Dumbo the Flying Elephant Reliability & Wait Patterns
Disneyland Park · Based on 18424 wait-time samples
Weekend vs Weekday
Real breakdown history (last 90 days)
Actual downtime episodes recorded by our live status tracker — every time Dumbo the Flying Elephant flipped to DOWN and came back. Observed data, not estimates.
Most recent outages
| Date | Down for |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-31 | 7m |
| 2026-08-30 | 7m |
| 2026-08-30 | 13m |
| 2026-08-29 | 8m |
| 2026-08-29 | 7m |
| 2026-08-24 | 6m |
| 2026-08-23 | 5m |
| 2026-08-22 | 14m |
Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 81 different days in this window.
Downtime by hour
Rate of DOWN/CLOSED status per hour of the day (ET).
12%
2%
74%
96%
100%
100%
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100%
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100%
6%
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1%
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1%
0%
1%
1%
0%
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0%
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 | – | – | – | 15 | 25 | 34 | 36 | 36 | 30 | 33 | 29 | 29 | 29 | 28 | 31 |
| Tue | – | – | – | 19 | 27 | 32 | 40 | 35 | 33 | 35 | 30 | 27 | 29 | 31 | 28 |
| Wed | – | – | – | 17 | 26 | 35 | 35 | 32 | 33 | 28 | 30 | 28 | 30 | 32 | 28 |
| Thu | – | – | – | 15 | 27 | 33 | 34 | 32 | 31 | 26 | 25 | 27 | 28 | 28 | 26 |
| Fri | – | – | – | 15 | 25 | 30 | 31 | 29 | 27 | 25 | 24 | 23 | 28 | 26 | 26 |
| Sat | – | – | – | 14 | 23 | 29 | 36 | 31 | 32 | 23 | 24 | 24 | 23 | 28 | 26 |
| Sun | – | – | – | 15 | 22 | 28 | 29 | 24 | 22 | 21 | 23 | 23 | 23 | 20 | 18 |
Weather effect on waits
Average wait (minutes) in different weather conditions:
When this ride goes down
These rides spike in wait time when Dumbo the Flying Elephant is reported DOWN:
What causes this ride to spike
Waits for Dumbo the Flying Elephant go up the most when these rides are DOWN:
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