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!
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
It would make sense. They had also been working on the Van Helsing robocoaster ride for roughly the same spot.
Not really. I am just talking about my personal preference to see something different.
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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.
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.
Yes a boat ride or similar omnimover into Newt's suitcase would have been great and better than the show. By making it a gentle ride with different creatures it wouldn't overlap with Hagrids magical creatures too much either. Could even keep the Circus show but just make it an actual circus show without the magic creatures or just remove the Newt stuff from that show.
Knightbus would probably turn out somewhere between the Fast and Furious bus and Jimmy Fallon but you are racing through London instead of New York. In fact could they repurpose F&F into being part of London and a Knightbus ride?
Where does a broom from 1920s Wizarding Paris fly? They can’t really use the Time Turner and Floo Network trick to send us somewhere we actually want to go again or people will REALLY wonder why they set the land in 1920s Paris to begin with.
Quidditch World Cup. That’s going to be the sort of environment that won’t look that different between 1920s and 1990s anyway. All the quidditch stuff is just wooden stands and similar anyway as most wizarding stuff is oldey-timey anyway so looks pretty timeless. Even on Forbidden Journey, other than Harry Potter what actually places you into the 1990s?
Agreed. The Great Dining Hall would need to be almost set up like a dinner show.
It’s popular because of the characters. Thats why they took a medieval land and rethemed it to a medieval-looking Wizarding town and castle set in the 1990s and came up with a nonsensical story to transport us from 1920s Paris to 1990s MoM.
In a way this is like Flight of Passage and similar too, its not Jake Sully and his Flight of Passage. It is your chance to undertake the flight on a banshee, you are participating not watching. A broomstick ride that takes you through a Quidditch match out over fields and maybe into Paris around the Eiffel Tour would be fairly spectacular if the feeling of flying is right. With a decent amount of ET style physical sets it would be a different feel of ride too rather than just screens and animatronics. Universal could do with a few more of these sort of experience rides rather than just watching the story rides.
The stadium was pretty modern looking, right? The art direction of the stadium in the movie seems off to me actually, it doesn't fit the rest of the Wizarding World even for the 1990s.
It seems like the whole Ministry of Magic world could benefit from some story-writing to tie everything together (attractions, wand interactives...), linked by a cross-era meta-mystery. They should pull in some creatives from the field of immersive theater. While most guests would never appreciate it, fans would and it could help the world escape constant criticism like SWGE gets that dampens all perception (since the negativity bleeds out from the fandom to the mainstream).
