@Alicia Not sure if this has been mentioned yet but when we were there last week, I asked a TM if she knew any details besides new track. She said yes they were planning on laying down new track but also installing a whole new computer system for controlling the ride as the current system is pretty old.
As far as removing the cup of coffee video and movie set theme, yes that would indeed be sad. Universal seems hyper aware of their history and the fans nostalgia lately. While it all makes way too much sense to revamp it for first time riders like you said, they have to know there is a very large group of people they would be making angry by removing it. Every time we ride it, there is always someone else (besides us) that are saying that line at the end along with Brendan. That being said, on this trip my 8 year old daughter wanted to try riding it for the first time and we had to try and quickly explain Reggie as we went through the queue with her only seeing like 3 seconds of the queue video and then again explain the ending video.
It would be sad to see it change but if they did the ride experience would remain the same and I’m sure people would still say the line at the end. We also probably have countless YouTube POV’s if we need our fix of Brendan saying it. They better give us the golden cup of coffee in the treasure room though if they do take it away!