Hagrid’s Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure Construction Discussion

[JungleSkip]

Can’t wait to ride this at night! Hoping it’ll be nice and foggy after dark.

Would definitely be cool if they had some misters/fog effects in the deeper reaches of the forest

 

[cameronw99]

Has there been any concrete info on the queue yet? I remember reading possibly abandoned Hogwarts areas. I just booked my trip for September. So hype

 

[TommyJK]

So did anything happen on the Today Show?

 

[Alicia]

Has there been any concrete info on the queue yet? I remember reading possibly abandoned Hogwarts areas.

This and a laboratory for creating Blast-Ended Skrewts is what I have heard.

 

[Mad Dog]

So did anything happen on the Today Show?

Fenton did a spot outside with the cast that was a couple of minutes long. And they gave two young girls in the crowd a paid trip to the opening day.

 

[Imperius]

How they creating the pixie swarm?

 

[HPFred]

Here are the differences I've spotted so far.

1. Unicorn near the end
2. train on the track at the ruins
3. fluffy added
4. car added before the spike
5. the spike

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Wait, is that the gif I made?

Okay never mind. In recent aerials looks like that may just be an evacuation path from the track. But, still could be on the bottom floor of drop track or scene 13...

But yea, maybe @Teebin is right. Could be first outdoor section... right where the dirt is dug up maybe? Then it could be visible from the beginning and end of the ride maybe.

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Is there something supposed to be in the interior part of scene 2? Could the centaur be there?

 

[Teebin]

I wonder what these two cylinder footers are for?

 

[Disneyhead]

I wonder what these two cylinder footers are for?

Probably lights.

 

[OhHaiInternet95]

How they creating the pixie swarm?

I'm guessing air blasts will be a part of it.

 

[natespf]

Has there been any concrete info on the queue yet?

Yes, there will be concrete in the queue

 

[Evan]

I think the only real issue any of us could have with the ride... the forbidden forest is supposed to be huge, forboding... giant tree trunks that sore into the sky with the branches way up high...

I do still think this coaster could have benefited from being in some giant building somehow, or at least the first part was in a show building... with artificial trees disappearing into darkness.. dark eerie forest. We will lose that scale as it can never match how the forest looks in the films.

But it’s still going to be an amazing ride... don’t get me wrong!

 

[Alicia]

I think the only real issue any of us could have with the ride... the forbidden forest is supposed to be huge, forboding... giant tree trunks that sore into the sky with the branches way up high...

I do still think this coaster could have benefited from being in some giant building somehow, or at least the first part was in a show building... with artificial trees disappearing into darkness.. dark eerie forest. We will lose that scale as it can never match how the forest looks in the films.

But it’s still going to be an amazing ride... don’t get me wrong!

Don't discount what may be inside the drop building...

Like I've been saying, only the back half of this ride is actually IN the forest, and that's the backest part of the ride.

Plus, the twisted tree trunks as we enter the structure should be a great transition from real trees to large tree trunks.

 

[Scott W.]

Wait, is that the gif I made?


Is there something supposed to be in the interior part of scene 2? Could the centaur be there?

It's the gif I made.

 

[mainejeff]

The only thing that I wish is that there was a bit more terrain......more rocky outcroppings, tree roots, etc.....and would have been cool for coaster track to be more "enclosed" by these features.

 

[HPFred]

It's the gif I made.

lol
I assumed you had done it, but when I looked at it, it was so similar that i had to ask. XD

 

[GadgetGuru]

It's weird how little we've heard about the queue. I'm convinced this might be the first Universal ride in a long time that bucks the trend of a better queue than ride.

 

[Brian G.]

It’s not some massive personal secret. The TLDR version is essentially he had a cult following and cult personality and they didn’t want that so they split ways. You could also argue that Matt was making UOR media his personal playground. Regardless, They wanted a team and didn’t want a personality bigger than the brand itself, which is where it was headed.

Now Matt is with Disney.

There’s your “secret”. Back to Hagrid’s and all the newsworthy info.

Still not the whole story.

I have no problem with him and don't want to discuss it any more than it already has. I'm not going to share it since it was personal stuff. If you need the answer, you can find it out there.

 

[Spaulding]

As someone who isn't really a Potter fan and found Gringotts to be mediocre to OK, and can't ride Forbidden Journey (3 out of 4 times has given me awful motion sickness) I am strangely hyped for this. I love the idea of so much interactivity and theming on a coaster. Looking forward to it.

 

[Blaw923]

Interesting items I see from that picture about the footers. Maybe this was already mentioned.

But there looks to me another track like ready footer family just above the retaining wall on the turn at the bottom..?