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Rich T

Rich T

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Phroobar said:
So any word on the Harry Potter land at Epic? What's with the guy on the rope in the graveyard?
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The team members are great, but they’re not allowed to discuss anything specific about the attractions in Ministry of Magic or Dark Universe until Universal releases the promo videos for those lands (Should be soon, I hope!) The buzz so far is that the Ministry ride is going deliver big thrills.

One thing (of many) that just about everyone is wowed by on the model is the sheer size of the show buildings for the Ministry ride and the Dark Universe monsters ride; these attractions are going to be massive.
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Not to mention Mariokart…
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As for what’s going on with the rope in Dark
Universe… I… don’t know! 😃 Maybe they’re supposed to be wires as part of Frankenstein’s experiments?
(Edit) Naw… they definitely look like ropes. I have no clue. 😄 We should be finding out more soon!
 
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180º

180º

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Henry Mystic said:
I remember talks about Rise potentially having blasters shoot beams through the air. That didn’t happen, but to say magic will be used on physical sets in MoM is an understatement.
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This does happen in Rise, in the hall with the stormtroopers and again in the AT-AT hangar. It’s an impressive effect but it’s not implemented thoroughly; for example, Finn’s blaster doesn’t get these.
 
mickEblu

mickEblu

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Henry Mystic said:
Ministry of Magic—it if works—will be the best ride in the world and it won't even be remotely close. It’s Rise with actual thrill but truly on another level of scale and scope with a tremendous amount of AAs as well.

I remember talks about Rise potentially having blasters shoot beams through the air. That didn’t happen, but to say magic will be used on physical sets in MoM is an understatement.

I don't think people understand truly how impressive it will be. It’ll easily have the best queue in the world as well. This is the Rise swatter we’ve all wanted.
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Sounds great. They Key word is “If” though. I’ve been disappointed the last few years with execution on concepts that I thought had so much potential. I’m looking at you MMRR and Mario Kart. Among others.
 
ThemeParkTraveller

ThemeParkTraveller

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Henry Mystic said:
Ministry of Magic—it if works—will be the best ride in the world and it won't even be remotely close. It’s Rise with actual thrill but truly on another level of scale and scope with a tremendous amount of AAs as well.

I remember talks about Rise potentially having blasters shoot beams through the air. That didn’t happen, but to say magic will be used on physical sets in MoM is an understatement.

I don't think people understand truly how impressive it will be. It’ll easily have the best queue in the world as well. This is the Rise swatter we’ve all wanted.
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I had a feeling it would blow the other HP attractions out of the water but to have easily the best queue as well? Considering how incredible Forbidden Journey and Gringott's queues already are, that's saying something.

If Ministry of Magic is the #1 ride, what are your thoughts on the Dark Universe Kuka ride?
 
mickEblu

mickEblu

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Henry Mystic said:
Ministry of Magic—it if works—will be the best ride in the world and it won't even be remotely close. It’s Rise with actual thrill but truly on another level of scale and scope with a tremendous amount of AAs as well.

I remember talks about Rise potentially having blasters shoot beams through the air. That didn’t happen, but to say magic will be used on physical sets in MoM is an understatement.

I don't think people understand truly how impressive it will be. It’ll easily have the best queue in the world as well. This is the Rise swatter we’ve all wanted.
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So does Disney have any interest in swinging for the fences or perhaps building a Star Wars coaster that can go toe to toe with Hagrid's or are they just interested in meh trackless rides and crappy rethemes? Universal has done a much better job implementing Potter in their parks than Disney has with Star Wars and Marvel. Avengers Campus is a joke and GE was duplicated. With Potter you have three distinct lands in three different parks and now it sounds like potentially the undisputed best ride in the world. I will say I think the Potter IP lends itself to theme parks seamlessly. Star Wars and Marvel not as seamless but by the looks it neither is the new land at Epic Universe. Meaning it doesn't fit neatly into the parts of the Potter Universe that we think is "made for theme parks" but it looks like they re overcoming that by thinking big and really going for it.
 
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DrAlice

DrAlice

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I'm super excited for SO MANY THINGS in EU (Especially that DK coaster!). However, like @Rich T, I'm concerned about how many of the new rides will make me puke.

Spinning coaster? Probably not good.
Kuka-arm + Screens? Most likely will end my day.
Dueling super-fast coaster? Might be ok. I'm not sure if this old lady can still do a 60+mph coaster anymore, but man, does it look cool.

As a huge HP nerd, I have been disappointed that there is no way I'd be able to ride FJ at Universal Hollywood, so I've never visited. I'm hoping MoM is less puke-inducing.
 
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TheDisneyParksfanC8

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Henry Mystic said:
Ministry of Magic—it if works—will be the best ride in the world and it won't even be remotely close. It’s Rise with actual thrill but truly on another level of scale and scope with a tremendous amount of AAs as well.

I remember talks about Rise potentially having blasters shoot beams through the air. That didn’t fully happen, but to say magic will be used on physical sets in MoM is an understatement.

I don't think people understand truly how impressive it will be. It’ll easily have the best queue in the world as well. This is the Rise swatter we’ve all wanted.
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The original plans for Ministry of Magic actually involved using a trackless ride system. But Universal scrapped that after they got cold feet on the tech after running into problems getting Kong up and running. However, the pivot to the new ride system (an evolved SCOOP like the one on Spiderman) sounds like it was for the better.
 
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TheDisneyParksfanC8

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Henry Mystic said:
It’s so much better than SCOOP it’s not even close.

Those concepts were scrapped and haven’t been the plans in over half a decade, when it evolved into Rise territory.

When Ministry morphed into said planned response to Rise, which I think goes as back far as 2017/8, it doubled its budget.

An evolved SCOOP is honestly disingenuous to how impressive the ride system is, but I guess that is what it is on paper.
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I am so looking forward to the land reveal whenever Universal decides to drop it.

As for Ministry originally being trackless, was that the original plan for the ride system when they decided to go up against Rise? I personally think it's Universal's loss for not wanting to do trackless again after they had one bad experience with Kong.

But moving away from trackless to the current ride system sounds like it worked out for the better in this case
 

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