October 18, 2025
12:48 AM
All that remains of the Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit tower is the service elevator platform.
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October 18, 2025
12:35 AM
Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit tower was demolished today to the service elevator platform. Seen at bottom center.
October 18, 2025
12:26 AM
Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit tower was demolished today to the service elevator platform. The tower is no longer visible from New York in Universal Studios Florida.
October 17, 2025
2:00 AM
CityWalk view of the remainder of the Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit tower.
October 17, 2025
1:52 AM
Remaining sections of the Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit tower.
October 17, 2025
1:27 AM
Sections of the Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit tower are cut and lowered to where the station once stood. A demolition shear (at left) then renders it to smaller pieces (at arrow). The small pieces are then trucked to a metal recycling facility. Loaded on train car to a foundry.
October 17, 2025
1:17 AM
Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit is rapidly disappearing from Universal Studios Florida.
October 17, 2025
1:07 AM
As if a statue is saving goodnight and farewell by waving a flag at the remainder in the demolition of the Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit tower.
October 16, 2025
2:24 AM
Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit is rapidly disappearing from the Universal Studios Florida skyline.
October 16, 2025
2:22 AM
Next levels to be demolished in the Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit tower.
October 16, 2025
2:02 AM
Photos of where Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit track was unbolted, instead of sheered or cut with a torch. A rail cut clean with a saw. As if the removed section is preserved for a use somewhere. At the Crowd Surfer section. Barcode tracking still in place!
October 16, 2025
1:47 AM
Remaining track of Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit that went along the station and out to CityWalk. Known as the Crowd Surfer section. Attraction queue was at this area.
October 16, 2025
1:42 AM
All of the track remaining in the demolition of Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit.
October 16, 2025
1:25 AM
Top platform fully removed from the Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit tower today.
October 16, 2025
1:11 AM
Current demolition of Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit. Top platform (and track starting to curve towards the big drop) was removed today.
