It just used supernatural tropes to hold a mirror to human attitudes and behavior. The show wasn’t really about the supernatural. While I love the old shows and I love the ride, Tower of Terror makes for a pretty weak episode of “The Twilight Zone.” The best episodes illustrated ironic punishment: townspeople fearing aliens discover that they are their own worst enemy, or, a woman whom other characters consider a hideous outcast is beautiful to us. Here’s my second point – with some tough love for Tower of Terror fans. OK, but how is this scenario any better than the current Twilight Zone theme? (Well, to the passholders who give the new ride a chance, at least.) After dispatching Hightower and cursing his hotel, the Shiriki Utundu has been sending visitors on a wild ride up and down and up and down the hotel’s elevators – as revenge upon those who would disturb sacred relics.Īt Disney California Adventure, the narrative catalyst will be Rocket Raccoon, who will have escaped the Collector’s grasp and enlists our help in rescuing his friends, the Guardians of the Galaxy, who have been “collected” by Taneleer Tivan.ĭisney will be adding random drop sequences to the Tower for this rescue, which should make the ride more appealing to repeat visitors, such as Disneyland’s huge contingent of annual passholders. In Tokyo, the action gets going when one of Hightower’s prizes, the Shiriki Utundu idol, turns out not to be as inanimate as it seemed. For in the new Guardian of the Galaxy ride, the Tower is said to be the property of Taneleer Tivan (aka “The Collector”), another bad guy who travelled around the Galaxy plundering stuff for his private museum. If you are familiar with the “Guardians of the Galaxy” franchise – or if you just paid close attention to Disney’s announcement last weekend – this might be sounding a bit familiar to you. He traveled the world collecting (plundering?) treasures and artifacts from native cultures, bringing them all to his tower, where he kept them in a collection in the basement. Hightower is a member of fun collection of Disney theme park characters called the Society of Explorers and Adventurers, who are referenced in a couple of Disney’s Asian theme parks but who are beginning to show up in the back stories of a few new restaurants at the Walt Disney World Resort, too.Īnyway, Hightower’s not exactly a nice guy.
Instead, DisneySea’s Tower is said to be the former property of a character named Harrison Hightower.
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