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

[AvoidTIMtation]

Did this for the first time on Friday. it's a fun ride but I'm my opinion a little overhyped. There were some small annoyances like the Floo effects not being on when we went through, but the one thing I didn't like were animatronics toward the end compared to the Death Eaters (which my friends thought were real people standing in there). The quality difference was so drastic it was distracting, almost like the budget got used up before they completed the ride so they had to pull old robots out of storage LOL

 

[simon]

As of today, I think erumpent animatronic motion profile has been updated to be more dynamic and fast.

 

[rabbitsmoon]

Did this for the first time on Friday. it's a fun ride but I'm my opinion a little overhyped. There were some small annoyances like the Floo effects not being on when we went through, but the one thing I didn't like were animatronics toward the end compared to the Death Eaters (which my friends thought were real people standing in there). The quality difference was so drastic it was distracting, almost like the budget got used up before they completed the ride so they had to pull old robots out of storage LOL

I think this is a matter of better staging/ a more elegant use of the tech. I doubt the Death Eaters are actually a higher class of animatronic-- they've just got masks on. They're not trying to convince you that you're looking at a human face, which is a huge leap across the uncanny valley.

Anybody else feel like you got transported into an episode of "Breaking the Magician's Code" in that first archive room with the death eater? Give me a masked magician in a warehouse and I'm back to primetime Fox in the 90s.