Universal Studios' Worst Ride - Fast & Furious: Supercharged

I once read the average Guest Satisfaction score for Universal Studios Florida is higher on days when this ride is closed 💀 Great breakdown!

Nothing screams “Tokyo Drift” like two Volkswagen Golfs

I can't believe you didn't mention how many times they had these real Hollywood actors, tell riders not to use their cell phones.

Former Studio Tour Guide here! If you think this ride is a stinker, try sitting through it multiple times a day!! I will forever have that thing memorized. The one good part was all of the running jokes us guides had about it on our breaks - constant declarations of “HIT THE NITRUS!” The Florida version is stupid in its own right, but imo there’s nothing worse than it being the finale of the studio tour (especially when you know the parts of the studio that guests miss just because of it). Thanks for this history!

A stunt show would have been 100 times better than anything else they ever did with this franchise lmao

A roller coaster was always the no brainer move for Fast & Furious at the parks. The studio tour experience lends itself much better to sci-fi, horror, adventure themed rides like King Kong, Jaws, etc. Not generic action films.

I am still VERY sad that Disaster is gone. That was by far my favorite ride at the whole park. It was just so cool.

Fun story: when I first visited Universal Florida, I was a young teenager who loved Disaster, but being a young teenager, I was too old to volunteer for the child parts and too young to feel like I could volunteer for the adult parts. I endured this frustration every year until finally I was eighteen, so excited to finally volunteer to take part even if they didn't pick me...and that was the year they'd closed it to make way for this thing. I'm probably more bitter about this than is healthy.

I rode the one in Florida, and I remember the queue and pre-shows were cooler than the actual ride itself. It was just insanely boring, even compared to their other screen-heavy rides there's usually an element that makes it exciting. Great video about a boring ride though!

At least Jimmy Fallon has a strong AC. Supercharge is depressing honestly, cause the times I’ve gone on it, it’s either closed down because of repairs (I literally got to the ride vehicle and the ride closed down) or the effects are just sub par. Also it’s super short and you feel it. Great video man 💙

Great video! Though I do have one small correction. At 7:30 you mention the use of a Pepper's Ghost illusion which though is used very often in theme parks, this particular effect (and the pre-show for Disaster) is something different. These are called the Musion Eyeliner or the Musion Hologram which essentially takes the principle of the Pepper's Ghost and instead of relying on ambient light to reflect a physical object into view, this takes a projection and reflects it from below on to a 45° angle pane of metalized glass. But as mentioned before the principal is the same. Again I love the video, please do not take this as someone trying to criticize, keep up the awesome content.

When I watched this at the park a few years ago to me it seemed like the actors weren't even in the same room when filming. It was like each actor was caught when time was available over a blue screen

My home park's Universal Hollywood, and I had a year-round pass back in the mid-late 2000s, so I went on the studio tour plenty of times as a kid- And honestly? While I haven't been able to go back and experience what they replaced F&F Extreme Closeup with.. I think, maybe via nostalgia- I would've preferred they kept the dancing cars on mechanical arms to the tune of "Gasolina" over 8ft Tall Vin Diesel Manhandles a Helicopter, somehow.

I was on this ride only a year ago and do not remember a single thing you explained, which proves that it's pretty bad. I remember it being laughably bad, as not a huge fast and furious fan. I loved watching their bad acting talking about how happy they are for their family and how the live actors acting alongside the videos were really funny

the fact that the pre shows are more entertaining than the actual ride.

Ironically the same robotic arms used for the OG FF stunt show, were the same arms used for the current Harry Potter ride at the parks. Universal sure knows how to be creative with their scrap parts.

I rode the Hollywood tour version for the first time last April and it was lame. Thankfully I knew not to expect much from it because I’d already heard a lot about how bad it was. But it sunk even lower than my low expectations. Also, I wasn’t too surprised by the fact that all the pre show elements on the tram are no longer done, meaning the Dodge Charger being addressed after Wisteria Lane

It's a sad situation because we are talking about Fast and Furious. In a franchise that utilizes ridiculous car stunts, huge explosions, a outlandish venues (like space), doing a party bus theme is so bland and dry that I wondered if they even wanted this to be a success. I recently went to the Florida ride and I LOVED the lobby area. I thought it was actually really cool to see replicas of the cars from the movies and some movie references in the shop. Everything went downhill after that.

I never understood why fast and furious never got a roller coaster since its about going fast. I have heard rumours of one at Hollywood but the current ride would probably bore my granny

Disaster was my favorite ride when I visited the Florida location. My mother got to be green screened in as the “screamer”. I still think about the subway scene to this day. It’s what got me into my love of special effects, which is what I’m now studying. And now I’ll never get to see it again. 😞