Originally Posted By plutospal77 Twilight Zone ride is based on the episodes, is it actually based on an episode about an elevator, or is it made up. Ive seen a lot of the episodes and haven't seen it.
Originally Posted By ChampDisney The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror was infact an episode years & years ago. And Disney had to go to CBS & get the rights to build the Tower of Terror in Orlando first. Then after that Disney went ahead & made a movie called the Tower of Terror that wasn't inspired by the show but the ride. Then the Tower of Terror was built in California & Tokyo & now Paris.
Originally Posted By Nobody <a href="http://www.towerofterror.org/secrets.html#inspiration" target="_blank">http://www.towerofterror.org/s ecrets.html#inspiration</a>
Originally Posted By SFH The attraction is NOT based on any single original TZ episode. The footage of Rod Serling was lifted from an episode where he was standing in front of a neutral background. The voice-over was written by Imagineering and recorded by a Serling sound-alike.
Originally Posted By ChampDisney ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Ok, but Disney still needed to buy the rights from CBS in order for to be a Tower of Terror.
Originally Posted By SFH Right. With TZ theming and using some footage, Disney needed rights from CBS. A Tower of Terror without TZ theming doesn't need anything from CBS. SFH
Originally Posted By ChampDisney ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Yes it does just look at the Disney brochures & look at the photos of the Tower of Terror. Right there in little letters that hold this & I'll write what I read...... "The Twilight Zone is a registered trademark of CBS, Inc. and is used with permission pursuant to a license from CBS, Inc."
Originally Posted By Kansasteen Yes, but what SFH is saying is that a TOT w/o the Twilight Zone theme doesnt need anything from CBS, The Tower itself is a Disney creation and they just used the Twilight Zone as theming basically.
Originally Posted By ChampDisney Ok I see what your saying I just keeped reading without a trace. Ok now this is me & my point of view. Without the Twilight Zone there would not be a good storyline for the attraction just look at Rod Serling & the whole creepy music thats put into the ride, that whole thing is done by the Twilight Zone show & that made a much scarier ride just imagine if the Twilight Zone wasn't put in the picture what would you get?
Originally Posted By Roger55 Tokyo DisneySea's versoin of ToT does not use TZ theming, and it is quite an interesting and entertaining storyline. There have been several discussions in the Tokyo Disney Resort board describing the storyline and attraction. Anyone interested in TDS's version should go check them out. I myself got to experience TDS's ToT last year and found it quite entertaining and appropriate for a ToT attraction.
Originally Posted By ChampDisney I know the storyline its about Harrison Hightower being cursed by some voodoo doll & was disappeared on the elevator one night. Very nice storyline with the best Tower building Disney has ever made but they still call it the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror for some reason. And same thing with Euro Disneyland, its been rumored that the new ToT is going to be a mixure of the ToT with the HM. That should be cool.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Sorry Champdisney - you're off base. TDS is simply Tower of Terror (no Twighlight Zone) and PAris will be like DCA - it was supposed to go to Paris before DCA originally.
Originally Posted By ChampDisney <<PAris will be like DCA - it was supposed to go to Paris before DCA originally.>> It is but everybody has been talking about both HM & ToT being put in one at the Paris version. Oh, guys I am sorry about the whole Twilight Zone Tower of Terror thing at the DisneySEA but I am wrong. I once saw the disappearing letters that said Twilight Zone & it also does it at the DisneySEA but it doesn't say the Twilight Zone like in the other parks so i'm sorry & here's the link where I saw it...... <a href="http://www.tdrfan.com/tds/american_waterfront/tower_of_terror/gallery001.htm" target="_blank">http://www.tdrfan.com/tds/amer ican_waterfront/tower_of_terror/gallery001.htm</a>
Originally Posted By imadisneygal About 10 years ago I overheard some execs talking about an idea they had for the Tower of Terror ride system that involved some sort of geyser theming, like the geyser exploded and holds the vehicle in the air and then drops it. It was apparently considered for the area around Grizzly Peak, themed around Yellowstone or whatever. I thought it sounded very cool. But, in the end, they went with what they already had. And who knows if it was an actual idea on paper or just some Imagineers talking. Still, it sounded neat and would have given a unique take on an already tried and true ride system.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Geyser Mountain was also a plan near where Phantom Manor is in DLP. I guess with DLP and DCA both having ToT - this is now dead too.
Originally Posted By cheesybaby There were also rumors of the Geyser drop ride being placed in DL Frontierland (BT ranch) before DCA got ToT.
Originally Posted By SFH The person who came up with the geyser attaction concept left WDI, and after that, it lacked the political backing, from what I understand. SFH
Originally Posted By Kayoss The funny thing is.... Paris' TOT IS actually DCA's. Paris' was supposed to open first, but that didn't happen. We got Paris' design (except with steel rather then concrete due to California being in earthquake land). So Paris is finally just getting theirs. Funny how it will be called a 'copy' of DCA's when in fact it's the other way around.
Originally Posted By ChampDisney Yes Kayoss, I have read that many times & it surprises me & I think Disney should have done Paris before because it has so much trouble at the Walt Disney Studios on boosting up attendence when they could have done it before even though I knew what was going on at Euro Disneyland that caused them not to build Tower Of Terror so fast.
Originally Posted By ArchtMig Heh... so not only did we get a stripped down, inferior TOT, but we didn't even get an original design! We got a traced out version of the one planned for Paris?? Geez, it's worse than I even thought. Now Paris will get theirs, and it will look and be just like ours, and neither, then, will be unique, and that just sucks. Fitting that the two worst TOTs are exact clones of each other and they happen to reside in the two crappiest parks that Disney has and doesn't really give a damn about. At least Tokyo's has a very unique look, and even a brand new, unique theme and story line. And yes, their building is amazing looking, but really really weird from an architectural standpoint. Thanks for the link in post #13 to those great pics. The building is a weird mashup of Victorian, Richardsonian, Italianate, Gothic and even Moorish elements and influences. I wonder if its eclecticness is explained in the whole Harrison Hightower backstory.
