My brother and I had a problem with that. I could make the light turn green for like a fraction of a second and they said that wasn't long enough. My brother (martial artist and football player) couldn't make the light turn green. Sorry that you had issues too, but I'm glad that my brother and I weren't the only ones that felt this way.
I literally waited 2 hours in line only to be told that I couldn’t ride. I’m not that large, I wear L-XL clothing. I see many people around the park much bigger than I am. I was clearly upset and crying the kid who had just told me I couldn’t ride then asked my boyfriend if he wanted to ride. Universal needs some empathy training for their employees. I love the park and I’m a annual pass holder so to be be just thrown to the side because of my size sucked.
Cool fact. When I was a senior in high school.. my physics class did a workbook to calculate the physics for all the rides at 6 Flags Atlanta. When we were finished, we got to go to Six Flags and ride all the rides for free. They had a day where only schools math or science teams were allowed to enter the park. It was the BEST time I've ever had in an amusement park. There were literally no lines.. it almost felt like my team had the whole park to ourselves.
@@nthgth no it was just something special our Physics teacher found out that 6 Flags does, or did.. I dont know if they still have that. Prob not with Covid going on
Fulton County/Centennial High School alumna checking in: We had Six Flags Physics Day for juniors and seniors back in the early 00s, physics was never my favorite class but I loved Physics Day. Good to see that it continues! Six Flags Over Georgia has a sign up for schools on their website as of December 2021.
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I like how you made sure to emphasize--twice--that it was never dangerous, but rather that in order to guarantee safety, it had to shut down disappointingly often.
That's not what I was told. Universal staff claimed that the ride was so damn complex that they had to keep running empty cars around to find even the tiniest problem. I got sick of the waiting (waited about 3 hours and the stupid line didn't move more than a foot. I gave up and left. I doubt it was worth waiting hours and hours for it.
@@largol33t1 Both statements are true. They had to run the empty cars to find the problems in order to ensure there were no safety issues for actual passengers, and because it was so complex, they had to shut it down and do that disappointingly often. It's extremely frustrating, but good to see that they are prioritising safety.
I got stuck on this ride on the part where the whole platform drops about 10 feet in a dark cave. All the lights went off and it became completely still and silent. It took just a little too long. No one was too worried until some of the people in our car mentioned they were just on the ride and it didn’t do this. That’s when the panic set in. After screaming help for a long couple of minutes the ride finally resumed. Turns out that when a guest with a disability gets on the ride they just stop the whole thing. I mean, accessibility is cool and all, but they could have made an announcement.
I was thinking about how unpleasant it would be to get stuck in that drop track block zone when he mentioned it. Your description is just about what I expected. And yes it would be damn smart of them to put a system in to let passengers knw what is happening.
Same thing happened to us a couple weeks ago on our third ride of the day. I knew it wasn’t right. I freaked out so hard internally I became silent and kinda saw my life flash before my eyes 🤣
I love how your videos always ensure safety. I’ve ridden this coaster four times, three of which were perfect circuits with no stops. The one time I got stopped was in arguably the worst area, right after the drop track, we sat in the dark silence for almost 10 minutes and people were afraid that another train was gonna come and fall on top of us. Several other riders and I tried to convince them that was impossible and we were completely safe with the knowledge I learned from THIS video!
This just happened to me. Everyone was so scared another car would fall onto us even though there are so many failsafes. Fortunately, it kept going again after a couple mins
SAME! I got stuck right after the drop and I kept hearing the people above us screaming and getting closer and it was my second time riding it, so I recognized it was sitting there too long. That gave me more fear than the entire ride itself 😭 I thought "oh welp, I'm going to be in a top 10 roller coaster deaths video now"
Does universal let you ride it again if you have a bad experience like that while riding? It would suck to wait for 2 hours to then have your ride disrupted by reliability
I got stuck on the bottom of the drop in December 2019. Despite my knowledge of break runs and LIMs 100% thought that the next train was going to fall backwards on top of us. After getting off the people operating the ride were like “want to ride again” and I was like “is it going to do that again??” And they were like “probably not.” Anyways I got to ride it twice so that was nice
Same thing happened to us a few weeks ago! 3 of us had full blown panic attacks, especially because the ride sounds like it’s still running. It was terrifying! Lucky you got to just ride it again! We didn’t get that offer lol
@@PeaceMeBish Dang, you're lucky. I only got to ride it once. The weather was so bad that it was shut down most of the time I was there. It was raining so hard that you could barely tell that Sinbad's fountain was spewing water, and the road from Jurassic World to Harry Potter World was a small pond.
