Daily Park Report: November 10, 2026

Magic Kingdom Woke Back Up — a 7/10 Tuesday After a Week of Party Walk-Ons

Magic Kingdom ran a 19.7-minute median Tuesday, roughly a third above its own 30-day baseline and good for a 7/10. After a stretch of nights when the Christmas party hollowed out the daytime park and left single-digit waits, that’s a real shift — the party suppression is gone, and the park filled in like a normal busy fall Tuesday. EPCOT ran warm too, two levels above its own normal. If you walked into either park expecting last week’s walk-on magic, you got a different animal: lines in Fantasyland, a 35-minute afternoon peak, and headliners dropping out at the worst possible times.

Where the crowds landed

Magic Kingdom is the day’s headline. At 7/10 against a usual 4/10, this is the park sitting furthest from its own rhythm, and the peak timing tells the story: waits didn’t top out until 3:00 PM at a 35-minute median. That’s an afternoon build, not a rope-drop rush — guests trickled in through the morning and stacked up after lunch. The pressure showed in the spots that only fill when a park is genuinely busy. Under the Sea climbed to 20 minutes, Dumbo to 20, “it’s a small world” to 25, and the PeopleMover, Mad Tea Party, and Magic Carpets all ran two to three times their usual posted times. When the family-ride B-list is drawing 15-to-25-minute waits, the park is carrying weight, not just a few packed headliners.

EPCOT came in at 5/10, two above its own norm, with Food & Wine still running the walkways. The peak hit early at 1:00 PM around 30 minutes, which fits the festival pattern — guests arrive midday for the booths and the attraction lines swell alongside. Figment doubled to 10 minutes, a small number that only moves when the park is fuller than usual.

Weather was a non-factor in the best way: a partly cloudy day topping out near 82°F with barely a hundredth of an inch of rain. Nothing pushed guests indoors or thinned the queues.

Hollywood Studios went the other direction entirely, running a 2/10 at a 26.8-minute median — well under its own baseline. Even with Rise of the Resistance stumbling repeatedly, the park was the easy touring day of the four. Animal Kingdom was quieter still at 1/10, a comfortable 13.5-minute median with its only real pressure coming at the 11:00 AM open before the day settled.

The downtime that shaped the afternoon

Magic Kingdom’s biggest headliners picked the peak to go down. Space Mountain was offline from 4:19 PM to 7:35 PM — more than three hours straight through the busiest block of the day, exactly when that 3:00 PM crowd wanted it most. Seven Dwarfs Mine Train added to the Fantasyland squeeze, down 4:34 to 6:32 PM on top of an earlier midday hiccup. With two of the park’s marquee rides unavailable during peak, demand had nowhere to go but the carousel-tier attractions next door, which is a big reason those Fantasyland waits ran so hot. Enchanted Tales with Belle also sat idle for three hours across the late morning.

Over at Hollywood Studios, Rise of the Resistance was the recurring sore spot — three separate outages before noon totaling over three hours of downtime. On a 2/10 day the spillover was muted, but anyone who rope-dropped it had to circle back more than once.

Today’s outlook — Veterans Day

Our engine reads Wednesday, November 11 as a cooler day across the board despite the holiday. Magic Kingdom projects to a 6/10 with a 23-minute median — still the one to avoid, and still the busiest of the four. Hollywood Studios lands at 3/10 (33 min), EPCOT dips to 2/10 (24 min), and Animal Kingdom is the clear best play at 1/10 (16 min). Food & Wine keeps running at EPCOT and early entry is live for resort guests everywhere, so arrive before the convention-and-holiday midday wave if you’re chasing headliners. Note that Tiana’s Bayou Adventure stays closed for refurbishment at Magic Kingdom.

Honesty check on yesterday’s call: the engine nailed Magic Kingdom and EPCOT within a level and hit both its best-park and avoid-park picks. But it badly overshot Hollywood Studios — predicted a 5/10, got a 2/10, a seven-minute wait miss. The park has been running softer than its day-of-week history suggests, and the model is still catching up to that. If you’re deciding between parks today, Studios may again be lighter than the number implies.

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