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Rapa Nui

A mural depicting Harrison Hightower III leaving Rapa Nui

**Rapa Nui**, more popularly known as **Easter Island** is a real-world island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean.

## Description

Rapa Nui is a volcanic Polynesian island in the territory of Chile.

### Features

* **Moʻai**: The Moai are the island's famous monolithic statues.

## Tower of Terror connections

### Tower of Terror

In the lobby of the Hotel Hightower is a mural depicting Harrison Hightower III and Smelding leaving the island in 1881. The mural depicts them committing a crime of unfair trade, having traded a victrola to the local tribe to make off with a moʻai.

## Other appearances

### Disney's Polynesian Village Resort

A building at this resort is called Rapa Nui. Several Mo'ai also appear in the *Great Ceremonial House* within the *Ohana* restaurant.

## Trivia

* The Rapa Nuin chieftain resembles the character of Chief Nah-mee from the Jungle Cruise.

## References

1. ↑ http://ksean.com/blog/tower-of-terror-easter-island-mural/
2. ↑ https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/en\_CA/dining/polynesian-resort/ohana/
Invaders

**The Invaders** are entities from the Twilight Zone TV series connected to the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror.

## Description

In one of the realities affected by the 5th Dimension, the Invaders were astronauts of the United States military who traversed the galaxy using flying saucers.

## History

After achieving space-travel, the Invaders located a planet resembling Earth which was inhabited by humanoid giants with technology and culture seemingly identical to that of humans. They were slaughtered by a giantess farmer who destroyed their ship with a hatchet but not before warning Earth to stay away from their own safeties.

## Appearances

### The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror

The miniature suit of one of the Invaders and its knife lies on a shelf in the library of the Hollywood Tower Hotel.

## Behind the scenes

The Invaders originate from the episode, "The Invaders" of the Twilight Zone.

## Trivia

* Taneleer Tivan, the Invaders, and the Kanamit authors of *To Serve Man* are all aliens connected to the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror.

## References

1. ↑ http://towersecrets.com/twilight-zone-references-in-the-tower-of-terror/
Shirley Temple Black

**Shirley Temple Black** (born **Shirley Jane Temple**) is a historic child-actress from the 1930s. She later became ambassador for the USA in Ghana and to Czechoslovakia and a board-member for the Walt Disney Company.

## Tower of Terror appearances

### Twilight Zone Tower of Terror

The character of Sally Shine is visibly inspired by Shirley Temple and the two highly resemble one another. Additionally, a doll in her likeness is left in the lobby of the Hollywood Tower Hotel, next to a copy of *Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz* by L. Frank Baum.

### Other connections

#### Buena Vista Street

A photograph of Shirley Temple and Walt Disney at the premiere of *Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs* (1939) is hung in the Carthay Circle Restaurant.

## Other appearances

### Club 33

A photo of Walt and Shirley at the premiere of Snow White was hung in Club 33.

### The Jungle Cruise

The flooded Cambodian ruins are nicknamed by skippers as, "Shir Lee's Temple" with the likeness of historic king Jayavarman VII of the Khmer Empire being identified as the titular, "Shir Lee". Spin-off materials of the Jungle Cruise also reference Shirley Temple such as the Skipper Canteen containing a book titled, " The Lost Temple of Shir Lee by Mo Williams" or the Jungle Cruise Adventure Game having the, "Temple family" as one of the founding families for the Jungle Navigation Company.

### One Man's Dream

Shirley Temple appears at the premiere of Snow White, talking with Walt Disney.

## Trivia

* The doll of Shirley Temple in the Hollywood Tower Hotel is often connected to Talky Tina, a character from the *Twilight Zone* episode Living Doll.

## Gallery

Shirley's photo in Carthay Circle Restaurant
Firehouse Five Plus Two

**The Firehouse Five Plus Two** was a real-life 1950s Dixieland jazz band composed of animators in the Walt Disney Company. A fictionalized depiction of the band referred to as **the** **Firehouse Four** is loosely connected to the backstory of *the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror* via the *Fiddler, Fifer & Practical Cafe*.

## History

### Background

This band was founded around the 1920s the, "Firehouse Four", a group in the neighbourhood of Buena Vista Street, Los Angeles. The only known members of the original four were Frank Thomas and Ward Kimball, artists from the neighbourhood's Atwater School of Art. On the weekend of an unidentified year, the band performed in the *Fiesta Buena Vista* festival.

Around the time of the festival, the band sought to expand their ranks. The group held auditions for new members in the *Fiddler, Fifer and Practical* cafe, an establishment owned by fellow Buena Vista musicians, "The Silver Lake Sisters". Following the success of the cartoon *Steamboat Willie* in 1928, the band members were enlisted as animators for the company of neighbourhood resident Walt Disney. The band would be renamed to the Firehouse Five Plus Two, consisting of seven animators.

## Tower of Terror connections

### Buena Vista Street

The band is referenced as the, "Firehouse Four" and being active in 1920s/1930s Los Angeles, prior to the founding of The Walt Disney Company. Band members Frank Thomas and Ward Kimball are mentioned as instructors at the Atwater School of Art.

#### Atwater Ink & Paint

A bulletin-board has references to the group.

#### Fiddler, Fifer & Practical Cafe

On a bulletin-board in the Silver Lake Sisters' cafe is from the Firehouse Four, looking for new members. The flyer states them as conducting auditions within the Fiddler, Fifer & Practical Cafe itself. The bulletin-board at Atwater Ink and Paint also mentions the group as performing alongside the Silver Lake Sisters in the *Fiesta Buena Vista* festival.

## Differences from history

The fictionalized version of the band is depicted as having pre-dated the Walt Disney Company while in real life it was spawned from the company.

