HP Forbidden Journey ride

If you have read the books or seen the movie, the queue is part of the attraction. Using "single rider" you will miss much of it. The ride is very different. It uses Kuka arm technology. You are seated in a row of four seats attached to the "arm". This allows for movement that feels like you are on a flying bench through various scenes as you escape dementors, dragons and giant spiders.

A Kuka arm is what is used for the "Sum of All Thrills" attraction at Epcot where you design your own roller coaster ride. It is very flexible. The attraction has been toned down a bit since it first opened.
 
When was it 'toned down'? I am wondering if I could actually ride it now without feeling so terribly sick! :crazy2: Nicole

It's been that way for quite awhile now. They changed some if the movements, beginning and ending tunnel scenes. The main film is still the same but brighter better projectors too.
 

When was it 'toned down'? I am wondering if I could actually ride it now without feeling so terribly sick! :crazy2:

Nicole

Maybe you'll do better, but I'd been taking Bonine before I rode it again in May, and it still made me feel sick. :(
 
I am considering taking something to help with motion sickness the next time we go. Apparently, I have gotten wimpy in my old age! :)
 
I get very dizzy on rides like these. I can barely ride Star Tours since it was refurbished. I rode the Forbidden Journey just last week, and I was only dizzy for a few minutes when I got off. I would love to have ridden it once more before we left, but the line was almost three hours long by then. Have fun if you decide to ride it! The queue is incredible and worth the wait!
 
When was it 'toned down'? I am wondering if I could actually ride it now without feeling so terribly sick! :crazy2:

Nicole

Everyone's different and what affects me may affect you differently. I can do FJ once, maybe twice and that's enough for me.

Simpsons I can't do at all. Closing my eyes made no difference whatsoever, it makes me worse, but I do have vertigo on occasion so maybe that has something to do with it.

But I can do any coaster and I am fine with Spider-Man.

I take non drowsy Dramamine when I feel the need. Works with everything except Simpsons.

So, you really have to give it a go and see how you personally are with it.

Give it a try, it's an amazing ride......even if you only do it once :thumbsup2
 
I rode it yesterday with my eyes closed and I was sick for a good hour after...and I still have a motion sickness patch on from the cruise we were on til yesterday morning. If that's toned down, I'd hate to imagine what it originally was like.
 
My family went on it in November 2010, so presumably before it was toned down I guess. I kept my eyes closed 90% of the time due to tendencies towards motion sickness. I just had to do it once with my family though. Interestingly, neither my husband or my kids wanted to ride it again. No one said they were really sick, but everyone just felt it was more of a "been there, done that" thing and didn't need to go again. Guess we have ride wimps.

We are returning next spring and I'm sure at least my family will ride it once, not sure about me.
 
It is very similar in design to Spider-Man or Transformers as far as you switch between real 4d sets and effects and projection screens. However, you are sitting in Soar'n type seating only you can't see the people around you or your own feet which hang down. It's fairly dark inside, and you basically fly through different parts of Hogwarts both indoors and outdoors. For instance, you go through both the the quidditch pitch and the chamber of secrets. The ride movement is also much more intense than Soar'n you move much farther up and down and side to side. You also actually physically move around the ride enclosure, whereas with Soarin you basically stay in the same place and movement forward is only simulated. It's a very immersive experience when you are going through the real scenery with props all around you, above, below, beside, and behind you.

I very much enjoyed the ride, but it also made me very sick, and I'd never do it again without Dramamine. The first time it wasn't too bad, but the second and third times it made me feel very sick for hours. I think what I loved so much was not that it was HP, even though I'm a huge fan, but that I'd never experienced any attraction similar to this before. I loved the immersive feel like I was actually taking part in the movie and not just watching it.

As far as the queue line, it really is as much a part of the ride as the ride itself. Doubly so if you are a HP fan. The line winds through the castle and along the way you get to enter different rooms and meet different characters. For instance, you get to see Dumbledore in his office. You also get to see all the portraits on the walls as you go up the stairs. The characters are holograms that give little speeches that set up the plot of the ride. It's fun to explore the details found in these areas and to know the plot if you are a HP fan, but not necessary to enjoying or understanding the ride if you aren't.

What we did, and I would recommend to others, was take the tour only version of the castle first. This let us really explore the castle at our own pace. It was interesting because if you stop and listen to multiple playings of the characters little speeches, you will notice they say different things and different things happen around them each set. It was a lot of fun to explore slowly at our pace. Then we went back and used the singles line which does skip most of the castle, but that was fine because we'd already experienced it at our own pace.
 
We just returned, and FJ was awesome!

My son did all the coasters and simulator rides no problem, but for the first time in his life (and he's a veteran coaster rider) he felt motion sickness on the Simpsons ride, just like schumi! He was fine on FJ, even wanted to ride it twice, but forget the Simpsons. Nope. My DH felt woozy on the Simpsons as well and closing his eyes did not help at all.
 





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