You Must Be As Tall As Robin Lopez to Ride Tokyo’s Tower of Terror

Via Robin Lopez’s Instagram account

To the surprise of absolutely no one, Robin Lopez is spending a little bit of time before the start of training camp getting his maximum Disney theme park exposure. And the Tower of Terror at Tokyo’s DisneySea park seems to take the cake for Lopez, as evidenced by his Instagram account:

Caption: Gotta love DisneySea’s Tower of Terror, hardpressed to pick a fave between that or the Twilight Zone version @thatguyryan12 #TokyoDisneySea #TowerOfTerror #RodSerlingOrHarrisonHightower #HightowersKindaAJerkYo #ImLookinPretty

According to Wikipedia, the DisneySea Tower of Terror is technically branded as the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, but it has no official tie-ins with the Twilight Zone anthology TV series, because that costs money. Instead,

"The story of this Tower is more complex than its American and European counterparts. The story follows the adventures of the hotel’s famous builder and owner, Harrison Hightower III, who completed many expeditions around the world and has collected thousands of priceless artifacts. Most of these artifacts were stolen for personal gain and stored in his hotel. After one such expedition to Africa, he brings home an idol by the name of Shiriki Utundu. Hightower claims that the natives were very angry to have their beloved god taken, and threatened that the idol would curse him. On New Year’s Eve, 1899, Hightower holds a press conference about his expedition to Africa, followed by a huge party. Hightower boasts about how he acquired the idol and denies claims of it being cursed. Just when he leaves the party, he even mocks the idol, using its head to put out his cigar. Around midnight, he enters the elevator to retire to his private apartments in the hotel penthouse. As the elevator nears the top, the idol comes to life. The idol’s immense rage and power causes the elevator to plummet and crash on the ground floor. When the doors were pried open, only Hightower’s hat and the idol were recovered. The hotel was abruptly closed and condemned for more than a decade, rumored by locals to be haunted. In 1912, following pressure to demolish the hotel, a New York restoration company reopened it because of its historical significance. The company now offers paid tours of the building. It is on these “tours” that guests embark when they enter the hotel."

via The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

With all of that going on, it’s amazing that Lopez was able to get his fellow elevator passengers to pose with their chins atop their hands like he did. It seems one would want to maintain one’s ability to look for falling debris and reach out to grab any potential permanent structure, or to brace oneself upon impact.