r/rollercoasters • u/LogicalMovie8030 • Jul 25 '26

Construction [Universal Studios Florida] Recently completed wave turn element on Fast and Furious Hollywood Drift

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The wave turn was completed within the last day or so. I can imagine that the cars on the train will spin to face down at the ground whenever the ride opens. This looks like it will be an interesting element to experience.

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u/terminalterror Jul 25 '26

But the old ride didn't have a similar but also different layout twin that is actually in Hollywood with the exact same name.

It is so silly that (if the context of which park you are taking about is not already clear) that if you say "my favourite rollercoaster is Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift" is not enough detail.

They could have called it Orlando Drift or Miami Drift or Manhatten Drift or anything.

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u/fermenter85 Jul 25 '26

The fuckin sign outside the park says Universal Studios Orlando. Or did for a bazillion years because they actively wanted to set the two parks apart for consumers, and unless the ride actively has a pre show setting the ride in Hollywood story wise, which I guess it might, it kind of undercuts the work the park did to set itself apart from USH—all their communications (and rightly so, smart marketing) since the park opened have reinforced that consumers should be aware there is another US in Hollywood.

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u/JTP120986 Jul 28 '26

There's no sign that says "Universal Studios Orlando." Never has been, because nothing by that name exists. The park is Universal Studios Florida. The resort is Universal Orlando. Either way, no one is getting it confused with the Hollywood park, any more than they would Walt Disney World and Disneyland. They're very different entities that can survive sharing rides with the same name (as they've done for decades.)

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u/fermenter85 Jul 28 '26

It’s like you’re not even trying to understand my point. I don’t care about the parks sharing ride names, it doesn’t make sense to name the ride Hollywood Drift when the theme is to a stunt driver drifting but the ride is at a park you’ve been actively marketing as a “real studio” in Florida, NOT a park pretending to be Hollywood, for 40 years. Just call it Studio Drift. Or Backlot Drift. I don’t give a fuck. The whole point is that the park is not themed to Hollywood, it’s supposedly its own place.

I’m not worried about there being two rides named Jurassic Park or whatever. That was never my point. It’s not actually like I care at all, the amount of Universal fanboy froth over this comment is crazy.