Universal Studios Shares First Look at Its Fastest Park Ride, the Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift Roller Coaster

Universal Studios Hollywood is getting in a position for an entire new appeal to waft into the park.

The Southern California amusement park gave the primary take a look at its newest curler coaster — and first-ever out of doors curler coaster — on Thursday, June 12. The new experience, Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift — impressed via the long-running Fast & Furious franchise — will arrive on the amusement park in 2026! 

Along with saying the hole date, Universal Studios Hollywood added a video that integrated a rendering of the brand new experience. The video starts with a close-up take a look at the curler coaster’s automobile, Dominic Toretto’s Dodge Charger. (It can be on show prior to the experience’s opening, from Friday, June 13 to Sunday, August 10, 2025.)

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The video comprises quite a lot of clips from the hit motion collection, with the automobiles revving their engines and rushing throughout the streets. 

It additionally displays renderings that reveal how the experience automobiles will flip round to create a sensation of drifting automobiles, all whilst following the coaster’s trail, and every now and then going the other way up. “With a groundbreaking 360-degree rotation of the individual ride vehicles as they rocket along an elaborate track, this is a roller coaster like no other,” the park’s June 12 announcement learn.

Per the video, the experience will apparently take riders over the park’s signature escalators between the higher and decrease so much, giving park goers a take a look at the riders and vice versa. 

The new experience would be the quickest curler coaster in the entire Universal parks, with a most velocity of 72 mph, consistent with Deadline. It will use 4,100 toes of observe and start throughout from the doorway to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.

“Watching the progress of this incredible roller coaster come to life is truly spectacular,” Scott Strobl, Universal Studios Hollywood govt vp and basic supervisor, mentioned, consistent with the opening. 

“2026 is just around the corner,” he endured. “‘Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift’ will be a powerful game changer for Universal Studios Hollywood that will not only transform the topography of our destination but will infuse an entirely new level of adrenaline to our already dynamic theme park.”