Dumbo the Flying Elephant wait times

What it is

The classic spinning elephants: you control how high your Dumbo flies. Two carousels run side by side, and the queue is an indoor circus tent with a play area while you wait.

Thrill level: ●●●●● Gentle (1/5) · spinning · heights · no height requirement

Opened: 1 October 1971 (55 years ago)

Best time to ride

Quietest: around 8am (typically ~5 min posted). Busiest: around 8pm (~15 min). In the first 15 minutes after the park opens it typically posts ~5 min.

Typical means the median posted wait across every day in our log at that hour; crowd level, weather and breakdowns move it. For a specific date, the planner adjusts for that day’s forecast crowd.

Typical posted wait by hour

Bar = median; numbers on the right = typical range (middle half of days).

By day of the weekaverage 10am–6pm

Posted vs real wait

Disney’s posted waits run high. For Dumbo the Flying Elephant, a posted 60 minutes at 2pm has typically meant about 44 minutes in line, and at 8pm about 36 (from timed waits people recorded, 2015–2021 — before today’s Lightning Lane system, so treat it as an estimate). DisneyIQ shows both numbers on the live board.

Did you know?

An opening-day original, it moved to Storybook Circus and doubled to two carousels in 2012.

Ride facts

About 2 minutes including boarding · Seating: 2 per elephant · Lightning Lane: Tier 2