Turtle Talk Reliability & Wait Patterns

Tokyo DisneySea · Based on 24589 wait-time samples

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

0.31
Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)
Moderately volatile — expect meaningful swings through the day.
20m
Typical (p50) wait
40m
Busy (p90) wait
50m
Worst-case (p99)
90m
Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

19m
Weekday average
21m
Weekend average
1.09×
Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

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

6
Recorded breakdowns
24m
Typical (median) outage
30m
Longest outage (2026-09-27)
0.5
Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

DateDown for
2026-09-2730m
2026-09-2517m
2026-09-2524m
2026-08-2129m
2026-08-077m
2026-07-3125m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 5 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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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
0%

Best & worst hours by day of week

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

DOW8910111213141516171819202122
Mon – 16 26 21 20 20 22 24 23 18 19 17 17 – –
Tue – 16 22 19 19 19 19 20 20 19 19 17 16 – –
Wed – 16 22 18 18 18 19 19 20 18 18 17 16 – –
Thu – 16 21 18 18 19 19 22 22 19 18 17 16 – –
Fri – 16 20 18 19 18 19 20 20 19 18 16 18 – –
Sat – 16 23 19 18 20 21 26 25 22 20 17 16 – –
Sun – 17 24 21 20 21 22 25 25 22 21 18 17 – –

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 · 486 ride-hours · within noise
0m
Clear · 136 ride-hours · within noise
-2m
Light Rain · 46 ride-hours · clear signal
+0m
Heavy Rain · 65 ride-hours · within noise

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