It really is that bad. Went to Universal in January and ran to Hagrid's at "rope drop". The damn thing wasn't ready and it had been built months ago. They kept saying they were having problems and kept running empty cars around and around. After about two hours I gave up and left the line. It needs to be torn down and replaced with something that actually works. I predict it'll be nothing but a massive headache for Universal in the next year or two.
@@largol33t1 Being fair Pandemic gave it some time to smooth out those rougher edges, and now it’s running everyday with few delays. Saying that it should be scrapped entirely is very extremist stance considering the amount of time it’s down for now.
largol33t1 spending millions of dollars on a roller coaster than immediately spending Illinois of dollars to get rid of said roller coaster seems like a fantastic financial decision
I had no idea the coaster was so unreliable. I went last week and waited about 55 minutes and got on the ride with no problem. It was really enjoyable, but kinda intense for someone like me who doesn’t do coasters all that often.
@@rhaenyralikesyoutube6289 Just did it today. It has some backwards sections, which made a person in my group feel woozy. I didn't mind it personally. It also gets REALLY fast at certain sections, but it feels smooth and there aren't any "stomach drops" as I call it.
Dude, as a newbie as an embedded systems programmer, hats off to all of the engineers who made this ride. Not gonna lie, working on these kinds of rides would be really cool IMO.
@@shawnspencer8766 I'm more interested in helping writing and building the embedded real-time software in these rides, to be honest. Seems like it would be a cool job.
@@Thorhian PLCs and embedded realtime are deeply related fields even if the interfaces are fairly different. If you haven't checked out queuing theory (be able to think about how many cars are running at once or how many people can be expected to ride) or TLA+ (help verify that the ride remains safe even though the possible interactions are very complex), it seems like they would be very useful for roller coaster design.
right like rollercoasters really are engineering at it's funnest. like this isn't a slant at Engineering as im in school for it right now but roller-coaster use base level Engineering to an insane degree. components of force, mechanics of materials and much more like its just a really fun problem to work through
WARNING: A heads up to anyone with thick thighs. The safety bar is a lap bar in both the Gringots and Hagrid rides. If the bar cannot go down far enough you can’t ride the ride. I strongly suggest trying out seat by the entrance to make sure the bar can go down. The continuous loading station doesn’t allow for many tries to get this done.
@@heffe4257 even if you are healthy weight, if you don’t have the correct body proportions you still won’t fit. Next time read the full post. I’ve seen healthy weight girls that are “well endowed” not fit, and men with muscular pecs and arms not fit. Weight is not always the issue.
@@breew1702 but you literally c a n t control when you sneeze. It’s not like, “I’ve been waiting in line for 2 hours and I’m getting bored. Guess I’ll sneeze now.” And what if you’ve been waiting for hours but there’s something in the line you’re allergic to?
I rode this the day it opened. I finally got on at 11:30 pm and they were still running it for the people behind us in line. I have to give Universal props for staying open so late to accommodate all the people who waited all day to ride through the breakdowns.
i went to universal last summer and used my handicap pass as my own “express pass” and rode this ride 7 times that day. the ride kept stopping midway through every time i rode it, and the operators let all the riders stuck in the cart ride it again immediately. it was a pretty epic experience. and total props to the operators, letting all the riders get on again with no wait!
Just looking at the block zone diagram, I’m floored at how there’s a group of people out there that had the brain to safely design something so complex.
Roller coasters 70 years ago: train 1 fails, train 2 smashes into it and explodes, rollercoasters now: large person gets off too quick, entire ride stops
Hmm ... don't think I've ever heard of a coaster train exploding - even in a movie! However, I could see one catching fire if the on-board capacitors got shorted out.
It’s not necessarily due to poor design, it’s for safety. We’re doing bigger, bolder, and more complicated rides, and certain safety measures have to be in place, ones they didn’t need back then.
Thanks for taking a chance on me and providing my first opportunity to "officially" caption a video. It was an excellent learning experience and gave me a greater appreciation for how much work you put into even the smallest details. I'm excited for every new upload! 😁🍍
If anyone hasn’t gone, I highly suggest going if you can, it’s really fucking good. At least watch the first movie before going if you haven’t seen them. You’ll get largely a lot of the theming just from the first movie. Butter beer is delicious btw.
