The Eiffel Tower is a world-famous landmark located in Paris, designed and built in 1889 and named after Gustave Eiffel, which has made cameos in many Disney films and series over the years.
The Eiffel Tower makes several background appearances, including at the end of the opening credits, and at nighttime before Duchess, Marie, Berlioz, Toulouse, and Thomas O'Malley arrive at the Alley Cats' apartment.
The Eiffel Tower is seen during "Be Our Guest". It is displayed by Lumiere, the plates, and the silverware as an anachronistic way of illustrating the "After all, this is France" line.
The Eiffel Tower first appears in "Super Adventure!" where Mortimer (Megamort) starts shrinking it when Mickey and his friends are trying to stop him from shrinking the clubhouse world.
Then, it appeared in "Around the Clubhouse World", as Mickey and Minnie's first stop to collect stamps for their clubhouse passports.
When Remy becomes separated from the others and ends up marooned underneath Gusteau's restaurant in Paris, he goes to the surface to see where he is, in which he can see the Eiffel Tower.
The Eiffel Tower makes an appearance in the opening sequence when the singer suggests climbing up the Eiffel Tower as something they can do one day in summer vacation, Phineas and Ferb are climbing up the tower.
In "Rollercoaster", Phineas and Ferb landed on the Eiffel Tower and slingshot to space.
After Mater, Finn McMissile and Holley Shiftwell arrive in Paris, they drive past the Eiffel Tower, although Mater's attention briefly gets drawn by a mime performing in front of the tower. In the film, the tower is scaled up by 150%, the arches at the base are designed to resemble a wire wheel, the first and second floors have a facade inspired by Bugatti grills while the top is shaped like a Lodge spark plug from 1937.[1]
The Eiffel Tower was the site where the secret society Plus Ultra was established by the tower's designer Gustave Eiffel, along with his friends Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and Jules Verne during the 1889 Exposition Universelle. The Eiffel Tower was built to disguise a rocket launch platform, used to launch a ship to create a "running start" into the alternate dimension housing Tomorrowland. As one of the older means of entering Tomorrowland, it houses a Plus Ultra teleportation waystation hidden in a maintenance area. Frank Walker, Casey Newton, and Athena would use the Eiffel Tower rocket to enter Tomorrowland while evading Nix's animatronic foot soldiers.
The Eiffel Tower is commonly used as a symbol of France in the Disney parks, with it serving as a stage for can-can dancing dolls in all versions of It's a Small World and a miniature replica of the tower serving as a decorative element of the France Pavilion at Epcot. It appears as one of the locations seen in the Soarin' Around the World attraction, though it is removed in Tokyo's version due to its resemblance to Tokyo Tower in that version's finale.
In The Timekeeper, a timelapse of the Tower's construction can be seen when the Timekeeper accidentally leaves the time machine in fast-forward. The Tower appears later in the ending scene when traveling to the Paris of the future.
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