Ride Guides

Attraction Guides

Complete guides to the rides worth planning around — history, stats, and strategy, one attraction at a time.

All 52 attraction logs reviewed July 2026. New rides are added as they open, and photos as we shoot them.

Disney's Hollywood Studios

First Order stormtroopers lined up in the hangar bay scene of Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance

Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge

Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance

The Millennium Falcon parked outside the entrance to Smugglers Run at Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge

Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge

Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run

Magic Kingdom

Tiana's Bayou Adventure log flume

Tiana's Bayou Adventure

A TRON Lightcycle / Run train climbing the lift beneath the ride's blue-lit canopy at night, riders leaning forward on the lightcycles

TRON Lightcycle / Run

Seven Dwarfs Mine Train cars rounding a curve in the mine

Seven Dwarfs Mine Train

Haunted Mansion exterior at Magic Kingdom

Haunted Mansion

Pirates of the Caribbean boats passing through the ride scenes

Pirates of the Caribbean

Islands of Adventure

Jurassic World VelociCoaster launch coaster with riders mid-launch

Jurassic World VelociCoaster

Hogwarts Castle at Islands of Adventure, home to Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter — Hogsmeade

Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey

Hagrid's motorbike and sidecar ride vehicle near the queue of Hagrid's Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter — Hogsmeade

Hagrid's Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure

Flight of the Hippogriff family roller coaster track winding past Hagrid's hut in Hogsmeade

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter — Hogsmeade

Flight of the Hippogriff

A Scoop ride vehicle for The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man at Islands of Adventure

Marvel Super Hero Island

The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man

The Incredible Hulk Coaster's green steel track towering over Marvel Super Hero Island

Marvel Super Hero Island

The Incredible Hulk Coaster

Doctor Doom's Fearfall drop tower rising above Marvel Super Hero Island

Marvel Super Hero Island

Doctor Doom's Fearfall

The bone-and-vine entrance facade to Skull Island: Reign of Kong

Skull Island: Reign of Kong

A boat plunging down the steep final drop of Jurassic Park River Adventure

Jurassic Park River Adventure

A suspended two-seat glider vehicle of Pteranodon Flyers soaring above the Jurassic Park treetops

Pteranodon Flyers

A log flume boat plunging down the steep final drop of Dudley Do-Right's Ripsaw Falls

Dudley Do-Right's Ripsaw Falls

A circular raft full of riders navigating the rapids of Popeye & Bluto's Bilge-Rat Barges

Popeye & Bluto's Bilge-Rat Barges

Epic Universe

Harry Potter and the Battle at the Ministry ride vehicle in the Atrium

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Ministry of Magic

Harry Potter and the Battle at the Ministry

The gothic Frankenstein Manor facade housing Monsters Unchained: The Frankenstein Experiment in Dark Universe at Epic Universe

Monsters Unchained: The Frankenstein Experiment

Mario Kart: Bowser's Challenge kart with AR headset display

Super Nintendo World

Mario Kart: Bowser's Challenge

Stardust Racers' yellow Photon track looping past the ride's comet-shaped launch capsule in Celestial Park

Stardust Racers

Dragon Racer's Rally in flight at Epic Universe, its arm raised with the dragon ride vehicles in the air, seen from the ground in Isle of Berk

How to Train Your Dragon – Isle of Berk

Dragon Racer's Rally

A three-tiered gilded carousel topped with a domed star-projection canopy at Celestial Park

Constellation Carousel

An open-air black roller coaster track winding through the fog-shrouded village of Darkmoor

Curse of the Werewolf

The Donkey Kong Country land entrance with its jungle rockwork, banana vines and giant tiki archway at Epic Universe

Super Nintendo World — Donkey Kong Country

Mine-Cart Madness

A Yoshi-shaped ride vehicle winding through Mushroom Kingdom scenery on Yoshi's Adventure

Super Nintendo World

Yoshi's Adventure

Super Nintendo World

Bowser Jr.'s Shadow Showdown

A winged dragon-glider styled coaster train banking through a launch curve above Isle of Berk

Hiccup's Wing Gliders

A dragon-headed Viking boat on Fyre Drill at Epic Universe, water cannons firing at flame-painted targets along the canal

Fyre Drill

Universal Studios Florida

Elevator of Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter — Diagon Alley

Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts

Revenge of the Mummy queue at Universal Studios Florida

Revenge of the Mummy

Men in Black Alien Attack at Universal Studios Florida

Men in Black Alien Attack

Transformers: The Ride 3D entrance at Universal Studios Florida

Production Central

Transformers: The Ride 3D

Race Through New York Starring Jimmy Fallon queue at Universal Studios Florida

Race Through New York Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Simpsons Ride entrance at Universal Studios Florida

Springfield: Home of the Simpsons

The Simpsons Ride

E.T. Adventure sign at Universal Studios Florida

E.T. Adventure

Despicable Me Minion Mayhem attraction facade at Universal Studios Florida

Illumination's Minion Land

Despicable Me Minion Mayhem

Illumination's Villain-Con Minion Blast at Universal Studios Florida

Illumination's Minion Land

Illumination's Villain-Con Minion Blast

Fast & Furious: Supercharged attraction at Universal Studios Florida

Fast & Furious: Supercharged

Kang & Kodos' Twirl 'n' Hurl in Springfield at Universal Studios Florida

Springfield: Home of the Simpsons

Kang & Kodos' Twirl 'n' Hurl

The Trolls Trollercoaster entrance in DreamWorks Land, with its pink and teal archway, troll character figures and the orange coaster track curving behind

DreamWorks Land

Trolls Trollercoaster

Volcano Bay

The Krakatau volcano structure at Volcano Bay housing the Ko'okiri Body Plunge slide

Ko'okiri Body Plunge

The Krakatau volcano rising over Volcano Bay, with the blue and green Kala & Tai Nui body slide chutes emerging from its base

Rainforest Village

Kala & Tai Nui Serpentine Body Slides

Whitewater rushing into the dark cave section of TeAwa The Fearless River, with guests floating through in life vests

Rainforest Village

TeAwa The Fearless River

The wide sandy shoreline and wave pool at Waturi Beach, ringed with rows of green and blue loungers and umbrellas

Waturi Beach

The Krakatau volcano with the orange and teal Punga Racers slide tubes twisting down its side between palm trees

Rainforest Village

Punga Racers

A multi-rider raft on the Honu slide beside its calmer sister slide, Ika Moana, at Volcano Bay

Honu ika Moana

The carved Maku Puihi entrance sign standing beneath the ride’s large orange funnel slide

Rainforest Village

Maku Puihi Round Raft Rides

A rider dropping from an elevated platform into a deep splash pool at the base of the Ohyah and Ohno drop slides

Rainforest Village

Ohyah & Ohno Drop Slides

A four-person canoe-style raft climbing a hill on the Krakatau Aqua Coaster water roller coaster

Krakatau Aqua Coaster