Get ready to park your feet in neutral and wait in long lines under the Californian sun, because the ‘Fast and Furious’ movie franchise is getting its very own “supercharged” theme park ride at Universal Studios Hollywood.
The “Fast & Furious—Supercharged” attraction will open to the public in the summer of 2015, a few months after the big screen debut of director James Wan’s Fast & Furious 7 film in April of 2015.
According to Universal Studios, Supercharged is a hydraulic-motion based ride that “will tell an original Fast & Furious story, incorporating hyper-realistic special effects and state-of-the-art 3D-HD imagery projected onto the world’s longest and most expansive 360-degree screen spanning nearly 400 feet in length”.
The addition of the Fast&Furious ride is part of a much larger expansion, purportedly the biggest one in the theme park’s 50-year long history that began in 2012 with “Transformers: The Ride—3D” and will conclude in 2016 with the “The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.”
By John Halas
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— #FastFurious (@FastFurious) April 8, 2014