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Hagrid's Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure features seven launches – the most of any roller coaster in the world at the time of opening – and reaches a maximum speed of 50 mph (80 km/h). [17] It also features a unique free-fall vertical drop element, [ 26 ] in which the track disconnects and drops with the train 17 feet (5.2 m), where ...
In Book 2, Errol Fisk claims the curator of a mortuary as a Viviblix, and likely has turned some of the dead in his care to zombies (which is a lie he invented to convince Seth to awaken the demon the curator was guarding). At the end of Book 3, several skeletons from the museum at Lost Mesa suddenly come to life and help overthrow the preserve.
Erich Kästner's choice of a wardrobe as an entrance to the magical world refers to E.T.A. Hoffmann's The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (1816). [3] The plot device of a magic wardrobe through which the characters enter magical lands is also used by C. S. Lewis in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and, earlier, in the 1912 short story by E ...
The ride will be the centerpiece of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Ministry of Magic, one of five lands opening in May 2025 as part of Universal Orlando's much-hyped third theme park ...
Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports is the third book in the Maximum Ride series by James Patterson. It was released in the United Kingdom and the United States on May 29, 2007. [2] [3] The series is set in modern times, and revolves around the 'flock', a group of human-avian hybrids on the run from the scientists who ...
Board books, picture books, novels, chapter books — and even a cookbook and experiment-filled science book — made the list. One more thing: Since kids like to imitate adults, make sure they ...
Just as Scipio gets off the merry-go-round, the gang's fence Barbarossa arrives, intending to take his payment. As revenge for his cruel actions, Scipio (pretending to be his father) fools him into taking a ride. Barbarossa rapidly deages. He breaks the merry-go-round in panic, permanently stopping its magic, but he has become a young boy.
The Magician Trilogy is a series of three children's fantasy novels by the British author Jenny Nimmo, first published by Methuen 1986 to 1989.It is sometimes called the Snow Spider trilogy or series after the first book [1] [2] and The Snow Spider Trilogy is the title of its omnibus editions (1991 and later). [3]