Join John McClane from the Die Hard franchise on a high octane adventure in this thrilling attraction. Using the same ride system as DCA's Tower of Terror/Mission: Breakout!, this attraction will tell an original story set in NYC, though one that will nostalgically share many similarities to the original movie's plot.

Facade

The Facade is inspired by the Fox Plaza building. While the real building is in LA, it's importance to 20th Century Studios makes it a perfect choice. This building was designed with use as a filming location in mind and therefore has a very unique layout. It has been in 20th Century Studios's productions Brooklyn 99, X-Files, and Airheads. Most importantly, it was used as Nakatomi Plaza in the original Die Hard!

Since the Big Apple is an indoors land and the roof for the land is not 200 ft tall, the showbuilding actually uses a clever optical illusion! The Fox Plaza facade is wider than the showbuilding itself and ends just before the roof of the land (Roughly 75 feet tall) with the actual showbuilding hidden from sight and extending well above the land!

Queue

Guests enter into the Lobby of a very swanky office building where decorations are set up for a Holiday Party. This is where the main switchbacks and overflow queue are located and the Cast Members are dressed as Door Men. While the security guard at the front desk is missing, guests can hear John McClane talking through his walkie talkie. It seems that John is here as hired security on his day off from the NYPD.

The main room of the queue features a large wrap around balcony that uses cleverly disguised screens to create a pre-show for the ride. An Eastern European Terrorist is trying to break into the safe hidden in the office on the top level of the building, but luckily the safe has a handprint security lock on it. He knows that one of the guests here for the Holiday Party can open the safe, but since no one will admit to it he orders his goons to bring the guests up to the top floor using the freight elevators so he can make them try to open it or toss them out the windows!

From here on out, cast member are dressed as the villains goons ushering the "captives" to the elevators. They all wear walkie talkies, through which guests can hear about John McClane working his way through the building, taking out the bad guys. Guests can also hear John grumbling about how he always gets caught up in these messes through a few air vents in the later part of the queue, setting up the fact that he is using the vents to get around.

Eventually, guests make it to the front of the line and board the Freight Elevators to start their adventure!

Ride Through

The ride itself is very similar to Mission Breakout or DCA Tower of Terror. It goes up. It goes down.

There are a few show scenes accomplished mostly through screens (including a digitally de-aged Bruce Willis). First guests see John McClane in an air vent. He asks to hitch a ride with our elevator before climbing on top. Then guests see a shoot out with a group of guards on one floor, followed by another group of guards John takes out with a grenade on another floor (McClane is off screen for both of these because he is riding on top of the elevator, but guests can still hear his voice). Finally, guests head to the top floor and see the head of the villain, who taunts John leading the iconic "Yippie Ki Yay" line, with a big explosion censoring the second half. This leads to a big final drop sequence before coming back to the station and exiting back into the Big Apple.

Enjoy this animated video ride through to give you the full experience!

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