Pixar Pal-A-Round - Swinging Reliability & Wait Patterns

Disney California Adventure · Based on 23453 wait-time samples

Data updated October 26, 2026 · refreshed weekly from the last 180 days

0.46
Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)
Highly volatile — wait times swing a lot over the course of a day.
20m
Typical (p50) wait
40m
Busy (p90) wait
60m
Worst-case (p99)
90m
Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

17m
Weekday average
16m
Weekend average
0.93×
Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

Actual downtime episodes recorded by our live status tracker — every time Pixar Pal-A-Round - Swinging flipped to DOWN and came back. Observed data, not estimates.

26
Recorded breakdowns
24m
Typical (median) outage
3h 19m
Longest outage (2026-08-09)
2.0
Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

DateDown for
2026-10-2537m
2026-10-241h 8m
2026-10-241h 24m
2026-10-202h 34m
2026-10-0518m
2026-10-0125m
2026-09-2523m
2026-09-2426m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 20 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%
1
0%
8
4%
9
2%
10
1%
11
1%
12
2%
13
2%
14
1%
15
0%
16
0%
17
1%
18
2%
19
2%
20
1%
21
0%
22
0%
23
0%

Best & worst hours by day of week

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

DOW8910111213141516171819202122
Mon 5 9 17 20 24 25 25 24 24 29 30 31 – – –
Tue 5 6 13 18 18 16 17 18 21 24 18 15 11 10 8
Wed 5 9 19 23 24 23 23 22 24 27 30 31 – – –
Thu 5 6 11 17 18 18 17 17 21 20 20 14 10 9 7
Fri 5 6 12 17 19 18 17 17 18 19 22 27 – – –
Sat 5 7 16 22 23 26 26 23 23 24 25 31 – – –
Sun 5 5 11 13 16 16 15 16 21 23 16 10 7 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 · 748 ride-hours · within noise
-0m
Cloudy · 346 ride-hours · within noise

What causes this ride to spike

Waits for Pixar Pal-A-Round - Swinging rise when these rides are DOWN, compared with the same hour on a normal day:

Incredicoaster
+5m (23%)
Toy Story Midway Mania!
+4m (22%)

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