## Trivia

* Given references to carnival games and rides, it is possible that the Fiesta Buena Vista where the band performed was implied to be at Paradise Pier.

## References

1. ↑ http://findingmickey.squarespace.com/other-hidden-dca/buena-vista-street/15183357
2. ↑ https://duchessofdisneyland.com/california-adventure/atwater-ink-and-paint-art-supply-bulletin-board/
Holly

**Holly** is a character from the Disney Parks *Disney Attractionistas* line of dolls. She was made to represent the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror.

## Background

Each of the Attractionistas were themed to being a girl who went to the Disney Parks and wished to become a part of their favourite respective attraction on a shooting star. Holly's favourite attraction was the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, hence her becoming themed to it. Her description on the box read as:

"*Holly is a night owl - and so is her pet owl, Terra. Her parents run an old hotel with endless staircases and mysterious hallways just waiting to be explored. Late at night, Holly roams through the maze-like halls. The she stays up until dawn watching vintage black-and-white movies through the blurry, static-filled screen of her old television set. (All of these movies seem to have a sense of glamour to them - even the scary ones, which are Holly's favorites.) It is fitting that her favorite Disney Parks attraction is at the Hollywood Tower Hotel*."

## Behind the scenes

Holly's doll was exclusively sold at the Tower Gifts gift-shop of the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror in *Disney's California Adventure* and no longer sold following said attraction's closure.

## Trivia

* The name, "Holly" comes from Hollywood.
* Holly's pet owl Terra is modelled after the Owl Statue found in every version of the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror.
HOTEL HIGHTOWER MUST BE DESTROYED

***HOTEL HIGHTOWER MUST BE DESTROYED***, is a newspaper article written by Manfred Strang, published in The New York Globe Telegraph.

## Known Transcript

The city of New York is under a devilish threat and only by the demolition of the famous Hotel Hightower can the city avert more tragedy. I have gathered...

Ever since the mystery-shrouded disappearance of the very wealthy owner Harrison Hightower III the hotel has remained shuttered. There is mounting evidence that...
Bellhop

*This article is for the occupation. For the characters from the Tower of Terror franchise, see The Bellhops.*

A **bellhop** (North America) or **hotel porter** (international) is a hotel porter, who helps patrons with their luggage while checking in or out. Bellhops often wear a uniform, like certain other page boys or doormen. This occupation is also called **bellman** and **bellboy** in North America.
List of properties with shared continuity to the Tower of Terror

A compendium of properties and titles referenced as having shared-continuity to instalments within the *Tower of Terror* franchise in the Disney Parks (though some may be interpreted as Easter eggs of less canonical implications)

## Television

* **Hollywoodland**: Up until 2014, Muppet\*Vision 3D was an attraction in Hollywoodland.
* **Sunset Seasons Greetings**: One of the projections is of The Hollywood Tower of Terror as a gingerbread-house tower with animate gingerbread cookies depicting the Muppets. Leading up to this, the Swedish Chef is shown on the sign, making a gingerbread house before having his own season's greeting card.
* **Tower Hotel Gifts**: The windows have advertised *Willoughby Travel*, and the shop has had various Twilight Zone artifacts such as Talky Tina.
* **The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror**: There are a large multitude of items from the Twilight Zone, scattered throughout the hotel and references to its characters. The framing-device of the attraction is a, "Lost Episode" of the Twilight Zone TV show, hosted by the show's narrator where guests enter the show's 5th Dimension.

## References

1. ↑ https://duchessofdisneyland.com/california-adventure/buena-vista-street-mailboxes/
2. ↑ https://thedisinsider.com/2020/04/07/disney-parks-avengers-campus-is-not-mcu-canon/
3. ↑ https://disneylandmaps.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/vol-4-iss-1.pdf
4. ↑ https://www.mousesteps.com/2017/11/06/sunset-seasons-greetings-photos-and-video-tower-of-terror-projection-show-at-disney-s-hollywood-studios-includes-fun-details/
5. ↑ https://disneylandmaps.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/vol-1-iss-5.pdf
6. ↑ http://findingmickey.squarespace.com/other-hidden-dca/hollywood-land/973222
Josh Winslow

***Josh Winslow***, is a character featured both in the film Tower of Terror and it's junior novelization Tower of Terror. Although in the film he was just named *Surgeon*. The book directly gives the nameless character a name.

## Background

Winslow is a struggling Los Angeles actor who periodically is a model for Buzzy Crocker, to photograph.
Malevolent machine

The, "**Malevolent machine**" refers to the paranormal maintenance-elevator system from *the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror*. It is known as the malevolent machine in *Twilight Zone Tower of Terror: A New Dimension of Chills* where it is depicted as a kind of evil entity which is main-antagonist of one of the three stories.

## Description

This was a maintenance-elevator system used at the Hollywood Tower Hotel in Hollywood, Los Angeles. The elevator had a connection to the 5th Dimension and was used to take mortals to said realm to a dark fate. The elevators might have had a malevolent sentience of their own or possibly be an extension of the hotel and/or 5th dimension itself having a sentience. In addition to the 5th dimension, the elevators were connected to the demonic Shaft Creatures, and a variety of ghosts while being tended to by monstrous bellhops.

## History

### Background

The maintenance elevators would have been constructed between 1917 and 1939. The hotel's main elevators had a history of incidents, most notably in vanishing the Herman family during an incident in 1931. On the October 31 of 1939, the elevators were inspected and improved by a demonic creature named, "Cadwallader" in the role of a human safety-inspector. That night, five people died in the public elevators connected to the lobby and the elevator was subsequently abandoned and shut down.

