How often does Slinky Dog Dash break down?

Over the last 90 days we recorded 165 real breakdown episodes for Slinky Dog Dash — about 12.8 per week, spread across 80 different days. These are observed status changes from live park data, not estimates.

How long is Slinky Dog Dash usually down when it breaks down?

The median recorded outage for Slinky Dog Dash lasted 55 minutes (average 80 minutes). The longest outage we observed in the last 90 days lasted 781 minutes, on 2026-09-01.

Slinky Dog Dash Reliability & Wait Patterns

Hollywood Studios · Toy Story Land · Based on 17355 wait-time samples

0.30

Volatility Index (coefficient of variation)

Stable — waits stay close to the average throughout the day.

80m

Typical (p50) wait

120m

Busy (p90) wait

145m

Worst-case (p99)

210m

All-time max

Weekend vs Weekday

87m

Weekday average

76m

Weekend average

0.87×

Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

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

165

Recorded breakdowns

55m

Typical (median) outage

13h 1m

Longest outage (2026-09-01)

12.8

Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

Date	Down for
2026-09-01	13h 1m
2026-08-31	12h 34m
2026-08-30	2h 32m
2026-08-30	1h 5m
2026-08-29	39m
2026-08-29	6h 55m
2026-08-29	2h 16m
2026-08-28	4h 29m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 80 different days in this window.

Downtime by hour

Rate of DOWN/CLOSED status per hour of the day (ET).

0
98%

1
100%

2
100%

3
100%

4
100%

5
100%

6
100%

7
100%

8
53%

9
6%

10
3%

11
3%

12
2%

13
4%

14
6%

15
5%

16
7%

17
6%

18
7%

19
5%

20
10%

21
59%

22
96%

23
95%

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	103	105	109	105	112	96	100	96	86	86	87	76	54	44	–
Tue	82	93	90	87	90	91	82	90	78	73	78	84	57	55	–
Wed	97	102	108	110	100	90	91	86	89	98	94	84	65	57	17
Thu	87	86	92	104	97	97	98	88	86	79	85	80	59	53	–
Fri	92	79	89	94	90	88	91	87	78	84	81	78	64	58	–
Sat	61	71	91	98	88	88	88	85	78	80	76	69	54	47	–
Sun	75	79	83	86	89	80	82	81	68	68	69	58	46	38	66

Weather effect on waits

Average wait (minutes) in different weather conditions:

77m

Clear

88m

Cloudy

88m

Drizzle

84m

Partly Cloudy

95m

Rain

When this ride goes down

These rides spike in wait time when Slinky Dog Dash is reported DOWN:

Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run

+-6m (-9%)

What causes this ride to spike

Waits for Slinky Dog Dash go up the most when these rides are DOWN:

Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run

+13m (15%)

Toy Story Mania!

+11m (13%)

Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway

+7m (7%)

The Twilight Zone™ Tower of Terror

+5m (6%)

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DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	103	105	109	105	112	96	100	96	86	86	87	76	54	44	–
Tue	82	93	90	87	90	91	82	90	78	73	78	84	57	55	–
Wed	97	102	108	110	100	90	91	86	89	98	94	84	65	57	17
Thu	87	86	92	104	97	97	98	88	86	79	85	80	59	53	–
Fri	92	79	89	94	90	88	91	87	78	84	81	78	64	58	–
Sat	61	71	91	98	88	88	88	85	78	80	76	69	54	47	–
Sun	75	79	83	86	89	80	82	81	68	68	69	58	46	38	66

DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	103	105	109	105	112	96	100	96	86	86	87	76	54	44	–
Tue	82	93	90	87	90	91	82	90	78	73	78	84	57	55	–
Wed	97	102	108	110	100	90	91	86	89	98	94	84	65	57	17
Thu	87	86	92	104	97	97	98	88	86	79	85	80	59	53	–
Fri	92	79	89	94	90	88	91	87	78	84	81	78	64	58	–
Sat	61	71	91	98	88	88	88	85	78	80	76	69	54	47	–
Sun	75	79	83	86	89	80	82	81	68	68	69	58	46	38	66

DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	103	105	109	105	112	96	100	96	86	86	87	76	54	44	–
Tue	82	93	90	87	90	91	82	90	78	73	78	84	57	55	–
Wed	97	102	108	110	100	90	91	86	89	98	94	84	65	57	17
Thu	87	86	92	104	97	97	98	88	86	79	85	80	59	53	–
Fri	92	79	89	94	90	88	91	87	78	84	81	78	64	58	–
Sat	61	71	91	98	88	88	88	85	78	80	76	69	54	47	–
Sun	75	79	83	86	89	80	82	81	68	68	69	58	46	38	66