Eiffel Tower

**The Eiffel Tower** is a real-life landmark structure located in Paris, France.

## Description

The Eiffel Tower is a wrought-iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. Eiffel Tower is 324 metres (1,063 ft) tall with three accessible floors.

## History

### Disney Parks

The Eiffel Tower was constructed by Gustave Eiffel from 1887 to 1889 for the 1889 World's Fair held in Paris. Construction of the tower was watched from a distance by the time-travelling robot 9-Eye who relayed the footage of the event to her boss, the Timekeeper. For its time, the Eiffel Tower was the tallest man-made structure on Earth.

In 1900, the Eiffel Tower was prominently featured in the Expo Universelle with special running lifts having been installed in its legs. At the base of the tower, sci-fi authors H.G. Wells and Jules Verne had a brief meeting before Verne was kidnapped by 9-Eye and given a tour of the future by the Timekeeper. After a tour of the 20th century, Verne was brought back to Champ de Mars where he and Wells met up again and began to develop their own time machine.

In 1908, Society of Explorers and Adventurers member Lord Henry Mystic and his pet monkey Albert travelled to Paris where they watched construction of the Eiffel Tower. Part of the structure fell off due to the mischief of Albert and Lord Henry took it back to his home in Mystic Point, New Guinea as a souvenir.

Up until 1930, the Eiffel Tower was the tallest man-made structure in the word and to modern day is the tallest building in Paris and second tallest in France. Around the 1930s, it was one of the locations accessed by the Arbori sky-realm of Mayu which Arbori hang gliders used to travel across the globe. By the 21st century, the airline company Soarin' of Grizzly Peak, California and EPCOT, Florida also used the Eiffel Tower as a destination for their hang-gliding services.

## Appearances and allusions

### Delta Dreamflight/If You Had Wings

The Eiffel Tower appeared in the Paris sky-line while passing through France in this attraction.

### Explorer's Club Restaurant

A piece of the Eiffel Tower is hung in this restaurant near framed blueprints for the building from the collection of SEA member Lord Henry Mystic. Mystic acquired this artifact in 1908 when his pet monkey Albert accidentally broke it off of the tower during construction.

### It's a Small World

Colourful and cartoonish depictions of the Eiffel Tower can be seen in the France segments of this attraction. A doll representing Mary Blair stands atop the tower in Disneyland, holding a balloon.

### Mystic Manor

The Eiffel Tower makes a cameo in this attraction as seen from the window in a portrait by Charlton J. Taboret which depicts Lord Henry Mystic's victory at the 1900 Expo Universelle.

### Soarin'

The Eiffel Tower is passed overtop of by Arbori gliders in Soaring Over the Horizon in Adventure Isle and Soarin' airline hang-gliders in Soarin' Around the World in EPCOT.

### The Timekeeper

In this attraction, the Eiffel Tower appeared when the time-traveling robot 9-Eye was sent by the Timekeeper to the 1900 Expo Universelle. In the climax of the attraction, the Timekeeper showed guests a time-lapse of the Eiffel Tower being constructed and hosting the expo in the year 2189.

### Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover

The Paris scene from Delta Dreamflight was featured in the Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover before the attraction's closure and replacement with Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin.

### Web Slingers: A Spider-Man Adventure

A photograph in the headquarters for W.E.B. shows Squirrel Girl in-front of the Eiffel Tower.

### World Showcase

A smaller recreation of the Eiffel Tower appears in the France Pavilion of World Showcase.

### In other media

#### Film

##### Tarzan

An image of the Eiffel Tower is briefly shown to Tarzan by Jane Porter while explaining human culture.

##### Tomorrowland (film)

In this film, Gustave Eiffel was one of the five founders of the secret futurist society *Plus Ultra* alongside H.G. Wells, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison and Jules Verne. In this alternate-history, the tower was a concealed rocket-launch tower used to teleport members of Plus Ultra into the pocket-dimension of Tomorrowland.

## Trivia

* The tower's appearance was removed from *Soaring: Fantastic Flight* due to resembling the Tokyo Tower.

## References

1. ↑ https://tomorrowsociety.com/dreamflight-tribute/
2. ↑ http://pinkbunnyr.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-letters-of-lord-henry-mystic.html
3. ↑ https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2014/04/five-things-you-might-have-missed-in-its-a-small-world-at-disneyland-park/
4. ↑ https://www.disneyfoodblog.com/2021/06/02/photos-do-you-recognize-these-13-hidden-easter-eggs-in-disneys-avengers-campus/