The hotel was reopened in the July of 1994 with the maintenance-elevators being used in-place of the public elevators. During this time, many mortals were brought to the hotel to be killed and/or spirited away to the 5th dimension by the elevators.

## Trivia

* A, "Face" of the machine appears in the boiler-room.
Lela Ivey

Lela Ivey (born June 26, 1958, in New York City) is a veteran actor of the stage as well as a character actress of the small screen and cinema.

Ms. Ivey is a graduate of The American Academy of Dramatic Arts (NYC). For 25 years she eked out her living as mostly a supporting or bit part actress working in television, and film while building a rather impressive theatre resume while living both in New York City and Los Angeles. Some favorite stage roles include "The Waiting Room" at the Mark Taper Forum for which she received a Los Angeles Ovation Award nomination and "The Marriage of Bette and Boo" at the Los Angeles Theatre Center for which she received a Los Angeles Drama-Logue Award nomination. She also appeared at the Ipswitch Theatre Festival in Massachusetts in "Liberties Taken", directed by Julie Taymor. She is a member of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), AEA and AFTRA. Ms. Ivey is also currently serves an adjunct faculty member at Lansing Community College.

She played Patricia Petterson in Tower of Terror (film)
Citizens of Buena Vista Street

**Citizens of Buena Vista Street** is an attraction of live-performers on Buena Vista Street at Disney California Adventure.

## History

### Backstory

The citizens of Buena Vista Street are denizens of the neighbourhood Buena Vista Street during the 1920s and 1930s.

## Summary

### Characters

* **Donna "The Dog Lady" Linn De Larria**: Donna Linn De Larria is the unofficial, "Mayor" of Buena Vista Street. She gets her nickname from her beloved pet dog, "Lady".
* **Molly and Milly the Messengers**: Sisters Molly and Milly head the *Buena Vista Street Messenger Service*.
* **Officer Calvin Blue**:
* **Officer Clyde Blue**:
* **Phiphi Farouak "Phi Phi Francis the Photographer" Francis**: Phi Phi is a world-traveling photographer.

## Tower of Terror connections

### The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror

The Buena Vista Bugle identified Calvin Blue as having lead the investigation into the incident at the Hollywood Tower Hotel which occurred the Halloween of 1939.

## Trivia

* A similar attraction in Disney's Hollywood Studios is the *Citizens of Hollywood*. Incidentally, police character Officer Percival Peabody is referenced as a denizen of Buena Vista Street.

## References

1. ↑ https://disneylandmaps.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/vol-1-iss-1.pdf
2. ↑ https://duchessofdisneyland.com/california-adventure/buena-vista-street-mailboxes/
It's Raining, It's Pouring

"***It's Raining, It's Pouring***" is an English language nursery rhyme and children's song. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 16814.

The rhyme is featured in the 1997 film Tower of Terror when Sally Shine sings it as a ghost. It also appears in The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror pre-show. When the young girl also played by the same actress as Sally Shine, Lindsay Ridgeway sings it while being dragged into the elevator.

When any of The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror attractions rises to the hallway level the rhyme is heard again still being sung by the little girls ghost.

## Lyrics

It's raining; it's pouring.

The old man is snoring.

He went to bed and bumped his head,

And didn't wake up the next morning.

It's raining; it's pouring.

The old woman is snoring.

She went to bed and bumped her head,

And she couldn't get up in the morning.

It's raining; it's pouring.

The old man is snoring.

He went to bed and bumped his head,

And he couldn't get up in the morning.

It's raining; it's pouring.

The old woman is snoring.

She went to bed and bumped her head,

And she couldn't get up in the morning.

It's raining; it's pouring.

The children are snoring.

They went to bed and bumped their heads,

And they couldn't get up in the morning.
New York City Preservation Society

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**The New York City Preservation Society** or **NYCPS** for short is a fictional organization from the Tower of Terror.

## Description

The New York City Preservation Society is an institute in New York City which preserves historic sites while conducting programs to enlighten the public on their histories.

## History

### Background

The New York City Preservation Society was founded in 1912 to preserve different landmarks in New York City and enlighten the people of New York on their city's history. Among their resources were tours and a newsletter known as *The New Century Chronogram*. The group also ran early 20th century trash and recycling programs to keep the city clean.

The president of the society was one Beatrice Rose Endicott, daughter of industrial tycoon Cornelius Endicott II. On the July 12 of 1912, Beatrice was manipulated by one Archibald Smelding into using the NYCPS to deem the Hotel Hightower as a New York landmark and conduct tours within it. Smelding was once servant to the hotel's founder Harrison Hightower III who was killed in the hotel in 1899 by the vengeful god Shiriki Utundu and was left within as a ghost within. Smelding believed that he could have the NYCPS bring unknowing sacrifices for Shiriki Utundu into the hotel to free his late-master's soul.

## Appearances and allusions

### Jungle Cruise

Over the Global Broadcasting Service, Skipper Missy mentions the offerings of tours of the Hotel Hightower.

### Tower of Terror

The cast-members assume the roles of employees of the NYCPS.

### Trader Sam's Enchanted Tiki Bar

Framed on the wall of this bar is a letter for its proprietor Trader Sam sent by the New York City Preservation Society, namely via member Vanessa Capshaw. The letter details how Sam's supposed grandfather *Billamongawonga* AKA *Trader Bill* was Hightower's right-hand man and how the NYCPS removed a portrait of Bill from Hotel Hightower to be sent to Sam in 1912.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.pinterest.ca/RobYeo/\_saved/
2. ↑ https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/33636328440741011/
3. ↑ https://www.flickr.com/photos/23879054@N00/3812139380/
4. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt4NKt\_AI7K/
Michael McShane

**Michael "Mike" McShane** (born 1955/1956) is an actor, singer, and improvisational comedian. He appeared in the early 1990s on the original British television show *Whose Line Is It Anyway?*. He voiced Marlon, Caracticus P. Doom and various other characters in Cosgrove Hall's *Avenger Penguins* and Quozmir in *Dave The Barbarian*.

