serling, its creator and host, a six-time Emmy winner, wrote 92 of the original 156 episodes. He died in 1975.
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]In the course of their tour of The Hollywood Tower Hotel, guests are led through the lobby, past the ruined elevator doors and into a Library. There they view the opening moments of an episode of [/FONT][FONT=&quot]The Twilight Zone[/FONT][FONT=&quot]®[/FONT][FONT=&quot]. This "lost episode", featuring a special appearance by Rod Serling, was never broadcast. It tells a story unique to the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Twilight Zone Tower of Terror[/FONT][FONT=&quot]™ [/FONT][FONT=&quot]and was created for the attraction.
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]The episode from which Rod Serling's appearance was taken is "It's A Good Life", written by Rod Serling.
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]Throughout the attraction, as an homage to the classic television series, there are props and design elements that recall specific episodes.
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->·<!--[endif]-->[FONT=&quot]The area music features jazz and popular tunes from the 1930's, such as "I Can't Get Started With You" by Bunny Berigan, "We'll Meet Again" by Vera Lynn, and "Mood Indigo" by Duke Ellington, which were all chosen for a certain timeless, haunting quality. The music was then sonically treated to suggest it was being performed in a distant ballroom, long ago. <o></o>[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]The Hollywood Tower Hotel, a long abandoned luxury hotel, closed under mysterious circumstances, has opened its doors once again, offering tours of its historic, glamorous facilities. Signs of decay and neglect are evident immediately. The grounds are overgrown, the building aged and untended, though still magnificent. In the upper façade of the hotel, the tower, the structure of the building has been broken away, allowing a view of the elevator shafts. As guests approach the building, screams can be heard from high above, as elevator doors open, allowing the passengers within a brief view outside. The doors close as the elevator plummets. Continuing on, the guests follow the path of either the Stand-By Queue of the Fastpass Return. As they make their way through the grounds, and into the lobby, haunting music can be heard - echoing from some distant ballroom long ago.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]THE LOBBY: The splendor suggested in the building exterior continues in the Lobby but an uncomfortable air of mystery deepens. The Lobby is a still life, a picture frozen in time with luggage, coats, hats and personal effects still in place - abandoned by their owners the night the hotel closed in 1939. A sign near the passenger elevators in the Lobby reads: "Out of Order." This is an obvious understatement - the doors are bent and broken. The adjacent walls are cracked. In the Lobby, a member of the hotel staff welcomes the guests and guides them past the front desk to the foyer of the library. Hotel staff personnel are a curious lot, perhaps a bit overly polite and seemingly from another era. Do they really think we are registering for rooms? They often ask about our luggage and sometimes seem to recognize a celebrity in the crowd. When the doors to the Library open, the Hotel guide directs the guests to step inside, but remains in the Lobby to greet the next group of guests.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]THE LIBRARY: Each library is richly detailed with bound volumes, sculpture, art and artifacts collected by the well-traveled owner of the hotel. Among the items on the shelves are props that recall specific episodes of the television series. A flash of lightning darkens the room, the television springs to life with the opening moments of a [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Twilight Zone [/FONT][FONT=&quot]episode. The episode concerns the Hollywood Tower Hotel and the night the elevator vanished during a lightning storm, taking five passengers and a portion of the hotel along with it. Rod Serling then invites his viewers to step aboard a service elevator, still in operation, for an unforgettable journey into the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Twilight Zone[/FONT][FONT=&quot]. At the conclusion of this video segment, the lights return and a hidden door slides opens to reveal a passage to the Boiler Room.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]THE BOILER ROOM: The Boiler Room is two stories tall, with three load platforms on each level. This is a "back of house" portion of the hotel, not usually meant for guests. Here, the grandeur, detail, and polish of the lobby are gone. This is a utilitarian, industrial, working environment. The surfaces are concrete - the machinery, rusted iron. The equipment, props, lighting and sound effects combine to create a sinister, shadowy environment. Lights flicker, sounds come and go, and shadows move - as if the dark heart of the hotel was sputtering back to life. The muffled, echoing sounds of machinery, chains, and heating ducts seem float through the room in waves. A radio on a custodian's workbench crackles with static and scattered fragments of lost, pleading voices. Members of the hotel staff are on hand near the entrance to the service elevators, the very same elevators Rod Serling indicated in the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Twilight Zone [/FONT][FONT=&quot]episode seen in the Library. Each elevator cab seats up to 21 guests in three rows. Members of the hotel staff assist the guests in boarding and cheerfully - perhaps too cheerfully -send them on their way into their own episode of [/FONT][FONT=&quot]The Twilight Zone[/FONT][FONT=&quot].