‘Fast & Furious’ roller coaster revealed for Universal Orlando; Supercharged closing | 7 announcements
Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift, a new roller coaster, will open at Universal Studios Florida in 2027. Additionally, the existing Fast & Furious – Supercharged simulator will close.
Universal revealed Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift on Jan. 20, 2026. Here are 8 things to know.
Rip Ride Rockit’s replacement
Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift will replace Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit, which closed in August 2025 and has already been demolished.
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Drift coaster!
Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift, as its title implies, will involve 360-degree drifting of its ride vehicles.
Existing coasters in the Orlando area also turn their individual trains by various means: by gravity and weight on Curse of the Werewolf at Epic Universe, and by pre-programmed turns on Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind at Epcot.
Details on Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift’s maneuverability remain to be seen.
Opening date for Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift in Florida
Fast & Furious Hollywood Drift will open sometime in 2027 at Universal Studios Florida. An exact opening date has not been announced.
For what it’s worth, all of the newest coasters to open at Universal Orlando in recent memory — Jurassic World VelociCoaster and Hagrid’s Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure, as well as the whole of Epic Universe — opened in summer seasons.
Different from the California counterpart
Out west at Universal Studios Hollywood, an altogether different roller coaster also named Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift opens in 2026 (exact opening dat TBA) near Los Angeles, Calif.
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Universal assures that Florida and California’s versions of the attraction will each be “one of a kind.”
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In California, Hollywood Drift will be the park’s first outdoor high-speed roller coaster. It’s much further along than Florida’s, with the track completed and ride train testing already underway. Roller coaster manufacturer Intamin designed Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift in California.
The tallest coaster at Universal Orlando
Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift will feature a “spike” element within its track that will reach 170 feet into the air, making it the tallest roller coaster at Universal Orlando.
For comparison, the top hat of Jurassic World VelociCoaster at Islands of Adventure is 155 feet, Stardust Racers at Epic Universe reaches 133 feet in the air, and the former Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit reached 167 feet.
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It’s all outdoors
Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift will be an outdoor roller coaster, like most coasters at Universal Orlando. While there may not have been signs of it being an indoor coaster based on current construction progress, an indoor coaster at Universal would not have been unprecedented, as Revenge of the Mummy has been taking riders swooping through Imhotep’s tomb indoors since 2004. Likewise, Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts (and its glorious storytelling) have been taking riders into the wizarding bank vaults indoors since 2014.
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Construction is underway
Construction for Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift has been underway for months despite Universal not having formally announced the attraction until January 2026.
We’ve been tracking the demolition of Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit and the construction of Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift (even though we didn’t know what it was yet!) via aerial photography from @bioreconstruct. See our separate story for comprehensive timelapse construction progress of Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift.
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Fast & Furious – Supercharged closing
Fast & Furious – Supercharged will permanently close in 2027 (exact closing date TBA). While the location of the simulator ride within Universal Studios Florida does not overlap with the placement of the roller coaster (in other words, the coaster will not be built where Supercharged currently stands), it seems Universal simply doesn’t want two attractions themed to the franchise.
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Universal has not announced what will replace Supercharged, nor has the company shared if the ride system will be repurposed for a similar attraction themed to a different intellectual property. Supercharged originally displaced the longstanding “Beetlejuice’s Graveyard Revue” theater.
Universal Studios Florida opened the Fast & Furious – Supercharged in 2018. The attraction involves about two dozen guests in a safari-truck-like vehicle traveling into a large room with a wrap-around screen that puts riders in the middle of a virtual highway chase with characters from the “Fast & Furious” movies. It utilizes the same ride system as Skull Island: Reign of Kong at Universal Islands of Adventure.
California’s version of Supercharged, which was part of its Studio Tram Tour, permanently closed in 2025. Here’s our POV video of that version of the ride; the media onboard is largely the same in Florida.
But wait … HOLLYWOOD Drift?
With the current layout of Universal Studios Florida, the entrance to Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift would be in (or near) the park’s area themed to New York City. Notably, the park already has as a Hollywood section, and the coaster track may maneuver near some of it, but not most of it.
Will the transition from NYC from Hollywood be explained within the lore of the ride? Will it be addressed at all? Will any of the existing NYC area be annexed into Hollywood’s borders? It’s too early to know the answers to these questions, but we’re curious all the same.
More coming soon to Universal Orlando
Universal will also soon begin construction for a mystery project in The Lost Continent at Islands of Adventure, and has lots of space to expand park areas at Epic Universe.
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