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Popeye & Bluto's Bilge-Rat Barges® Wait Times

Universal Orlando Resort · Universal Islands of Adventure

Average that day

16min

Sun, Jun 22

Hours

Opens 10am

Posted hours

Range

10–25 min

Low 9:58am · high 11:57am

Typical Sunday

20 min

4 min quieter that day

Popeye & Bluto's Bilge-Rat Barges® Photo: Universal

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Universal Islands of Adventure
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Lightning Lane
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Sunday, Jun 22 vs a typical Sunday

Standby wait through the day, against the average of the last 8 Sundays

Average

16 min

Lowest

10 min 9:58am

Highest

25 min 11:57am

Best times to go

Shortest waits usually come around 12am and 9am, and Mon runs about 126 min shorter than Wed.

Average standby each hour, day by day

12am 1am 2am 6am 9am 10am 11am 12pm 1pm 2pm 3pm 4pm 5pm 6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm
Mon · · · · 10 13 16 23 20 19 30 20 19 15 5 10 · · ·
Tue · · · · 10 12 24 24 21 28 29 26 22 13 10 · · · ·
Wed 5 264 707 995 10 10 18 20 22 20 20 21 10 10 10 · · · ·
Thu · · · · 10 13 18 25 31 37 19 25 17 18 · · · · ·
Fri · · · · 10 11 13 26 24 33 37 28 16 10 22 18 23 33 20
Sat · · · · 10 10 25 26 34 37 34 27 31 21 13 · 20 10 ·
Sun · · · · 11 13 30 25 29 24 22 20 15 15 10 10 · · ·

Average standby in minutes, last 60 days.

History

Average

12 min

Lowest

5 min Jan 2

Highest

503 min Nov 4

Average

9 min

Lowest

5 min Jan 4

Highest

31 min Jun 28

Average

16 min

Lowest

7 min Nov 2026

Highest

42 min May 2025

Average

22 min

Lowest

15 min 2026

Highest

24 min 2024

Ride status

Down twice for 1h 50m in total

9:58am Running Down 9:02pm
  • 4:16pm – 5:03pm 46m
  • 6:10pm – 7:14pm 1h 4m

Broke down on 25 of the 30 days it ran in the last 30 days.

Lightning Lane returns

Wait time data is provided by ThemeParks.wiki. Data may not always be 100% accurate.

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