Spider-madness! This was the first day of online ticket sales for ‘Spiderman: no way home’ in Guayaquil

Nobody wants ‘spoilers’ (or have the development of the plot ruined before seeing it), that’s why everyone wants tickets.

The coveted idea that in the latest installment of the saga of Spiderman: No way home Spidermen from the previous franchises appear, Tobey McGuire y Andrew Garfield, With Tom Holland, the most recent, has literally left fans of the arachnid superhero without sleep. And everyone wants to be the first to know.

For less than a week, the most important cinema chains in the country announced on their social networks the pre-sale of tickets for the premiere (December 16) and preview (December 15) of the film, starting at 00:01 this Monday, November 29 on your mobile applications and websites. Many minutes before the agreed time, the followers of the character created by Stan Lee had already run to these platforms, trying to be the first to get their ticket, as if it were Willy Wonka’s golden ticket.

Of course, the massive and hasty connection caused failures in the virtual channels of the cinemas and with it some inconveniences in the service.

The sportscaster and ‘gamer’ Danilo coello he considers himself one of the most staunch fans of Marvel productions, he says he is a ‘fanatic’, so whenever possible he tries to go to all the functions of these tapes on their opening day. And this time it was not going to be the exception.

From 23:00Remember, he began to probe the apps and portals of the cinemas to access the purchase. “I was also aware of social networks and I saw that in other countries, where it was already 12 at night, the websites had collapsed.” That fact somewhat overshadowed his intention, especially when at 23:30 the page of one of the cinemas had already fallen and at 23:55 that of another chain. But he kept updating the accesses, although he was logged out from time to time (since it is necessary to create an account and log in to process the online purchase) and he had to connect repeatedly, even because the site gave him an error in the user data.

At 2:30 Today he finally got two tickets to a preview function in a VIP room. “They were just the last in the room,” he adds; In other words, everything was already occupied for the chosen function.

The audiovisual production company Ana Laura Morquecho She also chose to connect a few minutes before the online sales service opens, around 11:50 p.m., considering that this way she could have a better chance of getting preview tickets for herself, her siblings, cousins ​​and friends. In total, 10 entries.

“We were between three cell phones and two computers to be able to access ”, explains the young woman, who also alleges that she had problems in her connection, especially because the channel where the session was connected had a time limit and it was closed before making the payment. In addition, he had to buy his passes in different batches.

“On Twitter we read that you could not buy so many tickets at the same time, due to the distancing restrictions due to the coronavirus. So first I bought a ticket, just at 3:40″. Then he tried to connect again right away, but the apps didn’t respond to him. The other group of tickets got them at 5:30 from today. At that time, he acknowledges, the purchase was faster.

Ana Laura is not the only one who acquired group tickets, a strategy that they do between friends to supposedly avoid that there are fewer people connected and thus not collapse the webs. The Marketing Engineer Ítalo Palacios He shares that he reached his entrance through a friend, although he says that he also experienced part of the “chaos and despair” by not being able to access the virtual addresses of the cinemas and by loading errors during the early hours and morning hours.

“We saw that it was a problem not only in Ecuador, some cinema chains in other countries took out ads before the presale (here) that for reasons beyond their management the sale was not going to be available,” adds Ítalo. In your case, the purchase was completed at 9:00, when the seats for the special rooms had already been sold out.

In the same vein as Danilo, the filmmaker Marco Vera He is another declared mega fan of the Marvel universe and especially of the history of Peter Parker as Spiderman, so he does not lose any of his functions at the premiere. Everything since the saga began Avengers, it states. Hopefully, you don’t want to miss the first screening of the film.

But in view of the situation with digital channels in cinemas, he prefers to do the traditional process: buy your tickets at the box office the same day of the preview or premiere. He did so with Eternals and Black Widow, reveals. Because he is a freelancer, he attends functions during the hours when other people are working, after noon or mid-afternoon.

“I was one of those who went to the movies at 8:00 p.m. and stayed in line until midnight, when there were no numbered tickets or in-app purchases. It’s cool to feel like you’re the first to enter the room and sit in the best position, ”he shares. Now you no longer buy so early and choose to choose a less busy time for the functions, which usually tend to be more crowded in the late afternoon and into the night.