Fast and Furious Hollywood Drift, a new roller-coaster coming to Universal Studios Hollywood, won’t open until 2026 but construction is well underway with changes since our last construction update.

Fast and Furious Hollywood Drift Construction

Behind construction walls on the Upper Lot is a platform topped with coaster tracks. A track support is next to the platform on the right.

To the left, another platform is under construction, with a crane towering over it. The logo for Fast and Furious Hollywood Drift can be seen along the construction walls.

There are steel beams around the edges and underneath the platform.

Vertical poles line the top, with temporary wood walls behind them.

Fast and Furious Hollywood Drift is expected to take guests up and down the mountainside. There are many vantage points to view the construction site that descends toward the Lower Lot. Here’s a look at those platforms from another angle.

Behind the first platform is a third platform. Its support columns are surrounded by scaffolding.

Diggers have been clearing and moving dirt. There was some debris in the center of this dirt pile.

There are dozens of concrete forms on the hilly construction site.

On the far side (from the overlook near Minion Land) are two large concrete boxes. Inside one is a circle of rebar.

Most of the concrete forms are square or circular and topped with wooden boxes.

There are also large metal barrels with wooden structures around them. These caissons are essentially molds for concrete forms.

Further down the hill are dark poles in a row. There’s a pile of more poles nearby. It looks like wire fencing connects the poles.

The base of the crane is in a concrete and wooden square.

A map featuring PCL Construction branding is on a fence. It features four areas labeled A, B, C, and D.

Construction materials are stacked on the edge of the construction site, some wrapped in plastic to keep them protected.

Near the tram track are more concrete forms, caissons, and wire fences.

Universal is drilling into the ground and creating concrete forms as the foundational supports for the coaster.

The blue and white machine on the right is by Malcolm Drilling.

Drying concrete is visible inside this caisson. Wood in a square inside makes the form hollow.

Another Malcolm Drilling vehicle is on this flattened patch of earth.

White tarps with elements poking through them are on the wall below the concrete platforms.

Here’s that metal support we saw from the Upper Lot. It’s a dark triangular piece. The top of another support is just barely visible behind the wall.

A few giant drill bits sit nearby.

There’s more construction on the other side of the street.

The coaster will cover a large area of the theme park.

Wooden walls cut across this section of the mountain, creating dirt platforms at different elevations. The large concrete boxes here are the ones we were looking at earlier. A black tarp runs down from a platform towards the road.

Above the wooden walls are the first concrete forms and the crane that we noted.

The construction goes under the escalators connecting the Upper and Lower Lots.

Fast and Furious Hollywood Drift will feature a state-of-the-art ride system that allows for 360-degree rotation for each ride vehicle to mimic drifting cars. It will be the first high-speed outdoor roller coaster at Universal Studios Hollywood. The queue, on the Upper Lot, will be designed to look like a large brick garage. The ride vehicles will be modeled after actual cars featured in “Fast & Furious” films.

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