The Earffel Tower is a faux

water tower A water tower is an elevated structure supporting a water tank constructed at a height sufficient to pressurize a distribution system for potable water, and to provide emergency storage for fire protection. Water towers often operate in conju ...

located at

Walt Disney Studios Park Walt Disney Studios Park (French: ''Parc Walt Disney Studios'') is the second of two theme parks built at Disneyland Paris in Marne-la-Vallée, France, which opened on 16 March 2002. It is owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company through i ...

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. The original version previously existed at

Disney's Hollywood Studios Disney's Hollywood Studios is a theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida, near Orlando. It is owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company through its Parks, Experiences and Products division. Based on a concept by M ...

at the

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in Bay Lake, Florida, near

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. Adorned with a set of Mickey Mouse ears, they were inspired by the real water tower located at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California. A pun on the

Eiffel Tower The Eiffel Tower ( ; french: links=yes, tour Eiffel ) is a wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower. Locally nicknamed "' ...

, they are based on water towers commonly found on Hollywood studio

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s of the first half of the 1900s, which were originally a safety measure to douse fires on highly flammable wooden film sets; the Earffel Towers, however, do not contain water. The original 130-foot Earffel Tower at

, was the first of the two towers and was located in the

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backstage area of the park. It was the original icon of the park (then-known as Disney-MGM Studios), from 1989 until 2001, along with the

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facade of

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. The

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then served as the park's official icon until its removal in 2015. The tower was removed on April 29, 2016, to facilitate the construction of the park's

Toy Story Land ''Toy Story'' Land (known as ''Toy Story'' Playland at Walt Disney Studios Park) is a themed land at Walt Disney Studios Park, Hong Kong Disneyland, Shanghai Disneyland, and Disney's Hollywood Studios. The area is based on the Disney·Pixar f ...

. The second, 163-foot tower at

debuted in 2002 and has served as the park's icon since then. Today, the location of the Earffel Tower at Hollywood Studios is occupied by

Slinky Dog Dash Slinky Dog Dash is a launched roller coaster, located within Toy Story Land at Disney's Hollywood Studios, that opened on June 30, 2018. Themed around the ''Toy Story'' films, the story of the ride is that Andy has built a roller coaster usin ...

. The icon has been frequently misspelled as "Earful Tower".

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