The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror
| The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror | |
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Attraction at Disney's Hollywood Studios
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| Disney's Hollywood Studios | |
| Area | Sunset Boulevard |
| Coordinates | 28°21′31″N 81°33′52″W / 28.35861°N 81.56444°W |
| Status | Operating |
| Cost | US$140 million |
| Opening date | July 22, 1994 |
| Disney California Adventure | |
| Area | Hollywood Land |
| Coordinates | 33°48′24″N 117°55′03″W / 33.8065479°N 117.9174805°W |
| Status | Closed |
| Opening date | May 5, 2004 |
| Closing date | January 3, 2017 |
| Replaced by | Guardians of the Galaxy – Mission: Breakout! |
| Tokyo DisneySea | |
| Name | Tower of Terror (Japanese: タワー・オブ・テラー Hepburn: Tawā Obu terā?) |
| Area | American Waterfront |
| Coordinates | 35°37′32″N 139°53′07″E / 35.6254767°N 139.8851705°E |
| Status | Operating |
| Opening date | September 22, 2006 |
| Walt Disney Studios Park | |
| Name | French: La Tour de la Terreur – Un Saut dans la Quatrième Dimension |
| Area | Production Courtyard |
| Coordinates | 48°52′00″N 2°46′37″E / 48.8666589°N 2.7768075°E |
| Status | Operating |
| Opening date | December 22, 2007 |
| General statistics | |
| Attraction type | Drop tower dark ride |
| Manufacturer | Otis Elevator Company |
| Designer | Walt Disney Imagineering |
| Theme | The Twilight Zone |
| Music |
Richard Bellis "The Twilight Zone Theme" by Marius Constant Joel McNeely (Tokyo) |
| Height | 199 ft (61 m) |
| Drop | 130 ft (40 m) |
| G-force | 1.3 |
| Vehicle type | Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV)/Elevator |
| Vehicles |
WDW versions 8 Other versions 6 |
| Rows | 3 |
| Riders per row | 7 |
| Duration | 2-3 minutes |
| Height restriction | 40 in (102 cm) |
| Hosted by | Rod Serling (voice of Mark Silverman in English versions) |
| Drop speed | 39 miles per hour (63 km/h) |
 Fastpass available |
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 FastPass+ available |
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 Must transfer from wheelchair |
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The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, commonly known as the Tower of Terror, is an accelerated drop tower dark ride located at Disney's Hollywood Studios, Tokyo DisneySea, Walt Disney Studios Park, and formerly located at Disney California Adventure. Except for the Tokyo version, the attractions are inspired by Rod Serling's anthology television series, The Twilight Zone, and take place in the fictional Hollywood Tower Hotel in Hollywood, California. The Tokyo version, which features an original story line not related to The Twilight Zone, takes place in the fictional Hotel Hightower. All three versions place riders in a seemingly ordinary hotel elevator, and present the riders with a fictional backstory in which people have mysteriously disappeared from the elevator under the influence of some supernatural element many years prior.
The original version of the attraction opened at Disney's Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World in July 1994, and was the basis of the 1997 television film of the same name, several scenes of which being shot at the attraction. 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 Resort Paris. In California and Paris, Disney sought to use the popular attraction to boost attendance at the respective resorts' struggling new theme parks. The California and Tokyo versions of Tower of Terror opened in 2004 and 2006, respectively, while financial problems delayed the opening of the Paris version until 2008. The California version closed in January 2017.
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