Former Studio Tour Guide here! If you think this ride is a stinker, try sitting through it multiple times a day!! I will forever have that thing memorized. The one good part was all of the running jokes us guides had about it on our breaks - constant declarations of “HIT THE NITRUS!” The Florida version is stupid in its own right, but imo there’s nothing worse than it being the finale of the studio tour (especially when you know the parts of the studio that guests miss just because of it). Thanks for this history!
@retroruckus as silly as the Whoopi Mummy thing was I always enjoyed it, also the fast and furious tokyo drift thing they had before was so much better and less invasive.
A roller coaster was always the no brainer move for Fast & Furious at the parks. The studio tour experience lends itself much better to sci-fi, horror, adventure themed rides like King Kong, Jaws, etc. Not generic action films.
Fun story: when I first visited Universal Florida, I was a young teenager who *loved* Disaster, but being a young teenager, I was too old to volunteer for the child parts and too young to feel like I could volunteer for the adult parts. I endured this frustration every year until finally I was eighteen, so excited to finally volunteer to take part even if they didn't pick me...and that was the year they'd closed it to make way for this thing. I'm probably more bitter about this than is healthy.
I rode the one in Florida, and I remember the queue and pre-shows were cooler than the actual ride itself. It was just insanely boring, even compared to their other screen-heavy rides there's usually an element that makes it exciting. Great video about a boring ride though!
At least Jimmy Fallon has a strong AC. Supercharge is depressing honestly, cause the times I’ve gone on it, it’s either closed down because of repairs (I literally got to the ride vehicle and the ride closed down) or the effects are just sub par. Also it’s super short and you feel it. Great video man 💙
Same thing happened to me while I was waiting in line. But I decided to to wait it out for like 30 minutes with 10 other people while the rest left. In hindsight... no regrets...
Great video! Though I do have one small correction. At 7:30 you mention the use of a Pepper's Ghost illusion which though is used very often in theme parks, this particular effect (and the pre-show for Disaster) is something different. These are called the Musion Eyeliner or the Musion Hologram which essentially takes the principle of the Pepper's Ghost and instead of relying on ambient light to reflect a physical object into view, this takes a projection and reflects it from below on to a 45° angle pane of metalized glass. But as mentioned before the principal is the same. Again I love the video, please do not take this as someone trying to criticize, keep up the awesome content.
I was on this ride only a year ago and do not remember a single thing you explained, which proves that it's pretty bad. I remember it being laughably bad, as not a huge fast and furious fan. I loved watching their bad acting talking about how happy they are for their family and how the live actors acting alongside the videos were really funny
The fact this ride wasn’t a high speed rollercoaster like the dueling dragons that starts out like a drag race between two rollercoaster trains and where a lucky passenger gets to hit a green button to send the ride off to race the other train is one massive missed opportunity. I went on this ride a few weeks ago and my gosh it was terrible. Universal, just cut your losses now and remake this into a rollercoaster. Don’t let it fester for 10+ years because of the cost of this attraction.
My home park's Universal Hollywood, and I had a year-round pass back in the mid-late 2000s, so I went on the studio tour plenty of times as a kid- And honestly? While I haven't been able to go back and experience what they replaced F&F Extreme Closeup with.. I think, maybe via nostalgia- I would've preferred they kept the dancing cars on mechanical arms to the tune of "Gasolina" over 8ft Tall Vin Diesel Manhandles a Helicopter, somehow.
I think it was the old one was a neat little effects demonstration. Not fantastic, but interesting if you're into bts things (which I very much am. There are some series I enjoy almost exclusively because I like learning how they do the stunts). And it was short, which fit with its "well that was neat" vibe. Especially given what was closed for the new ride, I feel like the new ride wasn't worth the tradeoff and doesn't even do enough to serve the purpose of making people excited about the F&F franchise like the studio wanted.
@@bishielurfer I totally agree! I've had to have gone on the tram tour like, 50 times- I always really enjoyed the behind the scenes theming to everything. I felt like I genuinely learned a lot about filmmaking, and all of the stuff on the tour was relevant to what goes on in film production. Extreme Closeup still was a great view into techniques used for practical effects, as cheesy as it was!! Both the King Kong and F&F replacements just kind of stick out as not really showing anything. It's just.. driving up to watch a movie where you get jostled around a little bit, but you don't learn anything about, say, how it's rendered or how they achieved the effects. And that's kind of a bummer! I think there's still a lot of value in 'edutainment', because while I don't think most people go to a theme park to learn, I think a lot of people still get a kick out of learning something new while they have fun.
It's a sad situation because we are talking about Fast and Furious. In a franchise that utilizes ridiculous car stunts, huge explosions, a outlandish venues (like space), doing a party bus theme is so bland and dry that I wondered if they even wanted this to be a success. I recently went to the Florida ride and I LOVED the lobby area. I thought it was actually really cool to see replicas of the cars from the movies and some movie references in the shop. Everything went downhill after that.
Bro it was the worst part of the Hollywood tour. The whole dialogue parts had all actors phoning it in. It didn’t even seem like Vin Diesel wanted to be part of it. Literally gave the lamest line reading. Real bummer.
Went on this ride at Orlando in 2023. Even the cast members in the pre-show were talking crap about the ride and cracking jokes about how dumb the premise was.
Ironically the same robotic arms used for the OG FF stunt show, were the same arms used for the current Harry Potter ride at the parks. Universal sure knows how to be creative with their scrap parts.
Not the same exact ones, but same model of Kuka robotic arms for sure! Universal has made had many times where they have teamed with Kuka for experiences enhanced by their technology.
