New ‘Wizarding World Of Harry Potter’ Attraction Looks Amazing! [CONTAINS SPOILERS]
This post is chock full of spoiler-heavy information about the new Fantastic Beasts attraction expected next year at Universal Orlando’s Wizarding World of Harry Potter!
By Admin on May 22, 2018
Orlando Park Stop’s Alicia Stella (who I went to high school with…crazy huh?) has written an op-ed for The Unofficial Universal Orlando Podcast chock full of information about the new Fantastic Beasts attraction expected next year at Universal Orlando’s Wizarding World of Harry Potter inside their Islands of Adventure park!
Inside she reveals a ton of juicy details like, “The old queue building from Dueling Dragons/Dragon Challenge is remaining, as we had speculated prior. The interior has been almost completely gutted to make way for an entirely new immersive queue that will be fitting for the Wizarding World. Both of the old stations for Fire(Chinese Fireball) and Ice (Hungarian Horntail) are being utilized as well. They will be connected together and the old Fire station will become the new ride’s load platform, now facing the opposite direction. The old Ice station will become the unload platform for the new ride. The track will be joined together where both dragons used to start the ride, to make one complete circuit.
The load and unload stations will utilize a moving platform, similar to Forbidden Journey or Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit. Guests will load onto the train as it slowly proceeds through the station. As with other attractions that use a continuously moving load platform the conveyor belt will be able to be stopped momentarily for accessibility reasons, but all passengers will likely be required to transfer out of their wheelchair to ride. The ride begins with our train exiting the building through the opening where the Fire dragon used to end its run.”
The rest of the article, and an artists rendering of the track layout here.
