Down time for Harry Potter attractions?

surgefest

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Just curious as too how often the Two Harry Potter attractions experience downtime these days? does Forbbidden Journey experience less since its been open longer? Also Gringotts, How often are you noticing it goes down? For how long on average, is it usually worth hanging around because it comes back up shortly after or is it a few hours? I guess the same for Hogwarts express. I assume it doesnt go down much but maybe i'm wrong? thanks!
 
We were in US in Dec and March. In Dec, Gringotts went down one evening close about an hour from closing. We waited in the attraction (before the elevators) for quite a while before they finally said it wouldn't be back up that night.

We never had any other instances of the HP rides going down while we were waiting during our trips (total of 7 days) that I can recall. If they did, it was so short that it didn't affect the time in line. And we rode them at least once a day.
 
Forbidden Journey is rarely down. That thing is a beast! Gringotts is down more but not nearly as much as it used to be.
 
we were there Jan 18-23..Hogwarts express was down in the mornings 3 out of 4 days we tried to ride it over to the studios to be there for opening ( early entry was at IOA). Forbidden journey was down 2 mornings of early entry but came up pretty quickly and there was no issues with Gringotts on any of our 4 days that we rode it.But we only rode it in the morning and never tried it later in the day
 















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