@@suttongriffin8154 Kuka signed an exclusivity deal with Universal so they are the only theme park that is allowed to use them so it makes sense that they use them as mush as possible.
I’ve rode the Florida ride twice. First time I was on the end, and every single time the water effect happened it seemed laser guided to go around my glasses and go straight into my eyeball. Second time I stayed towards the middle, but that meant I was stuck on that awkward spot where the two benches have the stop gap between them so it felt like I was going to fall on the floor the whole time with all the movement. I miss Disaster so much, my favorite ride at the park.
Disaster was my favorite ride when I visited the Florida location. My mother got to be green screened in as the “screamer”. I still think about the subway scene to this day. It’s what got me into my love of special effects, which is what I’m now studying. And now I’ll never get to see it again. 😞
When I watched this at the park a few years ago to me it seemed like the actors weren't even in the same room when filming. It was like each actor was caught when time was available over a blue screen
I rode the Hollywood tour version for the first time last April and it was lame. Thankfully I knew not to expect much from it because I’d already heard a lot about how bad it was. But it sunk even lower than my low expectations. Also, I wasn’t too surprised by the fact that all the pre show elements on the tram are no longer done, meaning the Dodge Charger being addressed after Wisteria Lane
Terrible ride. Rode it once and likely never again. The acting is ATROCIOUS. It's like all of the actors somehow forgot both their characters, and how to act in general. Plus, watching 50 year old men try to "party" at a club with 20 year old girls is pretty sad. It's very try hard. It's like they have to perpetually promote the party life instead of actually maturing the characters or making ANY other type of story. Also, Universal is notorious for cloning their ride concepts. Spider man and Transformers in Orlando are the exact same ride with different characters. Main good guy character has to save you from some type of war in the city and escorts you around running into a different villain every few minutes. Some hi jinks ensue, you escape amidst fire and water effects to a "Whew! that was close" from the main character at the end. EXACT same ride. Though I will say that they have improved lately with Hagrid and Velocicoaster but they REALLY need to get away from the screen based rides. And I say this as Villain con has just opened. So yeah, good luck. Also: They're milking the Minions franchise WAY too much.
Skull Island actually opened a year *before* Supercharged in Orlando, so to make it even worse Supercharged was seen as a significant step down from the exact same type of ride in the same resort
Well, what makes Supercharged in Orlando even worse in comparison to Skull Island was that they added new scenes and a new Kong animatronic to Skull Island, while all they did with Supercharged in Orlando was pretty much just add a queue.
I never understood why fast and furious never got a roller coaster since its about going fast. I have heard rumours of one at Hollywood but the current ride would probably bore my granny
Superb job on the video! My wife and I went to F&F Supercharged in Orlando, Florida…I love the pre-show cars and garage area, the ride on the tram was just so poor 😢
I went on the Hollywood version of this ride and I kind of just sat there giggling at the absurdity the whole time. I had seen fast 9 where they go into space not too long before, and the premise of the ride seemed almost believable in comparison. It wasn’t a good ride but I was entertained, so mission accomplished I guess?
Only thing I liked about Supercharged in Florida was the “tunnel” scene. “Hey look a tunnel that new. Wow this is a very long tun…oh it’s projections” I felt like an idiot lol. Though I hope with Hollywood opening the Fast coaster I hope they redo the Studio Tour finale
I remember being at the park, wondering if this ride was worth it, googling it, and the first review that I saw was “this is the worst experience I’ve ever had, and I grew up in a war torn country.”
Disaster was absolutely infuriating, it stars volunteers from the crowd so everyone has their hands up when they ask, and everyone chosen just fucking stands there and does nothing when they're supposed to be playing along with the attraction.
Disaster! Wasn’t the only thing that closed for this- the long running Beetlejuice’s Graveyard Revue which had just been revamped=ed a couple years prior was also closed (the fountain out front of the warehouse was the fountain for the Graveyard entrance)
I actually preferred the older Tokyo Drift show on the studio tour over the new one. At least that had real moving animatronics and wasn't just a big screen that you watched. It's weird driving by the entrance of Tokyo Drift because its all still there, it's just abandoned now.
I went to Orlando’s a few years ago. The garage area was pretty cool, really felt like the movies. The ride itself was so boring. The transformers and spiderman 4d rides do it way better
In California, I thought this was just a throwaway portion of the tram ride. There is no way they thought people would stand in line just to ride this.
i got unlucky. in the final room for the line, they announced an hour long delay for the ride which lasted only 45 minutes. It only added to what was already a very lackluster ride. When the tram was coming back and the over enthusiatic ride operator shouted: "Alright guys if you enjoyed that ride MAKE SOME NOOOIIIIIIISSEEE!!!" One guy made the effort to put a half hearted "Woo!" out there. That was it though. Nobody on my tram enjoyed this depressing and lame turdburger of a ride.
I remember the advertising for this ride. I was under the impression that it was gonna be a rollercoaster or possibly a 3D ride like the transformers. When I went to look for it, it was in a studio tour segment. Disappointed, but still had hopes for it being good. After I experienced it, all I could think was, “that’s it?” I’m glad they’re making an ACTUAL ride instead of some trashy tour ride, at least in Hollywood. The earthquake segment was x10 better and I wish they didn’t remove it.
The F&F ride in Orlando pales in comparison to the Harry Potter rides and the Mummy ride. Also, the Fast and Furious franchise in general isn't necessarily popular with all men. My husband wasn't a fan of the franchise because he said: "Imagine if they made a movie for women called "Jewelry:The Movie". The movie revolves around a plot line around 'the jewelry', and all of the characters are wearing 'the jewelry'. It's all about expensive jewelry you can't buy but only look at in a movie" Basically the F&F franchise is about cars most people can't buy 😂
i remember going to the hollywood version around the time it first opened, i thought the intro sequence where you saw the charger was cool and would set up something dramatic but instead i was like “is that it, seriously?”
