Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run Reliability & Wait Patterns

Disneyland Park · Based on 30156 wait-time samples

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

0.55
Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)
Highly volatile — wait times swing a lot over the course of a day.
15m
Typical (p50) wait
45m
Busy (p90) wait
65m
Worst-case (p99)
145m
Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

17m
Weekday average
15m
Weekend average
0.93×
Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

Actual downtime episodes recorded by our live status tracker — every time Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run flipped to DOWN and came back. Observed data, not estimates.

8
Recorded breakdowns
22m
Typical (median) outage
1h 1m
Longest outage (2026-09-07)
0.6
Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

DateDown for
2026-09-071h 1m
2026-08-246m
2026-08-1833m
2026-08-1224m
2026-08-1018m
2026-08-107m
2026-08-0833m
2026-07-2720m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 7 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
2%
9
0%
10
0%
11
0%
12
1%
13
0%
14
0%
15
1%
16
0%
17
1%
18
0%
19
0%
20
0%
21
1%
22
1%
23
0%

Best & worst hours by day of week

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

DOW8910111213141516171819202122
Mon 8 13 22 25 29 24 27 27 27 26 26 22 19 17 21
Tue 8 13 19 22 22 25 22 25 21 21 22 29 24 20 21
Wed 6 7 10 15 16 15 14 19 15 12 12 12 10 12 15
Thu 8 13 18 20 22 18 19 19 21 17 19 21 16 11 11
Fri 7 7 10 13 13 12 12 11 10 10 11 10 11 12 20
Sat 7 11 14 20 20 21 19 18 17 18 16 15 17 14 16
Sun 8 9 11 14 15 14 15 14 15 16 17 19 21 16 16

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 · 771 ride-hours · within noise
-0m
Cloudy · 328 ride-hours · within noise

What causes this ride to spike

Waits for Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run rise when these rides are DOWN, compared with the same hour on a normal day:

Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance
+6m (26%)

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