Found these cool facts about ToT on the Disney Park Blogs... Enjoy!
Reaching 183 feet, The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror is made of more than 900 tons of steel, 1,600 cubic yards of concrete, 50,000 square feet of exterior plaster and about two miles of HV DC power cable. ---
The service elevators ridden by guests move faster than the speed of gravity. ---
The music heard in the Hollywood Tower Hotel courtyard and lobby features jazz and popular tunes from the 1930s, such as "I Can't Get Started With You" by Bunny Berigan, "We'll Meet Again" by Vera Lynn and "Mood Indigo" by Duke Ellington. ---
The Twilight Zone episode from which Rod Serling's appearance in the Library scene was taken is entitled "It's A Good Life" written by Rod Serling. The episode tells the story of a little boy who can read minds and control people. ---
The two glass display cases just outside the Library contain props that reference two Twilight Zone episodes: ---
1. Gold thimble From "The After Hours", starring Anne Francis as a woman who has forgotten that she is not actually a human being but a department store mannequin. ---
2. Broken stopwatch "A Kind of a Stopwatch", the story of a watch that could actually stop time.
The "faster then the speed of gravity" fact it pretty cool! :-) - JaredMc
221.0 #1343 10:35AM
I just read that too. So cool! I always wondered about the Rod Serling video part. - nursecolie
135.5 #2512 10:37AM
Yeah... I also wondered how that video was done. Pretty cool! I also like looking in the library for all the different props that pays homage to the show. - JaredMc 221.0 #1343 10:46AM
I remember driving with my uncle a few weeks before our DL vacation, and Vera Lynn came on the radio, and I said this sounds like tower of terror music. And lo and behold, they played that exact song while we were waiting in line. - MagicalCaprice
480.6 #246 10:47AM
I never noticed the stop watch. That's one of my favorite episodes too. I'll have to look for it next time - KissDclown
1088.1 #76 10:47AM
Think my fav prop is the 'Mystic Seer' fortune-telling box from "Nick of Time". Haha! - JaredMc 221.0 #1343 10:58AM
thanks for sharing. I like interesting facts like this. - vincentchase
636.7 #167 10:50AM
No problem. Yeah, I like facts like those too! - JaredMc 221.0 #1343 10:53AM
Cool... thanks for sharing...;-) - disneymomma1
316.1 #536 10:59AM