Went to universal for the first time a week or so back and went on this ride just for ironic purposes- took a friend on it and the second it ended i asked her what she thought and she just said 'i would make a few changes if i was in charge"
I hate what they did there. They took the Jimmy Neutron Nicktoon's Blast ride, put another video on it, redecorated the room, and called it a day. Minions has a huge universe to work with and so many possibilities. To think they just ported from an old ride is a travesty to the franchise.
Here's the major problem with the whole reason it was built in the first place and somehow when designing it...they failed to realize the flaw. It's a WRAP around screen...to make the ride feel as if you were actually driving through a city... supposedly Los Angeles. 🤨 Well, the ONLY rider who is really getting the experience is the DRIVER. Even if you sit in the front, you really don't get that immersion because your view is obstructed with the tour guide and driver because they are slightly elevated. In my personal opinion, king Kong and fast and (the cashing in) are pretty much the same ride....kong being the preferred of course. *Fantasy time!* Simpsons should become Rick and -Morty land already. -Open up the filming lot for the guest to walk around and to create more space. -Knock down will and grace set. And build another attraction for the tram. -build the original king Kong inside the park as a walk through! - bring back practical movie effects studio -Another live stunt show (those are always great) -And schedule some celebrities to show up! Keep the Hollywood dreaming alive. (suckers) 🤭but I digress.
My ex and I used to go to USH all the time because she worked there. However, we only went on the Studio Tour when Supercharged was down for the day! We suffered through it once, laughed at its stupidity, then never wanted to experience it again.
I went on this, it was blurry. In fact this and The Simpsons ride was so blurry and low res that it felt very cheap. There's a huge lead up to both with FF having live actors giving you part of the show on the way up to the ride.
I’ve never watched a single F & F movie.. I’m saving it in case I make it to 60 years of being alive.. It’s good to make long term plans… I’ve been told.
I worked on the opening team of this dumpster fire (UStudios Florida), the whole team dreaded the day it opened to park guests because we already knew how bad the reception was going to be haha the theming and queue design was really really well done, but the overall feedback relayed to our team from guests was the line for the ride was better than the ridge itself
I don't even think they bothered with the live actors when we rode it in Florida. I recall them just having those videos on repeat, but the line was so short we never watched it fully through anyway 😂.
I rode it without knowing anything about it and didn't know it was ANOTHER screen ride (my 4th of the day) and it was the tipping point. It made me SO SICK I was glad it was so short honestly so I didn't throw up
Man where was this video recommendation when I was in Florida waiting 20 minutes in line to get on this ride. The only cool thing about this ride was the amount of classic muscle and sports cars they had in and outside the building.
The disaster part of the tour will always remind me of the beverly hills cop where he goes through the theme park and they have the disaster ride in the park. They just added robots firing lazers.
I used to work for Lowe’s Hotels back when they only had 3 Universal Studios resort properties, and I used to get free tickets to the parks. Partly because of that (and partly because of the Florida resident discount), I had been to Universal at least 10 times since 2008 and not a single one of those times my fiancé and I had any desire to go on that ride. I’m glad we made the right choice 😂
The real problem of universal is that only 2 rides basically don’t use screens the whole time. All of the ones you mentioned plus Spider-Man. That literally leaves only 2-3 rides in the park. It’s kind of a waste of money to even go there.
I'm 37, so when I grew up there were a lot more arcades than now a days. The point is, if anyone my age knows the games back then that had some sort of gun as the controller, like house of the dead, or terminator. And if you remember the graphics and style of how they transition into different areas, that's EXACTLY how this rides movie looked.
I made the mistake of going there at the end of my day (the Orlando version), figuring that the wait time wasn't that long and it'd be quick, since everybody wanted to leave. I missed most of the other problems with this ride (aside from it just being uninteresting) because it was really LOUD. It felt like we couldn't hear anything for almost a day after.
I laughed the whole time, i couldn't believe it was really the "ride". It was over and i was beyond underwhelmed and so was almost every other person on the ride... it made a mokery of the movies before they did it to themselves 😂
Glad Universal learned from this and starting building some standout attractions again. Hell, even Fast & The Furious is getting a roller coaster at the Hollywood park, what it should've been to begin with.
Well, with Hollywood Rip Ride Rocket closing this September it is possible they could put a Fast and Furious Coaster in it's place. It's still speculation, but it would be a great way to make up for this disaster and remove it once it opens. Alot of other people are saying it's gonna be a Ghostbusters Coaster. I guess we'll have to wait and see. Thankfully Universal Orlando didn't continue with these horrible screen attractions since they opened the critically acclaimed Hagrid's Creatures Motorbike Adventure and Velocicoaster.
We knew it was gonna suck the second we got on the party bus and it didn’t have seatbelts. Car-based movie has a ride with no cars and no seatbelts The wait time went from being 60 minutes when it first open to two weeks later being a 10 minute wait. It’s that bad.
This ride genuinely lowered my opinion of Universal Studios by a lot. My dad loved the theming and park experience more than Disney World (and we've been there 3 times!), and while I understand and agree with him on some things, all I remember is that, as flawed as Disney World may be (especially in the half-decade since I've last been), they never disappointed me like Universal did with Supercharged.
