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Old 01-01-2012, 02:31 AM
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Post Rumors say Harry Potter theme park expansion includes Gringotts Ride in Diagon Alley

A theme park insider blog revealed possible tentative plans for the Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park expansion, as confirmed to be built at Universal Orlando Resorts by the company earlier this month in Los Angeles. Do note that this information has not been confirmed by Universal representatives, but does reinforce the strong rumour that the expansion will include a real-life construction of Diagon Alley, with interactive Gringotts bank tour and ride - similar to Hogwarts' walkthrough and Forbidden Journey ride. The expansion may also include the Leaky Cauldron as an entrance point to the park, a working Hogwarts Express ride that may go from Diagon Alley to Hogsmeade, and the authentic Ollivander's wand shop in the London-based town. More on that can be read below - again, please treat this as a rumour until confirmation is given.


For pedestrians in Universal Studios Florida, there appears to be a single point of entry into the new Harry Potter land, one that requires walking around a center obstacle inside what appears to be an enclosed space. This would fit with being a "secret entrance" to Diagon Alley, from the Harry Potter books and films. There also is what appears to be labeled an 8,900-square-foot restaurant building located immediately to the left of the entrance to the land. Could this be the Leaky Cauldron?

From the entry, there is a street that proceeds straight back to the rounded entrance facade of the Gringotts building.

Now let's get to that Gringotts ride.

It looks like we can expect another elaborately themed walk-through queue tour, along the lines of what we got with Hogwarts Castle in the original Wizarding World of Harry Potter. From the "Entry Hall," the queue appears to leave the building into shaded, then covered, areas before re-entering into the large "Bankers Hall." The next room in the queue is "Vault Display," then the "Reading Room." From there it's into what's labelled "Office Hallway" before we reach "Bill Weasley's Office." The next feature is labelled "Elevators," which take us up a level in order to cross over the ride tracks to access the center load island.

There are two load channels for the ride, with loading on the center island, and unloading off to the outsides. The ride vehicles are twin, 12-person, open-air cars, arranged in three rows of four. Each row is placed slightly higher than the row in front of it, in a "stadium seating" effect. The look of the cars is very Victorian, with individual lap bars and six Dolby speakers per seat for on-ride audio.

After the load platform, the two load channels merge to the south, then bearing to the left and entering Scene 1: "Turntable." In this scene, you'll face a brick wall, with two tunnel entrances, to the left and right. But before you proceed, the track below the first of the twin cars will drop from underneath that car. The track will come to rest at a 40-degree angle. Then, the track under the trailing car will begin to rise, matching the 40-degree angle of the leading car.

At that point, the two cars will drop in tandem into a third tunnel, below the tunnel on the right. Basically, we've just ridden a teeter-totter-like vertical track switch, attaching to the roller coaster track for our initial drop.

From there, we drop into Scene 2: "Dark Tunnel," a kinetic ride section with a small bunny hop and a hard right turn before we hit a block brake in preparation for Scene 3: "Ledge."

The Gringotts ride won't be a traditional roller coaster. It appears to be a hybrid roller coaster and motion-base ride, a la Spider-Man and Transformers. There are 3D projection screens throughout the ride, embedded in the rockwork of the tunnel walls, creating an illusion of open space, within which we'll watch battles taking place.

The first is in the Ledge scene, where some concept art shows a battle with wizards and giant-like creatures. The plans detail a shaker table under the track, and there's a waterfall effect at the end of the scene, including a fogscreen and water spritzers.

There's a slight free drop and turn to the left as we proceed through the waterfall, leading us into Scene 4: "Thief's Downfall." There are wind and heat effects in this scene, along with our first look at a dragon. Meanwhile, the ride's making a chicane-type turn to the left, then the right.

That leads us immediately into Scene 5: "Sirius Black's Vault." We hit a fog blast before entering the vault, where we see illuminated treasure ahead. The car makes a turn to the right, where the physical show scenery opens up a bit, with a large vault area with a flat 3D projection screen along the far wall. We then bear to the left, turning into Scene 6: "Ruins."

We're curving to the right through the rubble of what looks like a collapsed tunnel in this scene, which leads us into Scene 7: "Chasm." We're inside a large projection cone for this scene, which appears to involve Harry, Ron, Hermoine and… could it be? Voldemort? (The concept art I saw wasn't clear - it almost never is.) I do see a heat curtain and cold-air blast noted in this scene, though. (Shades of Revenge of the Mummy?)

From there, we launch into another dark tunnel (Scene 8), which banks up and around to the left, taking us into Scene 9: "Passage," our finale, where Harry and company bid us farewell before we return to the load/unload platform.

And yes, we do exit through a retail shop.
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No way! I dreamed of a ride like that when I went!
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Ah yes, it wouldn't be a theme park without exiting through a retail shop!
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That would be all too wonderful. My fingers are crossed for this!
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Old 01-01-2012, 05:31 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Ooooh...this ride sounds exciting! I hope it is true!
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Sounds like fun to me! Yippee!!!
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awesome i like the fact that they're following the book details this closely.
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Cool! Crossing my fingers and toes.
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I would love to go and take a ride immediately
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It sounds sooooooooooooo cool! I love the sound of it!!! I beg everyday to go but due to family trouble we haven't been to the WWoHP Maybe in a couple of years, though for this ride! I think they should make the ride that Evanna Lynch decribed: the Luna Lovegood ride as if you're in her mind!
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Yeah. I've heard about this. Awesome!
I also heard that there will be a Harry Potter theme park to be built in California.
Yeah, Potter mania invades Hollywood!
Though it would take around three years to build.
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That is so cool! I hope I can go again if these additions happen.
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OMG! I was sooo hoping that this would be apart of the expansion. I really hope this is true. This will be epic!
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This ride would fit perfectly in the park. Also I hope that we get a full Diagon Alley.....lets hope. I think they should make the Luna Lovegood ride as well.
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The thing sounds really good...
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This all sounds fantastic and I look forward to continuing to go each year to WWoHP as long as I can! Definitely excited for the expansions even though of course the park is amazing just as it is To those who hope to go, I definitely encourage it! It's fantastic! Just don't go in December.. In fact I just returned from Orlando *chews of chocolate frog* and it was PACKED.. We had to wait in line JUST to get INTO that part of the park as after 45 minutes of the park opening it was already filled to capacity >.< Go off season, in October or September if you can! Either way the WWoHP is wonderful!! Looking forward already to returning again next year!
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I went in Summer and saw DH2 there in Orlando. I had said to my dad that the whole track thing going to the vaults in the film should have been a ride! It could actually happen! Very exciting! I must go back, loved it so much. Now even more!
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