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Hollywood Rip, Ride, Rockit (closing Sept 2025)

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PerceptiveCoot

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UniversalRBLX said:
People skipping (or reducing their time at) USF is a real possibility based on time constraints. Vacations aren't getting longer, so people will have to decide how to use their time wisely while visiting Orlando now.
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At the very least USF has special events and is easy to park hop to.

Animal Kingdom has no special events and is a chore to get to.
 
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PerceptiveCoot said:
At the very least USF has special events and is easy to park hop to.

Animal Kingdom has no special events and is a chore to get to.
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I agree - but people will be looking at all UOR/WDW parks and will probably put USF/DAK at the bottom of their lists for the next few years...

And I say that as someone who's favorite park is DAK and frequents on a weekly basis lol
 
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I will say as someone who grew up in Florida, around kids who had all been to uni multiple times, the average peer of mine preferred thrill coasters and tended to say RRR, Mummy, or Hulk was their favorite ride with little out of that. As a theme park fan i don’t hold the same opinion personally but yeah teens like adrenaline so i could see construction hampering the park lineup in some minds for sure
 
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Can’t believe how long it took this rumor to get around, but yes, Rockit may close mid 2025.

Hopefully to be replaced with an Intamin. If it were me I’d create an east coast version of F&F Hollywood Drift, but that’s just speculation.
 
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Alicia said:
Can’t believe how long it took this rumor to get around, but yes, Rockit may close mid 2025.

Hopefully to be replaced with an Intamin. If it were me I’d create an east coast version of F&F Hollywood Drift, but that’s just speculation.
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Whatever they do with it I just hope they re-theme the ride to Ghostbusters... It literally goes through the firehouse it would make so much sense lol

ghostbusters GIF
 
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Isn't this just the exact same rumor @Tomfoolery reported a full month ago just now being parroted by UPNT lol? Getting deja vu.

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I believe that rip ride will also be closing next year for a fast and furious intamin controlled spin coaster,,
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Tbad556 said:
Isn't this just the exact same rumor @Tomfoolery reported a full month ago just now being parroted by UPNT lol?
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Yeah lmao
 
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saint.piss said:
Yeah lmao
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Oh cool, wasn’t sure if we were on the F&F train train yet.

Tbad556 said:
Isn't this just the exact same rumor @Tomfoolery reported a full month ago just now being parroted by UPNT lol? Getting deja vu.
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Anyone else remember the Universal core on Twitter incident, hehehe
 
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Would they put another ride there to kinda block access/expansion to the left of the park? Wasn't that one of the henderances they realized over time?
 
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jarmor said:
Would they put another ride there to kinda block access/expansion to the left of the park? Wasn't that one of the henderances they realized over time?
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I have my doubts that the soundstages will ever be used for theme park expansion. They have plenty of space within the park itself (Fast and Furious, Simpsons, Fear Factor, Animal Actors, behind Men in Black) to take care of first. Between all three parks getting new attractions it could be 20 years before they start looking at expansion back there.
 
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I still can't fathom Universal thinking USF needs two F&F rides.
 
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belloq87 said:
I still can't fathom Universal thinking USF needs two F&F rides.
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Temporarily, it needs it. But wouldn't surprise me to see Rockit get its replacement and then Supercharged is closed (with or without a replacement).
 
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UniversalRBLX said:
Temporarily, it needs it. But wouldn't surprise me to see Rockit get its replacement and then Supercharged is closed (with or without a replacement).
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Consensus seems to be that Supercharged isn't going anywhere any time soon.
 
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belloq87 said:
Consensus seems to be that Supercharged isn't going anywhere any time soon.
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Not expecting it, but really no need to have it open from a guest experience and budgeting perspective once a proper F&F attraction is built & open in the park. In the short-term, they need F&F for capacity reasons... but as evident by its Aug-Nov closure, it sounds like they've made it clear they don't need the ride to run outside of busier periods (we've never seen Universal close a rather new attraction for a multiple month refurb).
 
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As Florida gets hotter each summer, I do think it's essential that there's a ride where you can grab a beer and enjoy some air conditioning for 15 minutes.
 
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PerceptiveCoot said:
As Florida gets hotter each summer, I do think it's essential that there's a ride where you can grab a beer and enjoy some air conditioning for 15 minutes.
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USF has more than enough options to choose from lol

IOA is a different story
 
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Not expecting it, but really no need to have it open from a guest experience and budgeting perspective once a proper F&F attraction is built & open in the park. In the short-term, they need F&F for capacity reasons... but as evident by its Aug-Nov closure, it sounds like they've made it clear they don't need the ride to run outside of busier periods (we've never seen Universal close a rather new attraction for a multiple month refurb).
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If the park is getting a F&F coaster, I think Supercharged needs to be replaced in very short order.

I am not in favor of just shuttering the building and leaving it closed indefinitely.
 
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I think a F&F coaster in place of HRRR is a great first step to getting Supercharged booted from the resort. Give the IP more representation than it needs, as well as some more time between SC's opening and closing date, and it'll be a much easier call for executives to make. F&F shouldn't get two major rides longterm, but it also won't be down to zero rides anytime soon either.
 
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The only F&F ride concept I want to see ;):grinning:. . .

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jarmor said:
The only F&F ride concept I want to see ;):grinning:. . .

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Given that ride will never open, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't want that either lol
 
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