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Pokémon Center to open in London
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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!
That weekend is MCM (Comic Con) weekend, which could lead to it being busier than it otherwise would be. Or it could go the other way. Who can say?
I work opposite Westfield and went there on my lunch break. The queue comes out of the building, down the road into the other end of Westfield and round the back. I had my lunch in Westfield in front of people in the queue - the queue didn't move AN INCH in an hour. I doubt anyone from the end of the queue is getting in today. Don't waste your time people.
I'm in London tomorrow but nuts to those queues, someone just tell me if Rowlet merch still exists or if the new gen has already put gen 7 on ice
Yeah went by the shop today around midday. It looks like a great shop from the outside. I asked the security how long they thought I would be if I got into the queue, they all said I shouldn't as it around an 8 to 9 hour wait.
I left. I feel sorry for all the people who entered there fill with hope and glee, just to find out the news.
I left. I feel sorry for all the people who entered there fill with hope and glee, just to find out the news.
I wanted to go but I will not visit any place in the UK called Pokemon Center. It should be a Centre.
I 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 weekday, but the shelves were looking half empty yesterday evening from a quick glance.
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That's because they closed the queue at 1pm and it took 6+hours to just move the queue inside the mall...
Today at 8am the queues are already massive outside of the mall and the store isnt even opening for another two hours..
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
I hope they consider opening a permanent store in the UK. The poké-thirst here is real lol
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!
Indeed. there's even a M&M store with 3 floors of merch in central London :)
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.
My sister and one of her friends were planning to go on Monday but given the insane queue times I think I'll suggest to her to either leave super early or not bother at all for a couple of weeks. No chance I'll go now, I didn't even want to queue for stuff at EGX that had queues that were a couple of hours at most, no chance I'll survive these queues.
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.
Both snorlax and wailord are already sold out.. at least for the day
Dang, I'll have to go back myself when the queue won't be as insane.
This wasn't a thing yesterday. Damn, they must be running out of stock fast.