Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover Reliability & Wait Patterns

Magic Kingdom · Tomorrowland · Based on 27516 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.
5m
Typical (p50) wait
15m
Busy (p90) wait
20m
Worst-case (p99)
40m
Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

8m
Weekday average
10m
Weekend average
1.20×
Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

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

87
Recorded breakdowns
20m
Typical (median) outage
6h 56m
Longest outage (2026-08-24)
6.8
Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

DateDown for
2026-10-1611m
2026-10-1511m
2026-10-1519m
2026-10-146m
2026-10-1218m
2026-10-1033m
2026-10-0941m
2026-10-0718m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 52 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
5%
7
16%
8
7%
9
6%
10
4%
11
3%
12
5%
13
4%
14
4%
15
2%
16
3%
17
4%
18
4%
19
5%
20
5%
21
4%
22
3%
23
3%

Best & worst hours by day of week

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

DOW8910111213141516171819202122
Mon 5 5 5 7 10 10 10 10 11 10 11 11 10 6 6
Tue 5 5 5 6 7 8 7 6 8 12 12 9 8 6 5
Wed 5 5 5 6 8 9 8 8 11 10 11 13 13 9 10
Thu 6 5 5 6 7 7 8 8 10 8 12 11 11 7 6
Fri 5 5 6 8 8 9 9 9 9 13 11 10 9 8 5
Sat 5 5 5 8 11 13 11 12 13 16 17 16 14 9 6
Sun 5 5 5 8 10 10 9 10 11 14 10 11 10 7 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 · 670 ride-hours · within noise
+1m
Light Rain · 62 ride-hours · within noise
+0m
Heavy Rain · 93 ride-hours · within noise
-0m
Clear · 223 ride-hours · within noise

Want live waits + smart routing?

Plan a trip with RopeDrop →