“Once Upon a Time” Adventure Reliability & Wait Patterns

Shanghai Disneyland · Based on 25037 wait-time samples

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

0.34
Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)
Moderately volatile — expect meaningful swings through the day.
5m
Typical (p50) wait
20m
Busy (p90) wait
30m
Worst-case (p99)
130m
Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

11m
Weekday average
10m
Weekend average
0.93×
Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

Actual downtime episodes recorded by our live status tracker — every time “Once Upon a Time” Adventure flipped to DOWN and came back. Observed data, not estimates.

4
Recorded breakdowns
60m
Typical (median) outage
1h 34m
Longest outage (2026-10-15)
0.3
Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

DateDown for
2026-10-151h 34m
2026-10-151h 3m
2026-10-126m
2026-08-2358m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 3 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%
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0%
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0%
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0%
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0%
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0%
12
1%
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0%
14
0%
15
0%
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0%
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0%
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0%
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0%
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0%
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23
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Best & worst hours by day of week

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

DOW8910111213141516171819202122
Mon 5 6 8 9 8 10 12 13 12 13 14 15 11 10 –
Tue 5 6 11 12 8 12 14 12 14 15 15 14 8 6 –
Wed 5 5 9 11 8 10 10 12 12 13 14 13 10 7 –
Thu 5 6 9 12 9 10 14 13 12 14 13 11 8 6 –
Fri 5 6 11 11 10 11 12 17 17 14 16 13 10 8 –
Sat 5 6 10 8 8 8 10 13 13 11 13 12 10 6 –
Sun 5 5 10 10 7 9 12 14 13 12 12 12 9 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 · 259 ride-hours · within noise
0m
Cloudy · 590 ride-hours · within noise
-2m
Light Rain · 50 ride-hours · clear signal

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