The Tower of terror at Disney Studios
The novelty of 2008 of the Walt Disney Studios, one of the two parks of Disney Resort Paris Park, is the Tower of terror. Wikipedia talk:
The Tower of terror is a Disney attraction based on the principle of the towers to fall/free fall but using the technology of the elevators. In contrast to the classic free fall (or “Free fall”), this attraction is based on the system “Hyper drop”, or fall faster than the Earth’s gravity constant.
The attraction is based on the imaginary Hollywood Tower Hotel hotel located near the hills North of Hollywood. The hotel opened its doors in 1929. Of the legend surrounding the building on 31 October 1919 (1939 to the Californian and French version), on Halloween night, the hotel hosted a reception in the ballroom of the last floor (the thirteenth). But the building was struck by lightning and a full lift of five passengers was transported into the Fourth Dimension at the same time that the part of the building where was held the reception was destroyed. The outside of the building looks like a hotel of hispano-californienne architecture with a Gash caused by lightning.
Skeptical of nature as I am, I thought, like you, a ride that rises a height cage to fall back, it is not fancy… But it was not counting without the atmosphere provided by the sets and staging of attraction, and the technologies used. 56 meters high and 12 meters deep, 60 million Euros of budget, 13.6 meters per seconds (48.96 km/h, faster than free fall, for those who remember their lessons of physics…), sets and books found throughout Europe, impresses… But enough of words, that’s videos to get an idea:
A video (in German, subtitled), makes us navigate through the construction of attraction and its technical specifications:
