Fast & Furious: Supercharged will close as Universal Studios Florida works on a 170-foot-tall spinning coaster themed to the action franchise.

Universal Orlando permanently closing Fast & Furious ride ahead of jaw-dropping new roller coaster themed to film series

Fast & Furious: Supercharged will close as Universal Studios Florida works on a 170-foot-tall spinning coaster themed to the action franchise.

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'Fast & Furious' stars at the Fast & Furious: Supercharged premiere in 2018; Vin Diesel in 'Fast & Furious'. Credit:

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- Universal Orlando to close its Fast & Furious: Supercharged ride in the near future.

- Universal Studios Florida will then open the Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift spinning roller coaster.

- The new coaster will replace the old Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit coaster, and travel 170 feet in the air with cars that spin.

When one *Fast & Furious* family falls, another rises in its place — sometimes to heights of 170 feet in the air, as is the case with a new roller coaster heading to Florida's Universal Orlando Resort.

Following the closure of its 26-year-old Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit roller coaster in 2025, Universal Studios Florida revealed Tuesday the beloved attraction's highly anticipated replacement: Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift, a new spinning roller coaster themed to the blockbuster *Fast & Furious* movie franchise starring Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Jason Statham, Dwayne Johnson, and more.

The new roller coaster — which shares its name with a similar coaster set to open at Universal Studios Hollywood later this year — will feature cars themed to automobiles that spin 360 degrees along the course. The track includes various elements, but most notably a 170-foot vertical spike that extends out toward the Universal CityWalk retail and dining sector outside park.

Sung Kang, Chris 'Ludacris' Bridges Gal Gadot, Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, and Tyrese Gibson in 'Fast & Furious 6'.

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To make way for the new roller coaster, the Orlando park's existing *Fast & Furious* ride, titled Fast & Furious: Supercharged, will close in 2027, ending its nine-season run at the park.

First opened in 2018, Supercharged takes riders on a screen-based journey through an original story in the *Fast* franchise, with guests boarding buses to join a celebration at Sullivan's garage, only to be pursued by the FBI and Owen Shaw (played by Luke Evans in the film series).

While Universal Orlando's Supercharged opened as a stand-alone ride, Universal Studios Hollywood operated a similar attraction as a smaller segment on its storied Studio Tour tram ride. Though the tram attraction still operates, the *Fast & Furious*-themed portion closed in 2025 as construction ramped up on the Hollywood park's Fast & Furious roller coaster.

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Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift will open as the latest in a growing line of roller coasters themed to major intellectual properties at the Universal Orlando Resort. In 2021, the resort's Islands of Adventure theme park opened the VelociCoaster set in the *Jurassic World *universe, complete with new queue-area scenes starring film actors Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard.**

Islands of Adventure also operates two roller coasters themed to the *Harry Potter *franchise — Hagrid's Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure and Flight of the Hippogriff — while Universal Studios Florida boasts an additional *Harry Potter* coaster (Escape from Gringotts), an indoor launched coaster inspired by Brendan Fraser's *The Mummy* films, and the Trollercoaster, a mild children's coaster based on the animated *Trolls* series.

The resort's newest park, Epic Universe, opened in 2025 with roller coasters set in the worlds of the *Donkey Kong *video games, the *How to Train Your Dragon *cinematic universe, the realm of classic Universal monsters, and the celestial-themed Stardust Racers multi-launch coaster.

Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift new roller coaster heading to Universal Orlando Resort.

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Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift's opening date at Universal Studios Florida has yet to be announced. Fast & Furious: Supercharged will close sometime in 2027. More information on the new roller coaster will be announced soon.

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