The steel roller coaster Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit is located in Universal Studios Florida in Orlando, Florida. It’s really the biggest X-Coaster ever manufactured by German manufacturer Maurer Söhne, with a height of 167 feet (51 m), a length of 3,800 feet (1,200 m), as well as a peak speed of 65 miles per hour (105 km/h). The coaster was announced on March 19, 2008, and it opened on August 19, 2009, despite hopes to launch several months earlier in the spring. On-ride music LED illumination, as well as on-ride images and movies shot by cameras installed in each passenger row, are all included in the Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit.
Universal Parks & Resorts filed a Notice of Commencement for Orange County, Florida in the second week of January 2008, suggesting that they would be building a ride system code-named “Project Rumble.” The contractor too was identified as “Maurer Rides GmbH,” based in Munich, Germany, according to the notification.
Universal Studios officially revealed the new attraction on March 19, 2008. The roller coaster’s vertical lift hill would’ve been 167 feet (51 metres) tall, as well as the trains will achieve a top speed of 65 miles per hour (105 kilometres per hour), according to the original press release.
The Black Eyed Peas, Bee Gees, Beach Boys, as well as Johnny Cash were among the artists visitors could pick from.
Preliminary land clearance started in May 2008, resulting in the elimination of portions of Twister…Ride it Out’s outside extended line. For the week of December 7, 2008, the very first track sections were placed. Universal launched a website for such experience in February 2009, that includes a construction diary and photos documenting the attraction’s growth. Well with topping of a lift hill at the end of April 2009, the track layout was finished.
Universal stated in April 2009 that perhaps the roller coaster will not launch as scheduled and would instead open in the summer. Though Universal has never said what the specific problem with the roller coaster was, publications believe the delay was caused by faults with the lift hill’s anti-rollback systems that were not operating properly.
In mid-August 2009, Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit commenced public previews once the ride’s difficulties were fixed. Universal Studios Florida officially inaugurated the attraction on August 19, 2009. It had a lot of technical problems just after it opened.