#paris tower

I also wonder if placing the focus on the girl in A New Dimension of Chills is a step towards, or contingency plan for, losing the Twilight Zone branding.  She’s a Disney-owned character, from what I understand, and fits the archetype of “creepy child ghost” that works independently of IP.  Lacking their Rod Serling narration, the two New Dimension sequences I’ve seen are a lot less obviously Twilight Zone.  Swap out the pre-show and Disney could have a non-licensed, but also thankfully non-Guardians, version of Tower of Terror that would require less of an extensive makeover than trying to redo a TZ Tower to the Shiriki Utundu storyline (which has a totally different era and architecture).

Here’s a video of one of the new sequences from A New Dimension of Chills, posted by YouTuber Le Simulateur Auvergnat.

Some things I noticed:

-It seems to use the fast upwards launch of Mission Breakout/Monsters After Dark

-I LOVE the presentation of the hallway scene in this! Going from the starfield to the freakishly flickering “real” hallway was freaking gorgeous

-The presentation is incredibly creepy and chilling, in a way that I wouldn’t really expect from Disney!  I definitely love the atmosphere!  I don’t know much French so I have no idea what exactly the plot is, and therefore can’t tell how “on theme” it is for the Twilight Zone, but this does such a good job of ramping up the creepy factor on an already spooky ride that I’d be willing to let it slide even if it didn’t quite match

Finally, another video of Paris’ updated drop sequences has surfaced.  This one, posted by TowerofTerrorDatabase, is “The Malevolent Machine”.

This one reuses a lot more of the original presentation, featuring a large chunk of the original Hallway Scene sequence.  As a result, I find this one somewhat less impressive than “The Shaft Creatures”.