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Test Track Closed Nearly 24 Hours at EPCOT With No Official Explanation

Silence from park officials heightens crowding, disrupting guests' Lightning Lane plans.

Overview

  • The high-speed Test Track attraction went offline during Saturday and remained closed into Sunday morning, totaling almost 24 hours of downtime according to on-site reporting and the park app.
  • Walt Disney World has not issued an official statement about the outage and cast members outside the pavilion could not provide a reopening time.
  • Reporters who toured the standby queue observed open emergency doors, air conditioning and ride music turned off, and the gift shop operating with a large fan to offset the heat.
  • The outage has pushed thousands of would-be riders into other EPCOT lines, inflating waits for attractions such as Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind and complicating Lightning Lane and Multi Pass plans.
  • The closure follows work by Disney Imagineers this week to restore Test Track’s long‑troubled sliding 'crash' doors, but no link between that repair and the current shutdown has been confirmed.