Elevator tour

Elevator tour (often known as Lift tour, Tour of the lifts or Tour of elevators; sometimes called elevator marathon or rockin' the gauntlet) is a type of tour which an elevator filmer explores and film a different kind of elevators in one place, such as shopping malls, offices, airports, hospitals, etc. Elevator tours are usually done by one elevator filmer/photographer, and normally contains at least two or more elevators (or elevator groups) in one video.

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History

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The elevator tour was founded by Beno in May 15, 2009. This title was later to be used on only few other elevator flimers like TheElevatorChannel, CaptainElevator42189 and PostTower until 2012, SummerADDE and CubsRule2040 has started to make their own elevator tours.

Concept

Elevator tour with map

This concept of elevator tour has a map of the building or certain area where the elevator tour was took place. Elevator tour maps are usually made using MS Paint or sometimes using AutoShapes or lines in Microsoft PowerPoint. In Beno's version, the maps are made with simple lines and small squares which indicates elevators. In mrmattandmrchay's and SummerADDE's version, the maps are screenshots from Google Earth or Google Maps satellite map. This also vary by different users such as EVTT, providing either simply map, map by the building (for the video within the building only) or the map issued by the government (for the open area within the site).

An example of Beno's LIFT TOURS map. This is the older map (Canary Wharf, London).

Another example of Beno's LIFT TOURS map. This is the newer map used in 2013 (Manchester, England).

This is the map indicates the elevators for the open area within the site (Footbridge HF82, HF92, Hong Kong, China), provided by the government of Hong Kong SAR and used in the "lift tour".

Another map of Semaphore's LTelevaTOURS #4, which is located in Araneta City, in which only mentioned places are showned. The squares indicates an elevator, while the current location is indicated as a weight-shaped simplified Russian Doll.

Elevator tour with title cards

This concept use several simple title cards which are used to describe the next featured elevators in the elevator tour video. An example of this concept was used by Sumosoftinc, TG97Elevators, and NingSama1vs100

Elevator tour with both maps and title cards

Some users like benobve often combined both maps and title cards used on elevator videos.

Elevator tour titling

Elevator enthusiasts often try to make their lift tours more unique by having their own phrase used to describe it. Most famous of these is benobve, who uses the phrase "_______ - IT'S LIFT TOUR TIME!" in his videos. Other popular phrases include:

• "Rockin' the Gauntlet" (georgef551)
• "____ - Time For a Lift Tour"/"____ - TIME FOR A LIFT TOUR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"  (Alex Ellis)
• "ElevExplorings" (JimLiElevators)
• "Sumosoftinc (Grand) Lift Tour" (Sumosoftinc)
• "NingSama (Extreme/International) Elevator Tour" (NingSama1vs100)
• "Jessy Elevator Tour" (Jessy Elevators)
• "ElevaTOUR" (DieselDucy)
• ”VenusLiftTOURS” (Venus Lifts)
• EveryLift | _____ (Halfai93294)
• "_____ (Lift tour start!)" (EVTT)
• "_____ | MASSIVE LIFT TOUR TIME!!!!"/"_____ | LIFT TOUR TIME!!!" (HJ2127)
• "_____'s ELEVATOR BLITZ!"/"_____ ELEVATOR CHALLENGE!" (TheDragonFire123)
• Uplifting tour at [Location] (Uplifting PostTower)
• All the Elevators @ [Location] (All the Elevators - By SummerADDE)
• "LTelevaTOURS!" (Semaphore)

Other enthusiasts (Which also previously included benobve and Alex Ellis) just use the generic "Tour of the lifts at ______".

Notable Elevator Tour Creators

• Alex Ellis
• Alex Stanton
• ATITANIC1992
• Aufzugskanal
• Beno
• Lift & Rail Photography In NZ
• CubsRule2040
• DieselDucy
• ElevatorMan5482
• Gage Williams
• Georgef551
• HJ2127
• IDLift3000
• Jaymie Treadwell
• Jessy Elevators
• JimLiElevators
• madoshi play
• mrmattandmrchay
• NCHLT
• NingSama
• PostTower
• Semaphore
• SummerADDE
• Sumosoftinc
• Tamovie1975
• TRG
• TG97Elevators
• Vincent561967
• Venus Lifts

Escalator/Travelator tours

Occasionally, such things as escalator or travelator tours have been made. These follow the same styling as an elevator tour, but adapted for escalators and travelators. So far, TheDragonFire123 has produced one travelator tour.

Trivia

• The longest elevator tour video in the elevator community currently is the elevator tour around Kuwait City, which is uploaded by Halfai93294. The length of the elevator tour is 3 hours, 1 minute and 15 seconds
  • The previous longest elevator tour video in the elevator community was the tour of elevators and escalators around Surabaya, Indonesia, uploaded by TG97Elevators in February 2016. The video duration is 2 hours, 30 minutes and 1 second
    • The 2nd previous longest elevator tour in the elevator community was an elevator tour at Danderyd Hospital in Sweden which was uploaded by SummerADDE on December 13, 2014. The video duration is 1 hour, 24 minutes and 5 seconds

Gallery

Beno LIFT TOURS opening title card.

Beno Random LIFT TOURS opening title card.