Disneyland's TOWER OF TERROR to Be Replaced By GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY Ride
Last week, rumors started to surfaces that Disneyland would be closing down the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror ride and replace it with a Guardians of the Galaxy ride. It sounds like those rumors are actually true. Mice Chat backs up the rumor and even offers additional details on what to expect from the new ride. Apparently Disney was pissed when the news leaked.
According to the report, Team Disney Anaheim executives have been spending lots of early mornings and late nights building tests for the Guardians attraction and playing around with the pre-show hallways and queue. With this going on, it's not surprising that it leaked out.
The whole Twilight Zone story told on the ride will be removed and replaced with an all-new show that will at least partially focus on the Collector character from the Guardians film franchise. They go on to say:
The current plan for Tower of Terror is to close the attraction this fall and give the entire building a full interior and exterior refurbishment so that the new version of the ride can open next May, with the Guardians of the Galaxy movie premiere held at DCA the same week the new ride opens. Assuming this gets the green light by August.
This will be the first Marvel ride at the Disneyland California parks. I'm sad that Tower of Terror will be removed, but this Guardians of the Galaxy ride should be fun. In a separate report at /Film, they offer some additional information from an inside source on what else the ride could entail:
The ride could be re-themed after the industrial space jail that the Guardians escape from in the first film. The boiler room queue room could be more easily remodeled to resemble this space prison, and remember that the Guardians escaped in a square room that could resemble the ride’s elevator vehicle.
I imagine the ride could be a mix of that and the Collector's museum. This will be the start of what could end up being Marvel Land at California Adventure.
One thing that I'm left to wonder is what this means for the Tower of Terror movie that was announced last year. It doesn't make sense to replace the ride with that film on the horizon unless the movie is no longer happening.