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Disneyland's California Adventure Tower of Terror
Interior Pictures
As you get in queue
to enter the Disneyland Twilight Zone Tower of Terror of ride, you first
notice the exterior of the building has been
burned and looks nearly gutted out on its upper stories that are open to
the sky. It's all an illusion to scintillate your imagination and excite
your fantastic mind as you envision the unforeseen terrors that lie
ahead of you in this Disneyland thrill ride.
You and your friends
pass by a lobby with dusty furniture, an old suitcase and some artifacts
of another era. Led into a library, the mood in this room is set
as the sights and sounds begin to get closer and more ominous. Passing
through a series of boiler rooms, and dark and cobwebbed spaces, you'll
follow a line to an elevator where a bellhop sets the stage and
you embark on a thrill ride to remember. You'll be sitting in a rustic
seats lined up 5 or 6 to a row.
With an
elevator shaft that's really a vertical conveyance device, you'll be
moving fast (faster than
the speed of gravity), then dropped as if your elevator has broken,
creating a sense of temporary weightlessness. For those who have fears
about elevators, you may want to face them head on or completely avoid
this ride that could either be fantastic, or fearful, depending on your
frame of mind.
The next time you step into an elevator, imagine
how it would feel if the lights went out and the elevator cable broke.
Housed in
Hollywood Tower Hotel, the Pueblo Deco architectural style is
characterized by clean, geometric shapes common to Art Deco. It also
borrows elements from Native American art with radial sunbursts,
arrowhead shapes and simplified thunderbird motifs. Los Angeles City
Hall building is an example of this motif.
It took 900 tons
of steel, over 1,600 cubic yards of concrete, over 50,000 square feet of
exterior plaster and two miles of HV DC power cable to build this ride.
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