Re: Some Holiday Disneyland Pix including TZTOT...

<<What details do you feel are missing from it?>>

I never specificly said any details are missing.

The California version greatly improved and patched several thematic holes the
Florida version leaves- for example:

*The Hollywood Tower Hotel sign is not physicly in the correct spot on the
building. It should not be located over the missing wings- but above them as
the Library video depicts. This is fixed in California.

*The burn mark in front of the building is where two entire guest wings
disappeared- however, there could not convincibly be any rooms in the size
space missing from the front-most facade to the main tower structure. This as
well is improved in the California version, in part due to the placement of the
corridor scenes inside the ride itself.

*Detail in the burn is far greater in the California version, including walls
literally being ripped down the middle and shattered pieces of window remaining
from what's left of the missing guest wings. Floor tiles are broken at the rip
spot, you can even see the wall and baseboard lining along where the walls meet
the floor. Between floors are broken pipes that you would find between floors
on a real building. The on-ride photo section is hiden in some of the broken
pipes.

*The front of the building's burn is actually so detailed that you can see
where the ligthning chipped the plaster off the building and left cracked
cinder blocks. A bit more realistic looking than the holes in front of the
Florida version.

No one on this group knows more about the Tower of Terror, or the details
there-in than myself. That's not me being cocky, it's me being realistic, and I
really don't think that anyone here can dispute that. Now, as for the
differences in the buildings, that is completely a matter of opinion - just as
much as which Splash Mountain facade one prefers, or which Indiana Jones
Adventure facade one prefers, for example. I never prefered the California
Tower building until I saw it in person completed. The level of detail just
does not convey in pictures. 

See- the real point here is that the Florida version might look "cooler"... but
the California version looks a lot more like a believable hotel, and that's the
bottom line. It's not really supposed to look "creepy." It's an elegant hotel.
Well, an elegant hotel with a storied past and a miiiiiinor incident back in
'39.

-C