‘Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” is full of magical effects, but none is more spectacular – or adorable – than Buckbeak, the animated half-horse, half-eagle creatu… ...

Built on a compact footprint, the tightly-twisting Hippogriff coaster zips and dips as it navigates a 720-degree clockwise spiral before diving into a trio of banked S-turns with a few airtime hills.

Size comparisons to hippogriff, human and Western dragon (2). Spikes behind the forelimbs are vestiges of wings, reflecting ancient common ancestry with Western dragons (3).