He played Chris Todd in the 1997 film Tower of Terror.
Los Angeles Police Department

The **Los Angeles Police Department** (**LAPD**) or **City of Los Angeles Police Department** is the real-world municipal police-department of Los Angeles, California.

## Description

The Los Angeles Police Department is a law-enforcement organization based out of Los Angeles, California.

### Members

* **Chief of Police**: In the 1920s/1930s, one chief of police was a woman who was mother to officers Calvin & Clyde Blue.
* **Calvin Blue**: The son of the chief of police, and a cop based in the neighbourhood of Buena Vista Street in the 1920s/1930s where he believed in, "Positive reinforcement" authority.
* **Pat Friskem**: Part of the, "Hollywood Police Department" in the late 1940s.
* **Clyde Blue**: Another son of the female chief-of-police who worked in Buena Vista Street around the 1920s.
* **Percival P. Peabody**: Percival P. Peabody was a police-officer active in Hollywood in the late 1940s, described as part of the, "Hollywood Police Department". He was a cautious-minded officer primarily focused on traffic-regulations.
* **Prime Brody**: Part of the, "Hollywood Police Department" in the late 1940s.
* **William Club**: Part of the, "Hollywood Police Department" in the late 1940s.

## Tower of Terror connections

### Buena Vista Street

Calvin the Cop is a live-performed character on Buena Vista Street. Officer Percival P. Peabody is identified as a resident as-well.

### Sunset Boulevard

Citizens of Hollywood features various cop characters including Percival P. Peabody, William Club, Prime Brody and Pat Friskem.

### The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror

An of the Buena Vista Bugle has an article titled, "Lightning Strikes the Hollywood Tower Hotel" identified Blue as the officer in charge of investigating the disappearances at the Hollywood Tower Hotel.

### Other connections

#### The Rocketeer

The LAPD appeared in this 1930s-set superhero film.

## Trivia

* While Calvin the Cop is generally characterized as a good-hearted pacifist, the LAPD (especially in the 1920s-1930s) in real life is infamous for its decades of police-misconduct, brutality, and racial-discrimination which continues into modern-day.
* The LAPD appeared in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), particularly through the character of *Lt. Santino* affiliated with P.I. Eddie Valiant. This film is connected to the lore of Buena Vista Street, with Eddie having a mailbox on the street, and theming scattered throughout Disney's Hollywood Studios.

## References

1. ↑ https://allears.net/2013/01/02/officer-peabody-citizen-of-hollywood/
2. ↑ https://duchessofdisneyland.com/california-adventure/buena-vista-street-mailboxes/
3. ↑ https://disneylandmaps.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/vol-1-iss-1.pdf
Mystic Manor

**Mystic Manor** is a dark-ride in Hong Kong Disneyland which has a backstory connected to that of *Tower of Terror*. The attraction is a reimagining of the Haunted Mansion albeit with no undead entities and a focus on cuteness oriented animal characters. The attraction also shares many elements in theming and story with *Tower of Terror* though is drastically tonally different, working to romanticize white colonial explorers rather than critique them like Tower of Terror does.

## Tower of Terror connections

### Tower of Terror

This attraction retconned Harrison Hightower III into being a member of the *Society of Explorers and Adventurers*, here glamorized while Tower of Terror vilified their breed. A portrait in the queue shows Harrison Hightower III holding Shiriki Utundu alongside the society in the Hotel Hightower at his New Year's Eve Party of 1899, the night of Hightower's disappearance.

### Other connections

#### Skipper Canteen

Albert and Lord Mystic have fezzes in the cabinets at the entryway to a secret S.E.A. meeting-hall. Various books in the library reference Mystic Manor including *Manor of Fact*, *Primates as Shipmates*, and *Treasures of the Manor* by Lord Henry Mystic, *FUZNEWI PDMWH CHF JD U* by Albert, and *Mysteries of Mystic Manor* by Yuen.

#### Trader Sam's Enchanted Tiki Bar

The menu descriptions by Skip Dockmonkey mention, "Trader Sam" having visited Mystic Point while studying mixology. In this same bar, Trader Sam is asserted to be the grandson of Harrison Hightower III's right-hand-man Billamongawonga.

## Trivia

* While Harrison Hightower III is portrayed as a villain while Lord Henry Mystic is often romanticized, both of them are explicitly shown grave-robbing and taking colonial artifacts for their private collections in the same fashion. Mystic has the additional context of being British and running a museum, connecting to the British Empire's history of stealing Indigenous artifacts and human-remains for museums along with him having claimed and colonized a portion of Papua New Guinea, a region historically oppressed and subjugated by the British Empire.
* A photograph of Mystic Manor opening to the public in 1908 shows Walt and Roy Disney in attendance. In real-life, they would have been incredibly young during this time.
	+ These two are major characters in the story of Buena Vista Street.
* Mystic Manor's inspiration *The Haunted Mansion* is also connected to Tower of Terror's story via its titular setting having been previously been owned by George Hightower and his bride/killer Constance Hatchaway.
* The portrait of S.E.A. from this attraction also appears as a miniature portrait in *Bengal Barbecue* at Disneyland.

