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B-Ticket · minor / walk-onBWildlife Express Train

Animal Kingdom · Africa · B-Ticket · minor / walk-on
Animal Kingdom: Closed · Opens Thu 7:30 AM · Early Entry

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since 8:00 PM today · Animal Kingdom is closed · Opens Thu 7:30 AM · Early Entry

Ride specifications

70.5% Reliability

Operating 70.5% of standard park hours across 64 days (5,599 of 7,947 readings). Early entry and after-hours events are excluded; scheduled refurbishment does not count against it.

Type
Steam-style railroad
Opened
1998

Specifications from Walt Disney World official site; Wikipedia (Disney's Animal Kingdom). Fields we could not source are omitted rather than guessed.

Best time to go typical wait by hour in normal park hours · 5563 readings over 65 days

9amShortest waits · ~6 min
11amLongest waits · ~12 min
10 minTypical overall

Wildlife Express Train is a steam-style railroad at Animal Kingdom that opened in 1998. Across 5,563 standby readings over 65 days of operation, the typical posted wait is 10 minutes, ranging from about 6 minutes around 9am to 12 minutes at 11am. It has been operating 70.5% of standard park hours across 64 days of readings.

Recorded & projected wait times

Solid line: the wait that was posted. Dashed line: our single best estimate of what comes next. Projections run seven days ahead.

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Common questions

What is the average wait for Wildlife Express Train?

The typical posted standby wait is about 10 minutes, measured from 5,563 readings over 65 days of operation.

What is the best time of day to ride Wildlife Express Train?

9am has the shortest average wait on record, around 6 minutes. The worst hour is 11am at about 12 minutes.

Does Wildlife Express Train break down often?

It has been open 70.5% of standard park hours across 64 days of readings. That figure counts every closure inside published hours except planned refurbishment.

Where is Wildlife Express Train?

Wildlife Express Train is at Animal Kingdom in Africa.

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