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I wishing that this platform didnāt feel like a ghost town for now. I realize that I am not very active on here but rather producing videos on YouTube
Hollywood Tower updates
Terribly sorry for the loooong absence. Was going though the blog, and realised that the last post was on May of this year. My bad. Hereās hoping the following entries make up for it. For all of you who have stuck with this blog, thank you kindly!
Life stuff has been going on, as usual, but finally got a chance to continue working on my DHS version of the Tower 3D model.
Right now took a trip up north to Vancouver, but fortunately been able to use a friendās pc to work. The scale model stayed back home, so that is going to be put on hiatus, for now. If all goes well, it shall be resumed in 2019.
In the meantime, I leave with a few screenshot of what I have been working on during the last few days. More screenshots soon to follow. Enjoy!
Keep up the progress! Rooting for you šŖšØš
Official "Tarnished Gold Hotel" Lore Post!
So I've been kind of designing my own theme park in my head for a while now, even before I saw RTC. I mean the short version is I'm ripping off the Tower of Terror because I think it was a mistake rebranding the Disney Land version to Marvel. But I've been trying to develop my own lore for this Gilded-Age themed attraction. Live theater and escape room puzzles and whathaveyou. Basically if I was a billionaire, I'd buy 50 acres of land in the Northern California mountains and decorate it like it's a much older theme park with a backstory going back to the 1800's etc.
That sounds fun! Kind of a Wild West theme?
I'm thinking the main attraction is the Art Deco tower, the "Tarnished Gold Hotel" as I've been calling it. And then down the side of the mountain, a botanical garden with animatronic scenes and other sculptures themed after the later half of the 20th century: Fallout style alternate timelines of the 50's and 60's, neon cyberwave visions of the 80's and 90's etc. Leading down into a dreamlike artificial boardwalk called the Ghost Pier.
The idea is to skew for an older crowd; teenagers and young adults who want photo ops for tiktok. The story is that while the mountains are just inherently supernatural, in 1929, an evil magician known as Isaac the Indominable bought the land and built the grand hotel because he needed plenty of guests for his dark magic. Theoretically, Isaac died along with his first batch of partygoers when the grand elevator plummeted from the twelfth floor. But ever since then, every eccentric who has tried to buy the property has ended up claiming to be possessed by Isaac.
It is themed after California Americana specifically, but it's more old hollywood, though there are western areas, or more specifically I'm thinking information on Native American culture and folklore.
Ooh, love it!
You could for sure write some stories set there
The most important character to the whole park is Dolly, the prima donna of the hotel. I'm thinking the park would only be open Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays (maybe more days of the week during the summer months but mostly Friday and Saturday), and two or three times a day, a 45 minute show is performed on the stage of the Tarnished Gold's dining hall. The show would detail Dolly's backstory: Sometime in the 1930's a fresh-faced ingƩnue was struggling to get her singing career off the ground. She was in a toxic relationship with her manager, and her desperation for work led her to the remote and mysterious hotel. Isaac never appeared in person, but instead communicated with them through his parlor tricks: (pianos spitting out letters and such). Though the hotel was empty, he promised it would be a packed house that night. And so it was.
The play would tell the story of how Dolly was seduced (a la Phantom) into betraying her manager and signing a Faustian contract with Isaac. And ever since, her soul has been trapped on the park grounds animating puppets in her likeness. The park guests roleplay trying to set her free, although there is a question of what "free" really means in this context. But months ago, I had already decided the point of Dolly was to have a big showstopping musical number LIKELY A DARK CABARET PIECE LIKE "Skeletons in my Closet" from the 7th Guest soundtrack (because the hotel is more based on 7th Guest than any other franchise I'm cribbing from) and then when I got hit with "Ballad of Jane Doe" my first thought was "Exactly what I had in mind". So I'd tell the composer "Like this... but legally distinct".
Nice! Very phantom-esque backstory for Dolly. Some kind of West World-y elements too :)
Yeah that's def what I was going for. It's not subtle. I've been meaning to make a post about all this and it's easier to get the ideas out talking to someone. I don't know if you've ever heard of Paul Shapera, but his imagination scares even me. You try to get into "New Albion", you fall into a continuity hole you have to choose to get out of.
Oh yeah, talking ideas out definitely helps clarify them. Itās a super cool idea! Itās fun to have clear influences. Hell, Quentin Tarantino has made his whole career out of homages to his favorite films.
