Inside Out Emotional Whirlwind Reliability & Wait Patterns

Disney California Adventure · Based on 14584 wait-time samples

Data updated September 30, 2026 · refreshed weekly from the last 180 days

0.48
Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)
Highly volatile — wait times swing a lot over the course of a day.
10m
Typical (p50) wait
20m
Busy (p90) wait
30m
Worst-case (p99)
40m
Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

12m
Weekday average
10m
Weekend average
0.86×
Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

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

191
Recorded breakdowns
14m
Typical (median) outage
1h 55m
Longest outage (2026-07-18)
14.9
Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

DateDown for
2026-09-3018m
2026-09-3018m
2026-09-3012m
2026-09-2913m
2026-09-297m
2026-09-2913m
2026-09-2917m
2026-09-2713m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 79 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
0%
8
7%
9
7%
10
7%
11
7%
12
4%
13
3%
14
5%
15
3%
16
4%
17
5%
18
4%
19
4%
20
4%
21
4%
22
0%
23
0%

Best & worst hours by day of week

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

DOW8910111213141516171819202122
Mon 5 5 8 12 14 15 14 13 14 18 17 18 14 8 –
Tue 5 5 6 11 11 11 11 10 12 16 16 14 13 8 7
Wed 5 5 10 13 15 14 14 13 14 15 17 19 19 12 –
Thu 5 5 7 11 13 13 13 13 15 17 14 14 12 8 5
Fri 5 5 6 10 11 10 10 11 11 12 13 14 16 10 –
Sat 5 5 6 9 10 11 10 9 11 14 14 15 14 8 –
Sun 5 5 6 8 9 9 10 10 13 14 16 13 11 7 6

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 · 572 ride-hours · within noise
-0m
Cloudy · 276 ride-hours · within noise

When this ride goes down

These rides get busier when Inside Out Emotional Whirlwind is reported DOWN, compared with the same hour on a normal day:

Pixar Pal-A-Round – Non-Swinging
+3m (21%)

What causes this ride to spike

Waits for Inside Out Emotional Whirlwind rise when these rides are DOWN, compared with the same hour on a normal day:

Pixar Pal-A-Round - Swinging
+5m (38%)

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