Harry Potter & The Battle at the Ministry - Reviews, Photos & Media

[Freak]

That part used to have a physical effect of an actual physical railing that would rise when you "dropped" but that effect broke a bit after opening and hasn't returned since. That part also used to have a stronger drop but it seems to be a point of contention because some people say there was a stronger drop there while I've heard from others it only felt stronger because of the physical railing effect. It was very convincing in making you feel like you fell more than you did. There are also some other effects that have been broken/turned off for awhile, including a giant physical pendulum that fully swings in front of the ride vehicle and a screen that pops down in front of the final umbridge with Higgledy on it.

Oh interesting. Might explain why the ride felt more screen-heavy than it should. Kinda hard to visualize the screen coming down scene. Is there any video footage of those effects in question?

 

[sonoma15]

Oh interesting. Might explain why the ride felt more screen-heavy than it should. Kinda hard to visualize the screen coming down scene. Is there any video footage of those effects in question?

The first POV has the railing working and the 2nd POV has the other two effects working:

 

[Freak]

The first POV has the railing working and the 2nd POV has the other two effects working:

Ohhh got it. The screen with Higldey on it was actually working on my ride. I thought you were talking about the courtroom scene.

Yeah the physical pendulum looked awesome. That’s definitely a Rise-caliber effect right there.

Also I looked up “battle at the ministry all effects working” and saw a video on Reddit where it showed the lights on and the railing effect reset. It was really cool!

Thank you for showing me the POVs! Now I have a complete visual of what didn’t work.

 

[sonoma15]

Ohhh got it. The screen with Higldey on it was actually working on my ride. I thought you were talking about the courtroom scene.

That's great to hear, it's been down on my last couple of rides!

 

[Hatetofly]

The repetition of scenes at the beginning of the ride is a massive miss imo too. I would have loved to have been a fly in the room during the design phase, because surely someone had to have spoken up and been like hey this seems…repetitive doesn’t it? I’m sure there are reasons for the choice but man it sucks that style of scene makes up a good portion of the rides opening. Not to mention the scene is lackluster compared to many of the other highly immersive scenes across the rest of the ride.

 

[Clive]

The repetition of scenes at the beginning of the ride is a massive miss imo too. I would have loved to have been a fly in the room during the design phase, because surely someone had to have spoken up and been like hey this seems…repetitive doesn’t it? I’m sure there are reasons for the choice but man it sucks that style of scene makes up a good portion of the rides opening. Not to mention the scene is lackluster compared to many of the other highly immersive scenes across the rest of the ride.

It's the same issue as Fast & Furious: Supercharged (Orlando): It's effectively an on-ride preshow.

 

[sonoma15]

It's the same issue as Fast & Furious: Supercharged (Orlando): It's effectively an on-ride preshow.

The issue with Supercharged isnt that it just has the on ride preshows though, the issue (at least for me) is you watch 2 preshows in the queue already then have to sit through 2 on-ride "preshows"

 

[Clive]

The issue with Supercharged isnt that it just has the on ride preshows though, the issue (at least for me) is you watch 2 preshows in the queue already then have to sit through 2 on-ride "preshows"

I would argue that gives Supercharged two major issues before you reach the rest of the ride, which is its own third issue!

 

[SkiBum]

I would argue that gives Supercharged two major issues before you reach the rest of the ride, which is its own third issue!

Not to mention the fourth issue regarding why it was built to begin with.

 

[Parkscope Joe]

Now for the ride itself, it’s awesome. There are some flaws with the ride that I will address shortly, but the clear standout scene was the library scene with the animatronic death eaters. Holy cow that was incredible. If you told me they hired a live actor to play the death eater I would’ve believed you. The fluidity was so life-like. Loved how the first one moved with your vehicle.

I was hoping for a ride full of these moments, instead it feels we get three big scenes. It's an oddly paced ride because our ride vehicles are so large we basically get 2x the amount of time at a show scene than in Transformers, for me giving it a pacing similar to Gringotts. And that's ultimately the flaw of the ride, it feels like they perfected Gringotts and not made something turely new, like Rise.