How often does Orbitron® break down?

Over the last 90 days we recorded 24 real breakdown episodes for Orbitron® — about 1.9 per week, spread across 19 different days. These are observed status changes from live park data, not estimates.

How long is Orbitron® usually down when it breaks down?

The median recorded outage for Orbitron® lasted 28 minutes (average 97 minutes). The longest outage we observed in the last 90 days lasted 437 minutes, on 2026-08-14.

Orbitron® Reliability & Wait Patterns

Disneyland Paris · Based on 23110 wait-time samples

Data updated October 12, 2026 · refreshed weekly from the last 180 days

0.30

Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)

Stable — waits stay close to the day's average.

40m

Typical (p50) wait

55m

Busy (p90) wait

75m

Worst-case (p99)

300m

Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

42m

Weekday average

41m

Weekend average

0.96×

Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

Actual downtime episodes recorded by our live status tracker — every time Orbitron® flipped to DOWN and came back. Observed data, not estimates.

Recorded breakdowns

28m

Typical (median) outage

7h 17m

Longest outage (2026-08-14)

1.9

Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

Date	Down for
2026-10-16	10m
2026-10-15	11m
2026-10-14	5m
2026-10-09	11m
2026-10-07	17m
2026-09-29	19m
2026-09-21	35m
2026-08-29	34m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 19 different days in this window.

Downtime by hour

Share of running time the ride was down for an unplanned breakdown, by hour of the day (park-local time). Scheduled closures and refurbishments are not counted.

9
1%

10
1%

11
3%

12
4%

13
6%

14
7%

15
9%

16
11%

17
11%

18
10%

19
9%

20
6%

21
2%

22
2%

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	–	24	42	44	56	53	44	43	44	40	47	41	40	32	–
Tue	–	26	43	49	59	54	44	44	44	38	46	44	40	34	27
Wed	–	23	43	49	53	50	45	43	43	38	44	38	35	37	29
Thu	–	23	46	52	57	49	47	44	43	41	46	39	35	33	33
Fri	–	21	41	48	57	51	43	41	39	36	41	40	37	28	21
Sat	–	20	43	47	58	52	46	40	44	40	43	39	34	30	25
Sun	–	22	43	49	55	49	45	41	40	38	39	38	35	26	25

Weather effect on waits

How the wait changed in each kind of weather, compared with this ride at the same hour on the same weekday within three weeks. Only differences marked “clear signal” are larger than day-to-day noise.

Cloudy · 588 ride-hours · within noise

-0m

Clear · 260 ride-hours · within noise

-2m

Light Rain · 20 ride-hours · within noise

What causes this ride to spike

Waits for Orbitron® rise when these rides are DOWN, compared with the same hour on a normal day:

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+7m (17%)

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DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	–	24	42	44	56	53	44	43	44	40	47	41	40	32	–
Tue	–	26	43	49	59	54	44	44	44	38	46	44	40	34	27
Wed	–	23	43	49	53	50	45	43	43	38	44	38	35	37	29
Thu	–	23	46	52	57	49	47	44	43	41	46	39	35	33	33
Fri	–	21	41	48	57	51	43	41	39	36	41	40	37	28	21
Sat	–	20	43	47	58	52	46	40	44	40	43	39	34	30	25
Sun	–	22	43	49	55	49	45	41	40	38	39	38	35	26	25

DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	–	24	42	44	56	53	44	43	44	40	47	41	40	32	–
Tue	–	26	43	49	59	54	44	44	44	38	46	44	40	34	27
Wed	–	23	43	49	53	50	45	43	43	38	44	38	35	37	29
Thu	–	23	46	52	57	49	47	44	43	41	46	39	35	33	33
Fri	–	21	41	48	57	51	43	41	39	36	41	40	37	28	21
Sat	–	20	43	47	58	52	46	40	44	40	43	39	34	30	25
Sun	–	22	43	49	55	49	45	41	40	38	39	38	35	26	25

DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	–	24	42	44	56	53	44	43	44	40	47	41	40	32	–
Tue	–	26	43	49	59	54	44	44	44	38	46	44	40	34	27
Wed	–	23	43	49	53	50	45	43	43	38	44	38	35	37	29
Thu	–	23	46	52	57	49	47	44	43	41	46	39	35	33	33
Fri	–	21	41	48	57	51	43	41	39	36	41	40	37	28	21
Sat	–	20	43	47	58	52	46	40	44	40	43	39	34	30	25
Sun	–	22	43	49	55	49	45	41	40	38	39	38	35	26	25