(continued from above)
So upon your final drop on the TOT, for a mere few seconds you are facing what seems to be a storage room in the basement of the Hotel. If you are not paying attention or you dont read the DisBoards this seems like just an ordinary everyday Haunted Hotel storage room. However, in fact, the items being stored here are all items and icons from the Twilight Zone TV series. (Gotta love them Imagineers). There are many, many items and you only get a second or two to see them, but they are there. Some of the items are a stack of books with broken eyeglasses, a Route 66 sign and Willie the Ventriloquist dummy. Willie is up front, closer to you & to the left. So when we get to this part, being the Great Uncle I am, I always come up with my most demonic voice & whisper to James Willie sees you and knows you are here! This totally freaks James out; so much so that he closes his eyes, hides his face into me, and claws into my arm!
Good Times, Good Times.
Then the elevator turns, the doors open and out we go. We stop and see out pic, never funny enough to purchase. Then meander through the gift shop (James 2nd favorite ride emporium), then outside back to the reality of WDW.
Once we went out James said Lets go on again!
Sounds good to me, Lets see if they still have FastPasses left! I have become a serious FP junkie!
They dont have any FPs left, and I do start to sweat & shake a bit! What to do? What to Do? Ride a Major attraction at Disney without a FP? Is that possible to do? Should I behave like a commoner? Should I walk away from the TOT empty Fast Pass machines, and STOP talking out loud to myself?
Oh what the Hey! Lets go back on, this time as a mere regular quest!
We get on the regular line, its on the left side of the entrance (just in case you Disers ever decide to lower yourselves and do this). I feel so normal, yet sad, because I now am one of those people that I usually point and laugh at while wizzing through he FP line!
The line aint that bad! The sign said 20 minutes, but it was more like 19! Yes I was a bit taken with standing in the regular line, but it was NOT as bad as been reported by some Disers. We arrived up front went into the Library, again I told James it is starting to rain
and again his reaction is the same. We snake through the winding lines in the basement of the hotel. This will be awhile, I tell James. We went on the Right side, and when we were standing by where the Left side enters the Elevators, the CM said he needed 2 people to fill his elevator. There were no parties of 2 on the left side so he looked right at me and said How Many in your party? TWO I yelled with overzealous JOY!
Step this way! and he opened the gate and we walked right on to the Elevator.
I turned to James and said He must of know we are regular Disers! Hey I had the LGMHPC
dangling from my backpack! It could happen!
We go up to the 13th floor, drop a couple of times, all crazed with excitement. Then after the final drop, we arrive at the Storage room where I turn to James and say in my evil demonic voice Willie sees you and knows you are here! He starts to freak and then
. and then
..and then
.NUTIN! The elevator dont turn, there is no noise, no machine hum! Nutin! We are not turning around in the usual fashion, we are dead stopped facing Willie and the storage room in the complete dark and absolute silence.
!
The ride broke down!!!!
James says rather nervously Whats the matter?
I answer, I dunno?
James says a bit more nervously Are we gonna move?
I answered I dunno?
Now keep in mind we are in the first row staring directly at the outline of Willie, some 5 feet in front of us!
Are they coming to fix it?, Panic is definitely starting to rise in James voice
I dunno! I answered truthfully.
I gotta get out of here! James really starts freaking out now!
Clam down, its just a ride I reassure him
No, NO, NO
get me out of here NOW! Full BLOWN FREAK OUT now starting up!
James, shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh be quiet no one else is screaming
calm down I insist! This aint helping!
Where are they? Why aint they coming for us? GET ME OUT OF HERE! with this he starts pulling on the seatbelt trying to get it off. He is feverishly pulling on the seatbelt; if he could have he would have gnawed on it with his teeth!
Now he starts FULL SPEED NO HOLDS BAR FREAKING OUT CRAZY BOY!
HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLP
HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLP as if he was Timmy stuck in the bottom of a well on any given Lassie episode!
Stop! I said, unfortunately seeing him freak out like this just made me laugh (bad! very bad uncle) but it was soooooo surreal!
Now the Freak Out hits the all time FULL Effect, this little sweet boy turns into Linda Blair from the Exorcist, and all those words I had used when someone cuts me off while driving (or when I stub my toe, or get a paper cut) are NOW SPEWING FULL STEAM AHEAD OUT OF THIS 12 year old boys mouth!
Get this
seat belt off of me!
Where are the stupid
, and why dont they fix this
ride!
He must have learned some of those words from the rift raff at school!
Now it is pitch black and you cant see anything. Some woman from the back of the elevator yells Will some one smack that kid?
It was getting nasty in that dark place!
This went on for about 4 minutes (however seemed like 4 hours). Finally the elevator turned around, all the lights came on, and someone came and physically pushed the elevator to the doors, when then someone else came & pried them open.
At this point we could release the seatbelts, James unhooked his, jumped over the little wall in front of us and ran out, at I swear 75 miles a hour. He ran past the ride pics, out through the shop and onto the street! I followed close behind.
Whew! I was glad that was over. However it got a bit weirder!
Like all good Uncles in WDW, when ones nephew just had an Extreme Freakout, I offered to buy him Ice cream. We walked over to Hollywood Scoops, across from the entrance to Fantasmic, and got him his vanilla cone, and me a chocolate. We sat behind the Ice Cream stand in the Smoking section (Yes this was one of those times) After a few minutes went by, I started telling him the whole story of what just happened.
James was laughing up a storm. He thought this was the funniest thing he ever heard. When I got to the part where the woman in the back said Someone smack that kid that almost made him pee his pants. He was beside him self with laughing.
He then turned to me and said Which kid was it who freaked out on Tower of Terror?
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa???????
Which kid was it who just did that on the ride?
IT WAS YOU!!!!!!! With that he looked at me with this look
and said That lady was rude!
He somehow blocked this all out!
Cue the Twilight Zone music!
He vowed never to go on TOT again! We finished the ice cream; I had 2 paper/tobaccey cylinders of death! Then we went to see Fantasmic.
We saw Fantasmic, walked right in 5 minutes before the show started. Sat over to the left. Really, no matter where you sit in this Theatre you can see. This is one of my all time favorites. However the whole part with Governor Radcliff from Pocahontas and the diggers (and dig and diggity dig and dig) makes absolutely NO sense to me at all! What does that have too do with anything in this show?
After Fantasmic was over, we decided to go back to the POP and go swimming and call it a night! Which is exactly what we did!
So if you care make a drink, and fill it up with you WDW Light-up Ice Cubes, and join me for the next installment titled
We Gotz a Yeti to Find!
At least I knew enough to NOT drink by Pepsi while reading a DU TR!
to me!
and a humongous spider!
Poor James...and YOU 
laughing 
.I always have a hard time driving at night.. 
.Where we live the roads are very dark... 
Btw, we know you're hair isn't really lime, but as the saying goes "pay no attention to the man behind the curtains, I am the Great and Powerful Oz!"
Hope you are having a blast in Da Mudda Land!
For Me, the Odds of getting stuck on TOT 2-1, the lottery trillion to 1!!!
@nite..Such a grandma thing to say! 
As long as "Mama Like" Da eoithh stills spinz! 
