Fast & Furious: Supercharged opened at Universal Studios Florida, a screen-based 'party bus' simulator finale themed to the franchise, built in the former Disaster!/Beetlejuice show building in the San Francisco area.
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Universal announced that Fast & Furious: Supercharged would permanently close in 2027 as part of consolidating the franchise's attractions; the ride remained operating as of mid-2026.
20183 changes
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The theater was demolished and Fast & Furious: Supercharged opened on April 23, 2018 on the combined Beetlejuice theater and Disaster! site.
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Fast & Furious: Supercharged opened on the site in 2018, taking over the former Disaster! building along with the adjacent Beetlejuice theater space.
Wikipedia names Disaster! and Beetlejuice's Rock and Roll Graveyard Revue as the attractions it replaced in the San Francisco area. Reported opening dates in spring 2018 differ between soft openings and the grand opening, so only the year is stated here.
20161 change
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Beetlejuice's Graveyard Revue gave its final performance and closed permanently after more than 23 years, with the 5:15 p.m. show reserved for the first 1,100 annual passholders to check in at the Studio Audience Center.
Orlando Informer, TouringPlans' closing-day report and Laughing Place all give January 5, 2016; Wikipedia's list says January 6, 2016, which is the outlier and was not used. TouringPlans records the final public performance at 4:10 p.m. plus the added passholder-exclusive evening show.
20154 changes
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Universal set a December 3, 2015 closing date for the show and then extended the run to January 5, 2016.
Inside Universal's story carries both the original December 3 date and the extension to January 5; Orlando Informer, dated November 27, 2015, covers the same extension. Sources disagree on the exact announcement day (November 7 vs November 9), so no day is asserted here. -
Disaster!: A Major Motion Picture Ride...Starring You! closed permanently on September 8, 2015, ending more than 25 years of operation for the building.
September 8 is the closing date Universal announced, as reported by Orlando ParkStop and carried in both Wikipedia entries. Attractions Magazine, publishing on September 8, 2015, reported that the final ride for guests took place on September 7, 2015. -
Universal announced Fast & Furious: Supercharged for Universal Studios Florida and confirmed that Disaster! would close permanently on September 8, 2015.
Wikipedia's Fast & Furious: Supercharged article gives the announcement date as August 25, 2015; Orlando ParkStop's report, published August 26, 2015, states Disaster! 'will close permanently on September 8, 2015' and that Beetlejuice's Graveyard Revue would close later that year. -
Universal announced that Fast & Furious: Supercharged would replace both Disaster! and the Beetlejuice show, which was set to close in early 2016.
20142 changes
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A fourth version debuted as Beetlejuice's Graveyard Mash-Up, dropping the characters Hip and Hop for Cleopatra and Phantasia and swapping much of the storyline for a near-constant run of pop and rock mash-ups.
version 3→version 4Attractions Magazine dates the debut to February 8, 2014 and names the character swap; Orlando Informer describes the format change from character-driven banter to a near-constant stream of pop and rock hits. Wikipedia's park timeline still used the older Rock and Roll Graveyard Revue title at the 2016 closure, so the Mash-Up retitle was not universally adopted. -
The show played its last performance of the third version at 5:30 p.m. and closed for a complete reimagining with an all-new script, song list and cast.
TouringPlans, January 6, 2014: the show closed after Saturday's 5:30 p.m. performance, with only two cast members retained for the new production.
20082 changes
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The attraction reopened on January 17, 2008 as Disaster!: A Major Motion Picture Ride...Starring You!, keeping the same ride system while replacing the Earthquake tie-in with a fictional Disaster Studios premise, a new queue and pre-shows, and a Musion Eyeliner projection of Christopher Walken as studio head Frank Kincaid recruiting riders as extras for a fictional disaster film called Mutha Nature.
Wikipedia gives a soft opening of December 23, 2007 ahead of the January 17, 2008 grand opening, and states the ride used the same ride system and technology as before while the queue and pre-show portions were completely different. -
The same show building reopened as Disaster!: A Major Motion Picture Ride...Starring You!, a new attraction that kept the subway earthquake scene inside a new storyline.
