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Yes, especially if branded as a roller coaster that drifts considering it’s in theme and an actual good ride.
It doesn’t require a Diagon Alley, but is the easiest sell ever in terms of a roller coaster.
The Future of Fast and Furious: Supercharged
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It doesn’t require a Diagon Alley, but is the easiest sell ever in terms of a roller coaster.
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If the ride vehicle is anything other than a bus.. yeah, probably lol
I see a F&F coaster(in Florida) being a very small, but thrilling, indoor coaster with a large Top hat or spike out of the building. While I WISH it would happen quickly, my money is on 2028, giving Supercharged a 10 year run and a new ride after Zelda in 2026-2027.
In Orlando, where many of your guests are international? Yes. Fast cars and sexy people dancing don't require a strong command of the English language or an American sense of humor to understand. And everybody across the globe has seen these movies.
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I’m not a fan of the franchise by any means, but it naturally lends itself to a ride. Just not the ride they actually built for it.
I think absolutely... just not with its current representation. It's a franchise packed with fast vehicles, action, explosions, and a tendency to be over the top. Even if the movies have dropped in quality, it deserves better than a slow moving ride.
Universal Creative... I beg you... Keep It Simple Stupid
Just give it a race day theme, make it go fast and play gasolina at the end.
Just give it a race day theme, make it go fast and play gasolina at the end.
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If they can make it drift that’d be awesome.
But I hope this is for 2026 and I’m fine if it’s very simple.
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I just hope they don’t straight up clone the Hollywood coaster being built.
But I love the idea of just gutting Supercharged for a F&F coaster while keeping the queue in tact for the coaster. Maybe the addition of a new coaster at the park can allow Universal to close HRRR and use that land for something else. Probably more minions based on the location.
But I love the idea of just gutting Supercharged for a F&F coaster while keeping the queue in tact for the coaster. Maybe the addition of a new coaster at the park can allow Universal to close HRRR and use that land for something else. Probably more minions based on the location.
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The last thing Uni needs at the moment is another coaster, especially not a partially-themed one. I really hope they get creative with the IP if they decide to replace Supercharged.
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There’s not that much creativity you can take with F&F at this point. People just want something fast. USF has too many simulators and screenz, so gutting the park’s worst simulator for even a moderately thrilling coaster would be a big win for this park.
A potential Simpsons/MiB replacement (Pokemon?) is where I think the more creativity and bigger budget can show out. This park does need another land that can rival Diagon Alley, but that isn’t happening in the Supercharged plot.
A potential Simpsons/MiB replacement (Pokemon?) is where I think the more creativity and bigger budget can show out. This park does need another land that can rival Diagon Alley, but that isn’t happening in the Supercharged plot.
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I don't think they can literally clone it. I'm definitely not familiar with USH or the construction going on there at all but from little I have heard it sounds like the coaster layout there will be very terrain dependent. Probably not something you can just pick up and drop in any empty space.
Maybe move on from F&F. They can always do something with that franchise in a different park, in a space better suited for it.
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As much as I also like this idea, I think it’s too big of a franchise to be leaving the parks anytime soon. Thematically it also fits best in USF, I really wouldn’t want to see anything F&F in Islands or Epic.
I personally think that considering the plot behind HRRR is about 10-11 acres in land, I would hope and think they would use a totally different IP for that plot of land.
If I had to guess if Pokemon were to come to the US parks it would take over Simpsons only. I would think that Universal would not want to heavily theme the stretch of land MIB and the now vacant FFL stage occupy as that plot of land behind Simpsons is ripe space for a massive expansion to USF and Universal would not want to limit their options on what IP could go there when it comes time. Plus another benefit to Pokemon replacing Simpsons is they could do what Disney does to maximize the return on investment for the R&D costs and clone any hypothetical Pokemon attraction to USH as well.
A coaster doesn't excite me given the approximately 27 coasters we'll have gotten in the Orlando Universal parks since 2019 (give or take), especially directly next to Mummy and Diagon it's a bad fit imo. But also, if they are deadset on using FnF in that plot I don't know of a ride system that would work any better outside of a Test Track-type ride.
The problem is all of those are at IOA or EU, USF needs something thrilling, fast, and non-screen based to round out it's lineup - a coaster is one way to achieve this. I for one think VelociCoaster would have been better placed in USF with a different theme.
Universal has set up IOA as their thrill park. Since 80% of all tickets sold (announced by Universal Execs.) are parkhoppers, most guests can seamlessly move through both parks. So there's really no essential need to have more coasters at USF. For all intents and purposes, with both parks being side by side, USO is essentially one giant park.
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I still think if they worked hard enough Universal could cook up a F&F ride that uses the same ride system as Gringrotts but with a different enough flavor that enough people won't mind. Though I also think they could do another variant of the SCOOP as well. If they are still dead set on a successor to Supercharged being a large scale dark ride, this would be the best option considering the action of the F&F series.
I certainly see the logic, but one in five guests is still a number worth considering. I do think there is appetite for another physically thrilling attraction at USF, there's a reason that Revenge of the Mummy gets higher ridership than Transformers or Simpsons, for example. Fast & Furious lends itself easily to something like this, and I think trying to force something other than a coaster or physically thrilling attraction on the franchise as they did with supercharged would be repeating the same mistake.
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