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[ToTBellHop]

Hogsmead and Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey were designed with the idea that guests are muggles. So it’s not just capacity, but also trying to explain how you, a muggle, is doing something very similar to riding a broom.

The same WWoHP where we are Muggles unless we want to buy a $70 wand. In that case, we are wizards and witches performing the most remarkable magic they've ever seen!

I bought one and STRONGLY suspect they are using fake phoenix feathers. Couldn’t even turn my cat into a stopwatch. Zero stars.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Couldn’t even turn my cat into a stopwatch.

Try this spell: auto fidem...

 

[danlb_2000]

The benches are an explantation for why you, a muggle, are flying and with three other people. The domes in particular are very clearly trying to provide a sensation like flying on a broom.

I have always assumed that the original intention for the ride was for you to be riding a broom, but they just couldn't figure out a good way to make that work.

 

[DKampy]

I have always assumed that the original intention for the ride was for you to be riding a broom, but they just couldn't figure out a good way to make that work.

A Boom ride seams as it would be among the logical first thoughts when it came to Harry Potter….. capacity wise I think it could be difficult…. I think a Flight of Passage style ride could work…. But I am sure Disney is the ownership on those patents

 

[lazyboy97o]

I have always assumed that the original intention for the ride was for you to be riding a broom, but they just couldn't figure out a good way to make that work.

It would make sense. They had also been working on the Van Helsing robocoaster ride for roughly the same spot.

 

[LSLS]

At the end of the day, does it really matter if you have two broom rides at the resort? WDW has at least like 5 that are trains and it's never really even crossed my mind cause the rides are for the most part different enough.

 

[Andrew C]

At the end of the day, does it really matter if you have two broom rides at the resort? WDW has at least like 5 that are trains and it's never really even crossed my mind cause the rides are for the most part different enough.

Not really. I am just talking about my personal preference to see something different.

 

[Disgruntled Walt]

It would make sense. They had also been working on the Van Helsing robocoaster ride for roughly the same spot.

Sorry, what is that?

 

[ToTBellHop]

At the end of the day, does it really matter if you have two broom rides at the resort? WDW has at least like 5 that are trains and it's never really even crossed my mind cause the rides are for the most part different enough.

I think we would feel differently if Disney had two train rides based upon the same films. I’m also not sure Wizarding Paris is the best conduit. I don’t particularly care to fly a broom over the Champs-Élysées.

 

[lazyboy97o]

Sorry, what is that?

There isn’t much out there about specifics. It was an idea for roughly the same location as Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey before they secured the rights to Harry Potter. The basic idea of a monsters robocoaster ride was fulfilled with Monsters Unchained: The Frankenstein Experiment.

 

[TalkToEthan]

At the end of the day, does it really matter if you have two broom rides at the resort? WDW has at least like 5 that are trains

A Universal broom redundancy would factor more than Disney trains reused among the parks.

The only real place for the broom is Potter—-one franchise with in 3 dedicated lands. One broom ride is enough and 2 would be monotonous.

‘Trains’ is a much broader vehicle motif to work with……….. from the slow paced, horizontally traveling, playfully chaotic cartoon (Runaway Rail) to serious and ominous fast moving thrills moving up and around a mountain(Everest). As guests we’re not bored with reusing trains because the contexts are so very different.