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Just because you personally don’t see the value in something, doesn’t mean the people in charge with a decade+ of receipts don’t.
Fast and Furious: Hollywood Drift coaster (Opening 2026)
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Just because you personally don’t see the value in something, doesn’t mean the people in charge with a decade+ of receipts don’t.
- May 26, 2010
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Okay. How do you incorporate ET, Classic Monsters, Twister, and whatever else into what's essentially a terrain coaster with little to no room for a show building?
The proper theme is Fast and Furious. I guarantee you they did more meaningful research on this that outweighs your gut feeling.
The park has a great movie ride. It's called the Studio Tour. If anything, saying you've got a "great movie ride" coaster with ET, Classic Monsters, and, uh, Twister is more likely to confuse people than just saying "we've got a Fast and Furious Drift coaster." ET and the Monsters, as much as I love them, aren't even really major draws.
Are you really going to make this about Nintendo again? This is beyond parody at this point. Fast & Furious does massive international numbers.
Harry Potter anything will move the needle considerably. Tons of people will want to see this coaster, you've just willed yourself into believing otherwise.
Spinning coaster. Cows. Dorothy (not the human lol).
(Earth), fire, wind, water, (heart)... oh wait, wrong IP
- Jun 27, 2017
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I mean they would have to design it different then it is
You'd build the show scenes with the coaster. I mean ET is a perfect launch point, have it stop and get shot backwards with Twister. Have another park where you shoot off with a Fast and furious car next to you
Yeah it would not be the same coaster but the same land could be used they'd just have to built the coaster with it in mind
I have no doubt the ride will get normally new ride lines....my guess is unlike other major additions in a year or so it wont have the same huge lines as opening...in fact I bet a slow moving dark ride is still riving F&F wait times a few months after it opens.
People on here think Coasters are what draws people to parks....but at least in CA they don't
Six Flags and Knotts not doing well, DCA opened with an amazing coaster didn't help. USH two biggest bumps in attendance were around new themed areas and rides based on popular IPs that are to every generation.
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90% of the time when I go to the park, the wait time for the Mummy is far longer than Forbidden Journey. If you really think a huge thrill coaster in a prime location in the park with an amazing sight line — regardless of IP — is going to somehow be a walk-on that no one cares about after a year, then thank god you’re not on Universal’s development team.
- May 26, 2010
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No. You'd have to have a completely different plot of land. Where, precisely, is this show building going?
How is the family-friendly ET film a perfect launch point? We're just ripping off the underwhelming Twister beat from the German ride, then something cribbed from Radiator Springs Racers? This is all assuming there is room to execute these sequences, which there isn't!
No it couldn't. This is magical thinking.
I don't even really understand what you are saying here due to what are presumably typos, but if you're suggesting that Secret Life of Pets will sometimes have higher wait times than Fast and Furious a year after opening, probably, because Pets has a tiny capacity, which is not at all reflective of popularity. Making the coaster a "great movie ride" wouldn't meaningfully change its popularity - if anything, it might dilute its efficacy by confusing guests.
Six Flags and Knotts are not doing well because they arguably have too many coasters and little else. Another coaster for either park is more of the same. This would be Universal Hollywood's first major outdoor coaster. It's apples and oranges.
DCA's coaster didn't help because the park was underbuilt on the cheap. It was actually one of the only rides that was well-received.
Once again, can't believe I have to keep saying this, Fast and Furious is a four quadrant franchise with MASSIVE crossover appeal.
I think this'll have to be the last time I break down why everything you're saying is patently absurd or outright wrong, because like most conversations with you regarding what you think is best for this park, this is exhausting.
- Jun 27, 2017
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If the Mummy is running one coaster then.....yeah makes sense
HP has a much better capacity. The Cars are constantly moving
Also lol
Ohh No Jerrod is making a Great Movie ride coaster....this forums would clearly hate that, you'd also hate Lunar New Years event coming back, having the Yoshi ride in SNW, and having summer events in the plaza you guys would hate it believe me because if I ran that place you'd be seeing SLOP having a Holiday Overlay....along with adding Migration characters to the NY section of the ride, having the Dream Works Theater have rotating shows and DE ride being updated. It would be a nightmare, lol
- Sep 10, 2017
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I just don't think you can argue that an F&F coaster shouldn't come because of diminishing box office returns when you're simultaneously arguing for a Harry Potter coaster lol. Secrets of Dumbledore couldn't even hit 100m domestic. F9 nearly doubled its domestic gross despite opening a year before, when the pandemic was worse.
What about Ohana? Ohana means family, family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.
Fast & Furious is all about family.. ride ordie vomit!
Fast & Furious is all about family.. ride or
wtf is even this?
Considering the fact you keep ignoring actual, legitimate points because of your own weird, illogical personal opinions - I'm going to suggest you stop right now.
This is beyond sharing a personal opinion because, again, you keep moving goalposts and masquerading personal opinions as unsavvy business decisions while constantly dismissing others with strawman arguments.
Every single thread that you've gotten involved in lately has become unpleasant for our readers, It's hard to have a real conversation with you when you're just blindly throwing darts at the board and hoping something sticks. All it's doing is polluting the threads for our readers and we just can't have that anymore.
Enough is enough. If it happens again, we have no choice but to ban you. Consider this your last warning.
Sometimes the forums have a bit of a glitch for me, and I'm not notified when a thread I've been active in has new posts.
This is one of those times I'm really disappointed those glitches happened. I missed a lot of gold here.
This is one of those times I'm really disappointed those glitches happened. I missed a lot of gold here.
Be sure to check out the gift shop when you're done going through it to buy the official "I Survived the 'Fast and Furious Coaster Coming to USH' Thread" t-shirt! After all, when talking about F&F, nothing is more important than those merch sales!
Don't forget to use your AP discount. At Universal, AP holders are like family.
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FWIW, I have multiple coaster enthusiast friends who haven't visited USH since 2016, who are very excited about this project, and have expressed interest in buying an AP the year this coaster opens. 2 of them bought UOAP in 2021 after riding Velocicoaster
To all the haters who complain that this is going to be "boring" and "unthemed"....I kno of several people who are legitimately excited about this ride as USH is a "boring" park that needs something fast. This is going to be the most popular ride in the park, I'm telling you.
In my personal opinion, I'm not impressed by the layout, but the spinning ride vehicles are very unique. The theming doesn't even matter for something like Fast and Furious. A simple queue and station are perfect for this type of IP.
Regardless, I'm extremely happy to see one of Universal's biggest franchises of all time finally receive an attraction that makes sense. An attraction that is actually fast and furious lol.
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Mario Kart, Forbidden Journey, and Fast and Furious are going to be the top rides of the park, no question. It'll be great for crowd control in the first half of the day, with Potter, Nintendo, and the coaster pulling folks in multiple directions for their first stop.
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Curious about the queue/station theme, probably similar to Supercharge on both coasts being an autoshop/warehouse.
Still hoping for that fantasy glitz/glamor that people associate with Hollywood, but also a hint of Tokyo Drift's nighttime neon vibe.
I'd be amused if they could recreate part of the Hollywood sign on the hill where most of the track is at.
Still hoping for that fantasy glitz/glamor that people associate with Hollywood, but also a hint of Tokyo Drift's nighttime neon vibe.
I'd be amused if they could recreate part of the Hollywood sign on the hill where most of the track is at.
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