Test Track Reliability & Wait Patterns

EPCOT · World Discovery · Based on 19860 wait-time samples

Data updated October 26, 2026 · refreshed weekly from the last 180 days

0.24
Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)
Stable — waits stay close to the day's average.
70m
Typical (p50) wait
95m
Busy (p90) wait
120m
Worst-case (p99)
140m
Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

65m
Weekday average
68m
Weekend average
1.05×
Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

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

290
Recorded breakdowns
21m
Typical (median) outage
12h 27m
Longest outage (2026-10-07)
22.6
Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

DateDown for
2026-10-2616m
2026-10-2626m
2026-10-262h 23m
2026-10-2637m
2026-10-265m
2026-10-265m
2026-10-2610m
2026-10-2556m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 88 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.

0
18%
8
24%
9
12%
10
12%
11
15%
12
17%
13
21%
14
24%
15
28%
16
31%
17
32%
18
30%
19
24%
20
20%
21
15%
22
13%
23
6%

Best & worst hours by day of week

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

DOW8910111213141516171819202122
Mon 42 67 70 65 68 74 82 71 67 68 72 71 66 65 48
Tue 41 56 65 72 67 70 72 74 67 68 74 73 58 – –
Wed 34 54 56 71 66 62 66 70 58 59 64 59 49 – –
Thu 36 54 62 66 61 76 62 62 73 62 69 65 64 – 35
Fri 38 58 65 76 71 66 69 71 81 75 74 81 73 – –
Sat 29 61 66 78 79 74 67 70 80 76 77 81 72 – –
Sun 34 59 61 68 69 66 68 76 78 75 69 65 57 – –

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 · 588 ride-hours · within noise
+2m
Heavy Rain · 38 ride-hours · within noise
-1m
Clear · 285 ride-hours · within noise

When this ride goes down

These rides get busier when Test Track is reported DOWN, compared with the same hour on a normal day:

Frozen Ever After
+3m (6%)

What causes this ride to spike

Waits for Test Track rise when these rides are DOWN, compared with the same hour on a normal day:

Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind
+6m (9%)

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