BeetleJuice and Earthquake at Universal Studios Florida was way better than the Fast and Furious anyway, it would’ve been better if they made it like Test Track at Epcot and Carsland’s Radiator Strings Racers at Disney’s California Adventure, I would love to see the return of BeetleJuice and Earthquake back to its original place and relocate the Fast and Furious and turn it into a better version
I standby as the only one who actually likes this ride. Most of that comes down to loving the IP, but i do like the segment on the tour and don't mind queueing for it in Florida (especially because the actual queue is nice). I'm well aware of it's painfully obvious flaws, but i still have fun with it anyways. Also that Helicopter is really small. Because its a drone. As Shaw falls off the bridge he yells "Call in the drones!!!" I too will eventually give this ride a proper review on my channel but for now its just my old video talking about why i don't hate it.
I went on this couple months go for the second time . The first time I went on it it was horribly boring as you described. However the second time I went on it it seemed much improved, still fairly boring but the effects seemed to be better than last time. Or maybe because my standards were very low going in my second time 🤷♂️
I remember when it first opened in Orlando, and I went in without knowing that this was a simulator. like everyone was hyping it up saying it might be an indoor rollercoaster lol. then when I rode it I was like.. this is it??? like it felt so short and such an abrupt ending lol like ever since it opened I've never gone to ride it again.
As someone who has never seen a single Fast and Furious movie, this part of the Studio Tour felt less like a grand finale and more like an absolute letdown. I was mad that they removed the Earthquake section.
i remember going to the Disaster! attraction in florida as a kid and i loved it so much. it made me really appreciate how movies are made and i made my family ride it so many times lol. when i went back years later to find it replaced with fast and furious i was crushed but still gave it a chance and rode it because i like the movies. that was the most boring and cheap experience ever i got off so pissed i should’ve known it sucked bc there was barely even a line at the entrance.
I agree with the video as it hit on a lot of the key features although, theming overall was great, the ride experience not so much, but I am definitely interested in seeing what universal has in store for the fast and furious coaster
Universal Studios Florida has a big problem they have outdated IP’s …Fast and Furious is the worst but besides Harry Potter, The Mummy and Rip Ride Rocket every other ride is just boring …I would I get rid of FF all together and just have that be and extension of HP and make some kind of dark ride that dives into the forbidden Forrest I would get rid of Men in Black and change that to Stranger Things …get rid of the Simpson and turn that area into a roller coaster maybe Back to the Future IP….have it be an intamin launch ..get a new story line for Transformers
I once read the average Guest Satisfaction score for Universal Studios Florida is higher on days when this ride is closed 💀 Great breakdown!
Link ?
I disagree. That ride is amazing and I don’t get the hate. Most of the people who don’t like it aren’t cultured in the parks and have no good imagery
@@USA-qm2bkJust trust him bro
😂😂😂 I believe it
i believe it lmaoo, this ride hurt my back so bad
Nothing screams “Tokyo Drift” like two Volkswagen Golfs
And dancing 💃 cars, wtf???
Yeah! Fwd german hatchbacks very Tokyo Drifty 😅
That then “dance” to Latin music.
One of the most iconic cars from that movie Is a Volkswagen you poser 😂
Remember the "unpimp your ride" ads? Maybe that's why.
I’m convinced that fast and furious superchargers is propaganda to silence your phones.
True, because after all if we all silenced our phones we wouldn't have to experience Fast and Furious Supercharged💀
my theory considering the building is so big is that if everyone turns off their phones a pathway opens up to a good ride.
I can't believe you didn't mention how many times they had these real Hollywood actors, tell riders not to use their cell phones.
And how many times the word Family is said
A stunt show would have been 100 times better than anything else they ever did with this franchise lmao
Honestly just a Lights Motors Action rip-off sounds like it would be awesome
I mean they're building a roller coaster for hollywoods version so itll be better then what we have now
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@@GeorgesSpaceYESSS OMFG FR
I remember a car stunt show being at Disney world maybe that’s why they didn’t do it? Still should of did it lol
Former Studio Tour Guide here! If you think this ride is a stinker, try sitting through it multiple times a day!! I will forever have that thing memorized. The one good part was all of the running jokes us guides had about it on our breaks - constant declarations of “HIT THE NITRUS!”
The Florida version is stupid in its own right, but imo there’s nothing worse than it being the finale of the studio tour (especially when you know the parts of the studio that guests miss just because of it).
Thanks for this history!
Man, I went on it 1 time and that was 1 time too many!!! I can not imagine having to do it daily multiple times a day 😂😂😂
@retroruckus as silly as the Whoopi Mummy thing was I always enjoyed it, also the fast and furious tokyo drift thing they had before was so much better and less invasive.
How many times a day did it play?
"DRIVER, MOVE THAT VEHICLE"
A roller coaster was always the no brainer move for Fast & Furious at the parks. The studio tour experience lends itself much better to sci-fi, horror, adventure themed rides like King Kong, Jaws, etc. Not generic action films.
Still would be better then the failure of supercharged.
Nah, a show like "Lights Camera Action" at MGM. It could be fun, campy, but with real car stunts.
I am still VERY sad that Disaster is gone. That was by far my favorite ride at the whole park. It was just so cool.
I loved it too. We lost it for this piece of crap
That ride scared the shit out of me when I was a kid
Hear, hear. I actually got to be one of the actors that was used in the film when I rode it. One of the highlights of that trip to Universal.
@@c0mf0rta61ynum6 that’s pretty dope
What a shame!
Fun story: when I first visited Universal Florida, I was a young teenager who *loved* Disaster, but being a young teenager, I was too old to volunteer for the child parts and too young to feel like I could volunteer for the adult parts. I endured this frustration every year until finally I was eighteen, so excited to finally volunteer to take part even if they didn't pick me...and that was the year they'd closed it to make way for this thing. I'm probably more bitter about this than is healthy.
