Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: Third Edition

If you’ve ever pictured yourself in the hot seat on America’s hottest game show, now is your chance to come close to that dream live and in person. Who Wants To Be A Millionaire – Play It! features a few twists – instead of dollars, contestants will be playing for points, winning prizes for the amount of points earned. In addition, a Philbinesque host will lend authenticity to the show. Several wannabes went through Disney’s special Regis Training in order to nail down just the right voice inflection and dramatic pause when asking, Is that your final answer?”

The attraction, which opened April 7th, re-creates the set of the ABC show, including all the dramatic lighting and pine-tingling suspense music of the original version, but the game features one big difference. In the Disney version, all 600 members of the audience will have an opportunity to play along with the contestant in the hot seat on every question. So the excitement of the hot seat will be in every seat in the house.

Two of the three lifelines, 50/50 and Ask the Audience, are the same as on the television show. But instead of phoning a friend, contestants in the hot seat will phone a stranger from among audience members waiting in line for the next show. Who ever thought waiting in line could be so exciting?

The live show runs continuously throughout the day in a 600-seat studio located in Soundstages 2 and 3 at the Disney-MGM Studios.

Like the television show, the fastest finger determines the first contestant to sit in the coveted hot seat. All audience members play along by using individual keypads as their scores are tallied throughout the session. They also get involved when players use the “ask the audience” lifeline. Other guests could be called upon for help with the “phone a complete stranger” lifeline.

Guide to playing Who Wants to be a Millionaire - Play It!

Each show lasts 25-30 minutes.

Everyone in the audience plays fastest finger first when the show first starts (unless there's a returning contestant). The fastest person gets to the hot seat.

Each audience member gets to answer every question in the game, and the top 10 highest scores are displayed after the fastest finger first round, and at each milestone (1000, 32000)

The contestant in the hot seat wins one exclusive pin for every question answered correctly. At 1000 points they receive a baseball cap, and at 32,000 points they receive a CD-ROM game and polo shirt. The 1,000,000 point winner receives a Disney Cruise Line vacation for four. The winner and three guests will be flown from a U.S. gateway airport nearest their home to the Orlando area and embark on a three-night cruise to the Bahamas and Disney’s private island paradise, Castaway Cay.

If you answer a question incorrectly, you drop to the last milestone (0, 1000 or 32000), and lose everything you've won since then.

Questions start off with a Disney theme, moving into general trivia questions the higher you go.

There is a time limit on how long you have to answer each question, starting at 15 seconds, and increasing as the levels go up.

Contestants in the hot seat have three lifelines, just like the show. As the audience answers each question as it's asked, if you choose to 'Ask the Audience', the results are immediately available. 'Phone a Friend' is now 'Phone a Stranger', and if you choose this lifeline, the phone will ring outside the attraction (by the Fastpass area, or in the Backstage Pass area).

If time runs out while you're in the hot seat, you will return to the next show.

Once a hot seat contestant wins, or answers incorrectly, the hot seat goes to the person in the audience with the highest score.

Want to get a seat on one of the 'fastest finger first' seats? Get a fastpass and arrive extra early.

Children can play, accompanied by a parent.

Photography and video are not allowed.

 

When to go - visit early in the morning.

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Duration - 25 minutes

 

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