Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift coaster (USH) - Opening 2026

[simon]

Hopefully the fence part is true. You have one of the best views out of any theme park on the planet and you block it with a solid fence?!

Agreed, there is no point to build skybridge just to block the viewpoints. I bet those quene area would potentially have one of the best views of LA if the wall on the fences will be gone.

 

[Hello]

Bumped into a team member again and I asked about those ugly fences. Their reply was rather interesting. For the majority of queneline, they’re planning to remove those (gray) walls in front of the fences once the construction is done(probably it was temporally thing for security and safety of workers).

Really hoping that this turns out to be true.

 

[Hello]

From yesterday, they are adding rock walls. This is after they added a large dark tarp on the ground and segmented it into portions.

 

[Wesker69]

I know it's asking for too much, but give us nice landscaping. That big open area of grass needs plants & palm trees.

I'd always did excessive landscaping on RCT, when possible haha

 

[Hello]

I know it's asking for too much, but give us nice landscaping. That big open area of grass needs plants & palm trees.

I'd always did excessive landscaping on RCT, when possible haha

You will welcome the gravel with open arms

 

[Wesker69]

You will welcome the gravel with open arms

In the words of Letty "How about you eat asphalt"

I feel so dirty for quoting Supercharged

 

[DarkMetroid567]

I told myself I’d visit USH next once Hollywood Drift opened…that was at Fan Fest Nights a year ago. Given that I’m not interested in FFN this year it may be eons until I’m back

 

[Jerroddragon]

I told myself I’d visit USH next once Hollywood Drift opened…that was at Fan Fest Nights a year ago. Given that I’m not interested in FFN this year it may be eons until I’m back

Honestly if you can come down on an HHN weekday, during the day should be mostly dead and then you can enjoy the event after

It should be open by HHN at the latest

 

[ethanuniversal]

Next month the coaster will start begin testing with technical design team members

 

[Rideguy70]

Still haven't seen much footage of it spinning, though. That concerns me.

 

[Mr_Pendington]

For a ride that's slated to open in probably 5 months (yikes!) I imagine they still have a lot of fine tuning to do with landscaping and paint. I'm just really hoping the queue continues Universal's trend of making the line a part of the ride (Mario Kart, the Mummy, Forbidden Journey) and not make it a generic one (Simpsons, Hippogrith).

 

[Wesker69]

Still haven't seen much footage of it spinning, though. That concerns me.

Because that wasn't a priority. They wanted to make sure the train could properly cycle without issue before adding unusual technical aspects.

Full drifting "rotation" testing begins next month as stated in the listing for March activities. It's all about getting through one hurdle at a time.

It'll be fine, it's only 2 months into 2026. Technical design teammembers testing it out is a good sign of progress

 

[BillM]

Still haven't seen much footage of it spinning, though. That concerns me.

Me too. And the ones where it does spin, it seems that the front car never spins. Not riding this unless the cars drift.

 

[Freak]

Me too. And the ones where it does spin, it seems that the front car never spins. Not riding this unless the cars drift.

Don’t think you’ll have to worry about that considering that the cars have to drift once people get to ride. The whole point of the drifting gimmick in the first place was to direct noise away from the studio and the neighbors.

 

[Viator]

From what it sounds the big issue technically going on is with the controlled rotations. I imagine once they finish the half pipe shields by the midpoint or end of March, they will accelerate solving that issue.