I rode the one in Florida, and I remember the queue and pre-shows were cooler than the actual ride itself. It was just insanely boring, even compared to their other screen-heavy rides there's usually an element that makes it exciting. Great video about a boring ride though!
I mean this and King Kong are exactly the same outside of different videos and decor.
At least Jimmy Fallon has a strong AC. Supercharge is depressing honestly, cause the times I’ve gone on it, it’s either closed down because of repairs (I literally got to the ride vehicle and the ride closed down) or the effects are just sub par. Also it’s super short and you feel it. Great video man 💙
Same thing happened to me while I was waiting in line. But I decided to to wait it out for like 30 minutes with 10 other people while the rest left. In hindsight... no regrets...
@@bobtom1495 it’s as close as you’re going to get to staying inside of an abandoned ride legally 😂
Jimmy Fallon at least has a neat quene too. I like the mini tonight show museum they have you enter.
@ you’re right lmao
Yeah but the Jimmy Fallon one ain't an exciting ride at all
Trust me i know
Great video! Though I do have one small correction. At 7:30 you mention the use of a Pepper's Ghost illusion which though is used very often in theme parks, this particular effect (and the pre-show for Disaster) is something different. These are called the Musion Eyeliner or the Musion Hologram which essentially takes the principle of the Pepper's Ghost and instead of relying on ambient light to reflect a physical object into view, this takes a projection and reflects it from below on to a 45° angle pane of metalized glass. But as mentioned before the principal is the same. Again I love the video, please do not take this as someone trying to criticize, keep up the awesome content.
Thanks for clarifying that, I didn't know the difference between the two!
bro hit the nerdington
I was on this ride only a year ago and do not remember a single thing you explained, which proves that it's pretty bad. I remember it being laughably bad, as not a huge fast and furious fan. I loved watching their bad acting talking about how happy they are for their family and how the live actors acting alongside the videos were really funny
The fact this ride wasn’t a high speed rollercoaster like the dueling dragons that starts out like a drag race between two rollercoaster trains and where a lucky passenger gets to hit a green button to send the ride off to race the other train is one massive missed opportunity.
I went on this ride a few weeks ago and my gosh it was terrible. Universal, just cut your losses now and remake this into a rollercoaster. Don’t let it fester for 10+ years because of the cost of this attraction.
Funny there was a hhn haunted house named that like the ride itself came back but took on a new and scary form
My home park's Universal Hollywood, and I had a year-round pass back in the mid-late 2000s, so I went on the studio tour plenty of times as a kid- And honestly? While I haven't been able to go back and experience what they replaced F&F Extreme Closeup with.. I think, maybe via nostalgia- I would've preferred they kept the dancing cars on mechanical arms to the tune of "Gasolina" over 8ft Tall Vin Diesel Manhandles a Helicopter, somehow.
I think it was the old one was a neat little effects demonstration. Not fantastic, but interesting if you're into bts things (which I very much am. There are some series I enjoy almost exclusively because I like learning how they do the stunts). And it was short, which fit with its "well that was neat" vibe.
Especially given what was closed for the new ride, I feel like the new ride wasn't worth the tradeoff and doesn't even do enough to serve the purpose of making people excited about the F&F franchise like the studio wanted.
@@bishielurfer I totally agree! I've had to have gone on the tram tour like, 50 times- I always really enjoyed the behind the scenes theming to everything. I felt like I genuinely learned a lot about filmmaking, and all of the stuff on the tour was relevant to what goes on in film production. Extreme Closeup still was a great view into techniques used for practical effects, as cheesy as it was!! Both the King Kong and F&F replacements just kind of stick out as not really showing anything. It's just.. driving up to watch a movie where you get jostled around a little bit, but you don't learn anything about, say, how it's rendered or how they achieved the effects. And that's kind of a bummer! I think there's still a lot of value in 'edutainment', because while I don't think most people go to a theme park to learn, I think a lot of people still get a kick out of learning something new while they have fun.
Trust its nothing compared to the Jimmy Fallon ride
So damn boring
It's a sad situation because we are talking about Fast and Furious. In a franchise that utilizes ridiculous car stunts, huge explosions, a outlandish venues (like space), doing a party bus theme is so bland and dry that I wondered if they even wanted this to be a success. I recently went to the Florida ride and I LOVED the lobby area. I thought it was actually really cool to see replicas of the cars from the movies and some movie references in the shop. Everything went downhill after that.
Bro it was the worst part of the Hollywood tour. The whole dialogue parts had all actors phoning it in. It didn’t even seem like Vin Diesel wanted to be part of it. Literally gave the lamest line reading. Real bummer.
the fact that the pre shows are more entertaining than the actual ride.
Went on this ride at Orlando in 2023. Even the cast members in the pre-show were talking crap about the ride and cracking jokes about how dumb the premise was.
sounds like it is worth going on just for that, wtf haha
I clicked on this video accidentally and stayed because of how engaged you made me, great work on the video!
Ironically the same robotic arms used for the OG FF stunt show, were the same arms used for the current Harry Potter ride at the parks. Universal sure knows how to be creative with their scrap parts.
Not the same exact ones, but same model of Kuka robotic arms for sure! Universal has made had many times where they have teamed with Kuka for experiences enhanced by their technology.
@@suttongriffin8154 Kuka signed an exclusivity deal with Universal so they are the only theme park that is allowed to use them so it makes sense that they use them as mush as possible.
