Buzz Lightyear Planet Rescue Reliability & Wait Patterns

Shanghai Disneyland · Based on 28718 wait-time samples

0.94
Volatility Index (coefficient of variation)
Moderately volatile — expect meaningful hourly swings.
5m
Typical (p50) wait
10m
Busy (p90) wait
40m
Worst-case (p99)
105m
All-time max

Weekend vs Weekday

7m
Weekday average
7m
Weekend average
1.02×
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.

7
Recorded breakdowns
30m
Typical (median) outage
55m
Longest outage (2026-06-24)
0.5
Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

DateDown for
2026-08-2351m
2026-08-0134m
2026-07-2826m
2026-07-2110m
2026-06-2455m
2026-06-1713m
2026-06-1230m

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

Rate of DOWN/CLOSED status per hour of the day (ET).

0
5%
1
3%
2
3%
3
2%
4
1%
5
0%
6
0%
7
6%
8
22%
9
46%
10
79%
11
83%
12
84%
13
83%
14
84%
15
83%
16
82%
17
82%
18
90%
19
88%
20
22%
21
3%
22
3%
23
3%

Best & worst hours by day of week

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

DOW8910111213141516171819202122
Mon 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
Tue 6 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 6
Wed 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
Thu 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 8
Fri 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 8
Sat 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 8
Sun 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 6

Weather effect on waits

Average wait (minutes) in different weather conditions:

8m
Clear
7m
Cloudy
7m
Drizzle
7m
Partly Cloudy
11m
Rain

What causes this ride to spike

Waits for Buzz Lightyear Planet Rescue go up the most when these rides are DOWN:

Siren's Revenge
+11m (125%)

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