Besides, even if I don't have the money for it, the economy being what it is does cause a demand for escape rooms and other "immersive entertainment" as the internet calls it. MeowWolf and Punchdrunk set up a lot of cutting edge exhibitions. I've tried making this project in Planet Coaster, but those tools are infuriating to use sometimes. What I had didn't turn out great.
I want to go to MeowWolf so badly! And agreed, people need escapism when the political climate is so dire.
Although here, I'm trying to get meta with it, that we are recreating the precariousness of the roaring 20's.
As always, all creative works by Annie Trinty are in the public domain. Please, please comment or reblog with questions (or logistical criticisms!).
This is an escape room that I would so do!
I'm enjoying the Hammer Horror Dracula movie series for many reasons but the most overly-specific insignificant thing I like is that this version of the Count apparently orders from the same furniture warehouse as Florida's Tower of Terror
The more old horror I watch the more I realize that Florida Tower specifically shares a LOT of visual language with 1960s gothic pulp horror. It's unusual, given that the subsequent other towers went with a more specifically Art Deco styling.
Take, for example, Frankenstein Manor in Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter (1966)
(At one point while watching that movie, I was pausing parts where characters ran through the manor, checking to see if certain furniture pieces were identical to Tower's. They weren't, but they were DAMN close. Like, "oh that wood carving is slightly different" close.)
Or the vampire castle in Hammer Horror's The Brides of Dracula (1960)
Or Dracula's castle in... multiple Hammer Horror movies but I thought these from Horror of Dracula (1958) and Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966) helped get some of the point across:
I DISTINCTLY remember there being an even more Tower of Terror-looking Dracula's castle in the Hammer Series (to the point of, once again, comparing furniture pieces to see if they were exact) but I can't find which installment it was now.
I wonder if Florida Tower's 60s/70s gothic is a holdover from its roots in The Haunted Mansion, which itself is a 60s gothic piece. It's fascinating that DCA and Paris took such a hard shift away from both the gothic styling and deeply red/warm palette as the ride became famous in its own right, instead of just being "Haunted Mansion: Thrill Ride Edition."
Makes me wonder if Floridaās Tower of Terror roots originate from The Haunted Mansion:
Tower of Raman anyone?
Hellooo! Another post into the Twilight Zone Void awaiting all Tower of Terror fans to arrive. The Hollywood Tower Hotel welcomes everyone with open arms. Please place your luggage under your seat upon boarding your service elevator to your rooms
Itās that kind of day! Happy Sunday everyone and taking in the last bit of my weekend āŗļøšØ
Screamās louder into the voidā¦
On tonightās episode of #worldofcolorwednesday, The Hollywood Tower Hotel introduces our grounds keeper. Picture if you will, someone sneaking into Animal Kingdom one stormy night long ago. Little did she realize that would emerge with something from a land beyond shadow and substance. Beyond the Tree of Life itself. Or from a dimension where āBugās Lifeā replaced āZootopia: Better Zoogether.ā
This as you may recognize is a cupola: located on the top of The Hollywood Hotel for your convenience. Here stands our new grounds keeper unaware that once you checked in, you cannot check out. Now, sheāll pass her time caring for the Towerās creatures from across space and time, from worlds of the unseen and dimensions that physics cannot explain (Sorry about that Lighting Lane for Rock n Rollercoaster)
Callās into the Tower of Terror void: getās Mystery of the Lamp instead! š¤£š¤£š¤£ Scooby, looks like we got a mystery on our handsā¦
Another post into the void⦠TOWER phone home šØš½
I realize that I havenāt been very active here. Still trying to find a diehard Tower of Terror fan group somewhere on the internetā¦
SPARKLE TEXT GENERATOR RELEASE!
Generate custom sparkle text!
I've been spending the past 2 months working on my latest project, my sparkle text generator! You have lots of features to play with, such as:
You can upload any font file from your computer!
Something to try..
Realize that I am not very active on here these days. However, I still enjoy creating Tower of Terror fanart in hopes of finding other Hollywood Tower Hotel fans. If you are out there, please let me now ā¤ļøšØ
When your Bamboo stock finally reached the Twilight Zone! 13 inches and counting
When my friend decks the halls and I havenāt even finished my halloween costume yet! š¤£š Bruh
Wanting to wish everyone a very happy Taco Tower of Terror Tuesday!!! Getting ready to feast on some beef āramenā tacos šš®
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Wanting to wish everyone a very happy International Friendship day!!! Thank you to everyone whoās been a great friend in my life ā¤ļøšŖAppreciate you all!