I roll my eyes at idiots that consume anything with a brand on it, but when it comes to HP, I’m an absolute loser and lack shame when I go to the parks.
It’s honestly amazing that this rollercoaster functions at all with how complex it is. It’s easy to get wrapped up in the experience and forget how much really goes into these rides. This video was a fantastic example of that and I really appreciate all the thought and planning that went into it.
Meh roller coasters haven’t changed much over the years besides more audio and visual experiences along side the use of electromagnets to speed up the bikes in this case they just require more power tracks haven’t changed besides materials
It's quite the risk that Intamin and Universal Parks and Resorts took with this ride~ Intamin is already known for taking huge risks with their roller coasters, but I think this was their most technologically riskiest ride to date. I got to commend both Universal and Intamin for putting so much time, work, and detail into the ride. And even though it was really unreliable in its early years, it's amazing just how Intamin and Universal were able to figure out most of the kinks and are still trying to improve the capacity to this day, I believe.
Had the chance to ride it last week and it was amazing. Got very curious about how the hell they were making it safe to make a car go backwards without crashing with other cars. You explained perfectly and made me happier now to experience this again now knowing how it works.
This ride was probably the most interesting to watch post opening. I immediately knew that there was going to be some issues with how complex the ride is, but some of the nonintentional downtimes were hilariously accurate to how Hagrid acts and does things. I remember some of the downtimes were attributed to a swarm of bees overtaking the ride area. This situation was complicated to deal with because bees are considered a protected species in Florida so they couldn't kill them off and instead had to collect and relocate them. I don't remember if there were any other ones where mother nature was causing issues, but this one was by far the funniest outside the osprey constantly nesting on top of the new velociraptor coaster.
This takes me back to my little sister and I getting slammed by a swarm of bees while on the first row of rip ride rockit! Felt like a bunch of rocks pelted us bc we were going so fast. My dad, who is allergic to bees, was thankfully in the second row. Didn’t realize I had bees all in my shirt until we got to the exit. We told some staff what happened/showed them the bees and they shuffled us to first aid. We were staying on-site so fast passes weren’t something they could offer, so they ended up giving us a pass to tour parts of the Hogwarts queue that people usually don’t see. One of my wilder Universal experiences!
I can remember dueling dragons being a really fun ride, especially if you waited for the front seats. When they would come directly at each other and watch the terrified faces on other coaster
I was there last week, and we went on hagrids right after they added another train and cycled through. The timing still wasn't right though, and after our train dropped from the devils snare into the screwts, our ride actually paused to wait for another train to go by, and we got to see the track switch, before our bikes started up again, the block system is really a work of art.
There is a brake section just before the switch track part which will stop the train should the track not switch in time, its a fail-safe, so I wouldn't worry too much.
It's similar with day to day train operation. Green light would not be given until the switch is in safe position. The train may approach the junction at speed, but when the red light goes off the train engineer must stop. Similar thing but happened automagically here.
As someone who waited over 13 hours on opening day for this ride and heard all the times the ride shut down just in that one day, it's awesome to be able to see the explanation for all of it - just makes me appreciate the ride even more!
@@KrissyMeow I only had to wait 1-2 hours and that was almost too much for me! Overall amazing ride, but wow it stopped so many times when I went for grad bash. Definitely wasn't expecting the drop part either. Loved the props so much
@@Jacqueline888 I think I might have as well. I rode it so many times. I don’t know what era you got to ride them, but hopefully it was when the two coasters were choreographed to have three near-head on collisions , Hence the name “dueling dragons.” Something happened that caused them to stop running the coasters synchronized like that. But they really were incredible.
SAME! My first trip there was 5 years ago, and I rode fire and ice once each. My second trip was the year after for my birthday, and I rode both twice that time with my mother in law (my fiance at the time can't ride anything with loops), and the staff let me jump line all 4 times (mother in law told staff that her son and I were newly engaged, and that it was my bday, so they spoiled us).
The nitty-gritty of how this coaster works is impressive and kind of interesting, from a logistics and engineering POV. Hats off to the engineers who designed it! Hats off to all coaster designers!
Well done man, the time you put into these videos is absolutely insane. Brilliant content, I learned a ton and gained a lot of new respect for this ride.
