This is mostly a dark ride, with some coaster elements. The cars can rotate to the sides under ride control to affect your view. The dark ride is very elaborate, having to do with a raid on the vaults...
This is mostly a dark ride, with some coaster elements. The cars can rotate to the sides under ride control to affect your view. The dark ride is very elaborate, having to do with a raid on the vaults of Gringotts Wizarding Bank that happens in, I think, the final Harry Potter book. Characters and creatures from the books/movies appear and menace you or help you along. For reasons outside of Universal's control, Harry Potter doesn't quite hit the same for me as it used to, but technically this material is excellent, if a bit overly dependent on screen displays. The coaster elements are mostly near the beginning: there is a tire launch and a tilt track that tilts you into a short coaster drop (making this, technically, the first tilt coaster in the Americas!). The dark-ride material can be a bit motion-sickness-inducing.
(For people wondering why "Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey" doesn't appear on this site: That's not a roller coaster at all, whereas this arguably is.)