Blowfish Balloon Race Reliability & Wait Patterns

Tokyo DisneySea · Based on 24110 wait-time samples

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

0.47
Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)
Highly volatile — wait times swing a lot over the course of a day.
25m
Typical (p50) wait
40m
Busy (p90) wait
50m
Worst-case (p99)
70m
Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

23m
Weekday average
22m
Weekend average
0.94×
Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

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

10
Recorded breakdowns
8m
Typical (median) outage
58m
Longest outage (2026-08-05)
0.8
Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

DateDown for
2026-09-255m
2026-09-2518m
2026-09-227m
2026-09-136m
2026-08-216m
2026-08-2114m
2026-08-1153m
2026-08-107m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 8 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
0%
13
0%
14
0%
15
0%
16
0%
17
0%
18
1%
19
0%
20
0%
21
3%
22
13%

Best & worst hours by day of week

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

DOW8910111213141516171819202122
Mon – 7 24 30 32 34 34 32 31 24 20 15 7 – –
Tue – 6 22 28 30 30 32 34 30 24 20 14 8 – –
Wed – 6 23 29 29 31 32 31 30 25 20 13 7 – –
Thu – 6 23 29 30 32 34 35 34 26 22 16 7 – –
Fri – 6 18 24 27 28 28 28 25 20 18 13 7 5 –
Sat – 7 22 24 25 27 29 31 28 25 20 15 7 – –
Sun – 6 21 24 26 30 30 29 28 22 19 15 7 – –

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 · 490 ride-hours · within noise
-0m
Clear · 138 ride-hours · within noise
+1m
Light Rain · 46 ride-hours · within noise
+2m
Heavy Rain · 65 ride-hours · clear signal

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