Monsters, Inc. Mike & Sulley to the Rescue! Reliability & Wait Patterns

Disney California Adventure · Based on 26893 wait-time samples

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

0.47
Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)
Highly volatile — wait times swing a lot over the course of a day.
30m
Typical (p50) wait
45m
Busy (p90) wait
65m
Worst-case (p99)
95m
Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

28m
Weekday average
27m
Weekend average
0.97×
Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

Actual downtime episodes recorded by our live status tracker — every time Monsters, Inc. Mike & Sulley to the Rescue! flipped to DOWN and came back. Observed data, not estimates.

111
Recorded breakdowns
24m
Typical (median) outage
1h 40m
Longest outage (2026-08-05)
8.6
Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

DateDown for
2026-10-1716m
2026-10-166m
2026-10-1632m
2026-10-1547m
2026-10-1420m
2026-10-1423m
2026-10-1218m
2026-10-121h 14m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 64 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
7%
1
4%
8
6%
9
4%
10
4%
11
5%
12
5%
13
4%
14
4%
15
3%
16
6%
17
4%
18
3%
19
4%
20
4%
21
3%
22
1%
23
6%

Best & worst hours by day of week

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

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Mon 6 16 33 37 37 37 37 39 39 45 42 36 25 17 –
Tue 6 10 22 30 33 29 25 34 40 39 25 23 22 17 12
Wed 6 20 34 38 40 34 37 36 37 41 39 38 27 17 –
Thu 5 10 20 29 30 29 27 34 37 39 26 24 18 15 11
Fri 5 8 21 27 31 30 29 31 32 33 31 31 25 18 –
Sat 5 12 29 36 34 34 35 36 34 37 38 36 26 14 –
Sun 5 10 26 31 27 28 27 35 40 39 24 23 18 16 14

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 · 695 ride-hours · within noise
-0m
Cloudy · 311 ride-hours · within noise

What causes this ride to spike

Waits for Monsters, Inc. Mike & Sulley to the Rescue! rise when these rides are DOWN, compared with the same hour on a normal day:

Soarin' Across America
+8m (27%)
Incredicoaster
+4m (14%)

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