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AMERICAN ADVENTURER'S MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE

*AMERICAN ADVENTURER'S MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE,* is a prop newspaper article featured in the fictitious London Globe Telegraph. The article was published January 1, 1900 and reported the disappearance of Harrison Hightower III.

## Known Transcript

**AMERICAN ADVENTURER'S MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE**

*Harrison Hightower III, the enigmatic American millionaire explorer, disappeared last night in New York City.*

Mr. Hightower, who built New York's landmark Hotel Hightower, and lives there in an extraordinary penthouse apartment, whenever he isn't traveling the world, was last seen entering the private elevator to his suite of rooms.

...below. Thankfully, Hightower was not found in the wreckage, so either he escaped unhurt or he was not on the elevator in the first place. He has yet to be located, but it was a chaotic night, and he is no doubt thunderstruck over the shocking events at his beloved hotel.

...good fortune only a few small fires were started, and quickly put out. People on the street helped with the evacuation as best they could, but in those first terrifying moments nobody knew what would happen next. For all anyone knew the whole building might collapse at any moment so guests were not allowed to return to their rooms...
Production Courtyard

**The Production Courtyard** is a themed, "Land" in Walt Disney Studios Park. It is the area which holds *Twilight Zone Tower of Terror: A New Dimension of Chills*.

## History

### Background

The production courtyard is themed to being a Hollywood production area.

### Development history

Walt Disney Studios Park is the younger sister-park to *Disney's Hollywood Studios*. The Production Courtyard functions as Walt Disney Studios park's, "Main Street".
Dewey Todd

## Character Information

### Appearance

Has dark hair, wears gold rimmed eyeglasses, a bellhop uniform and a brass pin with his name engraved.

### Allies

Emeline Partridge, Sally Shine, Gilbert London, Claire Poulet, Chris Todd

### Fate

Struck by lightning while riding an elevator along with four others

**Dewey Todd** is a character from the 1997 made-for-TV film *Tower of Terror*, based on the bellhop character from The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror attraction. He was portrayed by Parviz Perry Vessali in the attraction, and by John Franklin in the film.

## History

### Biography

#### Twilight Zone Tower of Terror

Dewey Todd was a bellhop at the Hollywood Tower Hotel during the 1930s. On the October 31 of 1939, Todd worked one of the hotel's elevators where he would bring guests to the Halloween party on the 13th floor. While on the way up with four guests, the elevators were struck by mysterious lightning originating from the 5th dimension which caused the elevator to plummet and send those inside to their deaths. Dewey and the other four were subsequently left as ghosts, bound to the 5th dimension and to the hotel.

#### Tower of Terror (film)

The son of hotel magnate Dewey Todd, Sr., Dewey Todd, Jr. worked as a lowly bellhop at the Hollywood Tower Hotel prior to and during the events of the film. Being clumsy and sloppy, he often bumped into people and thus earned the ire of Gilbert, whom he has a rather lukewarm relationship with. Guilt-ridden, he blamed himself for the Halloween incident, later vowing to his grandson that he will "do something right", as he wasn't able to perform his duties properly as a porter and elevator operator when he was alive, let alone manage the hotel.

Dewey was also initially indifferent if not outright hostile towards Buzzy and Anna. At first he and the other ghosts warded them off the hotel, wary of any intruders attempting to disturb them. He later lashed out at Buzzy for profiting from their deaths out of greed, bitterly comparing himself and the others to "zoo animals" should they be featured in the newspaper, but had a change of heart and jubilantly expressed his optimism when Buzzy and Anna promised to help bring closure to their fates.

## Appearances

### Attractions

#### The Buena Vista Bugle

The hotel's five central ghosts were photographed in the story, "Ghost Hunters Materialize at Hollywood Tower Hotel", an article released on the anniversary of their deaths.

## References

1. ↑ https://disneylandmaps.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/vol-1-iss-4.pdf
Fantasmic!

**Fantasmic!** is a nighttime show at Disneyland, Disney's Hollywood Studios and Tokyo DisneySea.

## History

### Backstory

Fantasmic!'s framing device is being a show held in the *Hollywood Hills Amphitheater* on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, LA. The show follows the magical dreams of Mickey Mouse which are invaded by a multitude of villains summoned by the Evil Queen from *Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs* (1937) to destroy him and his imagination. Ultimately this results in a climactic duel between Mickey and the villainous dark fairy Maleficent who assumes a fire-breathing dragon-form to attack him.

## Tower of Terror connections

### Sunset Seasons Greetings

The narration claims that the hotel changes due to the magic of imagination (referencing the motif of Fantasmic!), while The Hollywood Hills Amphitheatre changes along with the hotel to show seasons' greeting cards.

### The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror

The *Hollywood Hills Amphitheater* is located adjacent to the Hollywood Tower Hotel on Sunset Boulevard and have shared visual theming due to their close proximity. Because of this, Fantasmic! elements (most notably the dragon form of Maleficent) are frequently affiliated with the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror in merchandise and paraphernalia, not dissimilarly to the Tower of Terror's sister-attraction *The Rock 'n' Roller Coaster*.

