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The highly anticipated Fast and Furious rollercoaster will open at Universal Studios Hollywood in 2026. The attraction's title has also been officially revealed.
Fast and Furious: Hollywood Drift, inspired by the film franchise that has grossed over $7 billion at the box office, will be the theme park's first-ever high-speed outdoor coaster. The marquee ride will be located on the Upper Lot where the Animal Actors and the Special Effects Show used to be. That's where guests will board the groundbreaking ride in "a large, red brick, garage-style structure." The arrival of Fast and Furious: Hollywood Drift will also coincide with the 25th anniversary of the first film.
"As Universal Studios Hollywood continues to evolve, the arrival of Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift will be a powerful game changer that will infuse a new level of thrill into our already dynamic theme park," Scott Strobl, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Universal Studios Hollywood, said in a statement. He added, "We look forward to welcoming guests when it races onto the scene in 2026."
Fast and Furious: Hollywood Drift isn't the first attraction at the theme park to be based on Universal Pictures' multibillion-dollar franchise, which kicked off in 2001. In 2006, Universal Studios Hollywood launched The Fast and the Furious: Extreme Close-Up as part of the Studio Tour and demonstrated some of the special effects used in The Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift. It closed in 2013.
In 2015, Universal Studios Hollywood unveiled Fast and Furious: Supercharged, a 3D motion-based dark ride that concludes the tram tour. Based predominantly on 2015's Fast and Furious 6, it features Dwayne Johnson, Vin Diesel, Luke Evans, Michelle Rodriguez, and Tyrese Gibson in a chase and battle along a Los Angeles freeway.
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Very different from the prior and current franchise experiences, Fast and Furious: Hollywood Drift will use a state-of-the-art ride system to immerse guests in the high-speed Fast & Furious universe. The full-blown coaster will use a groundbreaking 360-degree rotation of individual ride vehicles to create "a seamless sensation of drifting cars" as riders spin in motion at fast speeds along an aerial track over parts of the theme park. The ride vehicles will also be styled similarly to some of the cars featured in the films. Construction on Fast and Furious: Hollywood Drift is already well underway.
The addition of Fast and Furious: Hollywood Drift will arrive approximately a year after the eleventh film in the Fast and Furious franchise lands in theatres and will be the first significant addition to the park since 2023's Super Nintendo World.
The original 2001 movie The Fast and the Furious starred Paul Walker as Brian O'Conner, a Los Angeles cop who goes undercover in the street racing world to investigate a gang of hijackers led by Vin Diesel's Dominic Toretto. The Fast and Furious franchise is Universal's most successful movie franchise and the seventh highest-grossing film series of all time.
More details about Fast and Furious: Hollywood Drift will be announced in the future. What, if anything, the rollercoaster's arrival might mean for Fast and Furious: Supercharged isn't known.
