How It Works: Hagrid's Motorbike Adventure
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ส.ค. 2019
- Hagrid's Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure is a multi launch coaster located at Universal's Islands of Adventure that opened June 13th, 2019. It replaced a pair of Bolliger & Mabillard dueling inverted coasters named Dueling Dragons. The ride costed a staggering $300M (likely inclusive of Dueling Dragons demo) and features a plethora of technology whilst straying from the norm of screen based rides. But how does Hagrid's magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure work? Let's find out!
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More info about Hagrid's:
-The preshow with Hagrid and Arthur Weasley actually has 2 projections; one on the transparent screen and another on the back wall for added depth
-the vehicles do not keep track of which RFID tag is used to dispatch a vehicle. The platform is monitored by HD cameras and if an incident were to occur, those cameras would be used to determine who dispatched a vehicle.
-The speed of the moving walkway and the vehicles in the station can be slowed to allow guests with limited mobility to board safely. This does not affect the rest of the ride unless the platform is kept at the slower speed for an extended period of time, at which point vehicles will back up to the final launch.
-In addition to the bus bars in the station, there is also a short section on each drop track to charge the vehicles while they're parked there.
-The blast ended skrewt and Hagrid figures were built by a company called Animax Designs. The unicorns were made by Life Formations
-The drop tracks are hydraulic, not pneumatic, and do not need to actively home into position at the bottom of the drop. They are slowed at the bottom of their descent by induction currents between permanent magnets and copper plates on the track and its supports. There are pneumatic shock absorbers that slow the track down the last few feet, and when these shocks bottom out, the track is already lined up and ready to dispatch.
-If a vehicle is approaching the end of its block and the next block is not clear yet, the vehicle will actually slow down to give the next block more time to clear. It will only stop if it gets to the very end of its current block and the next block still hasn't cleared yet.
Source: I worked at Hagrid's during construction and opening
Thanks for the info. Though someone beat you to it via Twitter. I just keep forgetting to put in the edits comment.
Awesome to hear from someone that worked on this. Never been to any of the disney parks, but I'm so curious about the engineering side of things there.
@@dadjake Disney definitely likes to do a blend of tried and true engineering and experimental. Universal tends to put thrills first and experimenting second.
Cool
Okay but out of curiosity what happens if the drop track fails to reset and a car is coming down the track?
I got off this ride feeling as though I’d been transported. My jaw was dropped to the ground and I was speechless. It’s the most unique ride ever.
Besides Rise of the Resistance of course.
When I went to universal for the first time over the summer we went on Hagrid’s. We didn’t really know anything about it, we just knew that it was a Harry Potter ride so we went on it. We were all blown away. My favorite ride at Universal
@@JesusisKing2000 they are probably my two favorite rides ever
Yes the part where if fell scared me
i loved the ride so much, i went on it twice!
If universal was willing to pay over 300 million for this ride you’d think Disney would fix the yeti
Its just not worth it because of how quickly it goes by and how long the ride will have to be closed.
Right? That's what I was thinking. Maybe they could also even do an automatic switch track instead of waiting by the broken track for about 6 seconds.
13:35 For those of you who are unfamiliar, a block zone is a section of ride that only one train may occupy. At the end of the block zone is a method to stop the train in case the block zone ahead is still occupied. This is the safety system that prevents roller coaster trains from colliding with one another.
Who do you think you are...ElToroRyan??
Not a Harry Potter fan, but this coaster is jaw dropping. The intricate nature, and all it's moving parts running in perfect harmony is nothing short of an engineering marvel.
I love how in depth this is.
This is hands down the greatest ride I've ever been on.
Tbh when I got on I had low expectations, but boy I was wrong. I was blown away by the lack of screens and the amount of animatronics and beautiful scenery. The backwards track along with the drop blew me away. If you go make sure to ride! The wait may be long but it is absolutely worth it
I miss Dueling Dragons!! I really was so mad when I heard a "family" coaster was replacing it. Complete buzzkill, then I rode the ride and WOW. I have to admit Universal made up for trashing the dragons for this ride. Although I still think they could have kept BOTH rides. There was plenty room if you got rid of poseidons fury.
