The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror
Saturday, 17th March 2007
It’s a pleasant coincidence that, just one day after the Studio’s 5th birthday, the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf prints a work-in-progress 2008 map of this work-in-progress park. Never before has Disney allowed an unfinished design to be printed, but then never before has Disney wanted to prove so much that this unfinished Studio is really headed somewhere special…
Friday, 9th March 2007
At Walt Disney Studios Park, they’re simply dying for guests to drop in come January 2008, to experience The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror. So desperate for guests to check-in, infact, that some brand new construction wall decorations are now helping to build suspense around the “something” that awaits through those rusted elevator doors…
Monday, 5th March 2007
Can you believe it, over two months have passed since we last took a look at the construction of Tower of Terror! Visible progress is still fairly minimal on the Tower, though, with most of this saved for the Hollywood Studio placemaking project, but there are still new details to be seen… Including the recently uncovered gift shop annex and an Art Deco touch you won’t have seen in California.
Tuesday, 13th February 2007
When we first presented the 2007 Resort Map back in November, featuring an updated Walt Disney Studios Park illustration with the new Toon Studio attractions, it couldn’t help but be noticed that a little reserved spot right in the middle of the park was ready and waiting for another new addition. Now, an updated plan is already available, showing off not only the new Tower of Terror but the entire development of the resort since 1992.
Monday, 22nd January 2007
Did you hear? Of course you did! Hollywood Boulevard is coming to Paris! So, now that the unbelievable news has had chance to sink in - what are we actually getting? Just how much inspiration will the new project take from its two American cousins? Could this be the surprise “pièce de résistance” 5th birthday present the park never even dared ask for?
Monday, 8th January 2007
The final two articles in Le Parisien’s series of five, covering the people working on the 15th Anniversary backstage, first look at the co-ordination of the huge construction project, and then at illuminating the finished attractions. They don’t divulge quite as many details as earlier articles, but I’ve fully translated them for you all the same.
Friday, 5th January 2007
Hoory for Hollywood - where you’re terrific if you’re even good! But is “good” always good enough? This is where the Imagineers’ placemaking project comes into play. We’ve long heard rumours about Production Courtyard, ‘Hollywood Studio’ and Hollywood Boulevard, but it’s all way off in the future, 2008, right? Well, in true Hollywood fashion, nothing can be predicted…
Wednesday, 20th December 2006
Ho ho h-oh yes, there’s no end to the Christmas puns! At The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror in Walt Disney Studios, it has been another landmark fortnight of construction progress, that’s seen weathering/dirt added, scaffolding removed, art deco added, the crane removed, and finally… elevator doors added!
Thursday, 23rd November 2006
UPDATED 26/11/2006 23:14GMT: All three domes now in place!
Construction of The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror at Walt Disney Studios Park today reached an important new milestone, as the landmark building was topped-out with the addition of its heighest dome, giving the official height of 183 feet to far and away the tallest building at Disneyland Resort Paris.
Saturday, 18th November 2006
How do you build a trademark Disney attraction? It’s really just about all the right pieces of the puzzle coming together. And at Walt Disney Studios, contruction of The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror literally is progressing piece-by-peice, as new details are cut and pasted onto the massive building each week…
Wednesday, 25th October 2006
Building an attraction on the scale of The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror takes a lot of planning - from imagining and designing to building and opening. It’s a precision-planned exercise to create a place of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. And, although the Tower has already been constructed in California, there are still many mysteries lurking.
Friday, 13th October 2006
Crush is on his way to Walt Disney Studios, and his movie star list of demands has just landed on the Imagineering desk. First request: deep blue walls. And voilà - there they are! At Tower of Terror, meanwhile, more details are finally shining through from another dimension… (ie. behind the construction netting)
Tuesday, 10th October 2006
Forget pumpkin orange - peach is the only colour to celebrate at Walt Disney Studios Park! Eternally left out of the Halloween festivities, the park is retaliating with fresh rounds of peachy-coloured paint across the park. From a very pale magnolia across the back of Tower of Terror to vibrant new yellows in Front Lot, the Pumpkinmen had better watch out!
Friday, 11th August 2006
It’s time for another action-packed construction update from the future productions at Studios! We’re currently 10 months away from the Toon Studio opening and around 15 months from Tower of Terror’s grand opening, so whilst things are definitely coming together, they’re coming together at quite a leisurely pace right now.
Monday, 24th July 2006
Despite not opening for almost another 18 months yet, The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror has already received its first few coats of paint. Applied on the back of the tower, down one concrete column, the paint currently being used is an off-white colour applied on top of a deeper orange/yellow base coat, a kind of primer or plaster used to prepare the bare concrete surface of the tower for painting.
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