{"id":127229,"date":"2026-01-22T01:27:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T01:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/127229\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T01:27:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T01:27:25","slug":"fast-furious-coaster-coming-to-universal-orlando-travel-weekly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/127229\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast &#038; Furious coaster coming to Universal Orlando: Travel Weekly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"headline\" itemprop=\"headline\">&#8220;The family&#8221; is coming to Universal Orlando Resort in 2027 in a big way when a new outdoor roller coaster, Fast &amp; Furious: Hollywood Drift, opens.<\/p>\n<p>The coaster will replace the former Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit at Universal Studios Florida, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelweekly.com\/Travel-News\/Hotel-News\/Universal-Orlando-to-close-Hollywood-Rip-Ride-Rockit\" ek-link=\"true\" title=\"closed last year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">closed last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Universal will also permanently close the Fast &amp; Furious &#8212; Supercharged attraction\u00a0in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The new coaster promises to be a thrilling one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Riders will experience the exhilarating sensation of 360-degree drifting as they speed through jaw-dropping maneuvers \u2014 including a 170-foot vertical &#8216;spike&#8217; that will send riders nearly 17 stories in the air over the outskirts of Universal CityWalk,&#8221; Universal said in a release.<\/p>\n<p>A similar coaster is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelweekly.com\/North-America-Travel\/Fast-and-Furious-roller-coaster-Universal-Hollywood\" ek-link=\"true\" title=\"expected to open\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">expected to open<\/a> across the country at Universal Studios Hollywood this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;The family&#8221; is coming to Universal Orlando Resort in 2027 in a big way when a new outdoor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[10262,10263,139,141,140,278,10264,1617,10260],"class_list":["post-127229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-facebook-stories","tag-linkedin-stories","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-top-stories","tag-twitter-stories","tag-usa","tag-usa-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}