{"id":379341,"date":"2026-08-23T23:54:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T23:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/379341\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T23:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T23:54:15","slug":"universal-orlando-resorts-fast-furious-building-looks-sad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/379341\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal Orlando Resort&#8217;s Fast &#038; Furious Building Looks Sad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans at Universal Studios Florida are excited for the upcoming Hollywood Drift roller coaster, but as one new ride gets ready to open, another has said goodbye.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.laughingplace.com\/uploads\/media\/2026\/08\/Photos-Universal-Studios-Florida-s-Fast-Furious-Building-Is-Closed-Forever-As-New-Coaster-Takes-Shape.png\" data-fslightbox=\"15\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"938\" height=\"555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/w938.png\" alt=\"\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s Happening:<\/p>\n<p>Fast &amp; Furious: Supercharged closed at Universal Studios Florida on August 17.Laughing Place stopped by the building recently, which is already surrounded by a fence, and if you didn&#8217;t know what used to be there, you&#8217;d be hard-pressed to guess there used to be a whole ride in there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.laughingplace.com\/uploads\/media\/2026\/08\/Photos-Universal-Studios-Florida-s-Fast-Furious-Building-Is-Closed-Forever-As-New-Coaster-Takes-Shape_1.jpg\" data-fslightbox=\"15\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"5712\" height=\"4284\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/w5712.jpeg\" alt=\"\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.laughingplace.com\/uploads\/media\/2026\/08\/Photos-Universal-Studios-Florida-s-Fast-Furious-Building-Is-Closed-Forever-As-New-Coaster-Takes-Shape_2.jpg\" data-fslightbox=\"15\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/w4032.jpeg\" alt=\"\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.laughingplace.com\/uploads\/media\/2026\/08\/Photos-Universal-Studios-Florida-s-Fast-Furious-Building-Is-Closed-Forever-As-New-Coaster-Takes-Shape_4.jpg\" data-fslightbox=\"15\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/w1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s something slightly depressing about the words &#8220;Family Forever&#8221; on the side of a building that is now behind a fence, and closed for good, showing that it was, in fact, not forever.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.laughingplace.com\/uploads\/media\/2026\/08\/Photos-Universal-Studios-Florida-s-Fast-Furious-Building-Is-Closed-Forever-As-New-Coaster-Takes-Shape_3.jpg\" data-fslightbox=\"15\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787529254_283_w1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\"  \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.laughingplace.com\/uploads\/media\/2026\/08\/Photos-Universal-Studios-Florida-s-Fast-Furious-Building-Is-Closed-Forever-As-New-Coaster-Takes-Shape_5.jpg\" data-fslightbox=\"15\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787529255_49_w1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\"  \/><\/a>Fast &amp; Furious: Supercharged opened in 2018, a standalone version of the attraction that was part of the Studio Tour at Universal Studios Hollywood.The Hollywood version closed in March 2025 alongside the construction of the Fast &amp; Furious: Hollywood Drift coaster, the same process now taking place in Florida.there&#8217;s been no indication of what will take the place of Supercharged, or when we might see it. Universal Orlando is already working on the<a target=\" unannounced replacement for the Lost Continent land\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.laughingplace.com\/parks\/the-mystic-fountain-closing-universal-orlando\/\"> unannounced replacement for the Lost Continent land<\/a> at Universal Islands of Adventure as well as (probably) an expansion of Epic Universe. <\/p>\n<p>More Universal Orlando News:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans at Universal Studios Florida are excited for the upcoming Hollywood Drift roller coaster, but as one new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-379341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379341","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=379341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}