How often does Tower of Terror break down?

Over the last 90 days we recorded 2 real breakdown episodes for Tower of Terror — about 0.2 per week, spread across 2 different days. These are observed status changes from live park data, not estimates.

How long is Tower of Terror usually down when it breaks down?

The median recorded outage for Tower of Terror lasted 26 minutes (average 26 minutes). The longest outage we observed in the last 90 days lasted 35 minutes, on 2026-07-31.

Tower of Terror Reliability & Wait Patterns

Tokyo DisneySea · Based on 22342 wait-time samples

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

0.28

Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)

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

80m

Typical (p50) wait

140m

Busy (p90) wait

180m

Worst-case (p99)

220m

Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

87m

Weekday average

72m

Weekend average

0.82×

Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

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

Recorded breakdowns

26m

Typical (median) outage

35m

Longest outage (2026-07-31)

0.2

Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

Date	Down for
2026-07-31	35m
2026-07-26	17m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 2 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.

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9
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10
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11
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12
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13
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14
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15
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20
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21
1%

22
15%

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	–	74	113	102	94	94	93	98	102	98	93	75	38	–	–
Tue	–	68	102	97	90	93	87	94	99	96	100	81	48	–	–
Wed	–	70	107	94	86	90	90	102	106	96	98	79	56	–	–
Thu	–	75	117	104	101	93	102	105	114	122	116	86	53	–	–
Fri	–	52	88	72	61	64	63	67	67	65	77	54	24	13	–
Sat	–	71	107	79	65	65	67	78	77	73	78	66	44	–	–
Sun	–	64	90	72	62	61	67	76	79	75	72	63	40	–	–

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 · 394 ride-hours · within noise

+0m

Clear · 78 ride-hours · within noise

-3m

Light Rain · 28 ride-hours · within noise

-2m

Heavy Rain · 55 ride-hours · within noise

What causes this ride to spike

Waits for Tower of Terror rise when these rides are DOWN, compared with the same hour on a normal day:

Big City Vehicles

+7m (8%)

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DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	–	74	113	102	94	94	93	98	102	98	93	75	38	–	–
Tue	–	68	102	97	90	93	87	94	99	96	100	81	48	–	–
Wed	–	70	107	94	86	90	90	102	106	96	98	79	56	–	–
Thu	–	75	117	104	101	93	102	105	114	122	116	86	53	–	–
Fri	–	52	88	72	61	64	63	67	67	65	77	54	24	13	–
Sat	–	71	107	79	65	65	67	78	77	73	78	66	44	–	–
Sun	–	64	90	72	62	61	67	76	79	75	72	63	40	–	–

DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	–	74	113	102	94	94	93	98	102	98	93	75	38	–	–
Tue	–	68	102	97	90	93	87	94	99	96	100	81	48	–	–
Wed	–	70	107	94	86	90	90	102	106	96	98	79	56	–	–
Thu	–	75	117	104	101	93	102	105	114	122	116	86	53	–	–
Fri	–	52	88	72	61	64	63	67	67	65	77	54	24	13	–
Sat	–	71	107	79	65	65	67	78	77	73	78	66	44	–	–
Sun	–	64	90	72	62	61	67	76	79	75	72	63	40	–	–

DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	–	74	113	102	94	94	93	98	102	98	93	75	38	–	–
Tue	–	68	102	97	90	93	87	94	99	96	100	81	48	–	–
Wed	–	70	107	94	86	90	90	102	106	96	98	79	56	–	–
Thu	–	75	117	104	101	93	102	105	114	122	116	86	53	–	–
Fri	–	52	88	72	61	64	63	67	67	65	77	54	24	13	–
Sat	–	71	107	79	65	65	67	78	77	73	78	66	44	–	–
Sun	–	64	90	72	62	61	67	76	79	75	72	63	40	–	–