I really wish they kept both coasters, I loved dueling dragons so much but velocicoaster and hagrids make up for it, atleast we’re getting a sort of dueling coaster for the new epic universe park
they are basically bringing it to epic universe in 2025
I saw a video that IIRC said Dueling Dragons had some problems with guests getting injured. I don't remember the details, but if true that was part of why it was shut down well before it was dismantled.
@@darrennew8211 One guest got their eyesocket broken or their eyeball popped or something like that, anf left them with permament damage. As a shoe of another rider came crashing into their head during the hit and miss looping section. Which was the reason why they got rif of that section, and eversince then the interest in that coaster declined.
You get your wish they got rid of PF
People watching: That looks slow :(
When they try the ride: OH MY GOSH THIS IS CRAZY!!!
It's really great, I went on it a couple times and was blown away. It helps I was in the front seat the first time riding
Accurate. It really does look slow when you see it but riding it is another thing, it’s so fast!
YES that is so true!
I felt that way too when a mock up vid came out, I was like "aww man this is for babies!" NOPE! LOL
I remember standing in line and not having high expectations based on speed and what I could see. Boy, was I wrong. Probably my favorite ride of all time.
The drop track took me by total surprise on my first ride. Had no clue it had one. The ride is perfectly done. Not the most intense ride but still tons of fun. Best family coaster on the planet. Period
If this costs more than Everest, I really, truly hope that the Yeti on this one works.
B mode incoming
Mythical Actor Someday.
disco hagrid
It actually amazes me how they have still not fixed the support that holds the yeti, the yeti is not in the middle of the mountain
@@aqueleindie disco fluffy
I just went on a Hagrid’s motorbike ride and it’s the best roller coaster I’ve ridden so far. It has every box checked, it’s super fast, goes backwards and even drops you. Best universal ride ever.
I remember standing in line for this ride for 3 hours.
I’ll give you a hint: It was totally worth it.
It’s not even worth a wait half that long unless you’re like 9 years old.
We got to the park with early admission and ran straight to this ride. The line was already 3 hours long. Was never able to get on it over a 3 day visit.
@@kungfumachinist That's why you need to check out the _Orlando Informer_ Event that happens there.
100% I will always happily wait whatever the time is to ride this. just maybeee get express passes so you have time to do everything else after 😂
We stood in line for 2.5hrs and the thing broke down for the night before we can ride it.
5:39 I love the little nod to the fact that in the book the baby unicorns are actually gold instead of white. I also love the blast ended skrewt at 6:46.
The gear is at 10:36
what's the hidden gear?
Ken Johnson top right on the blue border
Can you do a "how the forbidden journey or escape from gringotts works"
Gringotts is a 3D roller coaster ridem
It has a 30ft drop in the beginning.(ask for row 1 in case u r scared of heights and do decide to get on)..its less of a drop.
I work there.
@Bekah Cassidy I'm not good with coasters and I rode both multiple times. They're not really too bad
There are both now lol
I loved Dueling dragons and was sad to see it go...until I rode this. It’s a great replacement.
Rode this ride several times while there in early March 2021. When we arrived in Devil's Snare and the train dropped, the ride shut down for about 30 seconds which freaked everyone out because we could hear a train moving close to the area we were in and we were all very hopeful that master control was operating like it should; and thankfully, it was! We were underway again in about 30 seconds or so. Thanks for another great video!
I was fortunate to go to Disney world and Universal studios for the first time in Febuary and i was blown away by how great this ride was and it is by far my favourite. As the video stated at the start it is an incredibly well rounded ride. You have the perfect amount of thrills thanks to the rides speed, sharp turns, backwards track and a small dark drop, as well as a fantastic immersive and entertaining experience with the robotics, environment, the cart/motorbike itself and hagrids voice constantly talking to you via the speakers. I really hope universal add more rolelrcoasters like this that anyone can enjoy. 10/10.
Spent 90+ minutes waiting for this ride. Hella worth it. The drop was definitely an interesting shock.
Great video, once again! Thanks for the credit and all the work you put into this one.
Thanks for letting me use your archive, it's super hard to find any good shots of DD actually dueling.
@@AmusementLabs You are welcome. I am just happy that anyone likes to put that footage to good use.
@@SeanFlaharty h
Hay wait ur in his video!
