Jessie's Critter Carousel Reliability & Wait Patterns

Disney California Adventure · Based on 15468 wait-time samples

0.52
Volatility Index (coefficient of variation)
Stable — waits stay close to the average throughout the day.
5m
Typical (p50) wait
15m
Busy (p90) wait
20m
Worst-case (p99)
20m
All-time max

Weekend vs Weekday

8m
Weekday average
6m
Weekend average
0.76×
Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

Actual downtime episodes recorded by our live status tracker — every time Jessie's Critter Carousel flipped to DOWN and came back. Observed data, not estimates.

139
Recorded breakdowns
35m
Typical (median) outage
1h 25m
Longest outage (2026-08-06)
10.8
Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

DateDown for
2026-09-1018m
2026-09-0925m
2026-09-0944m
2026-09-0938m
2026-09-0813m
2026-09-0811m
2026-09-086m
2026-09-065m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 82 different days in this window.

Downtime by hour

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

0
86%
1
99%
2
100%
3
100%
4
100%
5
100%
6
100%
7
100%
8
100%
9
100%
10
100%
11
5%
12
0%
13
0%
14
0%
15
0%
16
0%
17
2%
18
2%
19
0%
20
2%
21
1%
22
2%
23
23%

Best & worst hours by day of week

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

DOW8910111213141516171819202122
Mon 5 5 5 6 7 8 8 7 7 7 7 7
Tue 5 5 8 13 13 12 12 12 11 13 14 11
Wed 5 5 7 8 8 8 9 8 8 9 8 7
Thu 5 5 7 6 6 6 6 6 6 7 8 9
Fri 5 6 8 7 7 8 8 7 7 7 7 7
Sat 5 5 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 7 7
Sun 5 5 6 7 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6

Weather effect on waits

Average wait (minutes) in different weather conditions:

8m
Clear
6m
Cloudy
5m
Drizzle
7m
Partly Cloudy

When this ride goes down

These rides spike in wait time when Jessie's Critter Carousel is reported DOWN:

Guardians of the Galaxy - Mission: BREAKOUT!
+12m (12%)
Pixar Pal-A-Round – Non-Swinging
+7m (21%)

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