More Than a Dozen Rides and the Monorail Went Down at Once Across Walt Disney World on August 29, 2025

By entgrove · September 4, 2026

Around 6 p.m. on Friday, August 29, 2025, My Disney Experience showed attractions across Walt Disney World flipping to "temporarily closed" at the same time: Rise of the Resistance, Slinky Dog Dash, Test Track, Cosmic Rewind, Frozen Ever After and Soarin' among them, plus Magic Kingdom rides and the monorail. Most reopened the same evening. Disney never issued an explanation.

On the evening of Friday, August 29, 2025, the My Disney Experience app flipped attraction after attraction to "temporarily closed" across Walt Disney World at about the same moment: four headliners at Disney's Hollywood Studios, eight at EPCOT, rides at Magic Kingdom and the monorail with them. Most were running again before the parks closed, and Disney never said what happened.

Which attractions showed as temporarily closed

Around 6 p.m., the park maps in My Disney Experience began showing ride after ride in the same grey "temporarily closed" state the app uses for a routine breakdown, except that it appeared across three parks at once.

At Disney's Hollywood Studios, the list included:

• Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance
• Slinky Dog Dash
• Alien Swirling Saucers
• Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway

At EPCOT it ran twice as long:

• Mission: SPACE
• Test Track
• Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind
• Living with the Land
• Frozen Ever After
• Remy's Ratatouille Adventure
• Turtle Talk with Crush
• Soarin' Around the World

Rides at Magic Kingdom were listed as down as well, and so was the monorail. News 6, the WKMG station in Orlando, first reported the outage that evening and said it had asked Disney what happened.

Why the spread was the unusual part

Individual rides go down at Walt Disney World every day. What set this evening apart was the geography. The EPCOT list alone reaches into every neighbourhood of the park: World Discovery with Mission: SPACE, Test Track and Cosmic Rewind, World Nature with Living with the Land, Soarin' and Turtle Talk with Crush, and World Showcase with Frozen Ever After and Remy's Ratatouille Adventure. Those attractions share no ride system, no building and no vehicle type.

Late-August evenings in Central Florida bring thunderstorms, and Disney routinely holds outdoor attractions during lightning. A weather hold does not explain this list on its own, though. Living with the Land, Frozen Ever After, Remy's Ratatouille Adventure, Turtle Talk with Crush and Rise of the Resistance all operate entirely indoors.

The monorail's inclusion stands out for a different reason. It is not an attraction. It is the transportation spine linking Magic Kingdom to the Transportation and Ticket Center, EPCOT and three resort hotels, and when it stops at the end of a park day, guests are not skipping a ride, they are stuck between a park and their hotel room.

What a sudden closure does to a Lightning Lane booking

Anyone holding a return time when this hit ran into Disney's standard handling for a closed attraction. A Lightning Lane Multi Pass selection for a ride that goes down is generally converted into a flexible entitlement that can be redeemed at a set of other participating attractions, rather than simply expiring. A Lightning Lane Single Pass, the individually purchased kind that at the time covered rides such as Rise of the Resistance and Cosmic Rewind, is normally handled as a refund or a reassignment. Either way it is worth raising with a Cast Member at the attraction or at Guest Relations rather than assuming it processes itself.

The practical advice on a night like this is unglamorous: do not queue for a reopening. When a headliner comes back after a widespread outage, everyone who was turned away arrives at once, and the standby line inherits every displaced guest in the park.

Disney never explained it, and the app was the only warning

There is no official account of the cause. News 6 reported that it was still waiting on a response from Disney as the attractions came back online, and no statement followed. Most of the affected rides reopened the same evening.

For guests, that leaves one takeaway worth carrying into any park day. My Disney Experience flipped these attractions to "temporarily closed" in real time, and a guest who checked the map at 6 p.m. had several minutes' notice before walking across a park to a ride that was not running. The app is the fastest warning system a guest has, and on this evening it was the only one.