How often does Orbitron® break down?

Over the last 90 days we recorded 43 real breakdown episodes for Orbitron® — about 3.3 per week, spread across 32 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 36 minutes (average 113 minutes). The longest outage we observed in the last 90 days lasted 615 minutes, on 2026-06-25.

Orbitron® Reliability & Wait Patterns

Disneyland Paris · Based on 14984 wait-time samples

0.37

Volatility Index (coefficient of variation)

Stable — waits stay close to the average throughout the day.

35m

Typical (p50) wait

50m

Busy (p90) wait

60m

Worst-case (p99)

75m

All-time max

Weekend vs Weekday

34m

Weekday average

32m

Weekend average

0.92×

Weekend multiplier

Lightning Lane sell-out pattern

Orbitron® 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 Orbitron® flipped to DOWN and came back. Observed data, not estimates.

Recorded breakdowns

36m

Typical (median) outage

10h 15m

Longest outage (2026-06-25)

3.3

Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

Date	Down for
2026-08-29	34m
2026-08-29	52m
2026-08-29	15m
2026-08-28	44m
2026-08-28	41m
2026-08-27	48m
2026-08-27	1h 51m
2026-08-25	6m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 32 different days in this window.

Downtime by hour

Rate of DOWN/CLOSED status per hour of the day (ET).

0
100%

1
100%

2
100%

3
76%

4
25%

5
2%

6
0%

7
2%

8
1%

9
0%

10
1%

11
0%

12
1%

13
2%

14
2%

15
9%

16
40%

17
97%

18
100%

19
100%

20
100%

21
100%

22
100%

23
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	39	37	40	35	35	34	29	24	21	–	–	–	–	–	–
Tue	41	40	40	41	41	39	33	33	20	–	–	–	–	–	–
Wed	33	33	39	35	31	32	25	22	19	–	–	–	–	–	–
Thu	39	42	41	39	40	36	30	28	19	–	–	–	–	–	–
Fri	37	38	36	34	33	31	26	23	18	–	–	–	–	–	–
Sat	41	43	40	37	34	30	28	23	15	7	–	–	–	–	–
Sun	36	37	36	33	29	25	22	18	14	–	–	–	–	–	–

Weather effect on waits

Average wait (minutes) in different weather conditions:

34m

Clear

33m

Cloudy

32m

Drizzle

34m

Partly Cloudy

18m

Rain

When this ride goes down

These rides spike in wait time when Orbitron® is reported DOWN:

Dumbo the Flying Elephant

+-5m (-18%)

Star Tours: The Adventures Continue*

+-6m (-43%)

What causes this ride to spike

Waits for Orbitron® go up the most when these rides are DOWN:

La Cabane des Robinson

+6m (19%)

Disneyland Railroad Main Street Station

+6m (16%)

Frontierland Playground

+6m (16%)

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DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	39	37	40	35	35	34	29	24	21	–	–	–	–	–	–
Tue	41	40	40	41	41	39	33	33	20	–	–	–	–	–	–
Wed	33	33	39	35	31	32	25	22	19	–	–	–	–	–	–
Thu	39	42	41	39	40	36	30	28	19	–	–	–	–	–	–
Fri	37	38	36	34	33	31	26	23	18	–	–	–	–	–	–
Sat	41	43	40	37	34	30	28	23	15	7	–	–	–	–	–
Sun	36	37	36	33	29	25	22	18	14	–	–	–	–	–	–

DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	39	37	40	35	35	34	29	24	21	–	–	–	–	–	–
Tue	41	40	40	41	41	39	33	33	20	–	–	–	–	–	–
Wed	33	33	39	35	31	32	25	22	19	–	–	–	–	–	–
Thu	39	42	41	39	40	36	30	28	19	–	–	–	–	–	–
Fri	37	38	36	34	33	31	26	23	18	–	–	–	–	–	–
Sat	41	43	40	37	34	30	28	23	15	7	–	–	–	–	–
Sun	36	37	36	33	29	25	22	18	14	–	–	–	–	–	–

DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	39	37	40	35	35	34	29	24	21	–	–	–	–	–	–
Tue	41	40	40	41	41	39	33	33	20	–	–	–	–	–	–
Wed	33	33	39	35	31	32	25	22	19	–	–	–	–	–	–
Thu	39	42	41	39	40	36	30	28	19	–	–	–	–	–	–
Fri	37	38	36	34	33	31	26	23	18	–	–	–	–	–	–
Sat	41	43	40	37	34	30	28	23	15	7	–	–	–	–	–
Sun	36	37	36	33	29	25	22	18	14	–	–	–	–	–	–