How often does Rex’s Racer break down?

Over the last 90 days we recorded 54 real breakdown episodes for Rex’s Racer — about 4.2 per week, spread across 40 different days. These are observed status changes from live park data, not estimates.

How long is Rex’s Racer usually down when it breaks down?

The median recorded outage for Rex’s Racer lasted 12 minutes (average 26 minutes). The longest outage we observed in the last 90 days lasted 181 minutes, on 2026-08-01.

Rex’s Racer Reliability & Wait Patterns

Shanghai Disneyland · Based on 24828 wait-time samples

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

0.38

Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)

Moderately volatile — expect meaningful swings through the day.

60m

Typical (p50) wait

105m

Busy (p90) wait

135m

Worst-case (p99)

210m

Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

68m

Weekday average

59m

Weekend average

0.86×

Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

Actual downtime episodes recorded by our live status tracker — every time Rex’s Racer flipped to DOWN and came back. Observed data, not estimates.

Recorded breakdowns

12m

Typical (median) outage

3h 1m

Longest outage (2026-08-01)

4.2

Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

Date	Down for
2026-10-26	47m
2026-10-24	16m
2026-10-23	11m
2026-10-20	11m
2026-10-18	10m
2026-10-14	11m
2026-10-11	17m
2026-10-09	18m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 40 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.

8
2%

9
1%

10
0%

11
2%

12
2%

13
3%

14
4%

15
4%

16
4%

17
3%

18
3%

19
4%

20
5%

21
3%

22
10%

Best & worst hours by day of week

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

DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	16	40	60	64	70	73	79	74	88	82	78	67	51	29	–
Tue	21	56	71	80	79	90	90	90	95	96	89	77	56	34	–
Wed	13	48	66	72	74	82	79	80	91	89	86	72	53	36	–
Thu	14	44	70	70	74	77	79	80	93	89	80	69	50	36	–
Fri	18	51	70	68	73	73	76	80	84	88	78	68	50	34	–
Sat	17	44	64	62	65	66	68	65	76	76	68	56	37	22	–
Sun	10	42	64	69	66	66	71	77	82	80	68	58	43	26	–

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 · 302 ride-hours · within noise

+0m

Cloudy · 768 ride-hours · within noise

-5m

Light Rain · 68 ride-hours · clear signal

What causes this ride to spike

Waits for Rex’s Racer rise when these rides are DOWN, compared with the same hour on a normal day:

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+16m (21%)

Peter Pan’s Flight

+10m (16%)

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DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	16	40	60	64	70	73	79	74	88	82	78	67	51	29	–
Tue	21	56	71	80	79	90	90	90	95	96	89	77	56	34	–
Wed	13	48	66	72	74	82	79	80	91	89	86	72	53	36	–
Thu	14	44	70	70	74	77	79	80	93	89	80	69	50	36	–
Fri	18	51	70	68	73	73	76	80	84	88	78	68	50	34	–
Sat	17	44	64	62	65	66	68	65	76	76	68	56	37	22	–
Sun	10	42	64	69	66	66	71	77	82	80	68	58	43	26	–

DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	16	40	60	64	70	73	79	74	88	82	78	67	51	29	–
Tue	21	56	71	80	79	90	90	90	95	96	89	77	56	34	–
Wed	13	48	66	72	74	82	79	80	91	89	86	72	53	36	–
Thu	14	44	70	70	74	77	79	80	93	89	80	69	50	36	–
Fri	18	51	70	68	73	73	76	80	84	88	78	68	50	34	–
Sat	17	44	64	62	65	66	68	65	76	76	68	56	37	22	–
Sun	10	42	64	69	66	66	71	77	82	80	68	58	43	26	–

DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	16	40	60	64	70	73	79	74	88	82	78	67	51	29	–
Tue	21	56	71	80	79	90	90	90	95	96	89	77	56	34	–
Wed	13	48	66	72	74	82	79	80	91	89	86	72	53	36	–
Thu	14	44	70	70	74	77	79	80	93	89	80	69	50	36	–
Fri	18	51	70	68	73	73	76	80	84	88	78	68	50	34	–
Sat	17	44	64	62	65	66	68	65	76	76	68	56	37	22	–
Sun	10	42	64	69	66	66	71	77	82	80	68	58	43	26	–