I’ve rode the Florida ride twice. First time I was on the end, and every single time the water effect happened it seemed laser guided to go around my glasses and go straight into my eyeball. Second time I stayed towards the middle, but that meant I was stuck on that awkward spot where the two benches have the stop gap between them so it felt like I was going to fall on the floor the whole time with all the movement. I miss Disaster so much, my favorite ride at the park.
Just came back from Orlando Studios.
This was the worst ride ive ever been on. 💀
That is 1 minute (I don't know how long the ride is) that you are never getting back
Disaster was my favorite ride when I visited the Florida location. My mother got to be green screened in as the “screamer”. I still think about the subway scene to this day. It’s what got me into my love of special effects, which is what I’m now studying. And now I’ll never get to see it again. 😞
Speaking of disaster i miss the twister ride now its replaced with a boring ass so-called ride where u are racing against Fallon through NYC
When I watched this at the park a few years ago to me it seemed like the actors weren't even in the same room when filming. It was like each actor was caught when time was available over a blue screen
I rode the Hollywood tour version for the first time last April and it was lame. Thankfully I knew not to expect much from it because I’d already heard a lot about how bad it was. But it sunk even lower than my low expectations. Also, I wasn’t too surprised by the fact that all the pre show elements on the tram are no longer done, meaning the Dodge Charger being addressed after Wisteria Lane
“…and the gang wipes out most of Los Angeles natural gas supplies” 😂😂😂
Terrible ride. Rode it once and likely never again. The acting is ATROCIOUS. It's like all of the actors somehow forgot both their characters, and how to act in general. Plus, watching 50 year old men try to "party" at a club with 20 year old girls is pretty sad. It's very try hard. It's like they have to perpetually promote the party life instead of actually maturing the characters or making ANY other type of story.
Also, Universal is notorious for cloning their ride concepts. Spider man and Transformers in Orlando are the exact same ride with different characters. Main good guy character has to save you from some type of war in the city and escorts you around running into a different villain every few minutes. Some hi jinks ensue, you escape amidst fire and water effects to a "Whew! that was close" from the main character at the end. EXACT same ride.
Though I will say that they have improved lately with Hagrid and Velocicoaster but they REALLY need to get away from the screen based rides. And I say this as Villain con has just opened. So yeah, good luck. Also: They're milking the Minions franchise WAY too much.
Skull Island actually opened a year *before* Supercharged in Orlando, so to make it even worse Supercharged was seen as a significant step down from the exact same type of ride in the same resort
Well, what makes Supercharged in Orlando even worse in comparison to Skull Island was that they added new scenes and a new Kong animatronic to Skull Island, while all they did with Supercharged in Orlando was pretty much just add a queue.
I never understood why fast and furious never got a roller coaster since its about going fast. I have heard rumours of one at Hollywood but the current ride would probably bore my granny
Construction has already started on the coaster here in Hollywood.
Do you not watch the video before commenting? Lol he literally says this at the end
I miss the original King Kong, 😢 it scared me so much as a kid.
Superb job on the video! My wife and I went to F&F Supercharged in Orlando, Florida…I love the pre-show cars and garage area, the ride on the tram was just so poor 😢
My condolences
I went on the Hollywood version of this ride and I kind of just sat there giggling at the absurdity the whole time. I had seen fast 9 where they go into space not too long before, and the premise of the ride seemed almost believable in comparison. It wasn’t a good ride but I was entertained, so mission accomplished I guess?
honestly the roller coaster could just be a copy and paste of the italian job coaster from the former paramount parks and it'd be awesome lmao
Never forgive them for removing disaster for this...
When that rollercoaster opens up in Hollywood I really hope they take off the part from the tram
Only thing I liked about Supercharged in Florida was the “tunnel” scene. “Hey look a tunnel that new. Wow this is a very long tun…oh it’s projections” I felt like an idiot lol. Though I hope with Hollywood opening the Fast coaster I hope they redo the Studio Tour finale
Either that or they use that pace for theme park expansions like diagon alley or something like that
I remember being at the park, wondering if this ride was worth it, googling it, and the first review that I saw was “this is the worst experience I’ve ever had, and I grew up in a war torn country.”
Im still surprised it hasnt been replaced yet
Honestly, the best Screen Rides at Universal are Spider-Man and Transformers imo.
Forbidden Journey as well.
I went on the segment in Hollywood... the thought of it being its own standalone ride is absolutely horrifying
'Xtreme Closeup' looked the far better experience tbh
Disaster was absolutely infuriating, it stars volunteers from the crowd so everyone has their hands up when they ask, and everyone chosen just fucking stands there and does nothing when they're supposed to be playing along with the attraction.
when i went on this in orlando a little over a year after it opened they didn't even bother with the preshow stuff 💀
Disaster! Wasn’t the only thing that closed for this- the long running Beetlejuice’s Graveyard Revue which had just been revamped=ed a couple years prior was also closed (the fountain out front of the warehouse was the fountain for the Graveyard entrance)
I actually preferred the older Tokyo Drift show on the studio tour over the new one. At least that had real moving animatronics and wasn't just a big screen that you watched. It's weird driving by the entrance of Tokyo Drift because its all still there, it's just abandoned now.
I went to Orlando’s a few years ago. The garage area was pretty cool, really felt like the movies. The ride itself was so boring. The transformers and spiderman 4d rides do it way better
In California, I thought this was just a throwaway portion of the tram ride. There is no way they thought people would stand in line just to ride this.
The lines are normally short. So it’s got that going for it at least.
i got unlucky. in the final room for the line, they announced an hour long delay for the ride which lasted only 45 minutes. It only added to what was already a very lackluster ride. When the tram was coming back and the over enthusiatic ride operator shouted: "Alright guys if you enjoyed that ride MAKE SOME NOOOIIIIIIISSEEE!!!"
