
In addition to being one of the tallest attraction
in all of Walt Disney World (at 199 feet!),
the
Tower of Terror is arguably the scariest. Inspired
by the Twilight Zone television series, your
adventure takes you to the famed Hollywood
Hotel, though nowadays it’s in a bit
of disrepair.
As you wind your way through
the hotel lobby, you’ll hear the story
of a group of unfortunate guests (including
two glamorous stars, a bellhop, a rising child
star and her governess), who boarded the elevator
one night during a storm
and were
never heard from again. Making your way down
to the boiler room, you eventually board your
freight elevator for a perilous journey to
the 13th floor.
Dark corridors and ghostly apparitions haunt the
deserted hotel, but just as the tension is starting
to mount, you’re suddenly launched straight
up the elevator shaft. A shower of sparks and a
broken cable lead to a stomach churning plunge
straight down, but just when you think it’s
over your rocketed upwards again for another perilous
drop. At one point the doors at the top of the
shaft fly open, revealing a fleeting view of the
park (from 13 stories up!) before you plummet straight
down at faster-than-free-fall speed. Recent updates
to the attraction create a random series of drops
every time, so you’ll never know what to
expect. Thrill seekers beware–the Tower of
Terror is not for the faint of heart!
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