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Twilight Zone Tower of Terror

The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror
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Attraction at Disney's Hollywood Studios
Disney's Hollywood Studios
Area Sunset Boulevard
Coordinates 28°21′31″N 81°33′52″W / 28.35861°N 81.56444°W / 28.35861; -81.56444
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 / 33.8065479; -117.9174805
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 / 35.6254767; 139.8851705
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 / 48.8666589; 2.7768075
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
FastPass+ available
Must transfer from wheelchair

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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