2025 has been, and can proceed to be, a giant 12 months for Common Locations & Experiences. We’ve already had the unbelievable opening of Epic Universe, and later this summer season, we’ll see the opening of Common Horror Unleashed. 2026 goes to be almost as massive, with the opening of Common Children Resort and the brand new Quick & Livid: Hollywood Drift curler coaster at Common Studios Hollywood.
Yesterday, we obtained plenty of cool new details about the upcoming Quick & Livid coaster, together with a brief video giving us an thought of what the experience can be like, in addition to the disclosing of the Hollywood Drift experience car. As a theme park author and theme park fan, I believed it regarded superb, however I wasn’t the one one. Former Walt Disney Imagineer Jim Shull, who helped design one other curler coaster “automobile,” was equally impressed.
I used to be the Artistic Director for #RocknRollerCoaster designing and overseeing my tremendous stretched limo. I go my baton to the workforce who delivered #FastFuriousCoaster #Universalfanfestnights #HollywoodDrift pic.twitter.com/a3tCwHrzJJJune 12, 2025
The Rock ‘N’ Curler Coaster Starring Aerosmith includes a curler coaster prepare that’s designed to be a “tremendous stretch” limousine. The thought is that friends are getting within the limo to move to an Aerosmith live performance, after which actually hit the fuel to fly by town.
It needs to be mentioned, as anyone who spends any time on theme park-focused social media is aware of, Jim Shull tends to take any thought to process if he isn’t impressed by it. So the truth that he’s so complimentary of the Hollywood Drift experience car really says fairly a bit. He’s not simply being good.
As a curler coaster car goes, Rock ‘N’ Curler Coaster was fairly spectacular for its time, however that point was over 1 / 4 of a century in the past. The brand new design of Hollywood Drift will see 4 particular person “vehicles” that friends experience in, with every one independently “drifting” across the observe. Design has actually come a good distance.
2026 will really be a giant 12 months for each curler coasters. Along with the Hollywood Drift opening, Rock ‘N’ Curler Coaster is getting an enormous facelift. The experience will shut early in 2026 an reopen earlier than the tip of the 12 months with a brand new theme, changing Aerosmith with the Muppets who not too long ago misplaced their different attraction at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, following the closure of Muppet* Imaginative and prescient 3D.
With the truth that the closure is anticipated to be lower than 12 months, we shouldn’t count on any main adjustments to the experience infrastructure itself. The tremendous stretch limos might get a brand new paint job, or would possibly even get replaced with brand-new variations of the identical prepare design, however it’s unlikely we’ll see a leap ahead with some kind of new design. Jim Shull’s work will reside on.