Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift to Open Summer 2026
Universal Studios Hollywood today announced that Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift, the new high-speed roller coaster, will open in Summer 2026. The news coincides with the launch of a media campaign that includes a 30-second spot featuring narration by Fast & Furious franchise producer, star, and longtime parks collaborator, Vin Diesel.
The Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift spot is slated to air during several high-profile sporting event telecasts, including the Winter Olympics, Super Bowl LX, and the NBA All-Star Game, all on NBC and Peacock.
Universal Studios Hollywood says, “the campaign spot captures the spirit of the thrill ride, designed to immerse guests within Universal Pictures’ exhilarating Fast & Furious universe, as Universal Studios Hollywood prepares for its much anticipated summer opening.”
This innovative roller coaster will be located in the Upper Lot at Universal Studios Hollywood, within an expansive red-brick, garage-like structure. It will feature groundbreaking 360-degree rotation technology that creates a seamless drifting sensation as guests spin in motion at speeds up to 72 MPH.
The guests will careen along 4,100 feet of elaborate aerial track—the equivalent of nearly 12 football fields—that winds through sections of the theme park, including the multi-level Starway escalator that connects the Upper and Lower Lots.
Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift will launch as Universal Pictures kicks off the 25th anniversary of the blockbuster Fast & Furious franchise and its final theatrical release, Fast Forever, slated for March 17, 2028.
This ambitious roller coaster will join Universal Studios Hollywood’s slate of unprecedented, groundbreaking attractions, including the interactive land, SUPER NINTENDO WORLD, featuring the critically-acclaimed Mario Kart: Bowser’s Challenge ride; The Wizarding World of Harry Potter highly immersive land that features Hogsmeade village, Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey and Flight of the Hippogriff rides.
There’s also Jurassic World—The Ride; Illumination’s award-winning The Secret Life of Pets: Off the Leash and Despicable Me Minion Mayhem; Springfield, U.S.A. and The Simpsons Ride; TRANSFORMERS: The Ride-3D; and Revenge of the Mummy—The Ride, as well as the theme park’s signature, behind-the-scenes Studio Tour attraction.
Over the course of eleven films that have stoked passion in an ever-expanding audience and have earned more than $7 billion at the worldwide box office, Universal Pictures’ record-smashing, homegrown Fast & Furious Saga has become the studio’s most-profitable and longest-running franchise.
Following 2017’s The Fate of the Furious, which debuted in theaters as the biggest global opening of all time, the blockbuster franchise expanded to a multitude of offerings – from toys and video games to an animated series and the hit spin-off title, Hobbs & Shaw. The tenth and most recent chapter in the Fast & Furious Saga, Fast X, raced into theaters in May 2023.