I'd recommend checking with the same guys who came up with the names "Gotham City Gauntlet: Escape from Arkham Asylum," and "Expedition Everest: Legend of the Forbidden Mountain." Seems like a common theme among these kinds of rides.
That ride was problematic as well it seemed. I went when I was younger and it was stopped a few times as we waited and when we finally got on, it just pulled out of the station then just stopped and was shutdown for the day. Wish I had the chance to go
This was fascinating! My company actually rented half of Harry Potter World for an evening a couple of years ago, and I rode that thing like 5 times in a row without needing to queue up. It was an amazing ride (that I had never heard of before)! I had no idea there was so much engineering going into it!!
@@calw2939 I used to work the ride, and yes, you do! You kind of lose your balance, as your brain tries to "counter" the movement of the ground. It's a very odd feeling, but it goes away after a few minutes.
I imagine it’s like a boat. Whenever I get off a boat, I feel like I’m still on it while walking on solid ground. But it goes away after a few minutes.
Spent all day trying to get in the online que for this last Christmas, and finally was able to secure a night ride as my first ride. I was bummed about the loss of Dragon Challenge, but this is definitely a worthy successor.
Christ this ride is complicated. So many technical parts to go wrong. The brake fins on Stealth still jam and cause issues. As this ride ages, reliablity could be massive problem again.
Well I doubt it would be a big issue as all the components that may fault electronically or mechanically probably have a service life and get replaced to prevent future issues. And all the things that don't get replaced probably have strict inspections. They have a huge budget for keeping rides up to date. Unlike small amusement parks that will have a ride down for a couple weeks.
at one point you mentioned sensors, located in or near the track braking mechanisms, Space Mountain uses the same technology but if a rider loses a hat, the hat will inadvertently fall into the brake mechanisms thereby triggering a sensor, the computer now believes there may be two trains (too close to each other) & the ride would automatically E-Stop. this happened 3 times a day with no exaggeration. it was a pain Everytime because we would have to run track and reset all of Space Mountain.
You know you're a fan of the channel when you hear the words, "for those of you who aren't familiar" and you already know that a definition of block zones is coming...lol
I love that too! Saying something like “where the Fluffy animatronic comes into view” would be reasonable, but it’s sweet that he says, “where the guests see Fluffy.” :)
this ride was probably my favorite BUT is definitely not for someone (like me) who gets motion sickness. the ride went smoothly until the end when we were pulling into the loading station to get off where the ride dead stopped due to errors for a good 15 minutes. universal staff was really good about it and gave everyone express passes.
Thank you all for the overwhelming support with this video! Just a quick update, the ride has been updated so that it can operate with 8 trains and a single drop track if necessary. Also as crazy as the ride may sound, it is still perfectly safe!!!
@@lindacalderon6417 Intamin just has a lot of confidence in their rides, but underdeliver for capacity. I appreciate their design risks, but sometimes they go a bit too far :D B&M pretty much has a perfect theoretical capacity for their rides, but Intamin doesn't even come close sometimes. However, that being said, you can't blame Intamin for taking all these technological risks~
I’ve gone on it before and there was no problem, so don’t be scared to ride! Like he said, the ride is safe but there have been a lot of technical issues. We went to Universal for the first time a few days ago, and we rode multiple rides and this one was my favorite. It’s so fun and you don’t want to miss this amazing ride!!
We went on this last month and had to stop on a block zone during the course - they let us ride it again immediately! I have a greater appreciation for the ride after watching this.
the opening date should've been september 1st. it would've been perfect since that's the day that students arrive at hogwarts plus they would've had time to fix the rides major issues.
i imagine there’s strong incentive to open during summertime as that’s the busiest season already. while opening the ride in september would draw in more people than normal for the season, i imagine a lot of people would be disappointed that they couldn’t go right away. since most people schedule around their kids’ school
i rode this twice in late 2021 and i didn’t have any issues nor were there any closures. they really got it together and now it’s a smooth ride that is probably my favorite coaster
i thought i would watch like, five minutes of this video bc of my adhd, but your videos are so PERFECTLY TIMED. you dont sit too long on a topic, and you're extremely informative in a short manner, like a teacher. i genuinely appreciate it!
I was thinking the same thing - no need for it to be that complicated, it could still be a great ride without some of the track changes/drops. Better that it just works
It seems like a lot of the complexity of this ride was due to their desire to save space. Which is all well and good but I think a lot of it could of been done much simpler if they just had a bigger track that didn't have to double back on itself so much.
