Before track is installed, buildings are shaping up for the new Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift roller-coaster coming to Universal Studios Florida. The coaster replaces Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit.
Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift Construction
In the middle of the construction site visible from CityWalk is a long, low black building. We first saw this in aerial photos by @bioreconstruct on X. This sits on a concrete pad with space for another building next to it.
The doors at either end of the building were open during our visit, but we couldn’t see inside. It’s surrounded by concrete footers. It seems like it may be for backstage use rather than a building guests would enter.
One crew member was working on steel poles that stick out of the adjacent concrete foundation.
Inside the park, we checked out two buildings under construction for the coaster. In the foreground of the above photo (although behind construction walls) is a small square building in front of soundstage 33. The top of this building is surrounded by temporary wood railings.
In the background is a much larger building. Corrugated paneling has been installed on the building’s roof but it’s still lacking walls. These buildings were also visible in bioreconstruct’s aerial photos.
A new sign with a QR code has been added to the construction walls in the New York area of Universal Studios Florida. After the coaster was announced, the walls were decorated with a Fast & Furious mural.
The QR code leads to a sign-up page for email updates about Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift.
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