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Ride Profile
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Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit
Lights... Camera... Coaster!
Originally scheduled to open in spring, puts guests in the director’s seat – they can customise
Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit, Universal Studios their experience."
Orlando's highly anticipated rollercoaster, finally Passengers do this by choosing their own ride
opened in late August to the delight of park soundtrack from five genres on music, courtesy of an
guests and operator alike. It was worth the wait, on-board sound system. The coaster is also the first
says Paul Ruben with both on and off-board cameras to capture
guests’ entire ride experience, which they can take
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his innovative attraction from Maurer Rides of home in the form of a music video.
Munich is the tallest, largest and fastest yet to Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit features 3,800ft of steel
use its X-Car ride vehicle. With seven pairs of X- track, and starts with 165ft vertical lift (the world’s
Cars, each boasting 12 seats, the Rockit has an tallest), scaled in just 16.5 seconds. Of the six
extraordinary high capacity of 1,850 passengers per manoeuvres that follow, three have never been built
hour. The ride also features America’s only conveyor before. These include the Double Take, the world's
belt coaster load platform, so that guests can board largest non-inverted loop, preceded by a 65 mph
their cars without the vehicles ever coming to a drop from the 167ft lift, the Treble Clef, where guests
complete stop. This allows a vehicle to leave the burst through a building facade on track shaped like
station every 23 seconds. the music symbol, and the Jump Cut, a spiralling,
"Universal Orlando Resort is a place where you’re negative-gravity move.
not only entertained, but also part of the When they reach this point on the track,
entertainment," explains Mike West, executive passengers feel like they are experiencing a
producer for Universal Creative. "Hollywood Rip Ride corkscrew, without actually going upside down.
Rockit is a perfect fit for Universal Orlando because it Soaring 33ft above ground, they are turned at a 95-
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