## Gallery

A portrait in Mystic Manor, depicting the S.E.A. in the Hotel Hightower alongside Harrison Hightower III and Shiriki Utundu
G-Force Records Studio

*This article is on the fictional location. For the company, see G-Force Records.*

## G-Force Records Studio

### Attractions

Rock 'n' Roller Coaster starring Aerosmith

## Location Information

### Location

Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California

### Visitors

Aerosmith
Mickey Mouse (presumably)
Walt Disney Company

**The** **G-Force Records Studio** is the conjectural name for a location from *Rock 'n' Roller Coaster starring Aerosmith*.

## Description

The G-Force Records Studio was an art-deco building on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood where it neighboured the Hollywood Tower Hotel. From the 1930s to 1990s and onwards, the building served as the headquarters for the music label *G-Force Records*. In the back alley across from the studio was the *Back Alley Club* and a station used by the company *Lock 'n' Roll* which ran a limo and locker system.

### Features

* **Recording booth**:
* **Rock Around the Shop**: This was a shop which sold musical equipment and merchandise of G-Force's clientele.

## History

### Background

G-Force Records were active since the golden age of Hollywood but fell into financial ruin ever since the neighbouring *Hollywood Tower Hotel* was shut down due to the mysterious disappearances of October 31, 1939. However, in 1994 the hotel was mysteriously reopened bringing new business for G-Force Records, most notably the rock-band, *Aerosmith*. Other clients of G-Force would the likes of *Queen*, *ZZ Ward* and music divisions of the Walt Disney Company.

## Appearances

### Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith

Guests enter this studio and run into Aerosmith before leaving in Super Stretch limos to arrive at an Aerosmith concert in *The Forum*.

## Trivia

* Framed in the studio is a jacket for English rock band, *The Kinks*.

## References

1. ↑ https://wdwthemeparks.com/attraction/rock-n-roller-coaster-starring-aerosmith/
2. ↑ https://www.themeparktourist.com/features/20190402/36801/3-bizarre-secrets-about-history-disney-s-hollywood-studios?page=2
3. ↑ https://wdwthemeparks.com/attraction/rock-n-roller-coaster-starring-aerosmith/
Vanessa Capshaw

**Vanessa Capshaw‏‎** is a character from *Trader Sam's Enchanted Tiki Bar* who is part of the story of *Tower of Terror*.

## History

### Biography

Vanessa Capshaw was a member of the *New York City Preservation Society*, a New York City organization founded by Beatrice Rose Endicott in 1912. By the early November of 1912, she was involved with preservation operations at the Hotel Hightower. On November 6th, she oversaw a portrait of Harrison Hightower III's right-hand-man Billamongawonga being delivered to Bill's believed grandson, "Trader Sam".

## Appearances

### Trader Sam's Enchanted TIki Bar

Sam's letter from Vanessa is on display nearby the portrait of Trader Bill.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.mousesteps.com/2011/09/25/detailed-look-at-trader-sams-enchanted-tiki-bar-disneyland-hotel-from-august-2011/3/
Lilliput Lane Tower of Terror Collectible Sculpture

Sculptor Ray Day and Lilliput Lane teamed up to create this exquisitely detailed Tower of Terror collectible for the 2002 Disneyana convention. Ray Day is an acclaimed sculptor who has produced many other Disney designs, and Lilliput Lane is known worldwide for their miniature cottage collectibles. Only 400 individually-numbered Tower replicas were produced and sold at $325 each to individual collectors. This treasured Tower of Terror Disneyana collector’s item is rare and highly sought after.

Fellow tower fan Ryan R. kindly shares these **gorgeous**photos of his Lilliput Lane Tower of Terror collectible sculpture #002.

*There are eight “Hidden Mickeys” on the Lilliput Lane Tower of Terror sculpture – **six** of them are visible in these photos below. Can you find the six Hidden Mickeys? They look like the Sorcerer’s Hat + Mickey ears. (Answers at the bottom of this page.)*

## Gallery

Front ViewFront ViewLeft ViewRear View-gold medallion: “Official Disneyana Mystery 2002–Confidential–Limited Edition”.Right View

With so much detail packed into the sculpture, you might be  surprised to know that this Tower replica is actually **very tiny!**Here is Ray Day creating the original wax sculpture:

In fact, Ray Day shares several photos of the Tower’s wax sculpting process here. If you’d like to see how it was made, check it out!

## *Hidden Mickey Locations*

*(Don’t peek down here unless you want help finding the Hidden Mickeys on the Tower of Terror Lilliput Lane sculpture!)*

1. On the front, under the “hotel” sign
2. On the front, near the entrance gate in the greenery
3. On the left side, just above the trees on the building itself
4. On the right side, near the bottom and to the right of the “HTH” logo
5. On the right side, in the greenery just above the second flight of stairs on the left
6. On the backside, near the top of the Tower on the right
7. *(Pictured below)* On the back side, on the right under a tree and between two flowers
8. (Not pictured) On the back side, on the left where the path leads into the shrubs

*Huge thank you to reader Ryan R. for the beautiful photos of his Lilliput Lane Tower of Terror collectible sculpture!*

## References

1. ↑ http://www.rayday.com/hollywood2.htm
2. ↑ http://www.lilliputlane.co.uk/
3. ↑ http://www.rayday.com/disney.htm
4. ↑ http://towersecrets.com/lilliput-lane-tower-of-terror-collectible-sculpture/
Talky Tina

**Talky Tina** is a character from the Twilight Zone (TV series).

## History

Talky Tina was an immortal living doll, presumably given life by the 5th Dimension. When her owner's emotionally-abusive step-father threw her, she began threatening to kill him while also tormenting him. She ultimately killed him by tripping him down the stairs, resulting in a snapped neck before going on to threaten her family into making sure that they treat her right.