## Trivia

* Some of the film characters featured have assorted connections to the Tower of Terror's backstory:
	+ Cruella de Vil from *One Hundred and One Dalmatians* (1961) is one of the villains summoned by the Evil Queen. One Hundred and One Dalmatians has been previously connected to the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror's mythos via Roger Radcliffe being a citizen of Buena Vista Street, advertised in the *Fiddler, Fifer & Practical Cafe*. Cruella herself sometimes appears in Hollywood Land and American Waterfront.
	+ Ursula and Ariel both are shown to have had artifacts of theirs uncovered by Captain Mary Oceaneer by the 1950s and left in her ship's wreckage in Typhoon Lagoon. Characters from the Little Mermaid are also affiliated with Paradise Pier.
	+ Jafar's pet parrot Iago was once co-owner of the Enchanted Tiki Room, the setting of Tropical Hideaway. Iago and his ownership of the Tiki Room is also referenced in the library of the Skipper Canteen.
	+ Maleficent's dragon form is featured on a map in the Skipper Canteen made by S.E.A. members Jason Chandler and Captain Brieux.
Abu Simbel

**Abu Simbel** is a real-world temple in Egypt.

## Description

Abu Simbel is a rock-cut temple in the Aswan Governorate of Upper Egypt where it borders Sudan. The temple is a monument to Ramesses II, his wife Nefertari and their children.

## Tower of Terror appearances

### Tower of Terror

A mural in the Hotel Hightower depicts Abu Simbel as an Egyptian location which Hightower and Smelding escape from when chased by an angry mob after grave-robbing in 1887.

## 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. ↑ http://ksean.com/blog/tower-of-terror-mural-egypt/
Hollywood Sign

The **Hollywood Sign**, formerly known as the **Hollywoodland Sign** is a real-world structure in Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles.

## History

### Background

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## Tower of Terror appearances

### Attractions

#### Production Courtyard

Hollywood Hills was depicted in the entrance facade for the *Studio Tram Tour*.

#### The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror

Promotional materials and artwork often show the Hollywood Tower Hotel as being directly in-front of the sign. The hotel itself is situated on, "Sunset Hills Estates" while its neighbour the Hollywood Hills Amphitheater has Hollywood Hills in its name.

### Film

#### Tower of Terror

The sign appears directly behind the Hollywood Tower Hotel in this film.

### Other connections

#### The Rocketeer

In this film, nazi sleeper-agent/Hollywood actor Neville Sinclair dies when his zeppelin crashes into the, "Land" part of the Hollywoodland sign in a fiery explosion.

#### Rock 'n' Roller Coaster starring Aerosmith

While speeding through LA to arrive at an Aerosmith concert on time, riders drive their Super-Stretch limos through the first, "O" of the Hollywood Sign.

## Other appearances

### The Great Movie Ride

The sign appeared as the, "Hollywoodland Sign" in the load-area, as seen from the Chinese Theatre.

### Superstar Limo

A cartoon version of the sign appeared in this infamous attraction.

## Gallery

In the filmIn the Great Movie RideIn the Rock 'n' Roller CoasterIn the Rocketeer
Camp Discovery

**Camp Discovery** is an attraction in Shanghai Disneyland with a story connected to the Tower of Terror.

## History

### Backstory

Camp Discovery is a 1930s outpost on the South American island of, "Adventure Isle". This camp was created by a band of explorers called the League of Adventurers who were stranded on the isle during a storm, Here, the league joined forces with the indigenous Arbori tribe whom they learned from.

## Tower of Terror connections

### The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror

On an edition of *First International News* hung up is a story from July 15, 1931 titled, "Tragic Accident at Hollywood Tower Hotel". The article details how Hollywood's wealthy Herman family died in an elevator crash while trying to reach the *Tip Top Club* on the 13th floor of the Hollywood Tower Hotel. The article goes on to state that the corpses of the dead were not recovered, implying that the deaths were connected to the 5th Dimension. This newspaper reveals that there were paranormal incidents at the Hollywood Tower Hotel years before the 1939 incident which had the hotel closed.

### Other connections

#### Expedition Everest

A pinned newspaper article titled "LoA's First fixed Ropes Traverse System Finds Yeti" explained that the league was a attacked by the Yeti of the Forbidden Mountain in 1930 while attempting to build a, "Fixed Rope Transit System" through the Himalayas. The league also has a pinned photograph of the yeti, attacking them and badges for commemorating, "Expedition Everest".

#### The Haunted Mansion

A story from the September 22 of 1936 was titled, "New Orleans House Haunted" and featured a photograph of the Haunted Mansion alongside the Johnson family speaking on having been terrorized by ghosts after purchasing the manor. The newspaper also mentions heightened activity in the house since the death of its previous owners, possibly referencing Constance Hatchaway who died in 1927. The Johnsons additionally speak on having been terrorized by Jack Skellington and Zero from *Tim Burton's the Nightmare Before Christmas* (1993) around the holiday season, referencing the story of the *Haunted Mansion Holiday* overlay.

#### Indiana Jones Adventure: Temple of the Crystal Skull

The same newspaper with the story on the Hollywood Tower Hotel had a front-page story on Indiana Jones and the League of Adventurers joining forces to uncover the Temple of the Crystal Skull in the Lost River Delta of Cusco, Peru.
Oswald

**Oswald** is a fictional character from Buena Vista Street. He is a central and eponymous character for the shop *Oswald's* which is connected to the story of the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror.

