Even more bad news.....

Bad news never come alone. There's a new piece of information that may hurt many of you that would like to ride Universal Studios' newest rollercoaster "Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit".

The ride has been closed "indefinitely" (it doesn't mean that it will be destroyed or abandoned, but it means it will take much longer to fix it). Indeed, the timeline to fix the ride has been extended.

a picture of one of the many exclusive features of the ride

Here's the sad news from the Orlando Sentinel:

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Universal's Rip Ride Rockit roller coaster closed indefinitely

Reason for last week's shutdown of the Universal Studios ride is still a mystery.

Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit, the year-old roller coaster at Universal Studios that shut down last week for repairs, will remain closed longer than initially expected.

Universal Orlando said Monday it decided to perform annual maintenance now that the thrill ride is already offline. "We added annual maintenance to the work schedule for efficiency," spokesman Tom Schroder said. "The ride has been operating for about a year and had a busy summer season. For us, it makes sense to take advantage of the fact that it is already closed for maintenance and perform additional annual maintenance."

Just why Rockit closed in the first place remains a mystery. Earlier this month, the German company that built it issued an alert warning that stress testing of its "X-Car" ride vehicles had found that the coupling bars holding the trains together might not be "fatigue endurable." Coaster manufacturer Maurer Sohne instructed clients to immediately shut down any rides using X-Cars for further safety testing.

Universal dismissed the Sept. 2 bulletin, saying any issues it raised would have been resolved already.

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I have no words. I mean, yes, it's good that they try to use their time in the best way they can by adding to the timeline also the ride's yearly maintenance, but, please FIX IT soon!!!

Once they'll fix the X-cars' issues, the other problems are considered "minor", and the ride can reopen...

the X-car

Who's going on vacation to Orlando in this period? Is anyone sad about this, or you don't care a lot about it?
By the way, thanks a lot to Screamscape for the news!