Pokemon Center London already has huge queues despite its booking system
The Pokémon Center pop-up store in London is already experiencing extremely long queues, despite it previously taking reservations.
The store opened today at the ExCel Centre in London and will remain open until Sunday, August 21 for the duration of the Pokémon World Championships.
The last time a Pokémon Center pop-up store opened in London, the queues it created were enormous, so this time fans were encouraged to book a time slot online in order to reduce potential waiting times.
However, tweets from the venue suggest that the huge wait times seen in 2019 have reoccurred, with photos and videos showing extremely long queues.
“I heard from someone there the queue is looking like 4-5 hours and the queuing system may have gone to pot, the sooner you get there the better I reckon,” Twitter user @jasminapplebyig claimed.
“Apparently even if you’ve booked a time slot for the Pokémon Center you still have to queue with everyone that didn’t book,” said @GhostlyFelis. “What was the point of booking then?”
Another user, @Asrialys, claimed they reserved a time slot for 12:10 and was “just barely getting in” an hour later. “They did say it was optional, but they clearly had no plans on crowd control,” they claimed.
Further photos and videos show extremely long queues, with one video showing a queue that goes out the entire ExCel Centre building, as seen below:
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