## History

Oswald was a mechanic living in the neighbourhood of Buena Vista Street, Los Angeles, during the 1920s-1930s. He ran a gas-station and tire outlet on *2600 Buena Vista Street*. At some point, Oswald had connections to a younger Walt Disney. Oswald inspired Walt to create the character of, "Oswald the Lucky Rabbit" who became mascot of Oswald's filling station.

## Tower of Terror connections

### The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror

Radios will play the broadcast of KBVS Radio which includes Anthony Fremont and his orchestra playing from the Tip Top Club.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.mouseplanet.com/10464/D23\_Expo\_\_Broadcasts\_From\_Buena\_Vista\_Street
Raging Spirits

**Raging Spirits** is an attraction in the Lost River Delta of *Tokyo DisneySea*.

## History

### Backstory

Raging Spirits is set in a 5000 year-old temple in the Lost River Delta of Cusco, Peru. The temple was dedicated to water and fire deities which could never face one another lest the land be thrown into pandaemonium. In 1883, the temple was visited by Harrison Hightower III and his manservant Archibald Smelding who desecrated the temple to add parts of it to Hightower's collection. Hightower stole the head of the water altar and transported it to his base in the Hotel Hightower.

In the 1930s, the *Cantera El Barranca Rocoso* archaeological team began excavating the ruined temple while also attempting to restore it. The archeological team did such thanks to the *Hightower Trust* sending artifacts from the Hotel Hightower back to the Lost River Delta. However, the team restored the idols in such a way that they faced one another, resulting in the spirits causing anarchy throughout the base.

## Tower of Terror connections

### Tower of Terror

The temple's desecration was the result of Harrison Hightower III and Smelding. Artwork in the Hotel Hightower shows them on a boat, making off with the head of the water idol. A photo from the *New York City Preservation Society* shows Hightower outside the temple setting of the attraction.

## Trivia

* The design of the temple was inspired by Emperor Kuzco's palace from *The Emperor's New Groove* (2000).
Flower Street Players

## The Flower Street Players

The **Flower Street Players** are a group of characters from Buena Vista Street, loosely connected to the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror.

## Description

The Flower Street Players were a theatre-troop active in Los Angeles around the 1920s. They were known to perform on *KBVS Radio*, broadcast to the neighbourhood of Buena Vista Street. On this station they had a radio-drama known as, "Scary Symphonies" in-which they acted out horror stories as-if being reported on by the station.

### Members

* **Barry Michaelson**:
* **Cannon (surname)**:
* **Edith Gribbon**:
* **Floyd Semonton**:
* **Jack Pickford**:
* **Olive Borden**:
* **Ralph Kimball**:
* **Roland Hamilton**:
* **Taylor (surname)**:

## History

### Background

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## Appearances

### Buena Vista Street

#### Atwater Ink & Paint

There is a flyer on the bulletin board for the Players' musical-performance of, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" in the Hyperion Theatre.

#### Julius Katz & Sons

The KBVS broadcasts can be heard over the radio.

#### Oswald's

The KBVS broadcasts can be heard over the radio.

## Tower of Terror connections

### Hollywood Land

The poster for their Snow White performance identified them as playing in the *Hyperion Theatre*, a theatre of Hollywood Land which is located at the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Sunset Boulevard.

### The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror

The players played audio of Twilight Zone character Anthony Fremont and his Orchestra performing in the Tip Top Club of the Hollywood Tower Hotel during their Scary Symphonies performance. KBVS radio was also sponsored by the Silver Lake Sisters.

## Trivia

* The name of the Flower Street Players is a reference to Disney Imagineering's office at *1401 Flower Street*.
* The way in which the players presented the *Scary Symphony* as-if it were real-events being reported on is inspired by Orson Welles' 1938 *War of the Worlds* broadcast.
* Scary Symphonies' name is inspired by *Silly Symphonies*, cartoon shorts made by the Walt Disney Company in the 1920s-1930s. Their broadcast story is inspired by the 1929 short, "Skeleton Dance". The segment ended with Walt Disney saying he was inspired by the events (though the real-life short was primarily developed, animated, and directed by Ub Iwerks).

## References

1. ↑ https://duchessofdisneyland.com/california-adventure/atwater-ink-paint/
Morocco Pavilion

**The Morocco Pavilion** is a pavilion in *World Showcase* at EPCOT in Walt Disney World. It has a shared development history with the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror.

## History

### Backstory

EPCOT is a futuristic *Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow*, located in central Bay Lake, Florida. One of EPCOT's features is, "World Showcase" which has pavilions that host and promote different governments from across the world. The Morocco Pavilion represents the North African country of Morocco while being designed to resemble a village.

## Tower of Terror connections

### The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror

The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror's show-building is visible behind the Morocco Pavilion from across the World Showcase Lagoon. Because of this, the Hollywood Tower Hotel was designed with Neo-Mediterranean architecture so that it would blend in with the skyline of the Morocco Pavilion.

## Trivia

* The designing of the pavilion was actually assisted by the Kingdom of Morocco. It is the only pavilion in World Showcase to have had the real-world government involved in the design process.
* The area contains theming and references to *Aladdin* (1992) and *Casablanca* (1942), films which are respectively referenced in the Tower of Terror affiliated Tropical Hideaway, Skipper Canteen and Disney's Hollywood Studios.

