On April 6, 2017, Universal Orlando will open a new ride featuring Jimmy Fallon. The ride, called "Race Through New York Starring Jimmy Fallon," will feature a simulated ride where the guests can experience being on the "Tonight Show", a late-night American talk show where Jimmy Fallon hosts.
According to ComingSoon, "As they experience the attraction, guests will make their way through Studio 6B to board the world's first-ever flying theater, which seats up to 72 audience members, for the race of a lifetime. They will speed through the streets of New York City and all the way to the moon and back, encountering iconic landmarks from the Statue of Liberty to the Empire State Building to everything in between."
Constructed started in March last year, where the new ride will replace "Twister...Ride it Out", which closed on November 2, 2015. But development for the new attraction started on November 4, 2015, as shown in Fallon's Instagram account.
In the pictures posted by Fallon himself, one showed where Fallon is wearing a motion-capture suit and helmet while sitting on a make-shift go kart, suggesting that filming for the attraction has already commenced. In his Twitter account, Fallon also posted a picture on April 8, 2016, saying he's filming new episodes on a closed set in Vancouver for the upcoming Universal attraction.
Fallon said that the ride will have a similarity with Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey, and some cast of the "Tonight Show" will also be featured in the ride. The cast who are said to make an appearance in the ride include Steve Higgins, The Roots, and A. D. Miles.
Guests will also have the chance to experience the "Virtual Line" in the upcoming attraction, an all-new line experience where guests will spend less time in a ride's queue but rather will have more time walking and touring other parts of the park via a bracelet they will receive upon checking in in the ride.
In a recent announcement by Fallon, "The Tonight Show" will have tapings done in Universal Studios Florida on April 3-6, 2017 in support of the ride's opening. Additional details would soon be announced concerning prospective celebrity guests and how-tos of the ride.
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