VelociCoaster

Around the same time that Hagrid's Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure was under construction in 2018, early reports indicated that Universal Orlando Resort had filed permits earlier in the year under the name "Project 791" calling for the demolition and site clearing of the area that formerly housed the Triceratops Encounter attraction.[12] The attraction had been closed and abandoned for nearly a decade, signaling that a new attraction was being planned as a replacement.[12] Construction walls were erected in January 2019, and project documents were leaked online shortly after showing an overhead layout of a proposed roller coaster project.[13][14]

Construction continued in full swing throughout 2019, with crews completely clearing out the former Triceratops Encounter attraction in addition to unused land in and around the park's existing Discovery Centre building and razing a bridge connecting the Jurassic Park area to The Lost Continent.[15] In June 2019, the first pieces of track for the unannounced coaster were delivered and stored offsite.[16] In July 2019, Universal Parks & Resorts filed a trademark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for the name "Velocicoaster", which fans quickly deduced to be the name of the new unannounced coaster.[17]

In early 2020, after months of concrete groundwork and further preparation, the project went vertical, as pieces of the now-massive stash of coaster track and supports were delivered to the construction site and installed.[18] During the initial COVID-19 lockdown, construction would temporarily pause and then resume at a rapid pace when cleared to do so. Much of the coaster had been constructed by the time that the Universal Orlando Resort was cleared to reopen to guests in June 2020, attracting the unreserved attention of park guests and local media alike.[19] The tallest point of the ride, the 155-foot (47 m) tall top hat, was topped off and the element completed in early July.[20]

Amid high degrees of media attention and coverage of the project, Universal themselves had not once acknowledged the increasingly evident construction project and coaster, instead silently maintaining that such a project did not exist while making no attempts to cover it up or maintain its secrecy. After a website leak on September 25, the Universal Orlando Resort formally announced the Jurassic World VelociCoaster on September 28, 2020, billing it as a "new species of roller coaster" and as the tallest and fastest launch coaster in Florida.[21][22] The ride was confirmed to feature 12 airtime moments, a 100-foot (30 m) long zero-g stall, and a barrel roll over the lagoon.[23]

Since then, Universal has continued to release new information on VelociCoaster as well as make progress towards the slated Summer 2021 opening. On December 4, 2020, new official closeups of the ride's sleek set of trains were revealed, and it would begin making consistent tests in front of the public eye.[24][25] On January 25, 2021, reports indicated that the ride had begun testing with riders after nearly two months of running with test dummies.[26]