## Gallery

The Tower of Terror, visible from World Showcase
Hollywood Land

**Hollywood Land** is a themed, "Land" in Disney California Adventure.

### Development history

Disney California Adventure was made as an unsuccessful scheme by then Disney CEO Michael Eisner to take over California's tourism industry by recreating all of California's main sights in one park. Hollywood Land was an attempt at recreating the glamour of Hollywood within the park and would have largely centred around a *Rock 'n' Roller Coaster* type attraction called *Superstar Limo*. However, the attraction had to be changed to a dark-ride revolving around self-referential show-business humour. This became one of Disney's most hated attractions and was taken down in 2006, only 5 years after its opening to be replaced by *Monsters, Inc. Mike & Sulley to the Rescue!*.

Eisner's plan for Disney California Adventure was unsuccessful and the park was generally considered a failure. In 2004, Hollywood Land did hold the park's most popular and recognizable attraction, *The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror* which was a shorter recreation of the attraction from Disney's Hollywood Studios. In 2017, the attraction *Guardians of the Galaxy - Mission: BREAKOUT!* was integrated and lead to parts of Hollywood Land being turned into the new area of Avengers Campus.

## Tower of Terror attractions

### Monsters, Inc. Mike & Sulley to the Rescue!

A towel with the Hollywood Tower Hotel logo sometimes makes a cameo in this attraction.

### Red Car Trolley

Hollywood Land was one of the trolley's stops, and previously had a poster showing the Hollywood Tower Hotel as well as advertisements for the hotel within the trolley.

### The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror

Hollywood Land held Disney California Adventure's Tower of Terror.
Ancient Temple

The **Ancient Temple** is the conjectural name for the setting of *Raging Spirits* in *Tokyo DisneySea*.

## Description

This was a mesoamerican temple dedicated to the worship of a fire god and water god. The temple was located in the Lost River Delta of Cusco, Peru.

## History

### Background

This temple was constructed around 5000 years prior to 1931 in tribute to a water god and fire god. The temple was lost in an unspecified event and reclaimed by the jungle.

In 1883, the temple was desecrated by evil colonial explorer Harrison Hightower III and his loyal manservant, Smelding. The duo stole the Water God's idol and took off with it in a canoe, upsetting the natural order of the delta. The idol was later placed within Hightower's lair, the Hotel Hightower in New York City.

During the early 1930s, the  *Cantera El Barranca Rocoso* archaeological team acquired the idol's head from the *Hightower Trust* but put it on backwards, facing the water-god. Because of this, the two rival gods caused supernatural incidents of fire and water around the temple.

## Tower of Terror appearances

### Tower of Terror

The temple appears on a mural in the Hotel Hightower, showing it being robbed by Hightower and Smelding.

## Behind the scenes

The design of the temple was inspired by Emperor Kuzco's palace from *The Emperor's New Groove* (2000).

## References

1. ↑ http://ksean.com/blog/tower-of-terror-tokyo-disney-seas/
Lightning Strikes the Hollywood Tower Hotel

**Lightning Strikes the Hollywood Tower Hotel** is a Buena Vista Bugle article from volume 1, issue 1. The article was accompanied by a photograph of the Hollywood Tower Hotel, without its elevator shafts while being struck by lightning.

## Transcript

#### Guests Evacuated. Mysteries Remain.

"A billion-to-one-shot," described investigators in the aftermath of last night's phantom storm. Although most of Hollywood Land was spared, the Hollywood Tower Hotel met a shocking fate of cloudy origins. "It's like it was chosen!" shook one charged witness.

As structural damages were assessed, guests were transferred to surrounding properties. Inexplicably, five patrons who were seen entering an elevator remain missing. "We'll find them, brave citizens" stated Police Officer Calvin Blue. "One way or another, they'll pop up. And when they do, good behaviour citations for all!"

For an up-close and personal look, take a Red Car Trolley - Hollywood Land bound, as far as she'll take you. Disembark and proceed with trepidation.

**City officials jolted by incident.**

## Trivia

* The article inaccurately refers to Dewey Todd as a hotel patron while he was actually staff.
* The article may be anachronistic with the rest of the newspaper which mentions the opening of the Carthay Circle Theatre and Red Car Trolley.
Duke Ellington

**Edward Kennedy** "**Duke**" **Ellington** (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over fifty years.

Born in Washington, D.C., Ellington was based in New York City from the mid-1920s onward, and gained a national profile through his orchestra's appearances at the Cotton Club in Harlem. In the 1930s, his orchestra toured in Europe. Though widely considered to have been a pivotal figure in the history of jazz, Ellington embraced the phrase "beyond category" as a liberating principle, and referred to his music as part of the more general category of American Music, rather than to a musical genre such as jazz.

Some of the musicians who were members of Ellington's orchestra, such as saxophonist Johnny Hodges, are considered to be among the best players in jazz. Ellington melded them into the best-known orchestral unit in the history of jazz. Some members stayed with the orchestra for several decades. A master at writing miniatures for the three-minute 78 rpm recording format, Ellington often composed specifically to feature the style and skills of his individual musicians.

