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Welcome to For Your Amusement, a theme park podcast that aims to exhaustively evaluate the world's most popular theme park attractions to determine if they are world class.

I'm Ryan Bergara. I'm Bard Marin. And for this episode's featured attraction, we slap on our motorbike helmets to discuss Hagrid's magical creatures motorbike

adventure. I don't know why it's hard for me to say motorbike in Universal's Islands of Adventure

in Orlando, Florida. And joining us on the bike is none other than Molly McCormick from Mammoth Club

on YouTube.

Hi.

Thank you for having me. This is one of our favorite rides. We're going to get into it in a second. But as always, please like and subscribe to keep us alive if you're watching the video version over on YouTube.com slash at FYA pod. Or if you're listening to the audio version, subscribe and rate the podcast five stars. and consider supporting us on our fourth wall,

which is a different version of Patreon.

You can join our fourth wall and become a park hopper as we're calling it, or an FYA hole, as Byron calls it, by heading to FYAPod.com. It helps us keep this madness going, and you'll get up to three monthly bonus shows per month, in addition to the free show you're watching now. And finally, FYAPod.com is also where our merch is. But Molly, thank you for joining us. Now, this was one of many, a couple rides you listed as possibilities for us to cover. Yes. Why Hagrid's other than the obvious reason that it's amazing? It's my favorite ride I've ever been on in the whole world. Oh, wow. Yeah, I'm a big Harry Potter fan, and then you also have this incredible ride. So it's like, this was my top choice when you said what rides do you want to talk about. Yeah, so when you, in your email, you had mentioned favorite universal ride, and you had your favorite Disney ride, which I't name but yeah just to keep that secret but I didn't realize this was like your overall top

dog yeah I don't know that it's the best ride in the world but I will fight for it as my favorite

forever like it's it's my ultimate favorite i think you could make a pretty strong argument

you probably could the best ride in the world like it's definitely in the short list yeah biron and i

before we're even arguing about that we're toggling between that and another attraction that we have

not covered on this podcast we were talking about how Veloccoaster is probably my favorite coaster. Yeah, awesome ride. But I think Hagrid's is probably a better overall ride. Yeah. It's tough. I mean, you guys have quite the one-two punch down there. I'm pretty jealous. I know. That park is pretty awesome because of those two right next to each other pretty much so let's go

ahead and just jump right into what were your what were your first impressions of this ride when did you

get on it what you think the first thing i ever heard about this ride was that people were waiting like

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