Potential Layout for Fast and Furious: Hollywood Drift At Universal Studios Hollywood Revealed
The potential layout for Fast and Furious: Hollywood Drift has been discovered.
Hello folks, we have some very exciting news for you! Over the weekend, the amazing crew over at Parksfans.net found the potential site plan for the Fast and Furious roller coaster coming to Universal Studios Hollywood in 2025.
They even broke it down and figured out some of the elements for the coaster and we are going to go over the whole layout right now. First, I wanted to give my own insight and tell you what I have heard from my sources regarding the project. This coaster will have multiple launches and inversions and go about 73mph. The Velocicoaster at Islands of Adventure goes 70mph, so essentially we will have our own version of that coaster here on the West Coast. One thing about our coaster though is that there will be a controlled spinning element, hence the name Hollywood Drift.
So here is the breakdown of the coaster element by element. Starting off with everything in orange, those are just the maintenance bays so we will not see any of that while riding the coaster itself. The purple arrows are the dual loading station and that is where we shall start. Coming out of the station you go directly into the first launch and then straight into a left banking curve. It is at this point that you will likely start drifting (spinning) Cosmic Rewind style.
After a couple of turns, riders will go on to an airtime hill leading directly into a drop. After the drop will be a few ground-hugging drifting banked turns leading into an unknown element. After that element riders will go into their second launch which leads right into a dive drop. After that drop, the coaster will hit its third and likely fastest launch reaching 73mph, up a banked rising hill and into an inverted stall. From the stall, the coaster will go into a dive loop going over and under the Starway escalators and then hitting the final break run and heading back into the station.
Earlier concept art had a C-shaped spike integrated into the coaster but that was believed to be version 1.0 of the plans so that likely got cut for capacity reasons right away. The queue looks to be mostly indoors which is fantastic and should be highly themed like Velocicoaster’s queue.
This coaster is under construction now and we posted weekly updates on its progress, so be sure to follow the Boardwalk Times. Are you excited for Universal Studios Hollywood to get a proper roller coaster? Let me know in the comments below!
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Ethan Becker is a columnist for the Boardwalk Times
