How often does Fairy Tinker Bell's Busy Buggies break down?

Over the last 90 days we recorded 110 real breakdown episodes for Fairy Tinker Bell's Busy Buggies — about 8.6 per week, spread across 78 different days. These are observed status changes from live park data, not estimates.

How long is Fairy Tinker Bell's Busy Buggies usually down when it breaks down?

The median recorded outage for Fairy Tinker Bell's Busy Buggies lasted 20 minutes (average 32 minutes). The longest outage we observed in the last 90 days lasted 375 minutes, on 2026-09-21.

Fairy Tinker Bell's Busy Buggies Reliability & Wait Patterns

Tokyo DisneySea · Based on 24296 wait-time samples

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

0.29

Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)

Stable — waits stay close to the day's average.

40m

Typical (p50) wait

50m

Busy (p90) wait

70m

Worst-case (p99)

90m

Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

35m

Weekday average

36m

Weekend average

1.02×

Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

Actual downtime episodes recorded by our live status tracker — every time Fairy Tinker Bell's Busy Buggies flipped to DOWN and came back. Observed data, not estimates.

110

Recorded breakdowns

20m

Typical (median) outage

6h 15m

Longest outage (2026-09-21)

8.6

Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

Date	Down for
2026-10-16	11m
2026-10-16	9m
2026-10-15	28m
2026-10-15	56m
2026-10-14	20m
2026-10-14	16m
2026-10-13	29m
2026-10-12	24m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 78 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
4%

10
2%

11
1%

12
1%

13
1%

14
1%

15
2%

16
1%

17
2%

18
3%

19
3%

20
13%

21
30%

22
33%

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	–	26	47	42	40	39	38	39	40	38	35	30	20	–	–
Tue	–	22	44	41	38	37	38	37	37	38	36	29	20	–	–
Wed	–	25	44	37	36	35	38	36	37	34	33	28	19	–	–
Thu	–	26	46	40	39	38	39	40	38	36	35	31	21	–	–
Fri	–	22	43	37	35	36	37	36	35	35	36	24	21	17	–
Sat	–	30	45	40	37	39	41	38	37	39	36	30	24	–	–
Sun	–	25	43	39	37	38	39	37	37	35	33	27	20	–	–

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 · 485 ride-hours · within noise

+0m

Clear · 133 ride-hours · within noise

-1m

Light Rain · 46 ride-hours · within noise

-2m

Heavy Rain · 61 ride-hours · within noise

What causes this ride to spike

Waits for Fairy Tinker Bell's Busy Buggies rise when these rides are DOWN, compared with the same hour on a normal day:

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+8m (19%)

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+4m (11%)

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+3m (8%)

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DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	–	26	47	42	40	39	38	39	40	38	35	30	20	–	–
Tue	–	22	44	41	38	37	38	37	37	38	36	29	20	–	–
Wed	–	25	44	37	36	35	38	36	37	34	33	28	19	–	–
Thu	–	26	46	40	39	38	39	40	38	36	35	31	21	–	–
Fri	–	22	43	37	35	36	37	36	35	35	36	24	21	17	–
Sat	–	30	45	40	37	39	41	38	37	39	36	30	24	–	–
Sun	–	25	43	39	37	38	39	37	37	35	33	27	20	–	–

DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	–	26	47	42	40	39	38	39	40	38	35	30	20	–	–
Tue	–	22	44	41	38	37	38	37	37	38	36	29	20	–	–
Wed	–	25	44	37	36	35	38	36	37	34	33	28	19	–	–
Thu	–	26	46	40	39	38	39	40	38	36	35	31	21	–	–
Fri	–	22	43	37	35	36	37	36	35	35	36	24	21	17	–
Sat	–	30	45	40	37	39	41	38	37	39	36	30	24	–	–
Sun	–	25	43	39	37	38	39	37	37	35	33	27	20	–	–

DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	–	26	47	42	40	39	38	39	40	38	35	30	20	–	–
Tue	–	22	44	41	38	37	38	37	37	38	36	29	20	–	–
Wed	–	25	44	37	36	35	38	36	37	34	33	28	19	–	–
Thu	–	26	46	40	39	38	39	40	38	36	35	31	21	–	–
Fri	–	22	43	37	35	36	37	36	35	35	36	24	21	17	–
Sat	–	30	45	40	37	39	41	38	37	39	36	30	24	–	–
Sun	–	25	43	39	37	38	39	37	37	35	33	27	20	–	–