## Appearances

### Tower Hotel Gifts

Talky Tina appears on one of the shelves of Tower Hotel Gifts, the gift-shop built into the Hollywood Tower Hotel.

## Behind the scenes

Talky Tina originates from the episode Living Doll of the Twilight Zone TV series.

## Trivia

* The Shirley Temple doll in the lobby of the Hollywood Tower Hotel is often mistaken for being Talky Tina. Said doll is also confused for Sally Shine's Mickey Mouse plushy.

## References

1. ↑ https://wdwnt.com/2020/08/photo-report-disneys-hollywood-studios-8-24-20-star-wars-galaxys-edge-toy-story-land-paint-new-merchandise-and-more/
L. Frank Baum

**L. Frank Baum** (1856-1919) is a historic American author, best known as creator of the *Oz* book series.

## Tower of Terror connections

### The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror

A copy of Baum's book, "*Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz*" (1908) appeared on the couch in the lobby of the Hollywood Tower Hotel, nest to a Shirley Temple doll.

### Other connections

#### Disney's Hollywood Studios

A sequence based on the 1939 adaptation of *The Wizard of Oz* appeared in the classic *Disney's Hollywood Studios* attraction, *The Great Movie Ride*. The attraction's successor *Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway* also pays tribute to the film when a tornado hits a carnival and one of the objects in the twister is a mailbox with the words, "*No place like home*". Judy Garland's ruby slipper prints are in the cement outisde of the theatre with the writing, "Wizard of Oz 1939".

## Trivia

* For many years, Walt Disney wanted to adapt the Oz stories for film but was ironically blocked by many of the early copyright laws which he put forwards to monopolize other children's story rights. He aired segments of a cancelled project called *The Rainbow Road to Oz* on the Disneyland TV series and following his death, Disney's company made the films *Return to Oz* (1985) and Oz the *Great and Powerful* (2013).
* The quote, "Lions and tigers and bears, oh my" from the Wizard of Oz film is referenced in the Jungle Cruise and Atwater Ink and Paint Supply.

## References

1. ↑ https://davelandblog.blogspot.com/2014/02/twilight-zone-shirley-oz-and-jungle-book.html
2. ↑ https://blogmickey.com/2020/03/great-movie-ride-easter-eggs-in-mickey-and-minnies-runaway-railway-including-a-sound-effect/
3. ↑ https://disneydiary.com/2017/08/photos-15-of-our-favorite-handprints/
4. ↑ https://duchessofdisneyland.com/california-adventure/atwater-ink-and-paint-art-supply-bulletin-board/
Atwater Ink & Paint

**Atwater Ink & Paint** is a shop on Buena Vista Street at Disney California Adventure.

## History

### Backstory

Atwater Ink & Paint was an art-store at 2719 Buena Vista Street in Los Angeles, California during the 1920s/1930s. The upper level of the building held the, "Atwater School of Art & Animation" which had various instructors who would go on to work for Walt Disney as his, "Nine Old Men".

## Tower of Terror connections

### Fiddler, Fifer & Practical Cafe

A bulletin-board at the back of the shop mentions a performance by the Silver Lake Sisters as, "Tres Hermanas de Silver Lake" at the *Fiesta Buena Vista festival*. There is also a card advertising KBVS Radio's Classical Music Hour, presented and sponsored by the Silver Lake Sisters.

### Other connections

#### One Hundred and One Dalmatians

On the bulletin-board is an advertisement for piano-lessons from Roger Radcliffe, and a separate advertisement for dog-walking from Anita.

#### The Rocketeer

On the bulletin-board is a flyer for Bigelow's Air Circus.

## Trivia

* The name references the real-world Atwater Village where Disney animators would spend time, and Disney's, "Ink and Paint" department largely made up of infamously underpaid and poorly treated woman artists.
* The address 2719 is a reference to the address of Walt Disney's studio on Hyperion Avenue in real-life history.

## References

1. ↑ https://duchessofdisneyland.com/california-adventure/walt-disneys-nine-old-men/
2. ↑ https://duchessofdisneyland.com/california-adventure/atwater-ink-and-paint-art-supply-bulletin-board/
3. ↑ https://www.shyguysworld.com/index.php?topic=20889.0
D.J. MacHale

**Donald James MacHale** (born March 11, 1955), known popularly under the pen name **D. J. MacHale**, is a writer, director, and executive producer. He has been affiliated with shows such as *Are You Afraid of the Dark?*, *Flight 29 Down* and *Seasonal Differences*. MacHale is also the author of the popular young adult book series, *Pendragon* and *Morpheus Road*.

## Early Life

Donald James MacHale was born on March 11, 1955 in Greenwich, Connecticut. While in school, he had several jobs including collecting eggs at a poultry farm, engraving sports trophies and washing dishes in a steakhouse, in between playing football and running track.

Upon graduation, MacHale attended New York University and got a BFA in film production. He never enjoyed writing until college, where his screenwriting teacher (Pat Cooper) changed his outlook.

## Awards

MacHale won the CableACE Award for his series *Chris Cross* and the Gemini Award for *Are you Afraid of the Dark?*. It aired on YTV in Canada and Nickelodeon in the United States. MacHale won a Cableace nomination for The Tale of Cutter's Treasure, a Gemini nomination for The tale of the Dangerous Soup, a Writer's Guild of America nomination and a Director's Guild of America nomination for his popular kids TV Series, Flight 29 Down, and a Cableace nomination for Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective, a book series. His popular young adult series is titled Pendragon.

