Big City Vehicles Reliability & Wait Patterns

Tokyo DisneySea · Based on 11585 wait-time samples

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

0.36
Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)
Moderately volatile — expect meaningful swings through the day.
5m
Typical (p50) wait
10m
Busy (p90) wait
20m
Worst-case (p99)
40m
Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

7m
Weekday average
7m
Weekend average
1.03×
Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

Actual downtime episodes recorded by our live status tracker — every time Big City Vehicles flipped to DOWN and came back. Observed data, not estimates.

146
Recorded breakdowns
44m
Typical (median) outage
5h 55m
Longest outage (2026-09-21)
11.4
Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

DateDown for
2026-10-1737m
2026-10-1748m
2026-10-1742m
2026-10-1630m
2026-10-161h 24m
2026-10-1628m
2026-10-1522m
2026-10-1539m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 73 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.

6
0%
7
0%
8
0%
9
0%
10
0%
11
0%
12
6%
13
6%
14
15%
15
6%
16
7%
17
34%
18
40%
19
35%
20
18%
21
4%

Best & worst hours by day of week

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

DOW8910111213141516171819202122
Mon – – – 5 5 5 – 7 10 7 8 8 5 – –
Tue – – – – – – – 6 7 6 6 6 5 – –
Wed – – – 5 – – – 5 7 6 6 6 5 – –
Thu – – – 5 – – – 6 9 8 8 9 7 – –
Fri – – – – – – – 6 8 7 7 8 6 – –
Sat – – – 5 – – – 6 9 6 6 6 5 – –
Sun – – – – – – – 7 10 7 6 7 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
Cloudy · 169 ride-hours · within noise
-0m
Clear · 27 ride-hours · within noise

When this ride goes down

These rides get busier when Big City Vehicles is reported DOWN, compared with the same hour on a normal day:

Anna and Elsa's Frozen Journey
+9m (7%)
Tower of Terror
+7m (8%)
Aquatopia
+6m (17%)
Raging Spirits
+6m (9%)
Soaring: Fantastic Flight
+6m (5%)
Jasmine's Flying Carpets
+4m (24%)

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