Slinky Dog Spin Reliability & Wait Patterns

Shanghai Disneyland · Based on 25325 wait-time samples

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

0.44
Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)
Moderately volatile — expect meaningful swings through the day.
30m
Typical (p50) wait
40m
Busy (p90) wait
50m
Worst-case (p99)
90m
Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

22m
Weekday average
21m
Weekend average
0.98×
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.

52
Recorded breakdowns
16m
Typical (median) outage
3h 1m
Longest outage (2026-08-01)
4.0
Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

DateDown for
2026-10-1516m
2026-10-1435m
2026-10-1018m
2026-10-097m
2026-10-0720m
2026-10-0312m
2026-09-306m
2026-09-2812m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 37 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.

0
0%
1
0%
3
0%
5
0%
8
2%
9
1%
10
1%
11
1%
12
2%
13
3%
14
4%
15
3%
16
3%
17
3%
18
3%
19
3%
20
5%
21
3%
22
7%
23
0%

Best & worst hours by day of week

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

DOW8910111213141516171819202122
Mon 5 12 21 23 21 22 22 23 26 26 28 25 20 9 –
Tue 5 15 27 29 25 29 29 26 28 31 29 26 22 10 –
Wed 5 10 25 25 21 21 20 22 24 25 26 22 16 11 –
Thu 5 11 24 21 20 20 24 22 28 27 27 25 17 9 –
Fri 5 12 25 26 21 21 24 25 29 28 30 28 22 13 15
Sat 5 10 21 20 20 20 25 20 27 26 27 24 18 10 –
Sun 5 12 26 27 23 22 26 28 31 30 26 24 17 12 –

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 · 269 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 Slinky Dog Spin rise when these rides are DOWN, compared with the same hour on a normal day:

TRON Lightcycle Power Run – Presented by Chevrolet
+4m (14%)

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