Often collaborating with others, Ellington wrote more than one thousand compositions; his extensive body of work is the largest recorded personal jazz legacy, with many of his works having become standards. Ellington also recorded songs written by his bandsmen, for example Juan Tizol's "Caravan", and "Perdido", which brought a Spanish tinge to big band jazz. After 1941, Ellington collaborated with composer-arranger-pianist Billy Strayhorn, whom he called his writing and arranging companion. With Strayhorn, he composed many extended compositions, or suites, as well as additional short pieces. Following an appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival, in July 1956, Ellington and his orchestra enjoyed a major career revival and embarked on world tours. Ellington recorded for most American record companies of his era, performed in several films, scoring several, and composed stage musicals.

Due to his inventive use of the orchestra, or big band, and thanks to his eloquence and charisma, Ellington is generally considered to have elevated the perception of jazz to an art form on a par with other more traditional musical genres. His reputation continued to rise after he died, and he was awarded a special posthumous Pulitzer Prize for music in 1999.

His song Alabamy Home is used in the queue line of The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror.
Joe

**Joe** is a character who appeared at Disney California Adventure's Twilight Zone Tower of Terror during its final days.

## History

"Joe" was a music technician who was found in the haunted Hollywood Tower Hotel around the 1990s-2010s. He assisted the musical Silver Lake Sisters in their hotel performances where the sisters believed it was still the 1920s-1930s and were not aged past said eras. Joe's origins and connections to the hotel remain a mystery.

## Appearances

### The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror

When the attraction was in its final days at Disney California Adventure, Joe appeared in the lobby to play music for the Silver Lake Sisters to perform to.

## Trivia

* It is possible Joe's name is a tribute to Imagineer Joe Rohde who was involved with Tokyo DisneySea's *Tower of Terror*, and *Guardians of the Galaxy - Mission: BREAKOUT!*.
The Bellhops

**The Bellhops** are characters from the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror.

## Description

The Bellhops are attendants of the Hollywood Tower Hotel, a structure on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, LA. Since at-least the hotel's convergence with the 5th Dimension, the bellhops have acted as mysterious and malevolent entities in the hotel. The nature of the bellhops is unknown though they appear unnatural with consistent features of pale skin, sunken eyes, no acknowledgement of the year being anything past 1939, and faces sometimes shown flashing into skeletal forms.

The bellhops have a yet unrevealed connection to the 5th Dimension and use the hotel to send human mortals into the realm with intents to kill and/or trap them. While connected to the 5th dimension, they do not appear to be aligned with Sally Shine or the Narrator who seemingly worked to save at-least one group of would-be-victims from the bellhops. The bellhops are seemingly affiliated with other malevolent entities in the hotel such as the Shaft Creatures or the hotel's own homicidal elevator machine.

## History

### Background

The bellhops are employees of the Hollywood Tower Hotel who ran the hotel since its glory days. On the October 31 of 1939, bellhop Dewey Todd died when paranormal from the 5th Dimension struck one of the elevator shafts of the hotel and turned those within into ghosts. A more uncanny group of bellhops managed the hotel following the hotel's 1994 reopening. They were seemingly frozen in the 1930s and had an apparent interest in sending guests to the 5th Dimension for unknown reasons.

## Appearances

### Attractions

#### Guardians of the Galaxy - Mission: BREAKOUT!

A bellhop's hat from the Hollywood Tower Hotel appears in the fortress office of Taneleer "The Collector" Tivan within this attraction.

#### Twilight Zone Tower of Terror

The bellhops are portrayed by the cast-members of this attraction within macabre characters. One bellhop has a voice-over at the beginning and end of the ride, providing safety instructions for sitting within the maintenance elevators of the hotel.

### Promotional materials

The bellhops regularly appear in commercials and web-media promoting the parks. Most of these videos are in-universe and show the bellhops tending to the hotel's victims.

## Trivia

* The bellhops are one of the rare instances of cast-members in a Disney attraction assuming roles that are central to the property's story and iconography. The other most notable instance would be the skippers from the Jungle Cruise.
* The bellhops are similar to the servants from the Haunted Mansion.
* In *Tower of Terror*, the bellhops are replaced by the far less sinister employees of the *New York City Preservation Society*.
* Supposedly, bellhops who wear gold epaulets are cast-members who worked at the attraction since opening-day.

## Gallery

One of the bellhops' hat in the Collector's office
## References

1. ↑ https://www.laughingplace.com/w/articles/2019/10/01/review-the-twilight-zone-tower-of-terror-a-new-dimension-of-thrills-at-disneyland-paris/
Global Broadcasting Service

The **Global Broadcasting Service** is a fictional radio service from the Jungle Cruise, connected to the story of Tower of Terror.

## Description

### Mission

The Global Broadcasting Service was an international, colonial broadcasting service run by the *Greenwater Production Company* and *Jungle Navigation Company* during the 1930s. The service broadcast news, reports, weather updates, and music to colonial outposts across the globe.

### Members

* **Nigel Greenwater**: Nigel Greenwater was an English employee of the Jungle Navigation Company who was the apparent head of the Global Broadcasting Service. He was the self-proclaimed, "Voice of Civilization" who announced for the radio-service during the mid 1930s along with being head of *Nigel Greenwater's Trivial Trivia League*, author of the book *Survival in the Entertainment Jungle*, and recipricantt for the 1936 "Announcer of the Year" award.
* **Skipper Missy**: Skipper Missy was a woman broadcaster of seemingly Indian descent active as an announcer in the late 1930s. Missy was also the sister of Albert Awol, an announcer for the similar JNC service of AWOL Airwaves.

