145. Safety Behind the Screams: The Hidden Engineering of Disney’s Tower of Terror - Tower of Terror Part 3
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145. Safety Behind the Screams: The Hidden Engineering of Disney’s Tower of Terror - Tower of Terror Part 3
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What does a cocktail shaker and a 5-gallon canister of kerosene have to do with the Tower of Terror?
Drop in with us to the Hollywood Tower Hotel as we explore the story, mechanical design, and construction of the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror! This episode of our Distory with Kate and Kirk podcast explains how the complicated ride system operates, with some unique details and information from the Imagineers who worked on the project in the 1990s. We start with a detailed telling of the attraction’s backstory before moving on to explore the history of elevators, explore some Disney “firsts” (and fact check some things that were not, in fact, “first”), and then move on to explaining how this attraction was engineered. Kirk takes us back in time, Kate takes us back to Big Thunder for a moment, and we wrap up the Tower’s construction journey with a few thoughts from Imagineers (and a hilarious story from opening day).
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