The following is a play-by-play and comparrision to the Florida one. Let me just say this may be a little one sided. Ok, this might get a little bit long, but bear with me...
I really think comparing this ToT with the Florida one is like comparing Apples and Oranges, but theyre both fruits, so Im going to anyway.
Lets start with the Florida one. Just to get to it, you need to walk down the dramatically named "Sunset Boulevard," listening to the horrified screams as you approach.
At the CA one, you need to pass "A Bugs Land!" Ohhh, Ahhh... Plus, its shoved in a sad little corner. It deserves more.
In Florida, the building is a kind of brown with a big black center showing where lightning struck. The charred colors spread out towards the corners of the building like a real lightning strike.
In CA, the building is bright pink with a big black paint blotch over it. It doesnt fade away at the corners, it just looks dumb, plus it has too odd apendiges sticking out of the top sides. It looks like teh freeking "T" building from Teen Titans.
In Florida, you walk through the twisting, turning garden past dead flowers and empty fountains, curving around the paths in no specific pattern.
In CA, you go through turnstiles, walking back and forth and back and forth in a zig sag pattern, like waiting for a roler coaster at other parks.
In Florida, the boiler room is old and decrepid. The boilers are rusty and looking down you can see ropes, hooks and other materials.
As was so eliquently put by Scott Hot, the boiler room in CA has Christmas lights... He may not have even known had he was being 100% serious. Really, they are Christmas lights. Take a look.
Now we get to the ride. I was SOO disappointed. In Florida, your first stop is a hallway... a real one, you can tell its not a drawing. At the very end is a window with a storm happenign outside. Then somehow, in the MIDDLE of this real hallway that is not a movie screen, the five people who disappeared from the original elevator appear. They become electrocuted (not in a gruesome way) and then fade away. The hallway becomes dark and stars appear on all the walls. Seriously, you feel like youre in space. (Im 14, this isnt some 5 year olds description who will believe anything.) The only thing that isnt in the dark is the window, which floats TOWARDS your elevator before turning into the window from the Twilight Zone opening you saw in the library. The window comes right up to your car. All the sounds stop and the window shatters. How did it float towards you while changing shape? All I know is that that hallway is a real hallway! Forced prospective makes it seem longer, considering at the very end its only 4 feet high, but still.
In the CA one, the elevator backs away from the door where you entered and goes up a few floors. When the doors open, you see a mirror right outside your doors. Why a prestigious hotel would put a mirror at the exit of a matinenece service elevator is beyond me, but they did. In it, you see the people in your car. Rod Sterling says, "Say goodbye to the real world." The lights on the floor flicker off and the mirror becomes elektrifided with youre pic in it. (I dont know where you people are gettign the idea that you see the people who disappeared in an elevator and then theres drops, because you dont.) Apparently, lights flickering off is the CA symbol for you going to different dimention... I dont know.
Next, in the FLA one, the doorway opens into a hallway with doors to rooms on each side. With a click, the elevator actually LEAVES the lift chamber and moves FORWARD through the hall. Its moving horizontally! The walls become insvisible and you see spirits and things from the Twilight Zone, like a melting clock, E=MC2 lying past you and a giant, 4 foot eyeballt that opens up and you see a pic of the peple in your car. Then you enter the other end of the floor, opposite the end where you were lifted up,<
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