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The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror Facts

The Tower of Terror in Walt Disney Studios Park at Disneyland Paris is the fourth debut for the popular attraction. Others are at Disney's Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida; Disney's California Adventure at the Disneyland Resort in California, and Tokyo DisneySea in Japan.

Capacity per hotel elevator is 21 passengers.

Reaching 13 stories, The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror™ is the tallest attraction at Disneyland Resort Paris, visible for miles -- drivers on Highway A4 can spot the distinctive hotel.

The abandoned luxury hotel reflects the architectural style, Pueblo Deco. Popular when the hotel was built in the 1920s, Pueblo Deco is characterised by the clean, geometric shapes common to Art Deco style. However, from southwestern Native American art it borrows elements such as radial sunbursts, arrowhead shapes and simplified thunderbird motifs.

Walt Disney Imagineers searched for props throughout France, Holland and the United Kingdom to elaborately decorate the aging Hollywood Hotel. Many of the Americana props, including embossed road signs, travel posters and mannequins with sculpted hair, came from one collector in Holland. Vintage clothing for hotel shop windows are from shops in Paris. And more than 4,000 books were gathered for the library.

Walt Disney Imagineers built the landscape to resemble Southern California's -- but no palm trees, as they could not withstand the winter cold in France. And background music from the era is played in the queue area, including Glenn Miller's "Sleepy Time Gal" and "Mood Indigo" by Duke Ellington, chosen for their timeless, haunting quality.

Rod Serling's opening scene in the hotel library was taken in part from a 1961 episode of The Twilight Zone® television series, "The Good Life." The episode told the story of a little boy who could use his mind to change things.

Walt Disney Imagineers spent countless hours screening all 156 episodes of The Twilight Zone® to capture the overall mood and feel of the series, some episodes were screened as many as three or four times to carefully study the props, furnishing, music and settings.

 

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