How often does The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror break down?

Over the last 90 days we recorded 13 real breakdown episodes for The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror — about 1.0 per week, spread across 11 different days. These are observed status changes from live park data, not estimates.

How long is The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror usually down when it breaks down?

The median recorded outage for The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror lasted 34 minutes (average 39 minutes). The longest outage we observed in the last 90 days lasted 148 minutes, on 2026-08-16.

The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror Reliability & Wait Patterns

Disney Adventure World · Based on 27003 wait-time samples

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

0.47

Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)

Highly volatile — wait times swing a lot over the course of a day.

30m

Typical (p50) wait

55m

Busy (p90) wait

90m

Worst-case (p99)

300m

Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

33m

Weekday average

34m

Weekend average

1.02×

Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

Actual downtime episodes recorded by our live status tracker — every time The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror flipped to DOWN and came back. Observed data, not estimates.

Recorded breakdowns

34m

Typical (median) outage

2h 28m

Longest outage (2026-08-16)

1.0

Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

Date	Down for
2026-10-13	1h 7m
2026-10-07	12m
2026-09-29	36m
2026-09-25	6m
2026-09-19	22m
2026-08-20	6m
2026-08-16	53m
2026-08-16	2h 28m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 11 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.

8
2%

9
1%

10
1%

11
1%

12
1%

13
1%

14
1%

15
0%

16
0%

17
0%

18
0%

19
0%

20
0%

21
0%

22
1%

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	10	25	40	46	43	40	42	36	35	32	32	29	28	16	13
Tue	9	21	41	56	48	45	46	45	40	38	40	40	27	20	12
Wed	15	23	38	47	38	36	37	33	34	30	27	27	20	15	11
Thu	11	19	41	52	44	39	38	38	40	36	36	31	26	20	12
Fri	8	18	38	45	37	34	30	33	33	33	26	26	24	15	16
Sat	10	19	32	45	39	35	38	37	36	31	32	36	30	19	14
Sun	7	21	44	54	48	44	44	45	40	39	35	32	28	17	11

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.

+0m

Cloudy · 636 ride-hours · within noise

-1m

Clear · 307 ride-hours · within noise

-0m

Light Rain · 21 ride-hours · within noise

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DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	10	25	40	46	43	40	42	36	35	32	32	29	28	16	13
Tue	9	21	41	56	48	45	46	45	40	38	40	40	27	20	12
Wed	15	23	38	47	38	36	37	33	34	30	27	27	20	15	11
Thu	11	19	41	52	44	39	38	38	40	36	36	31	26	20	12
Fri	8	18	38	45	37	34	30	33	33	33	26	26	24	15	16
Sat	10	19	32	45	39	35	38	37	36	31	32	36	30	19	14
Sun	7	21	44	54	48	44	44	45	40	39	35	32	28	17	11

DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	10	25	40	46	43	40	42	36	35	32	32	29	28	16	13
Tue	9	21	41	56	48	45	46	45	40	38	40	40	27	20	12
Wed	15	23	38	47	38	36	37	33	34	30	27	27	20	15	11
Thu	11	19	41	52	44	39	38	38	40	36	36	31	26	20	12
Fri	8	18	38	45	37	34	30	33	33	33	26	26	24	15	16
Sat	10	19	32	45	39	35	38	37	36	31	32	36	30	19	14
Sun	7	21	44	54	48	44	44	45	40	39	35	32	28	17	11

DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	10	25	40	46	43	40	42	36	35	32	32	29	28	16	13
Tue	9	21	41	56	48	45	46	45	40	38	40	40	27	20	12
Wed	15	23	38	47	38	36	37	33	34	30	27	27	20	15	11
Thu	11	19	41	52	44	39	38	38	40	36	36	31	26	20	12
Fri	8	18	38	45	37	34	30	33	33	33	26	26	24	15	16
Sat	10	19	32	45	39	35	38	37	36	31	32	36	30	19	14
Sun	7	21	44	54	48	44	44	45	40	39	35	32	28	17	11