DCA Celebrates One Year With Attraction Announcements
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Senior Vice President and Executive Producer, Walt Disney Imagineering Barry Braverman
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Barry Braverman: Thank you Cynthia and good morning everybody. Thank you so much for coming out. It is really great to be here for this special celebration. Paul Pressler said the other day he felt like a proud father this past year. I know exactly what he meant. Even with tremendous confidence in our new park there were still plenty of nights I stayed up late, a typical anxious new parent pacing the floor hoping that the new addition would grow up strong and have a positive influence on the world.

You know Paul and I are not only in this however there is an amazing team of talent behind everything we do. Walt Disney was true believer in teamwork and because of the excellent teamwork between the Disneyland Resort, the Walt Disney Imagineers and you our guests. This first year has been filled with an incredible development and growth which brings us to our first addition, the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror.

Mickey & Minnie, would you do the honors please.

Mickey and Minnie unveil the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror
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Tower of Terror
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Twilight Zone Tower of Terror (c) Disney
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Barry Braverman: Our Florida family has found this attraction to be wildly popular with guests at the Disney - MGM Studios and its based on a lost episode of the famous Twilight Zone television series that starred Rod Serling. This attraction weaves the mysterious tale of five people who disappear one dark and stormy night riding an elevator to the top of the Hollywood Tower Hotel. In 2004 we will get to repeat this journey, if we dare. On the way to these elevators that take us to the top of the tower we will journey through a hotel, an elegant 1939 hotel that is frozen in time the day that the mysterious episode happened. We will board an elevator and during our ascent to the top of the Tower we will experience two inexplicable and mysterious transformations before we will reach the top and the doors open and we peer out a gaping hole in the elevator and look down on Hollywood below before we plummet earthward faster than gravity itself.

Mickey covers his eyes as Braverman describes the Tower of Terror
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