## Finished Works

* **ABC Afterschool Special** (TV Series)
* **Are You Afraid of the Dark?** (TV Series)
* **The Tale of Cutter's Treasure** (Movie)
* **The Tale of the Dangerous Soup** (Movie)
* **Tower of Terror** (Movie)
* **Flight 29 Down** (TV Series)
* **Seasonal Differences** (TV Series)
* **Ghostwriter** (TV Series)
* **Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective** (Movie Series)
* **Pendragon: Journal of an Adventure Through Time and Space** (Book Series)
* **East of the Sun and West of the Moon** (Penned Adaptation)
* **Chris Cross** (TV Series)
* **The Guide to the Territories of Halla**, (2005): provides information about The Pendragon Adventure book series up to book five, Black Waterincluding the era, land mass, events, currency, and recreation.
* **Morpheus Road (Book Series)**
* **The Monster Princess (Picture Book)**
* **SYLO (Book Series Fall 2013)**
Giza

**Giza** also known as **Gizah** or **Jizah** is a real-world city in Egypt.

Giza is a city in Egypt, located on the western bank of the Nile River.

## Tower of Terror appearances

### Tower of Terror

A mural in the Hotel Hightower depicts Harrison Hightower III and Smelding in 1887, making off from Giza and Abu Simbel in a hot-air balloon filled with stolen treasures and grave-robbed mummies while pursued by angered Egyptians. The mummies depicted in the mural also appear within the queue as part of Hightower's vault, uncovered by the New York City Preservation Society.

### Other connections

#### Jungle Cruise

In Jungle Navigation Company president Alberta Falls' office in the Amazon rainforest are photographs of unidentified individuals outside the pyramids. Alberta is also mentioned to have visited Cairo with her parents when she was a girl.

#### Soaring: Fantastic Flight

In S.E.A. member Camellia Falco's museum of flight, there is a mural which depicts the Pyramids of Giza and Great Sphinx underneath of the flying boat of the sun god, Ra.

## Other appearances

### Enchanted Tiki Room (Under New Management)

The bird William had a luggage-sticker from Egypt with the pyramids on it.

### Soarin'

The Pyramids are passed overtop of in every non California based version of Soarin'.

## Trivia

* In real-life, Abu Simbel is far from the Great Pyramids or Sphinx. Imagineer K. Sean Sullivan rationalized this as an, "artistic liberty", presumably on behalf of the fictional mural artist.

## References

1. ↑ https://parkvault.net/tag/soaring-fantastic-flight/
2. ↑ http://ksean.com/blog/tower-of-terror-mural-egypt/
Tower of Terror (lost episode)

**The Tower of Terror** is a fictitious, "Lost episode" of the *Twilight Zone* TV series featured in *the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror*.

## Summary

The Tower of Terror revolved around the missing persons incident of October 31, 1939 in the Hollywood Tower Hotel. In the episode, the Narrator oversaw five people board an elevator in the lobby of the hotel only for lightning from the 5th Dimension to strike the hotel and kill them.

In the episode, the Narrator directly broke the 4th wall to address an audience c. 1994 following the Hollywood Tower Hotel's reopening. The video was used for the Narrator to initially communicate with new victims of the hotel brought in by the hotel's bellhops who intended on sending them to the 5th Dimension.

## Transcript

Narrator:

"*You unlock this door with the key of imagination, beyond it is another dimension. A dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into . . . The Twilight Zone*"

Narrator (cont'd):

"*Hollywood, 1939. Amid the glitz and the glitter of a bustling young movie talent at the height of its golden age, the Hollywood Tower Hotel was a star in its own right. A beacon for the show business elite. Now, something is about to happen that will change all that*"

A strange high-pitched noise and ominous sounding music play. Exterior shot of elevator. Lightning hits the elevator shaft and the Twilight Zone music starts playing. The elevator crashes to the ground and the monologue resumes

Narrator (cont'd):

"The time is now, on an evening very much like the one we have just witnessed. Tonight's story on The Twilight Zone is somewhat unique and calls for a different kind of introduction. This, as you may recognize, is a maintenance service elevator, still in operation, waiting for you. We invite you, if you dare, to step aboard because in tonight's episode you are the star. And this elevator travels directly to . . . The Twilight Zone"

On this the T.V. goes blank and the lights brighten. The doors open and the"bellhop" beckons you to exit into the boiler room.

## Appearances

### Twilight Zone Tower of Terror

This, "Episode" plays in the library of the Hollywood Tower Hotel for the Narrator to deliver exposition on the hotel's origins to the audience.

## Behind the Scenes

The Tower of Terror is a fictitious episode of the Twilight Zone TV series which was created for the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror. It recycles footage of Twilight Zone narrator and creator Rod Serling from the episode, "*It's a Good Life*" with dubbing from voice-actor Mark Silverman.

## References

1. ↑ https://towersecrets.com/tower-of-terror-narration-scripts/
Billamongawonga

**Billamongawonga** or **Trader Bill** is a character from the bar *Trader Sam's Enchanted Tiki Bar* who is affiliated with the Tower of Terror.

## Background

Billamongawonga AKA Trader Bill was a South American man who specialized in the creation and trading of shrunken heads. Bill became a frequent collaborator and close ally of one Harrison Hightower III whom considered the former to be his right-hand man. A portrait of Bill would even be commissioned by Hightower and placed within the Hotel Hightower.

In 1912, the New York City Preservation Society claimed the portrait of Trader Bill and on November 6 sent it off to the man who they presumed to be his grandson, Trader Sam. Trader Sam too was a South American man who traded shrunken heads and other goods, earning him the reputation of being the, "Jungle's head salesman". When sent the portrait, Trader Sam hung up the likeness of Billamongawonga in his bar within the Polynesian isles along with the framed letter from the NYCPS.

