Disney Facts: Secrets of the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror

In Florida, starting in the library, take a look at the director sign. Inside the glass-encased box you’ll see that some of the letters have fallen to the bottom spelling out —  “evil tower u r doomed.”

When you are watching the television in the library, look for the little girl getting on the elevator and watch what she is holding – a vintage Mickey Mouse doll. And when the stars begin to swirl when the elevator car reaches the “fifth dimension” you’ll find a hidden Mickey Mouse.

According to a Disney news release, “Walt Disney Imagineers searched Hollywood auction houses for the hotel furnishings. French bronzes by the 19th century artist Moreau are found in the attraction, as well as furniture pieces that graced Hollywood clubs and hotels throughout the 1920s.”

Not only did the Imagineers pay great detail to the interior of the building, but they built a landscape to resemble the hills of the Elysian and Griffith Parks in Los Angeles, according to the news release.

And don’t forget to listen to the music for Duke Ellington’s “Mood Indigo,”and Bunny Berigan’s “We’ll Meet Again.”

In California,  the glass display cases outside the library contain props that reference two “Twilight Zone” episodes. One is a gold thimble from  “The After Hours,” starring Anne Francis as a woman who has forgotten that she is not actually a human being but a department store mannequin; and a broken  stopwatch from “A Kind of a Stopwatch,” the story of a watch that stops time.

The biggest secret is probably how the elevator — which drops about 13 stories — works. The elevator doesn’t drop. It’s on a piston which pushes the elevator up and pulls it down.

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