Big Thunder Mountain Reliability & Wait Patterns
Disneyland Paris · Based on 14308 wait-time samples
Weekend vs Weekday
Lightning Lane sell-out pattern
Big Thunder Mountain sells out at a median of 21:03 local time, on 10 of 51 observed days (19%).
Real breakdown history (last 90 days)
Actual downtime episodes recorded by our live status tracker — every time Big Thunder Mountain flipped to DOWN and came back. Observed data, not estimates.
Most recent outages
| Date | Down for |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-10 | 1h 7m |
| 2026-09-08 | 1h 9m |
| 2026-09-08 | 1h 10m |
| 2026-09-07 | 1h 23m |
| 2026-09-06 | 35m |
| 2026-09-06 | 19m |
| 2026-09-05 | 49m |
| 2026-09-05 | 1h 4m |
Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 62 different days in this window.
Downtime by hour
Rate of DOWN/CLOSED status per hour of the day (ET).
100%
100%
77%
35%
8%
6%
6%
18%
13%
11%
13%
31%
13%
11%
6%
17%
46%
97%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
Best & worst hours by day of week
Average standby wait (minutes). Green = lowest of day, red = highest.
| DOW | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon | 55 | 54 | 56 | 53 | 46 | 45 | 40 | 31 | 21 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Tue | 58 | 58 | 56 | 50 | 54 | 54 | 44 | 40 | 24 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Wed | 52 | 49 | 53 | 51 | 49 | 43 | 36 | 29 | 22 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Thu | 57 | 57 | 54 | 53 | 55 | 49 | 42 | 34 | 15 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Fri | 55 | 54 | 55 | 52 | 48 | 47 | 38 | 32 | 12 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Sat | 67 | 62 | 63 | 58 | 54 | 49 | 45 | 36 | 27 | 17 | – | – | – | – | – |
| Sun | 57 | 56 | 50 | 49 | 47 | 39 | 31 | 25 | 16 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Weather effect on waits
Average wait (minutes) in different weather conditions:
When this ride goes down
These rides spike in wait time when Big Thunder Mountain is reported DOWN:
What causes this ride to spike
Waits for Big Thunder Mountain go up the most when these rides are DOWN:
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