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Universal Studios Florida | Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift| Intamin Spinning Launched Coaster | 2027
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WarmishSign
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TRACK HAS ARRIVED!!! I REPEAT< TRACK HAS ARRIVED!!!!! THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa1TP35hO94
Intamin Forever
Mega Poster
I really think this could be a “Great Movie Car Ride”. With vehicles from Jurrasic Park, Fast & Furious, Back to the Future, Blues Brothers, Ghostbusters, etc, etc!
But I also personally want it to just be BTTF.
Peet
Giga Poster
davidm
Strata Poster
Press release
Universal Orlando Resort Reveals Its Next Blockbuster Attraction - Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift – A High-Speed Roller Coaster Coming To Universal Studios Florida In 2027
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media.universalparksusa.com
(my emphasis on that last paragraph
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Tonkso
Hyper Poster
Wait, so not only are we getting a new coaster, which if it's anything as good as the Hollywood one looks like is an absolute result... but they're also getting rid of bar-none the worst ride on the resort!?
Holy crap! Replace Villain-Con with something actually good and the park is looking good again.
Holy crap! Replace Villain-Con with something actually good and the park is looking good again.
TPoseOnTantrum
Strata Poster
Have you forgotten about Race Through New York?..
Tonkso
Hyper Poster
Yes, I had, and I was happy about it.Have you forgotten about Race Through New York?..
Peet
Giga Poster
Here's a better look at the track that's been delivered:
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bioreconstruct on Instagram: "2 Aerial photos of Fast & Furious Hollywood Drift track staged near Epic Universe. Previously seen covered with tarps. Could be these sections will be placed soon at the ride service building. In Universal Studios Florid
364 likes, 1 comments - bioreconstruct on February 27, 2026: "2 Aerial photos of Fast & Furious Hollywood Drift track staged near Epic Universe. Previously seen covered with tarps. Could be these sections will be placed soon at the ride service building. In Universal Studios Florida.".
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TPoseOnTantrum
Strata Poster
TPoseOnTantrum
Strata Poster
TPoseOnTantrum
Strata Poster
Current look at staged stuff;
Source & Source
A station building is rapidly rising, the first one will presumably be maintenance related and probably some back of house stuff.
Source
Stakes have been planted at all of the footers in the front. Assembly can’t be far away now, all depends on what’s been delivered so far. Universal will likely have prioritized these supports anyhow.
Source
Source & Source
A station building is rapidly rising, the first one will presumably be maintenance related and probably some back of house stuff.
Source
Stakes have been planted at all of the footers in the front. Assembly can’t be far away now, all depends on what’s been delivered so far. Universal will likely have prioritized these supports anyhow.
Source
TPoseOnTantrum
Strata Poster
TPoseOnTantrum
Strata Poster
Station track has gone in, here's an aerial from Bioreconstruct (anyone else?). Like the Hollywood version, this will be a dual load/unload platform;
Source
Now for some layout analysis. It feels like the completed part of the station is where trains will be waiting on the brakes to enter the station, as in comparison to Hollywood's they have the switch tracks immediately after the station and then leaving some room to park a train behind each platform, plus two sets of switches on each end for the maintenance bay. This one is more complicated because we already know there's a high-speed switch track halfway through the layout, which leads into the 170-foot spike;
Source
That means there's a second switch in direction somewhere to counter that and ensure train chassis return to the station in the same direction as which they left. There's two sets of switches right outside the station, which flows something like this;
Source
It looks like the red heads straight back to the giant maintenance building, which is weird since the layout is all in the opposite direction and typically your switch track would turn left in that case instead of right. Maybe there's a brief show scene inside the warehouse before the train launches backwards, or maybe they're going to use Hollywood's original fishhook spike idea over the queue plaza below (would need yet another switch though). It'd be very funny.
Source
Now for some layout analysis. It feels like the completed part of the station is where trains will be waiting on the brakes to enter the station, as in comparison to Hollywood's they have the switch tracks immediately after the station and then leaving some room to park a train behind each platform, plus two sets of switches on each end for the maintenance bay. This one is more complicated because we already know there's a high-speed switch track halfway through the layout, which leads into the 170-foot spike;
Source
That means there's a second switch in direction somewhere to counter that and ensure train chassis return to the station in the same direction as which they left. There's two sets of switches right outside the station, which flows something like this;
Source
It looks like the red heads straight back to the giant maintenance building, which is weird since the layout is all in the opposite direction and typically your switch track would turn left in that case instead of right. Maybe there's a brief show scene inside the warehouse before the train launches backwards, or maybe they're going to use Hollywood's original fishhook spike idea over the queue plaza below (would need yet another switch though). It'd be very funny.
AidanCKY
Mega Poster
Some updates on this, been quite a lot happening. They have gone vertical with supports and some track installation. Lots of blue supports at the CityWalk end of the site, they have "DOT" and an arrow on the mounting point, assumed to mean "Direction of Travel" which is an interesting choice they made.
At the other end of the site, by the old Ghostbusters facade, the station and all associated track and supports have been installed. Revealing a dual-load station, as well as a switch track immediately after the switch track for the 2 stations merge is.
It suggests the train will exit the station, and then turn right through a switch track, which points at the maintenance building. The coaster might enter the building, and then launch back the opposite direction, or it might just stop in front of the building, then launch in reverse.
There's another switch track at the Citywalk end of the layout, with what seems to be a large spike.
As the trains will be controlled spinning ones like at the Hollywood Drift coaster at Universal Hollywood, the train being launched backwards and also having a spike will feel very different as the trains are likely to rotate you as it happens.
All images source:
x.com
At the other end of the site, by the old Ghostbusters facade, the station and all associated track and supports have been installed. Revealing a dual-load station, as well as a switch track immediately after the switch track for the 2 stations merge is.
It suggests the train will exit the station, and then turn right through a switch track, which points at the maintenance building. The coaster might enter the building, and then launch back the opposite direction, or it might just stop in front of the building, then launch in reverse.
There's another switch track at the Citywalk end of the layout, with what seems to be a large spike.
As the trains will be controlled spinning ones like at the Hollywood Drift coaster at Universal Hollywood, the train being launched backwards and also having a spike will feel very different as the trains are likely to rotate you as it happens.
All images source:
bioreconstruct (@bioreconstruct) on X
They asked before boarding a futuristic ride at the Toronto CN Tower: Are you a bioreconstruct?
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WarmishSign
Mega Poster
This thread is behind, but track is now installed on the main layout, airtime hill launch, twisted spike.
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Fast & Furious Hollywood Drift construction 4K
Aerial look at construction of Fast & Furious Hollywood Drift in Universal Studios Florida.Track added this week over a small hill ("Speed Bump" 😉)for the a...
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VonRolland
Giga Poster
The spike has been topped off!
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Midway Mayhem
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING🚨🚨🚨 The 170' twisting spike for Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift has been topped off!!!
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