The Hollywood Tower Hotel is the titular location from the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror.
Description[]
Architecture[]
The Hollywood Tower Hotel is a Neo-Mediterranean hotel on Sunset Boulevard in the Sunset Hills Estates of Hollywood, Los Angeles in California. The hotel was considerably large but had the distinguishing feature of a 13 story tall tower from which the hotel received its name. The buildings next to the hotel were the G-Force Records music studio and Hollywood Hills Amphitheatre.
Following the October 31 of 1939, the hotel became a portal between Earth and the 5th Dimension, a dimension which exists outside of space-time. The hotel overall is highly paranormal with hauntings, mysterious entities and missing persons incidents being regular there. However as a result of the portal, objects from the 5th dimension often leak into our world through the hotel.
Features[]
Exterior[]
- Bowling Green:
- Grand Terrace Natatorium:
Interior[]
Lobby level[]
- Billiards Room:
- Boiler Room:
- Lounge:
- Library:
- Room 22:
Lower level[]
- Basement:
- Sunset Room:
- Beverly Room:
- Fountain Room:
- Steam Baths:
- Tower Hotel Gifts:
Upper levels[]
- High Society Suite:
- Stardust Room:
13th floor[]
- 5th Dimension Portal:
- Tip Top Club:
Alternate versions[]
Disney's California Adventure[]
History[]
Backstory[]
The Hollywood Tower Hotel was constructed in the year 1917. In 1928, the land which the hotel was located on became transformed into the Sunset Hills Estates. During the golden age of Hollywood, the hotel became considered a star in its own right and often housed the Hollywood elite. In particular, the hotel was well known for its nightclub the Tip Top Club on the tower's 13th floor. The hotel's business was closely tied to that of their neighbours G-Force records and the two services acted symbiotically with one another.
In the 1930s, there became a president for paranormal incidents in the hotel. The week of July 15th, 1931, the esteemed Herman family of Hollywood was involved in an elevator crash at the hotel. The bodies of the Herman family were never recovered; having presumably been absorbed into the 5th dimension. While some journalists believed this to be the end of the hotel's career, it repaired the elevators and continued to be successful.
In the year 1939, the hotel hosted a Halloween party in the Tip Top Club which included the likes of many Hollywood celebrities in addition to executives from G-Force Records. The day of the celebration, a man connected to the 5th Dimension known as Cadwallader inspected the elevators of the hotel and deemed them safe for usage. At 8:05 PM, an elevator manned by bellhop Dewey Todd was boarded by celebrities Carolyn Crosson, Gilbert London, "Sally Shine" and the young Sally's nanny Emeline Partridge. During their ascent to the hotel's upper levels, lightning struck the hotel causing the elevators to once again crash.
The five humans were spirited away into the 5th dimension where they became ghosts. The hotel itself was shut down indefinitely and seemingly left frozen in time. The fate of those in the hotel's 13th floor remains a mystery but it is known that the G-Force Records employees escaped under mysterious circumstances. The hotel's elevator shafts were completely devastated in this incident as the Twilight Zone took complete hold of the hotel. This entire event might have been watched over by a neutral interdimensional being from the 5th dimension known as, "The Narrator" whom watched over most incidents of paranormality relating to the dimension.
Reopening[]
Fifty-five years later in the July of 1994, the Hollywood Tower Hotel mysteriously reopened. At this same time, G-Force Records out-of-the-blue received big name clients such as the band Aerosmith after decades of financial failure. The hotel would be staffed by a crew of unnatural bellhops who were overly invested in bringing new guests to the hotel and sending them to the 5th dimension on the 13th floor via the maintenance service elevators. Many disappeared in the newly opened hotel and those who didn't had run ins with the ghosts of those who died in 1939. At-least one group of would-be-victims were saved by the Narrator who contacted them via a lost-episode of the Twilight Zone TV series which played itself in the library of the hotel.
Alternate versions[]
There are certain elements of the Hollywood Tower Hotel's history which is different depending on the incarnation of the attraction. It is however more than likely that much of the hotels' histories intersect.
Disney's California Adventure[]
Development history[]
The Hollywood Tower Hotel was the setting for the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror which in Disney's California Adventure was the attraction which preceded Guardians of the Galaxy - Mission: BREAKOUT!.
Marvel appearances[]
Avengers: Power the Night[]
This night-time show in Walt Disney Studios Park is projected by F.R.I.D.A.Y. onto the Tower of Terror.[1]
Guardians of the Galaxy - Mission: BREAKOUT![]
Several objects from the Hollywood Tower Hotel appear in the Collector's Fortress collection. Amongst these are hotel keys and bellhop hats with the hotel's logo. More assorted artifacts include books and a portrait of Napoleon III which were amongst the Hollywood Tower Hotel's possessions. Also in the office is a book titled, "A Far Cry From the Top Floor", referencing the plot of the attraction while written in the attraction's font.[2] In 2024's Pixar Fest, a miniature Pizza Planet truck from Toy Story was added to the Collector's Office with a dark palette, lightning paint, "E=MC2" written on its side and "HTH Do Not Disturb" tag as a tribute to the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror.[3]
Other connections[]
The Buena Vista Bugle[]
Many articles in the newspaper tied into the backstory of the Hollywood Tower Hotel and the Silver Lake Sisters. These were of generally stronger continuity than the Marvel articles, due to having a more cohesive setting with early 20th century Los Angeles, and already having a backstory tied in with Buena Vista Street. In Mortimer's Market there are a box of 1920s editions of the paper with a story on the Hollywood Tower Hotel's construction.
Rogers: The Musical[]
Rogers: The Musical's pre-show has Buena Vista Street's KBVS Radio radio play and make reference to Stark Industries. The KBVS Radio has lore connections to the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, as in Buena Vista Street it can be heard playing Anthony Fremont and his Orchestra's music from the Tip Top Club of the Hollywood Tower Hotel. KBVS Radio describes the Hyperion as, "a beacon for the show business elite", words which were used to describe the Hollywood Tower Hotel in the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror.
Appearances and allusions[]
Camp Discovery[]
A newspaper from First International News reports on the 1931 Herman family incident on a bulletin board put on display by the League of Adventurers.
Fiddler, Fifer & Practical Café[]
Posters advertising the Silver Lake Sisters' past performances decorate this Buena Vista Street café
Twilight Zone Tower of Terror[]
Gallery[]
External links[]
References[]
- ↑ https://attractionsmagazine.com/qa-creating-the-new-marvel-drone-show-at-disneyland-paris/
- ↑ https://mouseinfo.com/2017/06/watch-easter-eggs-and-other-surprises-inside-guardians-of-the-galaxy-mission-breakout-summerofheroes/
- ↑ https://mouseinfo.com/2024/04/guide-50-total-pizza-planet-trucks-are-hidden-all-around-disneyland-for-2024-pixar-fest/