## History

### Background

The Global Broadcasting Service was founded prior to 1936 to assist the ongoings of international colonial company, the Jungle Navigation Company.

## Tower of Terror connections

### Tower of Terror

In her audio loop, Skipper Missy will promote tours of the Hotel Hightower. The broadcast has also made references to the Skipper Canteen and Trader Sam which have their own lore connections to the franchise.

### Other connections

#### The Adventurers Club

Skipper Missy brings up the broadcast's affiliation with the Adventurers Club, having club members on to promote their annual open house galas.

#### Indiana Jones

Nigel Greenwater made mention of Indiana Jones and Marcus Brody's excavation of the Temple of the Forbidden Eye.

## Trivia

* The service will play Flamingo by Duke Ellington whose music is also played in the queue for the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror.

## External links

* *Global Broadcasting Service* on the *Jungle Cruise Wiki*.
The Clarion

The ***Clarion*** was a weekly newspaper published by Robert Blatchford, based in the United Kingdom. It was a socialist publication though adopting a British-focused rather than internationalist perspective on political affairs, as seen in its support of the British involvement in the Anglo-Boer Wars and the First World War.

Its name can be seen on a newspaper clipping in the film *Tower of Terror*.

The only known article is about the disappearances of the Hollywood Tower Hotel.
Hightower's Pride

**Hightower's Pride** is a location from *Tower of Terror*.

## Description

Hightower's Pride was the 19th century private-yacht of Harrison Hightower III. The ship was used primarily for transporting stolen and grave-robbed goods from Hightower's colonial expeditions with the amoral organizations the *Pillagers Brigade* and *Society of Explorers and Adventurers*.

## History

### Background

Hightower's Pride was the private yacht of the evil colonial explorer Harrison Hightower III. In the January of 1899, Hightower used the yacht to travel to the Congo Basin so he could loot Indigenous tribes.

## Appearances

### Tower of Terror

The Hotel Hightower contains references to the yacht and a mural of it.
Aunty's Beach House

**Aunty's Beach House** is a kid's club at Disney's Aulani resort. It contains story references to Tokyo DisneySea's Tower of Terror.

## History

### Backstory

This beach house is located on the island of Aulani and was owned by a woman known as, "Aunty", and her late husband "Dreamy" Ka'imi from the *Adventurers Club*.

## Tower of Terror connections

### Tower of Terror

There is a portrait in the beach house which is a repurposed prop from the Adventurers Club, picturing a group lineup which included Merriweather Adam Pleasure. A letter alongside it from club president Pamelia Perkins explains that the portrait depicts the club's amoral ancestors, "The Pillagers Brigade" whose ranks included Harrison Hightower III. The events of portrait are identified as the same expedition to the Congo where Hightower stole Shiriki Utundu from the Mtundu tribe.

## References

1. ↑ https://jungleskipper.com/uploads/posts/sea-part-1/PameliaPerkinsLetter.jpg
HIGHTOWER

***HIGHTOWER,*** was a fictional newspaper article published on July 20, 1912.

## Transcript

"*For thirteen years Hotel Hightower has loomed over New York, abandoned, boarded up, inaccessible. It's great shattered windows giving it an aspect of sadness and despair. It's salons and halls, once filled with music and the laughter of the elite, are as empty as a tomb. I have grown up in it's shadow and have always considered the Hightower to be the grandest achievement of a former age. As a young woman I danced in the Atlantis Ballroom to the strains of the Hightower Walts. It has been my fondest dream that one day it's doors would reopen to throngs of smiling guests, and its windows would once again pulse with light and life."*
South Seas Club

**The South Seas Club** is a location from the 1991 film *The Rocketeer* which is referenced in the *Fiddler, Fifer & Practical Cafe*.

## Description

The South Seas Club is a nightclub located in Hollywood in Los Angeles, California. Its most memorable feature was its intricately designed, nautical-themed stage which had nightly entertainer performances.

## History

The club was a considerably high-class nightclub during the 1930s, likely rivalling even the Tip Top Club in terms of popularity. At some point prior to 1939, the club took in the Silver Lake Sisters of vaudeville-circuit fame to perform.

## Tower of Terror appearances

### Fiddler, Fifer & Practical Cafe

A poster advertising the Silver Lake Sisters performing at the South Seas Club is hung up in this café.

## Other appearances

### Attractions

#### Jock Lindsey's Hangar Bar

There are coasters from the South Seas Club in the collection of Jock Lindsey, a member of the *Society of Explorers and Adventurers*.

#### Trader Sam's Enchanted Tiki Bar

There is a coat-check ticket from the South Seas Club in the possession of Trader Sam in this bar.

#### Trader Sam's Grog Grotto

A menu from the club is hung on the wall of Trader Sam's Polynesian isle bar, indicating that he had a notable experience there.

## Trivia

* The South Seas Club's name is a tribute to *Pacific Comics* which created the character of the Rocketeer.
* In addition to being connected to *The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror* via the Silver Lake Sisters, the South Seas Club is indirectly connected to Tower of Terror as:
	+ Jock Lindsey was a member of the *Society of Explorers and Adventurers*, the same society as Harrison Hightower III.
	+ Trader Sam is a past contact of the *New York City Preservation Society* who is the alleged grandson of Hightower's right-hand man Trader Bill.
* The South Seas Club and Club Ritz from Dick Tracy are both fictional 1930s nightclubs from 1990s films based on comics which the Fiddler, Fifer & Practical Cafe has posters identifying the Silver Lake Sisters as having performed in.
Hightower family

The Hightower family is a family featured in Tower of Terror.

