Alien Swirling Saucers Reliability & Wait Patterns

Hollywood Studios · Toy Story Land · Based on 26272 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
60m
Worst-case (p99)
90m
Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

24m
Weekday average
24m
Weekend average
1.02×
Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

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

18
Recorded breakdowns
8m
Typical (median) outage
1h 53m
Longest outage (2026-09-25)
1.4
Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

DateDown for
2026-10-086m
2026-09-286m
2026-09-251h 53m
2026-09-238m
2026-09-2128m
2026-09-2113m
2026-09-218m
2026-09-197m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 15 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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1%
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1%
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0%
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0%

Best & worst hours by day of week

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

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Mon 10 17 27 33 34 30 32 25 22 22 21 23 16 8 –
Tue 9 19 30 34 36 32 30 26 23 22 25 28 18 8 –
Wed 9 18 26 31 32 29 26 21 17 17 18 18 13 6 6
Thu 7 14 26 31 32 30 27 24 24 23 23 23 16 10 –
Fri 7 17 31 35 37 30 32 28 23 30 34 36 26 17 –
Sat 6 17 30 34 35 32 32 23 23 23 27 23 16 7 5
Sun 9 17 30 36 35 34 30 26 22 23 24 20 10 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 · 651 ride-hours · within noise
+0m
Heavy Rain · 74 ride-hours · within noise
+2m
Light Rain · 50 ride-hours · within noise
-0m
Clear · 197 ride-hours · within noise

What causes this ride to spike

Waits for Alien Swirling Saucers rise when these rides are DOWN, compared with the same hour on a normal day:

Toy Story Mania!
+4m (16%)

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