The Barnstormer Reliability & Wait Patterns

Magic Kingdom · Fantasyland · Based on 27324 wait-time samples

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

0.51
Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)
Highly volatile — wait times swing a lot over the course of a day.
10m
Typical (p50) wait
20m
Busy (p90) wait
35m
Worst-case (p99)
50m
Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

11m
Weekday average
11m
Weekend average
1.03×
Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

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

102
Recorded breakdowns
40m
Typical (median) outage
4h 37m
Longest outage (2026-08-26)
7.9
Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

DateDown for
2026-10-171h 47m
2026-10-1528m
2026-10-142h 12m
2026-10-111h 2m
2026-10-1030m
2026-10-091h 58m
2026-10-0357m
2026-10-0224m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 62 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
0%
1
0%
7
8%
8
1%
9
1%
10
2%
11
2%
12
3%
13
8%
14
8%
15
10%
16
13%
17
10%
18
11%
19
9%
20
7%
21
5%
22
3%
23
2%

Best & worst hours by day of week

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

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Mon 5 6 8 16 17 15 14 16 17 19 20 21 13 6 5
Tue 5 6 8 10 12 12 11 8 9 12 13 13 13 5 5
Wed 5 6 9 14 16 16 12 14 15 18 18 21 15 9 6
Thu 5 5 7 13 13 13 11 10 13 15 18 19 14 6 5
Fri 5 5 7 10 9 9 9 9 10 13 14 10 11 6 5
Sat 6 6 8 12 14 17 12 14 17 19 22 23 15 7 5
Sun 5 7 9 12 12 12 11 10 10 13 14 11 8 5 5

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 · 684 ride-hours · within noise
-2m
Light Rain · 61 ride-hours · clear signal
-2m
Heavy Rain · 93 ride-hours · clear signal
0m
Clear · 222 ride-hours · within noise

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