Universal Studios Hollywood has completed the track for its upcoming Fast & Furious roller coaster.
Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift is set to open in 2026 at the California theme park. The Intamin production will feature spinning cars that simulate the feel of drifting in the type of sports cars featured in the Fast & Furious film series.
The ride stands on the hillside connecting the park's Upper and Lower Lots, straddling the Starway elevators near the top of the hill. The ride's entrance will be via a brick warehouse across from The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, on the site of the formetr Castle Theater and Animal Actors theater.
While Universal continues work on this coaster, it has retired Fast & Furious' former home in the park, the Fast & Furious Supercharged experience on the Studio Tour. There's no replacement announced yet for that.
Meanwhile, the park also is working on the upcoming Universal Fan Fest Nights, which starts April 25. Attraction signs and fan zone decorations are beginning to appear around the park for that event, which will feature Back to the Future, Star Trek, Dungeons & Dragons, One Piece, and Jujutsu Kaisen, along with added experience in The Wizarding World of Harry Potter and Super Nintendo World. Ticket are on sale now, starting at $71 from our partner.
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good day to be universal
I keep hearing testing by the end of the year. Weather permitting, of course.
A true California velocicoaster. I'm glad they switched it up a bit.
Very exciting that we've got a contender for top ten US coasters over on the west coast once again. I can't wait until we start seeing this thing cycling to get an idea of how it's going to ride. As for a timeline, my guess at the moment is we'll probably see testing begin sometime in the early July to early September window (depending how much still needs to be done before that can take place), employee previews starting mid to late November, guest previews at some point in January, and an opening in mid February.
I'm really interested in this coaster and how the spinning/drifting integrates into the overall ride experience. For reference, I believe the original plans for the Italian Job coasters installed in the old Paramount Parks (now non-IPed Stunt Coaster) was to have the cars drift (but not spin), and my hope is that this coaster delivers that experience without turning it into a nauseating feeling with random spinning - deliberately timed spinning/drifting similar to GotG:CR.
The track structure for this coaster is definitely impressive, and if Universal can successfully integrate the Fast and Furious theme, an IP that's desperately needed an attraction on par with the success of the movies, they could be sitting on a gold mine and perhaps have a ride that could stand toe to toe with the best roller coasters in the world.
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when do you predict roller coaster testing to be?