Slinky Dog Dash Downtime Stretches Into Third Day at Disney's Hollywood Studios

By WDWMAGIC Staff · Wednesday September 2, 2026 9:17am ET · "Slinky Dog Dash"
Slinky Dog Dash Downtime Stretches Into Third Day at Disney's Hollywood Studios
Slinky Dog Dash has now been down for a third consecutive day at Hollywood Studios, with no trains cycling and cast members unable to say when it will reopen.

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Slinky Dog Dash Closed - August 2026

The Slinky Dog Dash entrance sits empty with Stand-by and Lightning Lane queues vacant during the attraction's August 2026 closureSlinky Dog Dash's red and yellow track winds through Toy Story Land's landscapingJessie and Rex at Slinky Dog Dash

Slinky Dog Dash is closed again this morning at Disney's Hollywood Studios, marking a third consecutive day the ride has failed to open with the park. It has not operated at all for the past two days.

No trains are cycling on the track, and there's no visible sign of any work underway at the attraction.

Cast Members at the ride are telling guests they don't know when it will reopen.

Here's a look at the recent closures:

  • August 28: down for more than 4 hours
  • August 29: down for 7 hours
  • August 31: closed all day, did not operate
  • September 1: closed all day, did not operate
  • September 2: closed at opening, still down

Slinky Dog Dash is one of the park's most popular attractions, so Disney will want it back up and running as soon as possible. There's still no word on what's causing the extended downtime.

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Slinky Dog Dash Downtime Stretches Into Third Day at Disney's Hollywood Studios
Slinky Dog Dash has now been down for three consecutive days at Hollywood Studios, with no trains cycling and cast members unable to tell guests when it will reopen. The ride has been fully closed since August 31, and there's still no word on what's causing the extended outage.

https://www.wdwmagic.com/attractions/Slinky-Dog-Dash/news/02sep2026-slinky-dog-dash-downtime-stretches-into-third-day-at-disney-s-hollywood-studios.htm
I also counted 11 CM’s standing under the various queue umbrella’s yesterday. 😬
Does any insider know whats actually going on here?
Air Conditioning failure.
I've been kicking around the idea of automatically generating emails that ask for compensation once park downtime gets above some ridiculous threshold. We'd email it to you, you'd email it to the parks.

For example, 20% of IOA's ride capacity was lost due to downtime on Monday. For comparison:

USF was 8%
Epic was 14%
DHS was 17% (includes Slinky)
MK was 6%
EP was 5%
AK was 4%

So it was not obviously weather-related.

Average daily downtime for the WDW parks is around 4% with standard deviation < 4.

Downtime averages 5-6% at USF and IOA, and 9% at Epic, with standard deviation between 4 and 6.

For IOA specifically the mean is 6.2 with stdev 5.8. So one standard deviation is 12% and two standard deviations is 17.8%. A day with 20% downtime at IOA is rare enough that it only happens a few times per year.
↩ replying to lentesta
I’d be owed a lot of money from my last two visits to Epic lol.
↩ replying to Splash4eva
Slinky Dog saw Cheetah Hunt was down and said “hold my soda”
Did this come back up yesterday?
↩ replying to Fido Chuckwagon
No
Slinky Dog Dash Reopens After Multi-Day Closure at Disney's Hollywood Studios
Slinky Dog Dash is back up and running at Hollywood Studios after nearly a week of on-and-off closures, including two full days completely offline on August 31 and September 1. No cause has been given for the extended downtime, so expect higher-than-normal wait times today as demand catches up.

https://www.wdwmagic.com/attractions/Slinky-Dog-Dash/news/03sep2026-slinky-dog-dash-reopens-after-multi-day-closure-at-disney-s-hollywood-studios.htm
↩ replying to wdwmagic
It’s still not open!
↩ replying to Steve2222
it was first thing, appears to now be closed again
Time to dock his tail again.
Maybe Egon got his hands on it...

Taking a long time to bend the cars back into shape...
↩ replying to phoenician22
If it's a fairly common part that has a history of needing to be replaced, they should always have extra on hand. I've been working in manufacturing for decades, and maintenance departments always have a critical parts list which require a minimum inventory of those parts to be available at all times. If it was a custom machined part that is made-to-order, than that is a different story.