Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind Reliability & Wait Patterns
EPCOT · World Discovery · Based on 24849 wait-time samples
Data updated October 12, 2026 · refreshed weekly from the last 180 days
Weekend vs Weekday
Lightning Lane sell-out pattern
Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind sold out on 60 of 67 days it was on sale at our same-day checks (90%), typically by 11:45 AM ET. Times are when our checks first saw it gone, so the real sell-out can be a little earlier; tracked since April 2026.
Real breakdown history (last 90 days)
Actual downtime episodes recorded by our live status tracker — every time Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind flipped to DOWN and came back. Observed data, not estimates.
Most recent outages
| Date | Down for |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-16 | 11m |
| 2026-10-16 | 30m |
| 2026-10-15 | 18m |
| 2026-10-14 | 11m |
| 2026-10-13 | 1h 46m |
| 2026-10-12 | 12m |
| 2026-10-11 | 6m |
| 2026-10-10 | 35m |
Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 48 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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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 | 70 | 82 | 78 | 74 | 72 | 76 | 75 | 79 | 84 | 78 | 82 | 94 | 91 | 84 | 67 |
| Tue | 63 | 73 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 63 | 66 | 64 | 72 | 73 | 72 | 85 | 81 | – | – |
| Wed | 54 | 63 | 56 | 64 | 67 | 61 | 62 | 67 | 66 | 70 | 69 | 73 | 72 | – | – |
| Thu | 56 | 69 | 62 | 74 | 70 | 63 | 67 | 71 | 71 | 73 | 75 | 81 | 84 | 46 | 30 |
| Fri | 62 | 80 | 71 | 77 | 78 | 76 | 77 | 73 | 81 | 90 | 98 | 96 | 102 | – | – |
| Sat | 58 | 88 | 81 | 84 | 83 | 87 | 87 | 88 | 91 | 97 | 105 | 103 | 102 | – | – |
| Sun | 62 | 79 | 72 | 74 | 73 | 76 | 74 | 74 | 77 | 77 | 83 | 82 | 76 | – | – |
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.
When this ride goes down
These rides get busier when Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind is reported DOWN, compared with the same hour on a normal day:
What causes this ride to spike
Waits for Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind rise when these rides are DOWN, compared with the same hour on a normal day:
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