Rock 'n' Roller Coaster at Disney's Hollywood Studios reopens to guests after a period of unplanned closure

Jan 05, 2022 in "Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith"

Posted: Wednesday January 5, 2022 10:48am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Rock 'n' Roller Coaster at Disney's Hollywood Studios is open to guests today following several days of interruptions and closures.

Although closed at park opening today, the ride currently has a 110 minute wait.

Guests have been reporting sporadic operation over the last week, and the ride has been down for a significant amount of time according to My Disney Experience including day-long closures for the last two days. 

Oddly, the ride went through a similar issue during the same week in 2021 where the attraction suffered a week-long total closure.

The ride was last refurbished in late 2016, and has since suffered some unplanned closures due to technical difficulties with the launch system. Although we don't know for sure, it is likely this current closure is related.

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SteveAZeeJan 08, 2022

If you want to be offensive, call them 'spreadsheet heads'. (I just made that up)

ProgJan 08, 2022

Big Thunder Mountain went off the rails and killed a man... like my Nana...

TraumaJan 07, 2022

Well it lasted for almost 2 days!

Cesar R MJan 07, 2022

'til the constant ups and downs are lower management forcing/resetting the machine to work at all costs with no maintenance given.

HauntedPirateJan 07, 2022

Hey, that's offensive. We use the words "sharp-pencil people" to describe the loathesome bean counters these days.

SkywiseJan 07, 2022

And the great irony is that the rides themselves ARE IP stuff! The bean counter MBAs only know the "synergy" term now through directed projects and just see the parks as downstream from the movie campaigns rather than individual entities.

matt9112Jan 07, 2022

Because they dont do jack diddly with non IP stuff...it's really a shame.

matt9112Jan 07, 2022

100% but that costs money. Remember disney is a buisness 🤣🤣🤣🤣

MrPromeyJan 07, 2022

JoeCamelJan 07, 2022

It's old and tired so it needs it's rest......

TraumaJan 06, 2022

You guys keep talking about Space Mountain and now it’s closed 🙃

BrianJan 06, 2022

At least we know they can fix leaks in the Jungle Cruise boats with that stuff.

EagleScout610Jan 06, 2022

And a strobe light if all else fails

SkywiseJan 06, 2022

There's a couple of videos on Youtube that show space mountain with the lights on - If I recall I don't think the tracks cross each other except for maybe tight turns where you'll only have the one car in that track area at that time.