I perhaps notoriously hate Gringotts and perhaps that’s my familiarity with the material. My trouble with your check list is we can be pedantic, but it doesn’t do most of what you checked off particularly well, we can give it a series of C/D’s in those categories, but hardly a one stands out. And that’s its greatest flaw, it isn’t the sum of its parts, it just does everything with an anemic mediocre pop.
It’s a park and bark. Neither a sufficient roller coaster or sufficiently practical experience. Constantly stuttering and pausing for one character to bark at you, over lingering as it fails to transition out of scenes In time for the characters to uselessly stare at you.
I’d hardly deem the ride practical. Nor fun compared to Guardians. It actually starts off quite promising though, the first third of the attraction almost leads to something that works.
The narrative structure divorced itself from the material. By trying to be a roller coaster and a Scoop experience it fails at both and in no ways represents an experience we would expect from the books or movie. Ending on a strange whimper and a clap.
I think Ministry of Magic or Hagrids is superior in every single way. Guardians is a heck of a lot more fun and Cosmic Rewind for that matter. But for whatever reason it seems to play better to people who don’t know the material.
Fun ride
Animated Figures