One guy made the effort to put a half hearted "Woo!" out there. That was it though. Nobody on my tram enjoyed this depressing and lame turdburger of a ride.
I remember the advertising for this ride. I was under the impression that it was gonna be a rollercoaster or possibly a 3D ride like the transformers. When I went to look for it, it was in a studio tour segment.
Disappointed, but still had hopes for it being good.
After I experienced it, all I could think was, “that’s it?”
I’m glad they’re making an ACTUAL ride instead of some trashy tour ride, at least in Hollywood. The earthquake segment was x10 better and I wish they didn’t remove it.
This ride was so bad when I went years ago. I couldn’t even believe it was made…..💀
The F&F ride in Orlando pales in comparison to the Harry Potter rides and the Mummy ride.
Also, the Fast and Furious franchise in general isn't necessarily popular with all men.
My husband wasn't a fan of the franchise because he said:
"Imagine if they made a movie for women called "Jewelry:The Movie". The movie revolves around a plot line around 'the jewelry', and all of the characters are wearing 'the jewelry'. It's all about expensive jewelry you can't buy but only look at in a movie"
Basically the F&F franchise is about cars most people can't buy 😂
i remember going to the hollywood version around the time it first opened, i thought the intro sequence where you saw the charger was cool and would set up something dramatic but instead i was like “is that it, seriously?”
Went to universal for the first time a week or so back and went on this ride just for ironic purposes- took a friend on it and the second it ended i asked her what she thought and she just said 'i would make a few changes if i was in charge"
I also felt like this ride was EXTREMELY loud, especially when they jump over the unfinished bridge
I think minion blast just took the new title of worst attraction ever at universal
I hate what they did there. They took the Jimmy Neutron Nicktoon's Blast ride, put another video on it, redecorated the room, and called it a day. Minions has a huge universe to work with and so many possibilities. To think they just ported from an old ride is a travesty to the franchise.
Here's the major problem with the whole reason it was built in the first place and somehow when designing it...they failed to realize the flaw. It's a WRAP around screen...to make the ride feel as if you were actually driving through a city... supposedly Los Angeles. 🤨
Well, the ONLY rider who is really getting the experience is the DRIVER. Even if you sit in the front, you really don't get that immersion because your view is obstructed with the tour guide and driver because they are slightly elevated.
In my personal opinion, king Kong and fast and (the cashing in) are pretty much the same ride....kong being the preferred of course.
*Fantasy time!*
Simpsons should become Rick and -Morty land already.
-Open up the filming lot for the guest to walk around and to create more space. -Knock down will and grace set. And build another attraction for the tram.
-build the original king Kong inside the park as a walk through!
- bring back practical movie effects studio
-Another live stunt show (those are always great)
-And schedule some celebrities to show up! Keep the Hollywood dreaming alive. (suckers) 🤭but I digress.
My ex and I used to go to USH all the time because she worked there. However, we only went on the Studio Tour when Supercharged was down for the day! We suffered through it once, laughed at its stupidity, then never wanted to experience it again.
I went on this, it was blurry. In fact this and The Simpsons ride was so blurry and low res that it felt very cheap. There's a huge lead up to both with FF having live actors giving you part of the show on the way up to the ride.
I’ve never watched a single F & F movie..
I’m saving it in case I make it to 60 years of being alive..
It’s good to make long term plans… I’ve been told.
I always felt like I missed out having never being been to a "theme park". The only this I missed out on was the disappointment.
I worked on the opening team of this dumpster fire (UStudios Florida), the whole team dreaded the day it opened to park guests because we already knew how bad the reception was going to be haha the theming and queue design was really really well done, but the overall feedback relayed to our team from guests was the line for the ride was better than the ridge itself
I don't even think they bothered with the live actors when we rode it in Florida. I recall them just having those videos on repeat, but the line was so short we never watched it fully through anyway 😂.
I rode it without knowing anything about it and didn't know it was ANOTHER screen ride (my 4th of the day) and it was the tipping point. It made me SO SICK I was glad it was so short honestly so I didn't throw up
Man where was this video recommendation when I was in Florida waiting 20 minutes in line to get on this ride. The only cool thing about this ride was the amount of classic muscle and sports cars they had in and outside the building.
I went on all of those screen rides... they made me sick af af I don't mind moving but omg the moving while watching TV makes me sick
The disaster part of the tour will always remind me of the beverly hills cop where he goes through the theme park and they have the disaster ride in the park. They just added robots firing lazers.
I used to work for Lowe’s Hotels back when they only had 3 Universal Studios resort properties, and I used to get free tickets to the parks. Partly because of that (and partly because of the Florida resident discount), I had been to Universal at least 10 times since 2008 and not a single one of those times my fiancé and I had any desire to go on that ride. I’m glad we made the right choice 😂
The real problem of universal is that only 2 rides basically don’t use screens the whole time. All of the ones you mentioned plus Spider-Man. That literally leaves only 2-3 rides in the park. It’s kind of a waste of money to even go there.
I'm 37, so when I grew up there were a lot more arcades than now a days. The point is, if anyone my age knows the games back then that had some sort of gun as the controller, like house of the dead, or terminator. And if you remember the graphics and style of how they transition into different areas, that's EXACTLY how this rides movie looked.
You forgot to mention Ludacris repeatedly yelling at you to not take your phone out, like anyone wants to record that awful ride.
Seeing someone run into a pole at the park would be more exciting than this ride
I feel like this would be cool if it didn't look like a PS3 game
This is an insult to PS3 games that are so much better than this.
