Design Ideas for the Tower of Terror Props

The props in the Tower of Terror are amazing! I’ve heard that the Mission Inn in Riverside, California, and the Biltmore in Los Angeles provided some of the inspiration for the design. Are there any other buildings that inspired this beautiful attraction?

The Imagineers looked at photographs of many elaborate buildings from the right era for their design ideas and then scoured Hollywood auction houses for the actual props. Some came from lavish estates of the biggest names in the entertainment industry. One set of chairs was 400 years old; other chairs came from the exclusive Jonathan Club, a well-known Los Angeles landmark built in the 1920s.

Ticket Books Last Issued

In what year were E Tickets last issued? My sister who was born in 1973 says that she remembers them. Where they still around when she was a kid?

Disney stopped using the ticket books in 1982.

Vintage Walt Disney World: An ‘A’ Attraction or an ‘E’?

posted on May 9th, 2013 by Nate Rasmussen, Archivist, Marketing Resource Center

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A few weeks ago, I shared my very first ticket to Walt Disney World Resort. This prompted blog reader Skip to ask if we had any photographs of the old A to E tickets used at Magic Kingdom Park. With the help of my friends at the Walt Disney Archives, I was able to track them down.

Want to take a ride on the Omnibus on Main Street, U.S.A.? Grab your A ticket and enjoy the double-decker view!

Don’t know what to do with your B ticket? Climb aboard a Mike Fink Keel Boat and sail around the Rivers of America.

That C ticket you’re holding would have been perfect to take a spin aboard Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride.

Already ridden on the Omnibus and a Mike Fink Keel Boat? Why not make it a trifecta with a voyage aboard the Admiral Joe Fowler with your D ticket?

Use that E ticket wisely. Take a dive underwater on 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

Although all-inclusive passport tickets were introduced at Walt Disney World Resort and Disneyland park in June of 1981 in advance of ticket books being phased, we still often lovingly refer to attractions by their ticket letter.


Check out these posts for more “Vintage Walt Disney World”:

• Vintage Walt Disney World: A Look Back at Magic Kingdom Park Parades
• Vintage Walt Disney World: Growing Character at Epcot
• Vintage Walt Disney World: A Wild Dedication for Disney’s Animal Kingdom