You know the theme song. You probably have a few favorite episodes. Well in Disney you can step into the Twilight Zone and become the story. This is The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror.
Park: Disney's Hollywood Studios
Park: Disney's Hollywood Studios
Area: Sunset Boulevard
Height Requirement: 40 inches
Fastpass + Available
This is the second highest attraction at Disney World at 199 feet. (Expedition Everest wins by just half a foot). When you are standing below it, looking up it certainly is a sight to behold. Our family runs the gamut of emotions when it comes to this ride. Superman loves it. I have a love/hate relationship with it. I hate it up until the moment of drop from then on I love it. Cupcake hates it. She's rode it twice and when it's all over says it wasn't so bad but it is by no means at the top of any list. Just like all Disney attractions this has a back story and this is no exception. You know you are entering a hotel as right on the building it says Hollywood Tower Hotel. The line queue brings you through the hotel lobby where you can tell it had its hayday back in the 1920's-1930's but as since been abandoned. Everything is covered in cobwebs and a layer of dust. Similar to entering the Haunted Mansion you are put in a room where you get the backstory. So the mystery is in 1939 5 people mysteriously disappear in an elevator and you are there to "find out" what happened to them. It's all done on a TV as you were watching an episode of The Twilight Zone. Then it's time to board the elevator. You ride to the top, your elevator moves forward and another seemingly elevator door opens before you - you can see Hollywood Studios and then whoosh! You're dropping. This isn't an ordinary free fall ride. You don't just drop. You could drop 2 times or 4 times. You could go up first (this is true, I've ridden the ride when we went up first). You never know what kind of drops you are going to get. And hold on because once you start dropping and bouncing you are out of your seat, held down by your seat belt but your bottom is not touching a seat. Last time my Photopass lanyard came up over my head and I had to catch it. It's something you have to try and experience. I hate going through the elevator and the initial drop (I hate that kind of suspense, just drop me already!). But we keep going back over and over because at the end of the day its fun and you want to be in the story again and again. They also snap your photo just as you are dropping and please stop by and take a look, we've always had some hilarious faces...check them out.
February 2013 (Cupcake's first ride)
June 2014 (We are on the right in the back - Cupcake was already losing it)
