Who Wants To Be A Millionaire - Play It!
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Who Wants To Be A Millionaire - Play It! is an attraction at the Disney-MGM Studios theme park at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida and was an attraction at Disney's California Adventure in Anaheim, California. (The version at Disney's California Adventure ceased on August 20, 2004.) The attraction is a version of the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? television game show.
The attraction's theater is an exact replica of the television show. Sessions of the game run several times a day; each session lasts about thirty minutes and can seat six hundred park guests.
The Disney park version of the game differs from the television version in several ways:
- Contestants compete for points, not dollars. A contestant wins a collector's pin for each point level he passes (minus any down to the previous milestone if he gets a question wrong). At 1,000 points, a contestant wins a baseball cap. At 32,000 points, he wins a polo shirt and a CD-ROM version of the game. At one million points, he wins a Disney Cruise Line vacation for four. (Previously, during the first run of the television show, the million-point prize was a trip for two to a taping of the show in New York.)
- Every audience member has his own A/B/C/D keypad. The ten "contestant row" seats are not special in any way (other than a video display of the camera work). To begin a session, a "fastest finger" question is asked. The audience member who gets the correct answer in the shortest time gets the "hot seat."
- The "hot seat" contestant has only fifteen seconds to answer each of the first five questions, then thirty seconds per question afterwards.
- Each audience member can answer a question on his keypad at the same time as the "hot seat" contestant does. Contestants win points by pressing the correct button quickly; at the 1,000 and 32,000-point levels the game is paused briefly to show the top ten scores. If the "hot seat" contestant gets a question wrong or decides to walk away, the top scorer in the audience takes his place; there are no more "fastest finger" questions.
- The three lifelines are 50:50, Ask The Audience, or Phone A Complete Stranger. Ask The Audience is immediate; the audience's answers can be instantly polled, because the audience already had a chance to enter their answers. Phone A Complete Stranger connects the contestant to a Cast Member outside the theater who finds a guest to help.
Questions based on Disney parks and films often appear up to the 1,000-point mark.
During the Disney-MGM Studios Star Wars Weekends, the first two games of the day feature questions based on the Star Wars films and universe and begin with Greedo in the hot seat, answering questions in the alien language Rodanese. The lifelines in the "Star Wars Weekends" version of the game work exactly like the regular game but are named 50:50, Ask the Jedi Council, and Phone a Stormtrooper.