Get an Early Look at Universal's Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift Coaster | IGN Live 2026

Roller coasters are astir to get a interaction of household with this summer's opening of the much-anticipated Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift astatine Universal Studios Hollywood, and astatine IGN Live today, we debuted our in-depth video preview of the attraction, arsenic seen above.

Universal Studios stands retired arsenic a taxable parkland built arsenic portion of a moving movie studio, boasting implicit 100 years of history, and the parkland has agelong mixed immersive concepts with elements focusing connected the movie-making experience. When IGN's Jeffrey Vega spoke to Universal's Jon Corfino (Vice President, Creative) astir the attraction, Corfino explained Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift isn't trying to instrumentality you wrong the communicative of a Fast movie but alternatively "almost taking you down the scenes."

As you tin spot successful our video tour, this includes a queue that boasts a bevy of Fast-ready props, on with a whiteboard depicting ideation from a stunt coordinator astir however to propulsion disconnected the Fast & Furious series' typically decease defying enactment moments. Corfino described the thrust arsenic "a emotion missive to the stunt coordinators and stunt folks."

With Fast & Furious, erstwhile you're talking stunts, you're usually talking cars. So of people the roller coaster cars present look similar existent cars - specifically ones that volition beryllium acquainted to fans of the films, starting with the iconic Dodge Charger favored by Vin Diesel's Dominic Toretto, not to notation a mates of antithetic cars that were driven by Paul Walker's Brian O'Conner. As Corfino explained, each circumstantial car has distinct, authentically sounding motor noises accompanying it for those riding inside. He stressed that they wanted to get everything close successful presumption of details, remarking "No different thrust vehicles successful the past of roller coasters volition beryllium arsenic examined arsenic these."

Befitting the afloat sanction of the attraction, the cars connected Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift drift and rotation arsenic you determination on the track. When asked which would beryllium the champion spot to beryllium in, Corfino did enactment sitting successful the Charger up beforehand had its benefits, including "moments wherever you rotate and you bash spot each 3 cars down you."

Make definite to cheque retired the afloat video supra to spot much of what Fast & Furious looks similar some connected its chaotic hillside way and on the queue, the second of which sports eye-catching creation from famed graffiti creator Tristan Eaton, who antecedently created the terrific-looking Universal Monsters mural seen connected the Studio Tour astatine Universal.

Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift volition unfastened aboriginal this summertime astatine Universal Studios Hollywood.

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