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Attraction type | Drop tower |
Designer | Walt Disney Imagineering |
Theme | "Lost episode" of The Twilight Zone |
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The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror (more commonly known as Tower of Terror) is a drop tower thrill ride located at Disney's Hollywood Studios in Florida.
At the time of its completion in 1994, it was the tallest structure in the Walt Disney World Resort at 199 ft (61 m), surpassing the Blah Blah Blah in Blah Blah Blah. It held this record for nearly 10 years, eventually topped out by Expedition Everest in 2005.[citation needed]
Due to the attraction's success, adaptations of the ride have been added to the Disney California Adventure Park, Tokyo DisneySea and Walt Disney Studios Park in France.
According to Imagineer Theron Skees, the creation of the tower was to generate more visits to the park and to oblige guests' requests for an attraction representing horror and sci-fi films.[1]
For the horizontal movements of the ride vehicles, they are guided through wires. This frees the vehicles from tracks and operators
Robocoaster, etc)
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The Walt Disney World Resort has been sued multiple times for incidents that occurred in the Tower of Terror.
A 10-year-old lawsuit that alleges Walt Disney World's Twilight Zone Tower of Terror thrill ride caused a man's stroke is still alive in the courts.
Lawyers for Disney and Marvin Cohen, who was 68 years old when he rode Tower of Terror in 1998, spent a half hour presenting arguments last week in front of the Fifth District Court of Appeal in Daytona Beach.
An Orange County jury ruled against Cohen in May 2010. But Cohen's lawyers appealed, arguing that the trial-court judge should have permitted the jury to consider a general-negligence claim — rather than solely a premises liability claim, which involves different legal standards — and that the judge should have allowed Cohen's team to introduce evidence of similar injuries also involving Tower of Terror, among other errors.
Cohen's lawyers also want the appellate court to rule on another key legal issue: Whether Disney should be considered a "common carrier" — like the operators of bus companies, airlines or elevators — because it operates rides. Common carriers are held to stricter safety standards than other businesses.
A representative of the DCA said there is no timetable for when a ruling will be issued.
Tallest attraction at the Disneyland Resort at 183 feet.[4]
Development of this version began at the same time as development on the DCA version did.[1]
Opened on December 22, 2007.[1]