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C-Ticket · standard attractionCSpaceship Earth

EPCOT · World Celebration · C-Ticket · standard attraction
EPCOT: Regular hours · Open until 9:00 PM

Right now

25min standby
Busier than typical · typical for this attraction is 14 min
refreshes every 30 min

Ride specifications

91.3% Reliability

Operating 91.3% of standard park hours across 65 days (16,227 of 17,771 readings). Early entry and after-hours events are excluded; scheduled refurbishment does not count against it.

Type
Dark ride (Omnimover)
Manufacturer
Walt Disney Imagineering
Opened
1982
Ride time
15:00
Height
180 ft

Specifications from Wikipedia. Fields we could not source are omitted rather than guessed.

Best time to go typical wait by hour in normal park hours · 16334 readings over 66 days

8amShortest waits · ~5 min
11amLongest waits · ~26 min
14 minTypical overall

Spaceship Earth is a dark ride (omnimover) at EPCOT that opened in 1982, built by Walt Disney Imagineering. It runs 15:00. Across 16,334 standby readings over 66 days of operation, the typical posted wait is 14 minutes, ranging from about 5 minutes around 8am to 26 minutes at 11am. It has been operating 91.3% of standard park hours across 65 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 Spaceship Earth?

The typical posted standby wait is about 14 minutes, measured from 16,334 readings over 66 days of operation.

What is the best time of day to ride Spaceship Earth?

8am has the shortest average wait on record, around 5 minutes. The worst hour is 11am at about 26 minutes.

How long is Spaceship Earth?

The ride itself runs about 15:00.

Does Spaceship Earth break down often?

It has been open 91.3% of standard park hours across 65 days of readings. That figure counts every closure inside published hours except planned refurbishment.

Where is Spaceship Earth?

Spaceship Earth is at EPCOT in World Celebration.

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