Today’s posted wait times at Walt Disney World were some of the highest in the past year. The average attraction posted wait time was 38 minutes today at the Magic Kingdom, which was the highest it’s been for the past month, and the 16th-highest day of the past year. EPCOT was also popular, with an average posted wait of 34 minutes – that’s good for 7th-highest over the past month, and 36th-highest over the past year. Hollywood Studios’ wait times were not helped by the fact that Rise of the Resistance is having one of its worst days in recent memory.
We’ve received 277 actual wait times so far today from our fabulous Lines community. Let’s do the rest of the numbers!
Magic Kingdom Wait Times
The good news at the Magic Kingdom is that posted wait times seem to have been heavily inflated, so actual waits were not as bad it seemed. Big Thunder Mountain Railroad had an average wait time today of 44 minutes. Its 7-day average is 43 minutes, so today ranks #4 for this week. Its 30-day average is 45 minutes, so today ranks #15 for the past month. Its 365-day average is 43 minutes, so today ranks #128 for the past year. We received 17 actual wait times today, and the actual wait averaged just 25% of the posted wait time.
Animal Kingdom Wait Times
Expedition Everest – Legend of the Forbidden Mountain had an average wait time today of 21 minutes. Its 7-day average is 26 minutes, so today ranks #6 for this week. Its 30-day average is 23 minutes, so today ranks #19 for the past month. Its 365-day average is 25 minutes, so today ranks #138 for the past year. We received 12 actual wait times today, and the actual wait averaged 58% of the posted wait time.
Hollywood Studios Wait Times
Toy Story Mania! had an average wait time today of 33 minutes. Its 7-day average is 36 minutes, so today ranks #3 for this week. Its 30-day average is 35 minutes, so today ranks #16 for the past month. Its 365-day average is 26 minutes, so today ranks #51 for the past year. We received 11 actual wait times today, and the actual wait averaged 69% of the posted wait time.
Rise of the Resistance is having one of its worst afternoons in recent memory. Rise started calling boarding groups around 8:45 a.m. today, and everything seems to have run smoothly until boarding group 70 around 12:25 p.m. That’s when a delay of around 100 minutes stopped Rise from calling more boarding groups. When boarding resumed, it looks like Rise was running in some sort of lower-capacity “degraded mode”, because they were not calling boarding groups as fast as they were in the morning.
Rise has only managed to get through around 45 boarding groups in the last 4 1/2 hours, when they should get through around 80. It looks like around 20% of guests with a boarding group won’t be able to ride today. That’s a tough break. It also points out why Rise is unlikely to get FastPass+, even if FastPass+ comes back – the ride simply isn’t reliable enough to be able to forecast FastPass+ capacity.
EPCOT Wait Times
Frozen Ever After had an average wait time today of 49 minutes. Its 7-day average is 46 minutes, so today ranks #1 for this week. Its 30-day average is 39 minutes, so today ranks #4 for the past month. Its 365-day average is 45 minutes, so today ranks #94 for the past year. We received 7 actual wait times today, and the actual wait averaged 72% of the posted wait time.
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