Tough to say, it'll certainly be less busy than opening weekend... but it's still a weekend in a London shopping centre. I think the odds of a queue being under an hour at that point are still fairly slim in all honesty. You never know, though!Is this likely to have calmed down by the 26th? Boyfriend and I are in London that day for a party and would love to swing by, but could really only afford an hour of queueing.
Is this likely to have calmed down by the 26th? Boyfriend and I are in London that day for a party and would love to swing by, but could really only afford an hour of queueing.
I wanted to go but I will not visit any place in the UK called Pokemon Center. It should be a Centre.
It's half term next week right? It definitely will be.I'll be passing by early next friday, if the queue is longer than... 10 minutes I'm not bothering.
Ì passed by it yesterday evening around 7PM just to check it out and the queue was in the main hall and ended in the bend, so it was doable to queue. I'm gunna go early tomorrow on Sunday and see if I can get in front, otherwise I think late in the evening might be the best shot on a week day, but the shelves were looking half empty yesterday evening from a quick glance.
It's a mess. People are staying in the store for like 90 minutes and it's absolutely messing up the in and out system.
That's the main problem here. The staff should be throwing people out after 30 minutes max. The demo stations were not a good idea as you would be queuing for longer just for that.
On the flip side, this whole temporary store thing is presumably solely to advertise Pokemon because there's a new game coming. So having 8 hour queues of people wanting to play Sword/Shield is probably what they want to message to press. It's annoying and not a good shopping experience but they've clearly set up a time limited themed store over the launch of SnS as promo for the game. It's a marketing exercise.
Truth is there're many people like me who don't really care about playing the demo, we just want to get some merch.
They don't really need to market the game to the hardcore fans and I can't believe any non-hardcore will want to queue for 6+ hours to play a demo
No but lots of (non-hardcore) people will see queues around the block and read on social media that there are 6 hour lines and go 'ooooh there's a new Pokemon game out?' and job done.
Hardcore fans would've got jazzed to go to a Pokemon Centre at any time of the year to buy Pokemon merch. I'm sure you (and I!) would've gone if they opened this six months ago. But they didn't, they opened it around the launch of SnS. For a reason.
I get what you're saying 100% and the demo units have definitely made it a miserable time for shoppers. Undeniably. But they're also the sole reason the thing exists. It's marketing for the new game.
Yes totally agreed.
Can't believe how slow this queue been moving...... It moved like 50 people in the last two hours lol....
I'd love to go, but going by those queues it doesn't seem worth it.
I hope they consider opening a permanent store in the UK. The poké-thirst here is real lol
Yeah I've been to the Tokyo and New York one and just wanted to grab some exclusive stuff for my fiancée since I won't be back in London for a bit. I'm dying here.Im sending positive vibes to the queue! I was hoping to go tomorrow (I'm in town for EGX) but fuck that! I've been to the ones in Osaka and Tokyo and, if it's anything like those, you'll have a great time! Godspeed!
no it's mostly gen 1 and the new starters for plushes.Do they have any Sir Fetch'd stuff?
I'm basically not interested in most of the London Pikachu stuff and SnS starters. All I really want is a pin and a basic poke mans plushy like bulbasaur. Wondering if I should even bother going.
no it's mostly gen 1 and the new starters for plushes.
If anyone goes in today and was able to pick me up a chilly bottle and a snorlax or wailord plush, I would reimburse them and be grateful.
Dang, I'll have to go back myself when the queue won't be as insane.Both snorlax and wailord are already sold out.. at least for the day
Limiting to 6 items per person seems wild.
Even wilder is the lack of time limit.