Tower of Terror Remastered
| Builder(s) | |
| Status |
In Development |
| Class |
Entertainment |
| Start Date |
August 2016 |
| Completion Date |
January 28, 2017 |
| Coordinates |
2x -13z |
| Website |
N/A |
| VP Suite |
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Tower of Terror Remastered is a thrill ride created by GSK for Virtual Paradise. Prior to August 2016, it was located in ActiveWorlds. Tower of Terror takes place in an abandoned elevator located inside The Hollywood Tower Hotel, an elaborate facade created to house the ride and its operations systems. Since 2013, the methods used to develop the attraction are collectively referred to as the TX ride system. According to the back story, riders are placed inside a seemingly ordinary hotel elevator, from which people mysteriously disappeared under the influence of a supernatural element many years prior.
It has been remastered for Virtual Paradise to take advantage of the platform's numerous benefits, and opened in Aurora on January 28, 2017. The attraction can be accessed quickly by using the !j Tower chat command.
Tower of Terror Remastered won in the Best Build category in the 2017 Spring Awards.
Updates
Tower of Terror Remastered will receive regular updates that change or refine the attraction.
Tower of Terror: The Rectal Thermometer Battle Memorial Update (Update 1)
Tower of Terror: The Rectal Thermometer Battle Memorial Update (Update 1) will be published on March 11, 2017; it includes several refinements and improvements to the attraction, as well as two new ride tracks.
- Major changes in Update 1
- Introduced a new ride track based on The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror at Disney's Hollywood Studios in Florida.
- Introduced a brand new show scene based on Chafeeville in Blizzard. This scene deviates from the attraction's main storyline and is presented as a side effect of "entering The Twilight Zone". This show scene is presented as a separate ride track, and can be accessed from the selection screen.
- The lobby has been rebuilt using assets from Blizzard.
- When a user begins the original ride track, a lightning strike will hit the front of the hotel prior to their first drop; this strike can be seen and heard by anyone in Aurora, as long as their visibility reaches the attraction.
- The loading level has been deactivated, and guests now proceed to a selection screen to select the track they wish to ride.
- Track sound is now loaded prior to ride start, so sounds are no longer delayed on first ride.
- Introduced an indicator that shows if the user's version of Virtual Paradise is out of date.
- Minor changes in Update 1
- The exterior lighting is now more distinctive.
- There are now small variations in show scenes chosen at random when the user begins the ride sequence.