Walt Disney World Wait Times for Last Week of July 2022

Okay, July is done and we’ve reached the start of August! The most crowded theme park month on the calendar has ended.

Soon, crowds will diminish as schools reopen. In fact, one local school in my area has already started its new year. Those poor kids….and their teachers!

Anyway, wait times should diminish over the new few weeks. Has that already happened?

Let’s find out in this week’s Walt Disney World wait times update!

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Disney’s Animal Kingdom

Okay, we’ll know a lot thanks to the Avatar Flight of Passage intel.

This past week, the pride of Pandora – The World of Avatar came with an average wait of 109 minutes, a substantial decrease of 12 minutes.

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Conversely, Na’vi River Journey averaged 71 minutes of line, an increase of five minutes.

So, I think the park was less crowded, but we must look at the other data to know. Here’s that information:

• Kali River Rapids – 59 minutes, down 8
• Kilimanjaro Safaris – 55 minutes, up 7
• Adventurers Outpost – 46 minutes, down 4
• DINOSAUR – 44 minutes, down 1
• Expedition Everest – 40 minutes, down 2
• It’s Tough to Be a Bug! – 12 minutes, no change
• TriceraTop Spin – 10 minutes, no change

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Overall, Animal Kingdom attractions averaged a 48-minute wait, a drop of two minutes from last time.

Ergo, the crowds dropped slightly here…but not by a lot. So, is that the overall trend at Walt Disney World? We’ll have a good idea after we discuss…

Disney’s Hollywood Studios

Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance continues to dominate the public’s attention at this park.

For the past week, the Star Wars ride averaged a wait of 124 minutes, which is a significant drop of 13 minutes.

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Notably, Slinky Dog Dash also dropped week-over-week. The Toy Story Land roller coaster required a wait of 95 minutes, down 15 minutes from the last time.

Here are the waits for the other attractions at Hollywood Studios:

• Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run – 90 minutes, down 15
• Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith – 83 minutes, down 17
• Toy Story Mania! – 72 minutes, down 3
• Twilight Zone Terror of Tower – 71 minutes, down 19
• Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway – 65 minutes, no change
• Red Carpet Dreams – 46 minutes, no change
• Meet Sulley at Walt Disney Presents – 41 minutes, up 1
• Alien Swirling Saucers – 40 minutes, down 3
• Star Tours – The Adventures Continue! – 28 minutes, down 7
• Celebrity Spotlight – 25 minutes, down 5
• Lightning McQueen’s Racing Academy – 15 minutes, no change
• Muppet*Vision 3D – 10 minutes, no change

Hollywood Studios attractions featured smaller crowds this past week. There’s no doubt about that.

The average attraction came with a wait of 52 minutes, a drop of five minutes from the last time.

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The park still hosts seven attractions whose average waits are 60+ minutes. In another month, that number could drop to three. That’s the hope anyway.

EPCOT

During this summer vacation season, three rides have dominated crowd attention, not counting Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind, which we’re still not tracking.

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EPCOT’s current Big Three includes Frozen Ever After, Test Track, and Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure.

For the past week, Frozen Ever After has averaged the longest wait of 75 minutes, down five minutes.

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Next up is Test Track, which was right before Frozen at 74 minutes. Test Track had a drop of one minute from last week.

The Ratatouille ride is starting to fall back a bit compared to the others. It averaged a 68-minute wait.

The ride has lagged behind the others throughout July and was down another three minutes this week. It’s heading for a sub-60-minute wait soon!

That’s great news for you, though! Just four months ago, guests were happily paying $15 to ride Ratatouille, which didn’t even offer a standby line queue!

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Here are the other EPCOT wait times for the week:

• Soarin’ Around the World – 60 minutes, up 3
• Mission: SPACE – 42 minutes, up 2
• Royal Sommerhus – 23 minutes, up 5
• Turtle Talk with Crush – 22 minutes, no change
• Spaceship Earth – 20 minutes, down 9
• Journey into Imagination with Figment – 16 minutes, down 1
• Gran Fiesta Tour Starring the Three Caballeros – 15 minutes, no change
• Living with the Land – 14 minutes, down 6
• The Seas with Nemo & Friends – 13 minutes, down 1

Overall, EPCOT attractions – not including Cosmic Rewind – averaged a 35-minute wait, a drop of one minute from last time.

Magic Kingdom

Okay, I think we’ve peaked in terms of summer park traffic. Let’s verify with Magic Kingdom’s data:

• Seven Dwarfs Mine Train – 85 minutes, down 10
• Peter Pan’s Flight – 78 minutes, down 7
• Splash Mountain – 66 minutes, down 9
• Town Square Theater – 63 minutes, down 7
• Jungle Cruise – 62 minutes, down 7
• Space Mountain – 54 minutes, down 13
• Haunted Mansion – 49 minutes, down 6
• Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin – 47 minutes, down 3
• Big Thunder Mountain Railroad – 46 minutes, down 2
• Princess Fairytale Hall – 45 minutes, down 2
• The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh – 42 minutes, down 1
• Pirates of the Caribbean – 38 minutes, down 13
• Astro Orbiter – 37 minutes, down 5
• It’s a Small World – 34 minutes, down 6
• Under the Sea ~ Journey of the Little Mermaid – 31 minutes, down 5
• Tomorrowland Speedway – 30 minutes, no change
• The Barnstormer – 22 minutes, down 11
• The Magic Carpets of Aladdin – 21 minutes, down 8
• Mickey’s PhilharMagic – 19 minutes, up 3
• Mad Tea Party – 17 minutes, down 3
• Monsters, Inc. Laugh Floor – 16 minutes, down 1
• Dumbo the Flying Elephant – 15 minutes, down 9
• Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover – 14 minutes, down 8
• Prince Charming Regal Carrousel – 13 minutes, down 8
• Walt Disney’s Carousel of Progress – 5 minutes, no change
• Country Bear Jamboree – 5 minutes, no change

Overall, Magic Kingdom attractions required an average wait of 38 minutes, a substantial six-minute drop week-over-week.

So, yeah, you can tell that the summer vacation season is starting to slow down some!

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