You know you're getting older when you start to appreciate the ambition Universal Creative and Intamin had in making the complexities of this ride a reality even more than the level of theming and immersion offered by the ride experience itself.
I used to work in costuming for universal so I was on the back side of this ride all the time, the thing that’s just as unreliable as the ride is the elevator in the back stages 🤣
Aside from being mind blown by the amount of engineering difficulties throughout this ride, I’m equally mind blown by how well you put this video together. Great Work!
This, as well as your other problematic roller coaster videos, are the most incredibly well researched coaster content I've ever seen. You have a hell of a quality product here, sir. Well done.
This is a classic example of maintenance complexity. I've been a software engineer for many (many) years and have seen this systematic problem countless times. The solution in this case is often to reduce the complexity by ironically adding more complexity. There is little difference between this and factory automation, except there is no obvious speed buffer, which I believe is the issue at play. Adding features to minutely adjust the speed of trains is probably already in place. Doing so is complicated. However, isolating these complex subsystems is the key, which given the scale, this, too, is probably already in place. The timing constraints simply seem too tight.
I have been seeing this in my recommended feed and kept saying "Yeah, I know that would be extremely fascinating, but I just don't feel like watching a 30 minute video right now". Finally I have decided to dive in, and I know I will be in for a treat with Ryan!
They should have had an "official" open date and an actual open date a week or so earlier to work out the bumps before the big crowd. If you went early and it worked then that would be a bonus; if not, then no big deal. I had a boss that recommended that kind of thing to a guy he was training to open a delivery restaurant. He ignored his advice and pissed off his first customers when all his new staff couldn't handle the initial rush during the advertised "grand opening."
Yeah, they should have tried that. The word would have gotten out immediately, but it would still take a few days for coaster fans to flock to the park
Throughout my life I have learned three things: 1) The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell 2) Epstein didnt kill himself 3) A block is a section of track that only one train may occupy at a time
@@graysonk95 coorection: Hyper- a full circuit roller coaster over 200 feet in height but less than 300 feet, or containing a drop over between 200 and 300 feet in height
I wish I’d watched this before I went to Universal last summer. I went to Hagrid’s with less than an hour left of park opening time yet and didn’t leave till an hour after the park closed. The line was SO slow, I started sitting down. I heard the long recording of Hagrid’s voice in one room three times. If I’d known how complex it was (maybe without all the spoilers), I’d have felt a little less impatient. Mostly I was annoyed at the finances of it. Universal sells so many tickets that the park gets too crowded to have reasonable lines, and then sells line-skipping passes that further slow down those of us who had already shelled out $200+ just to see both sides of Harry Potter world in one day. (Also that doesn’t keep the single rider line for people actually going on a ride alone - I wound up sitting down some of the time in the single rider line for Gringots too. That line was a great way to see a park twenty years ago at Disney, but most of the line at Universal was people loudly talking to their friends while I stared at the wall because my phone was in a locker.) Interestingly, the Hagrid’s line finally started moving more quickly half an hour or so after the park closed, which I figure was when all the line-skipping folks were gone (since the entrance to the line closed when the park did). Lesson learned: Only splurge on a park like that when you’ve saved up enough to also splurge on the fast pass. Otherwise, you’ve spent your money to stand in line most of the day.
It's incredible how far Intamin pushes technology, while making their rollercoasters relatively reliable. There are some manufacturers more reliable than Intamin, but most of them aren't as innovative as Intamin, while Intamin is hitting the right spots with their ideas. Thank you for this video!
I wouldn’t use relatively reliable. Their biggest issue is the lack of reliability. They are the most innovative but not balanced not at all. The only reason they become reliable-ish is because parks later fix the rides....if possible.Often at reduce capacity and higher cost.
@@jonathandpg6115 That's why I called them relatively reliable. Of course Intamin rides are famous for their downtimes, especially early during their lifetime, but compared to other manufacturers trying to push the boundries, it is still impressive. For example, Ring Racer, which was meant to be the worlds fastest rollercoaster at some point, was just operating for a couple of days and is SBNO since. At it never reached the desired speed.TTD, Kingda Ka and Formula Rossa are still operating and are easily rideable.
