Operating 96.9% of standard park hours across 64 days (21,849 of 22,554 readings). Early entry and after-hours events are excluded; scheduled refurbishment does not count against it.
Specifications from Wikipedia; RCDB. Fields we could not source are omitted rather than guessed.
Space Mountain is a steel roller coaster (enclosed, dual-track) at Magic Kingdom that opened in 1975, built by Arrow Development. It runs 2:30, tops out at 27 mph, drops 26 ft. Riders must be at least 44" (112 cm) tall. Across 16,922 standby readings over 65 days of operation, the typical posted wait is 27 minutes, ranging from about 5 minutes around 11pm to 36 minutes at 6pm. It has been operating 96.9% of standard park hours across 64 days of readings.
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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The typical posted standby wait is about 27 minutes, measured from 16,922 readings over 65 days of operation.
11pm has the shortest average wait on record, around 5 minutes. The worst hour is 6pm at about 36 minutes.
The minimum height is 44" (112 cm).
The ride itself runs about 2:30.
It has been open 96.9% of standard park hours across 64 days of readings. That figure counts every closure inside published hours except planned refurbishment.
Space Mountain is at Magic Kingdom in Tomorrowland.
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