Slinky Dog Spin Reliability & Wait Patterns

Shanghai Disneyland · Based on 28719 wait-time samples

0.73
Volatility Index (coefficient of variation)
Moderately volatile — expect meaningful hourly swings.
10m
Typical (p50) wait
40m
Busy (p90) wait
50m
Worst-case (p99)
60m
All-time max

Weekend vs Weekday

18m
Weekday average
20m
Weekend average
1.13×
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.

50
Recorded breakdowns
36m
Typical (median) outage
5h 26m
Longest outage (2026-07-18)
3.9
Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

DateDown for
2026-08-3055m
2026-08-297m
2026-08-268m
2026-08-247m
2026-08-2047m
2026-08-197m
2026-08-141h 3m
2026-08-1427m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 33 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
1%
4
1%
5
0%
6
1%
7
6%
8
24%
9
46%
10
80%
11
83%
12
84%
13
83%
14
84%
15
83%
16
82%
17
82%
18
90%
19
88%
20
24%
21
5%
22
4%
23
3%

Best & worst hours by day of week

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

DOW8910111213141516171819202122
Mon 13 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 5 6 11 21
Tue 10 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 6 5 12 29
Wed 17 12 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 8 7 8 13
Thu 15 13 13 11 11 11 10 11 10 10 10 8 6 16 25
Fri 20 12 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 11 10 7 9 21 31
Sat 18 17 16 16 15 16 16 17 16 16 15 10 7 16 27
Sun 11 10 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 8 6 6 13 27

Weather effect on waits

Average wait (minutes) in different weather conditions:

23m
Clear
18m
Cloudy
14m
Drizzle
19m
Partly Cloudy
12m
Rain

When this ride goes down

These rides spike in wait time when Slinky Dog Spin is reported DOWN:

Roaring Rapids
+7m (25%)
Woody’s Roundup
+7m (20%)

What causes this ride to spike

Waits for Slinky Dog Spin go up the most when these rides are DOWN:

Siren's Revenge
+18m (72%)
Roaring Rapids
+10m (43%)
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
+6m (25%)

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