## Appearances

### Trader Sam's Enchanted Tiki Bar

A portrait of Trader Bill is hung up in this bar along with a letter from one Vanessa Capshaw of the New York City Preservation Society detailing Trader Bill's history.

## Behind the scenes

While deeply connected to the lore of Tower of Terror, Trader Bill was made to tie into the lore of the Disney attraction known as The Jungle Cruise. Notably, Bill's alleged grandson Trader Sam is a character from said attraction. Bill was created using concept-art of Trader Sam created by Disney legend Sam McKim from whom Sam's name might originate.

## Trivia

* If Billamongawonga is truly Trader Sam's grandfather than that would mean Bill was alive since at least the 17th century. This is due to Trader Sam having been a magic-practitioner who himself was a grown man since the early 18th century. It is unknown whether or not Bill possessed any of these powers.
* Trader Sam's family is frequently characterized as having been cannibalistic up until the 1950s-1970s. It is likely that Trader Bill himself was a cannibal.
* It is unknown whether or not Trader Bill was also grandfather to Chief Nah-mee, the cousin of Trader Sam.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CIrIqKqAM1g/
2. ↑ https://www.mousesteps.com/images/stories/Disneyland/Disneyland%202011/Trader%20Sams/IMG\_7374.jpg
3. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/B2nA7-MAKn8/
Buzzy Crocker

**Buzzy Crocker** is one of the main protagonists in *Tower of Terror*, and the junior novel version based off the television movie Tower of Terror.

Crocker was in a serious relationship with Jill Perry. He was a front page writer for *The Los Angeles Banner**,* until in 1992 he was approached with a "hot" story. A video tape that showed the mayor of Los Angeles taking a bribe from the mob.

The video was a fake, Crocker was fired. As a result he lost his girlfriend, and was fired, demoted to writing for second rate news sources such was *The National Inquisitor*, and *The Global Enquirer**.*
U.S. Steamship Company

**The U.S. Steamship Company** is a fictitious group from the story of *Tower of Terror*.

## Description

The U.S. Steamship Company is an American company which created and owns a fleet of state-of-the-art steamships. They made their base in New York City out of Horatio Square. Amongst the ships in their possession were:

* **S.S. Columbia:**
* **S.S. Housatonic:**
* **S.S. Monongahela**:

## History

The U.S. Steamship Co. was founded in 1865 and was run by business-tycoon Cornelius Endicott II. Endicott's operations also involved global-shipping, steel-mills, gold-mines and railroads.

In 1909 he constructed a new vessel known as the *S.S. Columbia* with his daughter Beatrice Rose Endicott having designed the interior of the vessel. The S.S. Columbia was completed and christened the April 11 of 1911 then later made her maiden-voyage on the March 20th of 1912. The vessel departed from New York City to Liverpool, England with a guests' list including the likes of Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt and William Howard Taft.

## Appearances

### Main Street, U.S.A.

In Disneyland Paris' Main Street, U.S.A., there is mural advertisement for the U.S. Steamship Company.

### American Waterfront

Advertisements for the company appear in this land.

## Trivia

* The advertisement for the company on Main Street, U.S.A. shows Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse holding hands on the boat. It also shows characters which appear to be historic science-fiction authors H.G. Wells (1866-1946) and Jules Verne (1828-1905) as they appeared in defunct attraction, *The Timekeeper*.
	+ *The Timekeeper* has been referenced in the *Skipper Canteen*, a restaurant also connected to Tower of Terror lore.
* The advertisement for the company in Disneyland Paris replaced one for the *Mark Twain Riverboat* taking passages on the rivers of Thunder Mesa.

## References

1. ↑ https://secretsdisney.com/2019/12/15/mickey-se-cache-a-bord-du-paquebot/
Tower Hotel Gifts

**Tower Hotel Gifts** is the gift-shop for the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror.

## History

### Backstory

This establishment is the gift-shop of the Hollywood Tower Hotel, located in Hollywood, LA. The hotel was shut down in 1939 when five people disappeared in an incident which connected the hotel to the 5th Dimension and caused it to become haunted. In 1994, the hotel was mysteriously reopened with a crew of sinister bellhops and a closer connection to the paranormal.

## Trivia

* The gift-shop is known to contain certain easter-eggs.
	+ In Paris, there is a photograph of Walt Disney World's Hollywood Tower Hotel while the Parisian version of the attraction is modelled after the hotel from Disney's California Adventure.
	+ In Walt Disney World, the villainous doll *Talky Tina* from the Twilight Zone TV series is on one of the shelves.
	+ In Disney's California Adventure, one of the windows advertised *Willoughby Travel*. This was a reference to the episode *“*A Stop At Willoughby*”* of the Twilight Zone TV series.
	+ Outside the gift-shop in Disney's California Adventure were advertisements for the shop including inventory such as a broken stopwatch, gold thimble, red toy phone, electric razor and type-writer. This referenced various episodes of the Twilight Zone including *A Kind of a Stopwatch, The After Hours, Long Distance Call,* and *A Thing About Machines*.
* In Disney's California Adventure, the shop was replaced by *The Collector’s Warehouse*, themed to the *Guardians of the Galaxy* films.
* In Tokyo DisneySea, the counterpart to this shop is *Tower of Terror Memorabilia*.
* A doll over the cash register has eyes which follow guests.

## References

1. ↑ https://wanderdisney.com/item/twilight-zone-tower-of-terror-wds/
2. ↑ https://wdwnt.com/2020/08/photo-report-disneys-hollywood-studios-8-24-20-star-wars-galaxys-edge-toy-story-land-paint-new-merchandise-and-more/
3. ↑ https://towersecrets.com/twilight-zone-references-in-the-tower-of-terror/