I'm terrified of rollercoasters. Absolutely. The last time I tried, it was one of those junior rides with a creepy caterpillar face, and I was holding so firmly to the flimsy bar holding me that my hands hurt. But for some reason, I want to give this one a try! Even tho you're "exposed" in the bike side, for some reason it feels way more safe to me. I remember that being "free" in the seat was part of the reason why I was so scared, felt like I could fly away at any moment, so having my body unable to move around like jelly and also being able to hold the handlebar sounds like a perfect combo!
They actually implemented scales on the trains so they can calculate the speed and run time of each train to aply the perfect buffer per train to prevent cascading. Sorce: me an engineer at bosch designing the sensors
@@h.r.9563 When as the operator of the ride, you dont see the proper train weight, you know to stop the cars and stop loading passengers because it would be obvious that the weight sensors have failed.
*Source but honestly I think people should really start sources on their comments when they said something that is a supposed fact about soemthing, thank you for that
@@rand0mpers0n79 Hello fellow Random Person! Agreed but... "me an Engineer"? I understand that Engineers focus on more on math than grammar. Still, that's somewhat disconcerting.
Dang, this ride sounds AMAZING and super technical but that makes it too complex for it's own good. I really wanna visit HP world but don't want to spend all day waiting for this ride!
Hagrids was basiccally the prototype for all these Switch track coasters that Intamin has been coming up with. they do it super complicated the first time. so they can do the single track flawlessly... I see you Intamin >.>
@@nathonizamboni875 They were probably referring to upcoming Intamin coasters that will also use the "swing launch," like Pantheon & that one at Parc Asterix.
@@TonyKimtheamusementparkfan But the train isn't on the spike when the track switches; in fact, it's moving away from the switch track, at a very low speed, and sitting on a launch track set up to launch it farther from the switch track. That's what makes Hagrid's's special; if the switch track fails, there's a lot more complexity required to keep the ride safe.
@@A.F.Whitepigeon True that~ Intamin really thinks implement a lot of different safety methods, but at the cost of using so much technology that the ride goes down.
I remember waiting in line *forever* for this ride. Nothing happened while I was on it, but this explains what took so long. Honestly it was cool as hell and I would wait for it again.
Hmm... on the one hand, I see the cleverness of relying on the ride operators to check the restraints, but on the other hand I'd still prefer a dual layer safety system (operator checks AND a sensor) over one that can fail due to human error with no backup. More moving parts for potential errors and shutdowns, yes, but to my mind the added safety would be worth it.
I agree wholeheartedly. I could have died as a child on a drop tower at Six Flags Fiesta Texas because the operator didn’t make sure my restraints were properly fastened (luckily my dad used to work at the original Six Flags and screamed at the operator until she hit the button to stop the ride and bring us back down, but that didn’t happen until we were at least 25 feet in the air). A sensor system could save lives.
@@PhoenixFireKMS same happened to my cousin. They checked us all but my cousins restraint went up for some reason and my parent yelled at someone to get them to fix it before we went up luckily. It's scary! Like human error just happens . Maybe you don't push down enough, maybe you are sleep deprived, maybe your brain slipped. It just happens and it's wild there is no safety backup for a ride this intense
I just realized that, since I also watched the Dueling Dragons video, I spent an hour learning the history of a specific plot of land in Universal Studios
As someone who has been on every ride and coaster in Orlando dozens of times as well as was a ride operator I think this was an absolutely perfect video. Very well explained with care for guests and employees. You sir, have a new fan and follower! 12/10. About to go binge the rest of your videos
I’m studying engineering, and these videos are really cool to listen to. As someone who’s into some very niche topics, it’s nice to hear you speak so passionately about yours! These videos make me feel a little more confident to share my interests, thank you :)
I LOVE studying themed rides. I'm skeptical how 'themed' a plain roller coaster could be. So when a friend said this was her new favorite ride I had to check it out. ... This ride looks amazing! I neeeeeed to ride it.
Its definitely one of the most themed coasters out there. The most unique aspect of the theming is that the coaster advances the plot in a straightforward way.
The first time I went on Hagrid's our ride vehicle stopped after the drop tower and we were stuck in the dark with eerie music and sounds playing from the top half of the drop tower. We were prob stuck there for three minutes. At the time I thought it broke but now that I think about it, the trains were probably backed up and that was just the closest block zone
I’m glad I got to go on Duelling Dragons before they demolished it the time I went to Universal. Can’t wait to go back and hopefully ride this and the Mummy ride again