## History

The Hightower family was a very rich and powerful American family during the 19th century and which persisted to some extent into the 20th. They had a business in the form of Hightower Industries which was active by the 1930s.

## Homes

Known homes of the Hightower family throughout history and different continuities.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjwS93tMpFM
2. ↑ http://doombuggies.com/history7.html
Emile Richebourg

**Émile Richebourg,** born May 25, 1833, in the small French community of Meuvy located in the Haute-Marne region, was a notable French author.

The second volume of his novel *La Dame En Noir*, *The Woman In Black*, is used as a prop in the gift shop of The Hollywood Tower Hotel, The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror in Paris, France.

## References

* http://data.bnf.fr/12441342/emile\_richebourg/
Hightower Spirit of Adventure Award

**The Hightower Spirit of Adventure Award** is a fictional award from the Skipper Canteen restaurant which is connected to the Tower of Terror.

## Description

The *Hightower Spirit of Adventure Award* was a certificate handed out by the *Society of Explorers and Adventurers*, a secret-society of colonial explorers and aristocrats. The award was given to S.E.A. members by senior members, presumably for representing, "Spirit of Adventure" virtues as deemed by the society.

## History

### Background

#### Origins

The *Hightower Spirit of Adventure Award* was made as a tribute to the evil Harrison Hightower III, a villainous member of S.E.A. who travelled the world looting graves and pillaging Indigenous peoples. Hightower died in 1899 at a New Year's Eve Party in the Hotel Hightower where he disrespected the stolen idol, Shiriki Utundu.

#### Recipricantt

On the August 19 of 1921, the award was given to one Dr. Albert Falls, a British colonizer and colonial explorer who had founded the international *Jungle Navigation Company*. The award was officiated to Falls by senior-member Captain Mary Oceaneer, a peer of Hightower's who had even attended the Hotel Hightower on the day of his disappearance to celebrate how he had stolen Shiriki Utundu.

## Appearances

### Skipper Canteen

The certificate is framed on the wall in the secret, S.E.A. meeting hall.

## Trivia

* The term, "Spirit of Adventure" might be an allusion to the character of Charles Muntz from the film Up, a villain very similar to Harrison Hightower III.

## References

1. ↑ https://parkvault.net/2018/10/10/hightower-hotel-in-new-york-part-6-of-our-freefall-series/skipper-canteen-3/
American Waterfront

The **American Waterfront** is a themed, "Land" in Tokyo DisneySea.

## History

### Backstory

The American Waterfront is themed towards coastal America in the early 20th century. Predominate settings include New York City, and the New England town of Cape Codde or Cape Cod.

## Tower of Terror attractions

There are plaques from the *New York City Preservation Society* throughout the land.

### S.S. Columbia

The S.S. Columbia is themed to having been owned by Cornelius Endicott II, arch-rival of Harrison Hightower III and father to NYCPS founder Beatrice Rose Endicott.

### Other connections

#### One Hundred and One Dalmatians

Cruella De Vil is a character who can be found in the New York City sections of the park, typically outside of Tower of Terror.

## References

1. ↑ https://allears.net/2008/06/26/american-waterfront-new-york-harbor-and-cape-cod-tokyo-disneysea/
HARRISON HIGHTOWER DISAPPEARS AT TOWER OF TERROR

**Harrison Hightower Disappears at Tower of Terror**, was an article published in *The New York Globe Telegraph*, on Monday, January 1, 1900. It reported the explosion at the Hotel Hightower.

## Transcript

**HARRISON HIGHTOWER DISAPPEARS AT TOWER OF TERROR**

***HOTEL HIGHTOWER CLOSED TO PUBLIC***

**NEW YORKERS ARE STILL REELING AFTER THE** SHOCKING EVENTS at HOTEL HIGHTOWER last night.What began as a joyous celebration ended in SADNESS for many Manhattanites.

11:59 p.m. - All day long people had streamed into the city on elevated trains and streetcars, to join the general throng in the streets as the celebrated the impending turn of the century.

They were standing on roof tops, dancing in the parks, crowding onto balconies and stopping traffic as they began the exuberant count-down of the last few seconds of the nineteenth century, eager to welcome in the twentieth century with cheers, toasts and choruses of "Auld Lang Sine".

## Appearances

* Signs in front of the attraction Tower of Terror in Tokyo.
Castle Young Frankenstein

**Castle Young Frankenstein** or **Mel Brooks’s Hollywood Horror Hotel** (nicknamed **Hotel Mel**) was an earlier scrapped version of the attraction which became the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror in Disney's Hollywood Studios. This version would have originally been themed to the classic 1974 comedy-horror film Young Frankenstein, directed by Mel Brooks. The, "Mel Brooks’s Hollywood Horror Hotel" would have been themed around guests visiting a haunted house which Mel Brooks was filming on; either as a walk-through attraction or transported via elevators moving through the hotel.

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## Trivia

* Mel Brooks' film *The Producers* (1967) is referenced in Disney's Hollywood Studios via a crate at *Min & Bill’s Dockside* Diner addressed to the character Max Bialystock at, "Bialystock & Bloom".