Like Sonic 06.
I made the mistake of going there at the end of my day (the Orlando version), figuring that the wait time wasn't that long and it'd be quick, since everybody wanted to leave. I missed most of the other problems with this ride (aside from it just being uninteresting) because it was really LOUD. It felt like we couldn't hear anything for almost a day after.
I remember going to Universal Studios in 2018 with friends and laughing our asses off at the Vin Diesel poster. We knew it was gonna be trash.
what a waste of space, they should gut this ride and put in a serious indoor coaster or better yet, open a Secret Life of Pets clone from Hollywood.
I laughed the whole time, i couldn't believe it was really the "ride".
It was over and i was beyond underwhelmed and so was almost every other person on the ride... it made a mokery of the movies before they did it to themselves 😂
This was the only Universal ride I rode once and never again. Me and my wife looked at each other afterwards and said "Wtf was that".
i recently went on this ride (orlando version) again with a friend and the screen in the tunnel on our right side went out
very immersive
Glad Universal learned from this and starting building some standout attractions again. Hell, even Fast & The Furious is getting a roller coaster at the Hollywood park, what it should've been to begin with.
Well, with Hollywood Rip Ride Rocket closing this September it is possible they could put a Fast and Furious Coaster in it's place. It's still speculation, but it would be a great way to make up for this disaster and remove it once it opens. Alot of other people are saying it's gonna be a Ghostbusters Coaster. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
Thankfully Universal Orlando didn't continue with these horrible screen attractions since they opened the critically acclaimed Hagrid's Creatures Motorbike Adventure and Velocicoaster.
We knew it was gonna suck the second we got on the party bus and it didn’t have seatbelts. Car-based movie has a ride with no cars and no seatbelts The wait time went from being 60 minutes when it first open to two weeks later being a 10 minute wait. It’s that bad.
This ride genuinely lowered my opinion of Universal Studios by a lot. My dad loved the theming and park experience more than Disney World (and we've been there 3 times!), and while I understand and agree with him on some things, all I remember is that, as flawed as Disney World may be (especially in the half-decade since I've last been), they never disappointed me like Universal did with Supercharged.
(for the record, I'm not a F&F fan, just a parkgoer who wants a good ride and doesn't care what the IP is)
BeetleJuice and Earthquake at Universal Studios Florida was way better than the Fast and Furious anyway, it would’ve been better if they made it like Test Track at Epcot and Carsland’s Radiator Strings Racers at Disney’s California Adventure, I would love to see the return of BeetleJuice and Earthquake back to its original place and relocate the Fast and Furious and turn it into a better version
Thank you, I knew I wasn’t the only one who thought this ride was underwhelming.
I standby as the only one who actually likes this ride. Most of that comes down to loving the IP, but i do like the segment on the tour and don't mind queueing for it in Florida (especially because the actual queue is nice). I'm well aware of it's painfully obvious flaws, but i still have fun with it anyways. Also that Helicopter is really small. Because its a drone. As Shaw falls off the bridge he yells "Call in the drones!!!" I too will eventually give this ride a proper review on my channel but for now its just my old video talking about why i don't hate it.
I remember getting on Studio Tour and ended up just closing my eyes the entire time because King Kong freaked me out
I went on this couple months go for the second time . The first time I went on it it was horribly boring as you described. However the second time I went on it it seemed much improved, still fairly boring but the effects seemed to be better than last time. Or maybe because my standards were very low going in my second time 🤷♂️
When I rode this first the first time (and only time) I remember thinking the ride ended just when it started to get good
Imagine using this concept but bringing back the Back to the Future ride
I remember when it first opened in Orlando, and I went in without knowing that this was a simulator. like everyone was hyping it up saying it might be an indoor rollercoaster lol. then when I rode it I was like.. this is it??? like it felt so short and such an abrupt ending lol like ever since it opened I've never gone to ride it again.
As someone who has never seen a single Fast and Furious movie, this part of the Studio Tour felt less like a grand finale and more like an absolute letdown. I was mad that they removed the Earthquake section.
i remember going to the Disaster! attraction in florida as a kid and i loved it so much. it made me really appreciate how movies are made and i made my family ride it so many times lol. when i went back years later to find it replaced with fast and furious i was crushed but still gave it a chance and rode it because i like the movies. that was the most boring and cheap experience ever i got off so pissed i should’ve known it sucked bc there was barely even a line at the entrance.
Do we even have to answer the worst ride in Universal Studios question?
I agree with the video as it hit on a lot of the key features although, theming overall was great, the ride experience not so much, but I am definitely interested in seeing what universal has in store for the fast and furious coaster
They closed both Animal Actors and the Special Effects show for this new roller coaster. So it had better be something revolutionary!
jurassic park the ride is finally open again after 2 years at USJ, I'm so excited.
The indoor one was so funny I laughed through the whole thing. I think it needs the idiocracy intro before you go in.
Universal Studios Florida has a big problem they have outdated IP’s …Fast and Furious is the worst but besides Harry Potter, The Mummy and Rip Ride Rocket every other ride is just boring …I would I get rid of FF all together and just have that be and extension of HP and make some kind of dark ride that dives into the forbidden Forrest I would get rid of Men in Black and change that to Stranger Things …get rid of the Simpson and turn that area into a roller coaster maybe Back to the Future IP….have it be an intamin launch ..get a new story line for Transformers
You could also be lazy and change the FF Super charged into some Harry Potter Purple double decker ride or something
Mummy is terrific! Trim Ride Rocket 🚀 is slow, painful and jarring
9:55 with his car somehow still driving straight XD