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Hollywood Studios Ride Breakdowns: Which Lines Get Longer

Data updated · recomputed weekly

Quick answer. When Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance is down, Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run runs about 5 minutes longer (+18%) than the same hour on a normal day (179 closures on 115 days). 6 ride pairs at Hollywood Studios met our consistency bar; everything else stays close to normal when a ride breaks down.

Lines that get longer

When Slinky Dog Dash is down, Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring The Muppets waits run +6 min (+11%) vs the same hour on a normal day 59 closures on 38 days · rose in 66% of them · typically 58 min instead of 52
When Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance is down, Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run waits run +5 min (+18%) vs the same hour on a normal day 179 closures on 115 days · rose in 69% of them · typically 34 min instead of 28
When Toy Story Mania! is down, Alien Swirling Saucers waits run +4 min (+16%) vs the same hour on a normal day 76 closures on 51 days · rose in 67% of them · typically 30 min instead of 26
When Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway is down, Toy Story Mania! waits run +4 min (+10%) vs the same hour on a normal day 109 closures on 89 days · rose in 71% of them · typically 44 min instead of 40
When Toy Story Mania! is down, Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway waits run +4 min (+9%) vs the same hour on a normal day 67 closures on 47 days · rose in 70% of them · typically 43 min instead of 40
When Toy Story Mania! is down, Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance waits run +4 min (+7%) vs the same hour on a normal day 65 closures on 45 days · rose in 68% of them · typically 54 min instead of 50

Most disruptive closures

  • Toy Story Mania!: raises 3 other lines, most of all Alien Swirling Saucers (+4 min).
  • Slinky Dog Dash: raises 1 other line, most of all Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring The Muppets (+6 min).
  • Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance: raises 1 other line, most of all Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run (+5 min).

How we measure it

  • Closures of 15–240 minutes from the last 180 days (813 at Hollywood Studios).
  • Storm or park-wide closures are dropped: 2+ other rides closing within 15 minutes, or 5+ already closed (53 removed).
  • Each ride's posted wait during the closure is compared with the same clock hours on the same weekday over the previous 8 weeks, corrected for how busy that ride was on the day.
  • A pair is listed only with 8+ closures on 5+ days, an average rise of 3+ minutes, a rise in 65%+ of closures, and an average at least 3× its standard error.

Updated weekly; figures computed October 12, 2026. Waits are Disney's posted standby times.

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Frequently asked questions

Which Hollywood Studios lines get longer when a ride breaks down?

In our data, the clearest case is Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run while Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance is down: its posted wait runs about 5 minutes above the same hour on a normal day (179 closures on 115 days). 6 ride pairs at Hollywood Studios met our consistency bar.

How do you rule out storms?

We drop any closure where 2 or more other rides also closed within 15 minutes, or 5 or more were already closed — 53 of 813 closures here. Those are lightning holds or park-wide events, not one ride breaking.

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