Yes, but it also has onboard audio (that you can really hear) with your own mp3 playlist to choose from from up to 80 songs. It also creates an on-ride video from several vantage points and they can instantly rip to dvd afterwards.

This ride is so many times ahead of farenhieht that they probably won't even be close to the same ride.

Of course this is coming from the guy that likes storm runner more than farenheiht anyway lol

I think most people prefer Storm Runner over Fahrenheit. At least Storm Runner is more than half a coaster.

It almost as powerful as el toros hills or even as powerful.

After seeing it test several times tonight, all I can say is this ride looks amazing!  It glides effortlessly and smoothly and quietly through everything. And although you may notice it stops sometimes on the blocks in the videos, that is only for testing the zones. It will glide right through them assuming each zone is clear.

The only things similar between this and Fahrenheit are the red track and vertical lift hill. Rockit looks, to me anyway, way better than Fahrenheit. I cannot wait for it to open. I'll let everyone know how it is after media day.

Hmm looks good

NEW Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit coaster POV Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR8cbXaMOfg#noexternalembed

TRAINS \/

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-- The ride vehicle, called an X-CAR, will feature stadium-style bucket seats ensuring all riders have unobstructed views. And it won't have an over-head/pull-down restraint system; instead riders will be secured only by a newly designed lap bar, which Universal says "allows for unprecedented freedom of movement."

-- Guests will choose their ride soundtrack from touchpad screens built into the lap bar. Universal says the screens are "military-grade durable and waterproof."

-- Each seat will have 165-watt stereo speakers that pump out 90 decibels, in a sound system similar to the kind installed on wakeboard boats.

-- Fourteen video cameras will be mounted throughout Rockit, six on each vehicle and eight along the track, which will operate for up to 14 hours a day. The same kinds of cameras are used on high-speed trains.

-- Laser-triggered timing devices have been installed to ensure that each rider's music and video are in sync and the resulting video package will be wirelessly downloaded from the X-CAR to a viewing kiosk in 25 seconds. Guests can buy the "an edited take-home version of their experience."

-- Universal says Rockit will be the only coaster in the world with daytime LED color-changing lights, which will be programmed to change color and rotate between steady, strobe, twinkle, race or pulse patterns. The result will be an "ever-changing light show" to spectators on the ground.

-- Rockit will also feature the country's only moving coaster load platform -- essentially a people-mover-style conveyor belt that speeds up the loading process and allows vehicles to leave the station every 23 seconds.

-- Each vehicle's cameras and computers are recharged each time they pass through the load station, similar to how an electric subway is powered.

"This is where high-speed coaster meets outdoor mega-concert meets user-generated content -- all shot on production-quality video," Mark Woodbury, president of Universal Creative, said in a press release. "No one has ever created such a sophisticated ride experience. And no one has ever used technology the way we have to pull it all together."

 

^ They look squishy.

The ride has been testing, but isn't again because they took parts of the lift off to add anti-roll backs.

/\ That is so true!

/\ Yes that seems to be the case!

Being that nobody has ridden just yet, I'd say holding a camera is of no concern . Other than the anti-rollbacks, nothing about this ride has been a nuisance. Other logistical challenges in and around the site have certainly slowed things up but the anti-rollbacks are really about it as far as the actual ride itself. And even there we are really only looking at a 2 week delay. It is simply faster to remove the track and work on the ground rather than in place.

The current testing is nothing more than putting the systems through their paces so things are moving along nicely.