Slinky Dog Spin Reliability & Wait Patterns

Hong Kong Disneyland · Based on 17293 wait-time samples

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

0.37
Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)
Moderately volatile — expect meaningful swings through the day.
20m
Typical (p50) wait
30m
Busy (p90) wait
50m
Worst-case (p99)
70m
Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

20m
Weekday average
23m
Weekend average
1.15×
Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

Actual downtime episodes recorded by our live status tracker — every time Slinky Dog Spin flipped to DOWN and came back. Observed data, not estimates.

10
Recorded breakdowns
74m
Typical (median) outage
2h 30m
Longest outage (2026-07-31)
0.8
Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

DateDown for
2026-08-261h 8m
2026-08-1758m
2026-08-141h 14m
2026-08-081h 35m
2026-08-081h 20m
2026-08-0333m
2026-07-312h 30m
2026-07-2517m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 9 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.

10
1%
11
1%
12
2%
13
3%
14
2%
15
2%
16
1%
17
2%
18
2%
19
1%
20
3%
21
0%

Best & worst hours by day of week

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

DOW8910111213141516171819202122
Mon – – – 11 20 19 23 26 29 22 21 19 18 – –
Tue – – – 13 21 21 22 29 27 20 20 17 15 – –
Wed – – – 15 16 14 14 21 23 17 15 14 12 – –
Thu – – – 11 18 17 17 22 27 19 20 17 16 – –
Fri – – – 13 18 17 18 25 25 22 22 20 16 – –
Sat – – – 13 21 17 22 34 33 29 26 20 14 – –
Sun – – – 13 18 20 25 30 28 25 21 17 11 – –

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
Light Rain · 41 ride-hours · within noise
0m
Cloudy · 320 ride-hours · within noise
-0m
Clear · 220 ride-hours · within noise

What causes this ride to spike

Waits for Slinky Dog Spin rise when these rides are DOWN, compared with the same hour on a normal day:

Mystic Manor
+4m (20%)

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