Islands of Adventure

Orlando, FL

NBC Universal / Comcast



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(9/17/20) Jurassic Coaster Pull-Through (MORE...)

(9/7/20) New Jurassic Coaster Construction Update (MORE...)

(8/30/20) Impressive Jurassic Coaster Update (MORE...)

(8/25/20) Jurassic Coaster Construction Update, now with Flying Raptors (MORE...)

(8/17/20) Hagrid Status Update (MORE...)

Ride Rehabs - The following information is not guaranteed to be 100% accurate.

Nothing is known to be planned at this time...

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Hagrid’s Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure (2019)

General Park News - (8/17/20) I’ve got a quick update to the current situation with the Hagrid coaster at Islands of Adventure. The details are limited, but I’m told that the small fire actually took place in a control room area for the ride, and the repairs are taking a bit longer than Universal was hoping for. So with all this in mind, we have no ETA as to when it may reopen, but know that they are working on it.

(UPDATE - I’m not sure when, but hearing that Hagrid may have actually reopened sometime on Monday afternoon)



(8/16/20) We don’t know exactly what has taken place, but a few days ago it was reported that a small fire backstage at or near the Hagrid’s Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure that saw the ride shut down for the day and guests removed from the area. From what I’ve been led to understand, the ride has yet to reopen, and is currently still listed as being closed on the Universal App as of Sunday morning.

For now, trying to dig up more information about what happened and how much longer the ride is expected to be closed, so if anyone has any insight, please send it my way.



(1/24/20) Universal Orlando has announced that Confisco Grille at Universal’s Islands of Adventure theme park now features a new menu of exciting dishes cooked up by IOA’s Executive Chef, Jason Glus and his culinary team. The new menu will feature a mixture of different global cuisines, including Asia, Turkey, Greece, Russia, Poland and more. New dishes include: Pork Belly Banh-Mi Sandwich, Chilled Tuna Noodle Bowl, Grilled Lamb Meatballs, Sweet and Sour Sticky Ribs and Chicken Curry Chakra.









2021 - Jurassic Park Coaster - (9/17/20) A new FB post from Midway Mayhem confirms that a couple of coaster cars are now on the track of the unannounced Jurassic roller coaster for a safety pull-through the layout. The addition of the cover-up tarps to hide the theming of the cars also has a nice touch with the addition of a big InGen logo on the side. Well played Universal.



The JP flag has been hoisted! The top hat is complete, and shes beautiful. @UniversalORL pic.twitter.com/DHrIr86pI0 — Inside Universal (@insideuniversal) July 9, 2020

JURASSIC PARK COASTER: Looks like a roller coaster is headed to the Jurassic Park section of Islands of Adventure. Docs indicate construction should take 1/2 years. Here's the track layout and more details: https://t.co/ElS5puw98K pic.twitter.com/dPwHqvMZHN — Chip Skambis (@chickenlilchip) January 18, 2019

???? - Tolkien Middle-Earth / Lord of the Rings Land - Rumor - (1/5/20) Theme Park University is back with an interesting update, claiming that Universal Orlando may be quietly working on a Lord of the Rings themed land one again. Screamscape readers will remember that we talked about such an idea a couple of years ago as a possible replacement for Toon Lagoon at Islands of Adventure. At this time the Nintendo project was also announced as being in development, and it was also rumored that Toon Lagoon was also being eyeballed as a possible location of a separate “Zelda” themed land, as a sort of follow-up to come after Super Nintendo World would have opened in Universal Studios Florida as a replacement for the kiddie area.

We know all these plans changed, and Super Nintendo World is now destined to go into Universal’s new Epic Universe theme park instead. This changed a lot of things, as there was a bit of a scramble between many other project ideas in the works, which also included an idea to turn the kids land at the Studios into a Pokemon attraction area instead, before the Zelda and Pokemon concepts were apparently shelved.

At the time, the idea to make a Hobbit or Lord of the Rings attraction area faced some difficulties, as the rights to the IP was involved in a bit of an ongoing legal struggle with the Tolkien family estate. Things have apparently calmed down a bit since then, especially in light of the fact that Amazon was able to buy the rights in 2017 to create an all new Middle-Earth themed prequel series for Amazon Prime. This is just a thought, but given the timelines involved, it may actually benefit Universal more to invest in attractions themed to this new Amazon created Middle-Earth series than to get behind the two previous series that have been over and done with for years now.