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UNIVERSAL ORLANDO · ORLANDO, FLORIDA

Universal Studios Florida

“ride the movies”

Ride the movies — a backlot city where a dragon guards a wizard bank, a red steam train leaves for another park entirely, and a kid on a flying bicycle has been crossing the moon since 1990.

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The Universal Globe
Icon · The Front Gate

✦ gringotts' dragon breathes real fire — you feel the heat across the alley

THE ANIMATED COLLECTION · 8 PIECES

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Production Central

2
Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit
Coaster
A 17-story vertical lift, soundtrack of your choosing.
  • Transformers: The Ride-3D

Minion Land

2
Despicable Me Minion Mayhem
Dark ride
Become a minion; try not to enjoy it.
  • Villain-Con Minion Blast

New York

2
Revenge of the Mummy
Coaster
A launch coaster in the dark with a fire ceiling.
  • Race Through New York Starring Jimmy Fallon

San Francisco

1
  • Fast & Furious: Supercharged

Diagon Alley

2
Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts
Dark ride
Into the vaults beneath the bank — mind the dragon upstairs.
Hogwarts Express — King's Cross Station
Landmark
Platform 9¾, departing for Hogsmeade (park-to-park ticket required).

World Expo

1
Men in Black: Alien Attack
Dark ride
Spin, shoot, and get neuralyzed at the exit.

DreamWorks Land

2
E.T. Adventure
Dark ride
The last original opening-day ride — bikes up, over the moon.
  • Trolls Trollercoaster

Hollywood

2
  • The Bourne Stuntacular
  • Universal Horror Make-Up Show
opened
June 7, 1990
backlot sets
New York · SF · London
the icon
The Universal Globe
my headliners
Gringotts · Mummy · E.T.

This park's trick is scale honesty: the New York and San Francisco streets are real film sets you walk through, so when a dragon erupts over a London rooftop it somehow feels documentary.

Do Diagon Alley at night. The alley glows, the dragon's fire lights the whole facade, and the butterbeer line finally breathes.

Every piece above is hand-drawn and animated — the globe spins its letters, the dragon breathes, the Mummy's fire ceiling rolls, and E.T. crosses the moon forever.

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