@@arsomist Well, my footage is at least. I am not. :)
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🚨Edit alert🚨: Yes, I know I said LIM when it's LSM and that it can run 12 trains. The drop system is hydraulic. Not all this information was available at the time of making the video.
Coaster Labs I was about to comment about permanent magnets meant it was LSM, glad you corrected it 😊
on the taron launch it even says on the magnet fin LSM
Actually they can only run 11 out of 12 trains for maintenance reasons 1 train will always be for backup or be in annual maintenance
@@mecredneck1 there's 14 trains total.
Cool they are currently running almost at capacity with 10 trains running a day
3:33 “...as the ride does not go upside down” RMC has entered the chat
I know. It's just a common misconception amongst the GP to say "that's unsafe" if it does have an inversion and only a lapbar. Somehow it hasn't clicked that coasters aren't in the 80s anymore and that restraint design has improved massively.
Coaster Labs - they think rides in general are unsafe, rides that go upside down even more, and if they know anything about restraints at all it’s amazing
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@@zuzelino5889 they might if they were still around...
@@TS_Mind_Swept the problem with gp is that they don't even raise how basic physics work.
You don't need a harness on inversions, as you as literally pushed into your seat, only ejector hills and extreme banks give the feeling of being "launched" from a coaster.
I love the open-ness of the new restraints on inverting rides.
This is an incredible ride, I've ridden this 5 times and its always fun.
First coaster that i feel kicked off my love for coasters. I usually close my eyes and hold on tight my first time but this one i was filled with joy and glee, i laughed and grinned, eyes open and even by the end lifted my arms. I love the launches!
Videos like these really help alleviate any fear I have of a coaster breakdown. The first time I got stuck on the Hagrid ride, was right after the drop. I had a fear the next coaster was going to just backup right till it dropped onto us, this has helped me realize that wouldn't happen unless it was a SEVERE malfunction.. Thank you 😊
I absolutely love this ride. The first time I rode it, it instantly shot to the top of my list of favorite rides.
THIS VIDEO WAS F****** AMAZING!!! This is my favorite ride at islands of adventures and learning about how ride work only give me more appreciation for it! Great job in the video!
That ride was awesome. The acceleration was intense and the drop (I didn't know if was coming) was awesome. Definitely a thrill.
This was so cool! I’ve always loved coasters and learned some things! That transfer blows my mind with how fast it is from the forwards to backwards section. Expedition Everest takes forever! Thank you! I love intamin rides! I still have to say I love Cheetah hunt at Busch gardens the best!
Wow what a comprehensive video! Thank you for such an interesting and informational look into this crazy ride
Dueling Dragons (Blue in particular) was one of my favorite coasters as a teenager. I just rode Hagrid's Motorbike Adventure a week ago, and it was amazing! Definitely my new favorite coaster!
Rode it this past weekend. For the first time ever, I clapped at the end! One of the best coasters I ever rode
This video was VERY WELL done! First time watching your channel, but I definitely enjoyed this video and so I subscribed. The quality of the video, the excellent narration explaining all the parts of the ride, the editing and the use of music/audio is done very well! So glad I watched this video - I will be back for more!
I look into rollercoaster tech and never seen so much on one ride... Need to try it at some point.
Chris Burrow enjoy but do be careful with the wait times, by far the longest wait time of any ride and it doesn’t have the Express Fast Pass
during covid I went on the ride 2 times in a row and only 5 min wait
@@ethansoto4242 dang lucky. I’m here right now and the wait was an hour long. definitely worth it tho
This was my favorite ride! The attention to detail of the decaying buildings made you feel like you were exploring the unknown! It started a light rain when we made it through the line and the rain hitting your face lightly made it even better making the motorcycles feel more real!
Hands down best ride i've ever been on. Tried the new Velocicoaster ride which was wicked too as a roller coaster but this ride had magic!
You are awesome! Thank you for all your hard work. Very entertaining! 👍🏻👏🏼
Fantastic video! So many high level topics to cover.
