Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift coaster (USF) - Opening 2027

[devinp267]

How would anyone new know this? If you're going to have a park with that many layers, that conceptually complicated, just explain it for heaven's sake. Why so secretive?


It's not "that kind of park" unless they do something to convey it. That's my point. You can't "remember" something you've never learned because you are a new customer.


Again, "never presented" is all about history, past familiarity of the park. Set that aside. They are attracting new customers from all over the world, every day, even more now with Epic. It needs to work now, and present something now that makes sense for new customers with no knowledge.

They don't need to spend tens or hundreds of millions of dollars, just spend a frickin' million dollars on sprinkling around a few cues.

Anyway, we disagree, I get it.

No one new would be having this conversation lol. Last thing if on their mind at all. I assure you this is a theme park community topic only

 

[Brian G.]

In all seriousness, it might make more sense to rename the "New York" area to either the "New York Backlot" or "Metro Backlot." That would cover all of the incongruities!

Wouldn’t hurt to rename/rezone a few spots.

 

[DrStarlander]

No one new would be having this conversation lol. Last thing if on their mind at all. I assure you this is a theme park community topic only

They don't have to have a conversation. Cognitive dissonance doesn't require that.

 

[SpatulaShack]

Good lord. The name is obnoxiously stupid for countless reasons, as 9 pages of discourse have pretty clearly pointed out already so at this point all I can offer is a possible "solution" that isn't really a solution so much as a compromise.

Maybe they can just rezone that far corner of New York into its own sub-area / land similar to what they did with Skull Island in what was essentially Jurassic Park in 2016. It would still be ridiculous since Hollywood still exists as it's own land across the park but at least it wouldn't be a step backwards in placemaking and cohesion. Keep most of the land "New York" and make the back area a new version of "Production Central" which left the map when Minions arrived.

 

[Lucky Planet]

Good lord. The name is obnoxiously stupid for countless reasons, as 9 pages of discourse have pretty clearly pointed out already so at this point all I can offer is a possible "solution" that isn't really a solution so much as a compromise.

Maybe they can just rezone that far corner of New York into its own sub-area / land similar to what they did with Skull Island in what was essentially Jurassic Park in 2016. It would still be ridiculous since Hollywood still exists as it's own land across the park but at least it wouldn't be a step backwards in placemaking and cohesion. Keep most of the land "New York" and make the back area a new version of "Production Central" which left the map when Minions arrived.

I know, call the area "familia street " or "calle family"

 

[Frogki]

I think I have a sort of different take on the discourse regarding the GP paying the bills and super fans being... Well, unimportant.

I think the people who create these places are, or should be, always looking to the guest perspective. And that means thinking from the POV of someone who has been to the parks a million times and knows about the Chicago manhole in the ostensibly New York section. (I now understand why the song Chicago plays in this section of the park!)

It also means thinking from the POV of the random tourist who has no inkling of any of the IPs and paid a lot of money to go somewhere fun for their vacation. And it means everything in between.

And ultimately I do think there is a level of wanting to have your cake and eat it too in the discourse occuring here. I can recognize the idea behind the Studios theme and say that it's not good enough from an artistic standpoint to hand waive away inconsistencies just because of that.
While this is a business and it is absolutely beholden to the almighty dollar, at the end of the day why do any of the big thematic stuff if it's just about making people go fast? As someone else pointed out, Six Flags can do that and it's a lot cheaper to go there. There is a level of art that can and should be expected from these places.

Someone made a comment about how hyper realism can actually hinder immersion and I agree with that philosophy, because at the end of the day people attending theme parks are making a choice to go to these attractions, and they choose to suspend their disbelief because they want to enjoy themselves.

With all that said - the name is certainly a choice. I don't think there will necessarily be issues on the level of "What do you mean Hogwarts isn't at Hollywood Studios?!" But I do believe it's an odd choice for this specific ride. But, clones abound throughout the parks - and since this won't be an exact clone, I think it will be super fun! I also think Studio Drift would have been a much more fun way to differentiate this and tie it a nice bow of thematic integrity for the Florida park. But, c'est la vie. The name will work and no one will care once the ride opens, and it sounds like it will be a very fun coaster.