Former Ride // latest change 2019.06.13
Hogsmeade · Islands of Adventure · Universal Orlando
Former Ride · the memorial record
Also known as Dueling Dragons.
This ride is gone, but its history stays documented — the full lifetime log is below.
◆ Latest milestone
Hagrid's Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure opened on the cleared Dragon Challenge site, retaining the former attraction's exterior queue minus its Triwizard Tournament pennants.
Dragon Challenge operated for the last time and closed permanently after eighteen years.
By late September 2017 the coaster's track was being dismantled and sent to the scrapyard.
Universal announced a new Harry Potter roller coaster for 2019 and set Dragon Challenge's final operating day for September 4, 2017.
Universal turned off the simultaneous dispatches permanently in mid-October 2011, and the Chinese Fireball and Hungarian Horntail ran independently for the rest of the attraction's life.
Two riders were struck by unidentified objects in the summer of 2011, on July 31 and August 10, with the first rider losing vision in the eye that was hit and the second injured in the face and leg.
The ride officially became Dragon Challenge when The Wizarding World of Harry Potter - Hogsmeade opened, with its two tracks renamed the Chinese Fireball and the Hungarian Horntail.
The coasters closed early in 2010 for refurbishment and reopened to the public in mid-March with the queue and surroundings rebuilt from Merlinwood into The Wizarding World of Harry Potter - Hogsmeade.
The ride opened as Dueling Dragons on Islands of Adventure's opening day, a pair of intertwined inverted roller coasters named Fire and Ice in the Merlinwood section of The Lost Continent.
Per the documented record, Dragon Challenge at Islands of Adventure opened on May 28, 1999.
The most recent closure/refurbishment documented for Dragon Challenge is dated Sep 4, 2017: Dragon Challenge operated for the last time and closed permanently after eighteen years.
The latest documented change (documented Jun 13, 2019): Hagrid's Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure opened on the cleared Dragon Challenge site, retaining the former attraction's exterior queue minus its Triwizard Tournament pennants.
9 documented changes, dating back to 1999 — the fan-kept ride changelog nobody else keeps.
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