Wow. Will certainly have to ride this when I go out there. Thanks
I wondered how the backward section into the drop track and the drop itself worked. You explained in great details. Thank you! Now I can try to build something similar on Planet Coaster haha
Planet Coaster doesn't have switch track
Or drop track
I rode this right just recently and it was awesome! I just want to do it again! One of the best rides ever
Best ride I have ever risen, thanks for the cool video!
this ride was amazing and it blue my mind. any wait time was completely worth it. we went into this not knowing about the drop track and all you could hear from us was "ah! what the ***!?!? what the ***?!?! omg omg that was awesome oh god what the ***!!??" then it launched again and when we got off it was just the biggest happiest smiles id ever seen on all of us haha it was great
It's rather ironic that passengers of larger build can't ride the bike, look at Haggrid
So, they built the bikes in a smaller scale so that humans can use them... plot twist, along comes a giant.
many people can't fit the now thing I with universal ddi was make every ride it every person like Disney does not not even a very large man and I don't fit on any Harry Potter ride except for gringots barley and in the last row of the mummy and not even close on the velocoster
Really great looking coaster. You've done a great job with this video. Awesome detail.
This is such a fun, fast and yet beautiful ride! So so nice.
this was a really cool video, i never knew this was the most expensive coaster built now and i never even knew it had the drop track section, that thing is insane, coaster technology has gotten so advanced over the years its insane
I love the detail of this video. Thank you very much. Would love to learn more about show control systems and how they've been given the ability to extend their scenes based on feedback from the ride control systems. You're awesome, thanks for the hard work!
Thank you! I'm glad you.liked the video. It'd probably be very difficult to find out how something like that works as that's usually a trade secret.
This was so cool!! Please keep making these!!
THANK YOU for a GREAT SHOW!
Wow! I love learning about the technology behind the rides! That drop track is the coolest thing I've ever seen and I never noticed it on any of the videos about actual rider experience. I hope to return to Universal Studios someday soon so I can experience this ride first hand. My first and only visit to Universal was during the building of the new park section, so we just a few months too early to ride this ride.
The drop definitely adds to the excitement. Very well done.
Honestly.. no matter what the wait time is.. this ride is completely worth it!
Definitely one of my favorite roller coasters. It has a great mix of everything.
I had to watch this video because I was so confused and intrigued on how the drop worked. I literally was not expecting that at all and I was so confused how a piece of track could drop to another track! It was phenomenal!!
Very entertaining and fun to watch. Thanks for posting this.
Learned a lot. Thanks for posting.
Literally my favorite ride in all of the Universal Studio parks
This video is so interesting! I never knew any of this info about roller coasters. I feel a little more safe riding them now ☺️
Thank you for this. Fascinating video
This was fascinating! Thank you for sharing this!
Very nice video! I always wondered what all the stuff that you described was that is placed on modern roller coaster tracks. Keep up the good work. Hard to fathom the brainiacs that are able to design these types of things
"Oh hey, cool, this sounds so cool, I wanna go on this thing--"
*AL describes the drop track*
NOPE. NOPE NOPE NOPE!
same!!!
It’s epic. Highly recommend
it was so unexpected when i rode it but totally worth it
I was really scared for it bc I hate free fall drops but it’s like .2 seconds and you know when it’s coming so it’s not a surprise
i hope i can ride this one day. Excellent job providing all the details on the workings of this ride
Thanks. It's a one man show here so comments like your's mean a lot. 🙂
Wow. That drop track looks amazing! I can feel the butterflies in my stomach from home.
And the whole assembly is super heavy so you really feel it.
This is some of the best video content on the whole interwebs!
Great video! I’m a big fan of intamin rides and would love to visit universal. I’ve been on 13 at Alton Towers many times, and if the reverse of travel direction and drop work as well on this then riders are in for a treat!
Excellent ride, excellent video. Blew me away yesterday.
That drop is awesome !
Thanks so much for making this! I've been trying to google how this ride works for the past few days after riding it but couldn't find anything!
Great! Glad you liked it! 😁
The MOST BRILLIANT addition these parks EVER made was to include ADDITIONAL forms of 'entertainment' for the customers while they wait in line! Just the simple inclusion of a few video monitors showing actors performing cheap skits related to the attraction can make the wait in line an enjoyable event itself ;)
This is my all time favorite ride❤ SO much fun!
This is one of the best coasters I have ever been on honestly wish I had done it again
Wow! Such a great video! Very informative and interesting.