## References

1. ↑ https://allears.net/2009/06/13/min-bills-dockside-diner-disneys-hollywood-studios/
Ethel Bounds

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## Character Information

### Relatives

Dolly Bounds
Dottie Bounds

***Ethel Bounds***, is a former member of the girl group The Silver Lake Sisters. Ethel along with her sisters retired and formed the Fiddler, Fifer & Practical Cafe. Ethel played piano in the band.
Minnie Mouse

**Minnie Mouse** is a Disney cartoon character who is long-time love-interest to Mickey Mouse.

## History

### Background

Minnie is a cartoon character created by animator Walt Disney on the November 18th of 1928. Minnie's long-time lover was fellow Disney creation, Mickey Mouse. Minnie had roles in various Hollywood productions throughout the decades.

## Tower of Terror appearances

#### Guardians of the Galaxy - Mission: BREAKOUT!

Vintage tin toys of Mickey and Minnie Mouse appear in the Collector's office.

### The Magic of Disney Animation

In Minnie's dressing-room, she is identified as having a starring role in the film, "The Bride of Frankenollie" as the eponymous bride, as written by Harrison Hightower IV.

### Sunset Seasons Greetings

Mickey and Minnie appear in the upper windows of the Hollywood Tower Hotel as it takes a victorian look, while also appearing on the sign outside as Emily Cratchit from A Christmas Carol.

### Tower of Terror

Some versions of the Tower of Terror's ride photos showed Goofy, Mickey, Minnie and Donald going down the elevators, screaming. In addition to this and having been in the Hightower family affiliated with her *Bride of Frankenollie* film, Minnie has been shown to have been affiliated with the *Society of Explorers and Adventurers* of which Harrison Hightower III was a member.

### Other connections

#### Disney's Hollywood Studios

##### Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway

Mickey and Minnie Mouse are the protagonists of this attraction in the Chinese Theatre of Hollywood Boulevard in Disney's Hollywood Studios. In it, the theatre connects to the Yensid Valley where guests are taken on a tour by Goofy only to get separated then saved by Mickey and Minnie.

##### Rock 'n' Roller Coaster starring Aerosmith

Minnie Mouse's exhibit, "Mickey Through the Ears" at Disneyland's version of, "Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway" features a framed vinyl and plaque for, "Mickey Mouse Disco" from G-Force Records. In the Rock 'n' Roller Coaster's queue, there is a comic-strip featuring Mickey, Minnie and Goofy on the board in the back alley.

#### Jungle Cruise

Another poster in Minnie's dressing-room showed her having a leading role in a movie called, "The Jungle Cruise", debuting on Sunset Boulevard's, "Theatre of the Stars", made with various Jungle Cruise characters.

#### Tropical Hideaway

Yet another poster in Minnie's dressing-room was for, "Mouse Pacific" shot at the Enchanted Tiki Room.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.flickr.com/photos/scottrsmith/8742016231
2. ↑  https://www.mousesteps.com/2013/09/27/new-minnie-mouse-meet-greet-at-disney-s-hollywood-studios-exudes-old-world-glamour-detailed-queue-a-delight-for-disney-fans/
Mtundu tribe

**The Mtundu tribe** are a fictitious tribe from *Tower of Terror*.

The Mtundu are a tribe of people who lived in the Congo basin of Africa.

## History

For many generations, the Mtundu were fierce warriors, thieves and vagabonds. As a result of this they were enemies of neighbouring tribes and had to live a nomadic lifestyle after their rival tribe the Kokoko forced them off of their land. Eventually the tribe learned of a powerful idol deity known as Shiriki Utundu which was in the possession of a rival tribe. Planning on using the god to take back their land, the Mtundu stole Shiriki Utundu.

After claiming the idol, the Mtundu reclaimed their land from the Kokoko with their fates seemingly changing. Following an ancient ritual, they drove a nail into Shiriki Utundu's head while chanting. When the tribe next saw the idol, its weapons were dripping with blood and every last Kokoko man, woman and child had been brutally slaughtered in the course of a single night. Poorly for the Mtundu however, the land which the Kokoko lived on had also been left in ruin that was no longer lucrative.

Mortified at the danger and bloodlust of Shiriki Utundu, the Mtundu attempted to discard the idol. Shiriki had been bound to them by this point however and suffered through a week of heinous punishment for attempting to rid themselves of the deity. Following this the Mtundu reformed from their grifter lifestyles while serving as caretakers for Shiriki Utundu as a means of protecting the rest of the world from it. The Mtundu tribe served this purpose for sixty-to-seventy years.

In 1899, the Mtundu came across two men named Harrison Hightower III and Archibald Smelding who had travelled to the Congo with a group known as the *Pillagers Brigade* to raid the continent of goods for their personal collections. Harrison and Smelding were separated from the group following an attack from an angered tribe but were taken in by the Mtundu tribe. After learning about the idol Shiriki Utundu, Harrison attempted to use his vast wealth to purchase it from them though the Mtundu refused the exchange as they knew of the god's nature. Due to this, Hightower and Smelding stole Shiriki Utundu in the dead of night and made off with the idol.

The further fate of the Mtundu is unknown however upon noticing the idol was stolen, all that the tribe could do was laugh.

## Appearances and allusions

### Tower of Terror

The Mtundu are referenced in articles and photographs describing the history behind Hightower's obtaining of Shiriki Utundu.