Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters Reliability & Wait Patterns

Disneyland Park · Based on 19145 wait-time samples

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

0.51
Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)
Highly volatile — wait times swing a lot over the course of a day.
15m
Typical (p50) wait
30m
Busy (p90) wait
40m
Worst-case (p99)
60m
Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

15m
Weekday average
14m
Weekend average
0.91×
Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

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

73
Recorded breakdowns
24m
Typical (median) outage
5h 45m
Longest outage (2026-07-25)
5.7
Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

DateDown for
2026-10-1510m
2026-10-1518m
2026-10-1417m
2026-10-1135m
2026-10-0911m
2026-10-0939m
2026-10-0822m
2026-10-032h 2m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 45 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.

0
4%
8
6%
9
3%
10
3%
11
2%
12
3%
13
3%
14
3%
15
3%
16
4%
17
5%
18
5%
19
3%
20
5%
21
4%
22
4%
23
4%

Best & worst hours by day of week

Average standby wait (minutes). Green = lowest of day, red = highest.

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Mon 5 7 15 22 22 22 22 22 22 23 21 19 16 12 13
Tue 5 8 14 21 21 20 20 19 20 23 24 25 20 11 9
Wed 5 5 10 15 15 15 15 14 14 12 14 13 12 8 6
Thu 5 7 13 18 18 19 19 18 19 20 22 24 20 10 8
Fri 5 6 11 17 15 14 13 13 12 14 15 18 19 13 11
Sat 5 6 14 19 20 18 18 17 16 16 18 18 18 10 10
Sun 5 6 11 15 16 15 12 15 15 14 19 18 14 7 7

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
Clear · 759 ride-hours · within noise
-0m
Cloudy · 325 ride-hours · within noise

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