[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]THE RIDE – ASCENT: Before it ascends, the elevator ride vehicle moves backwards into the shaft. As it does, the dramatic, heavily shadowed lighting of the load area is transformed into a blacklight starfield environment and the voice of Rod Serling is heard. The sound of his haunting, evocative voice accompanies us on our journey. The ride vehicle ascends in darkness.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]LOOKING GLASS: The first stop made by the elevator features an entirely new scene created for the California version of the Tower of Terror and not found in the Florida attraction. The elevator stops at a vestibule in front of a large, ornate mirror positioned directly across from the elevator doors. The elevator passengers, who are able to clearly see their reflection, watch as lightning flashes in a nearby window, then strikes the mirror. Then, through a series of special effects, the mirror image of the guests is wrapped in lightning – just as the missing hotel guests were in the Library video. The image of the guests becomes ghostly and then vanishes completely, leaving the reflection of an empty elevator car. At the same moment, the lightning reaches out toward the ride vehicle and strikes it, shaking it violently.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]HAUNTED HALL: The elevator doors close and the elevator moves to another floor of the hotel. When it stops, the doors open to reveal an empty hallway and a series of guest room doors. With a flash of lightning, the five missing elevator passengers from 1939 appear as ghostly apparitions in the hallway. They beckon to us to join them. Again, lightning strikes, it wraps the ghostly images and the hotel walls in spectral lightning. The walls disappear, transformed into a star-filled night sky. Up to this moment, the Haunted Hall scene is identical to the Tower of Terror in Florida. The scene continues in a manner unique to this version of the attraction. All that remains of the hotel, in this new segment of the scene, is a second set of elevator doors at the far end of what used to be the hallway. The ghostly passengers disappear from the hallway, then reappear in the distant elevator. After a brief pause, the ghostly elevator drops. Then the ride vehicle itself plummets.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]VIEW FROM THE TOWER AND BEYOND: The ride vehicle rises once again. As it reaches its highest point, outer doors open to reveal a panoramic view of the Disneyland Resort. The guest image capture photo is taken as the elevator falls. There follows a program of rapid drops and ascents - the number and intensity of which are variable. The ride profile is fully reprogrammable. On opening day, after a series of heart-stopping maneuvers, the elevator pauses briefly for a second time, at the top of the tower, for a final view outside, then falls with a tremendous crash as cables, pipes and broken bits of steel clattering rain down around the cab. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]A WARM WELCOME BACK: At the bottom of the elevator shaft, shrouded in darkness, the elevator moves forward into the unload area. As inner elevator shaft doors open, a starfield appears, which then dissolves to reveal the basement level environment of the hotel – as Rod Serling gives his chilling coda to this episode of [/FONT][FONT=&quot]The Twilight Zone[/FONT][FONT=&quot]. Hotel staff members - oblivious to the guest's harrowing journey - are on hand to greet the returning guests with smiles and pleasantries.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]EXIT CORRIDORS: The guests leave the elevator and proceed down the hotel's utility corridors as haunting [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Twilight Zone [/FONT][FONT=&quot]music lingers in the air[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]RETAIL - ARCADE SHOP windows and HOTEL "GIFTS": Leaving the "back of house" corridor, guests pass through the hotel shopping arcade. In the window of one of the shops, "Modern Wonders," the latest technology circa 1939 is on display, including a few props inspired by [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Twilight Zone [/FONT][FONT=&quot]episodes. Also on display is an array of vintage television sets (first introduced to consumers in 1939). Guest Image Capture photos are displayed on these screens. Across from "Modern Wonders", a storefront window reads "Willoughby Travel." Just beyond it is the hotel merchandise store. The sign reads, simply, "Gifts." Here, the Image Capture photos are available for purchase along with other hotel and [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Twilight Zone [/FONT][FONT=&quot]themed items.[/FONT]

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Rob562

Rob562

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Posting material that is obviously copied from another website (you couldn't even edit out the bad HTML tags?), especially without giving any credit to the original source, is generally frowned upon here. (And it's most likely against the forum rules...)

-Rob
 

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