Wikipedia records a soft opening on December 23, 2007, with the grand opening on January 17, 2008. Disaster! itself closed on September 8, 2015.
20072 changes
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Earthquake: The Big One closed on November 5, 2007 so the building could be rethemed.
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Earthquake: The Big One closed permanently on November 5, 2007 after more than seventeen years of operation.
20061 change
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The show was completely redone into a third version by then Senior Universal Orlando Show Director Michael Roddy.
version 2→version 3Orlando Informer credits the 2006 redesign to Michael Roddy; TouringPlans independently describes the version closing in January 2014 as the one performed since 2006. An earlier draft claimed the version won industry awards, which no cited source supports, so that claim was removed.
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The Florida show was updated to the second version of the production, which Universal Studios Hollywood had run since 1995, adding the backup characters Hip and Hop.
version 1→version 2Laughing Place states Hollywood's original ran until 1995 when version 2.0 took over and that it took until 2002 for that version to reach Orlando; Orlando Informer records modifications to the show in 2002; Wikipedia supplies the Hip and Hop addition. -
From 2002 the attraction's preshow was based on several Universal films rather than the 1974 film Earthquake alone, while the ride portion through the collapsing subway station was unchanged.
Wikipedia supports only that the attraction was based on several films from 2002 until its 2007 closure. Orlando Informer is the source for the specific titles demonstrated in the revised preshow, reported as E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and U-571.
19931 change
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The theater was refurbished with additional seats and a roof to shade the audience from the sun.
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Beetlejuice's Rock and Roll Graveyard Revue took over the vacated San Francisco theater in May 1992 and ran there until January 5, 2016.
The May date comes from the successor article's infobox (opened2 = May 1992); its prose says only 1992, hence medium confidence. The January 5, 2016 end date is independently corroborated by the Universal Studios Florida park timeline. The successor also ran under the titles Beetlejuice's Graveyard Revue and Beetlejuice's Graveyard Mash-Up. -
Beetlejuice's Rock and Roll Graveyard Revue opened in the San Francisco area theater at Universal Studios Florida, taking over the venue vacated by An American Tail Theatre.
Wikipedia's former-attractions list gives 1992 and names An American Tail Theatre as the predecessor in the same venue. Orlando Informer is the only source that narrows the debut to May 1992; Laughing Place says only 1992. -
An American Tail Theatre closed permanently at Universal Studios Florida in 1992.
Year precision only; no source gives a final performance date. Wikipedia attributes the closure to low attendance citing James C. Clark, Lost Attractions of Florida (Arcadia, 2023), p. 81, but that page could not be opened, so the attribution is not carried here. The Universal Studios Hollywood version of the show continued until 1997 and is a separate record.
19911 change
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By 1991 the show had been reduced to a seasonal attraction, operating only during the peak seasons of 1990 and 1991.
No source dates the switch to seasonal operation, so this beat is filed at the last documented season rather than at the change itself. An earlier draft blamed weak attendance for the cutback; the sources attach low attendance to the 1992 closure only, so that claim was removed.
19904 changes
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An American Tail Theatre opened with Universal Studios Florida on June 7, 1990, presenting a 20-minute live stage show starring Fievel Mousekewitz and other characters from An American Tail in the park's San Francisco area.
Steven Spielberg, executive producer of the first film, served as a creative consultant on the show's plot. A separate version of the show also ran at Universal Studios Hollywood. -
The attraction opened with Universal Studios Florida on June 7, 1990 as Earthquake: The Big One, a special-effects show and subway simulator based on the 1974 film Earthquake.
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Earthquake: The Big One opened with Universal Studios Florida on June 7, 1990 as an original attraction in the park's San Francisco area, a special-effects ride based on the 1974 film Earthquake that sent guests on a subway train through a collapsing San Francisco station.
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The ride operated only for short periods during its first four months after opening because of a series of operational problems, prompting Universal to sue manufacturer Ride & Show Engineering, Inc.; the suit was dropped once the attraction ran reliably.
Wikipedia states the lawsuit was dropped once the ride was operational; no month-level date is given, so the beat is held at year precision.
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