I love this ride. The launches are really cool, (Even though the ride makes unsettling noises during the longer launches)and I liked the unique ride cars. The drop track at the cave part is my favorite.
Sooooo awesome!! And you did a great job explaining it 😍🥰
I'm up to 5 times, I love it though the wait is still crazy even with fast passes and handicapped passes, Parts of the queue can be really claustrophobic, but if you give yourself a space of a couple feet from the people in front of you its usually ok for me. This was interesting.
I got to ride it 3 times on the day I went due to a handicap pass. It was still slow with the pass but unbelievably worth it. Hands down the best ride I have ever ridden. I also felt like sections of the ride queue were worryingly claustrophobic. It would be difficult to get out during an emergency as the tunnel sections without emergency exits was long. The only other thing I didn't like was the sound in the preshow room being insanely loud. May gusts had their hands over their ears. After a long time in that room, it can get a bit redundant hearing the same preshow over and over. This was during the 3rd week after it opened so, I would like to say they were still working some stuff out. People were watching entire 2hr movies on their phones in the regular queue which is insane.
This comment ages well since we have to social distance now lol
Yes I felt so claustrophobic at times during the inside cave
I hope they retain the 1m safe distance even after COVID is over...
I rode 3 times in 2 days thanks to handicap pass & child swap! It was sooo awesome!
I rode thinking it was gonna be an upgraded flight of the hippogriff, and MAN was I wrong. Amazing ride
This was extremely informative and I personally knew how this ride worked but I think you explained it very well. Now I need to show/send it to my “GP” friends. I’m such a nerd when it comes to amusement parks,roller coasters,thrill rides etc. etc.
Thank you. Yeah, that's kinda who these videos are for, for the general public who aren't coaster enthusiasts. So they can get a better understanding of how it work and not say there's a battery and the train moves on its own, etc.
You sound like me. I could obsess over rides coasters, amusement parks and how they work all day. Haha. Hit me up on ig if you ever want to talk coasters. Thesocaleskimo.
Such a fun ride! One of my favorite
great video! (waited until after I rode it before I watched)
A masterpiece of a ride! We rode it for the first time at night! Highly recommended
I like the update on Hagrid's Motorbike Adventure thank you for the info
the landscaping and design is incredible. Don't overlook the amount of effort time and money that went into that. Insanely beautiful
I’m sooo glad I went in blind..has no idea what to expect. Blown away
That drop was a new trill and awesome !
i always struggled to understand the drop floor part of this ride! you explained it well, thank you!
We have 14 trains total. 1 as a standby, 1 in mx and on paper 12 running the course.... 1
Right now the sweet spot seems to sit at 8 SOMETIMES 9 trains.
Yeah, I found out about the extra trains after making the video, but man FOURTEEN TRAINS?!?! That's insane.
@@AmusementLabs yeah 12 trains is... yeah.... lol Your videos rock btw and this video is badass!
@@caflybois thanks. 😁
Wow! That's all I can say😮😃I have a son who is studying electrical engineering, he would love to watch this. The ride is one I'll have to get on for sure. It gives you an appreciation for the building of the ride. Thanks so much for this explanation.
Happy to entertain future engineers! 🙂
(If he's really into EE then maybe an Arduino kit would be a great fit for him, I know they were for me)
I wasn't expecting the drop in the forest part and it was great.
This looks like so much fun!
IT HAS A DROP??!?!!?! I knew about the rest of it, but OMG you definitely have my attention now lol. I really hope I can get on this during my trip to Orlando late next year. Thanks for this video! It was very informative and educational.
It has a 17 feet drop and I wasn’t expecting it I thought there was something wrong on the system and we will fall to our death or get injury, really fun
Nice to see you showed the drop in the ride Thirteen at Alton Towers UK. Awesome ride when it runs properly.
I subbed love this video can't wait to binge
I enjoyed this ride. I was not blown away by it. And maybe it was because I was sour for the fact that it took more than two hours to get through the line. I love how the narrator of this video talks about how many trains they are running but they were doing that on my day.
Awesome video !! I love this ride !
I'd imagine its a very fun coaster as you're not locked into a big seat like most coasters. It feel more open and like your riding and actual crazy bike.
Very interesting video. This was one exhilarating ride!
I love this ride so much!