Buzz Lightyear Planet Rescue Reliability & Wait Patterns

Shanghai Disneyland · Based on 25938 wait-time samples

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

0.52
Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)
Highly volatile — wait times swing a lot over the course of a day.
5m
Typical (p50) wait
20m
Busy (p90) wait
30m
Worst-case (p99)
60m
Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

9m
Weekday average
9m
Weekend average
0.97×
Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

Actual downtime episodes recorded by our live status tracker — every time Buzz Lightyear Planet Rescue flipped to DOWN and came back. Observed data, not estimates.

8
Recorded breakdowns
24m
Typical (median) outage
51m
Longest outage (2026-08-23)
0.6
Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

DateDown for
2026-10-1728m
2026-09-2318m
2026-09-1822m
2026-09-0519m
2026-08-2351m
2026-08-0134m
2026-07-2826m
2026-07-2110m

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

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0%
1
0%
3
0%
5
0%
8
1%
9
1%
10
0%
11
0%
12
0%
13
0%
14
1%
15
0%
16
1%
17
0%
18
0%
19
0%
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 5 8 9 9 13 12 11 15 12 10 9 7 6 –
Tue 5 5 8 12 8 13 15 12 13 12 12 8 6 6 –
Wed 5 5 6 7 7 9 10 12 12 10 8 8 6 6 –
Thu 5 5 6 8 8 9 12 13 12 11 10 6 5 5 –
Fri 5 5 7 8 8 11 14 14 14 11 12 9 9 7 6
Sat 5 5 6 7 7 8 13 15 14 11 10 8 6 5 5
Sun 5 5 7 8 8 10 14 17 15 10 9 6 5 5 –

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 · 272 ride-hours · within noise
0m
Cloudy · 622 ride-hours · within noise
-2m
Light Rain · 52 ride-hours · clear signal

What causes this ride to spike

Waits for Buzz Lightyear Planet Rescue rise when these rides are DOWN, compared with the same hour on a normal day:

TRON Lightcycle Power Run – Presented by Chevrolet
+4m (36%)

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