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Social media users had reported long lines in cinemas, in addition to intermittences on virtual channels.
The agitation to get a ticket to the new movie Spider-man: No way home was the topic that shook social media this morning. On the one hand, due to the discontent generated by the interruptions in the online ticket sales service, which was activated at midnight, due to the massive accesses to the web portals and digital applications of the cinemas.
On the other hand, due to the extensive lines that fans of the arachnid hero starred in at the box office of the cinemas of various cities, such as Guayaquil, Quito and Cuenca.
Spider-madness! This was the first day of online ticket sales for ‘Spider-man: no way home’ in Guayaquil
In one of the posts that users uploaded on Twitter, Spider-man fans are appreciated within the El Dorado shopping center, located on León Febres Cordero avenue, in Samborondón. Although the number of those present cannot be specified, attention was drawn to the deployment of the crowd through the premises of the establishment, outside the limits of the cinema, from approximately 9:30, even before the other premises operate .
In the late afternoon, around 6:00 p.m., after an observation on the site, about 25 people were registered in a line at the El Dorado Supercines box office. A host received moviegoers and directed them to one of the two rows that corresponded to the sale of tickets for Spiderman. The other column was shorter and from there the clients who wanted to enjoy the other films that are being shown were served.
The scene was the complete opposite of what had been reported in the morning.
The Marketing Engineer Galo Cedeño He preferred to buy his tickets at this time precisely to avoid the euphoria that was experienced earlier in the day. “I really came without expectations, I was afraid that the tickets had been sold out because of everything I had seen on social networks,” he said after buying three passes for December 16. “I really like this cinema, it is close to my house and the VIP room is my favorite,” he added.
Bruno Noboa He also took advantage of this moment of the day to get two tickets, after having trained in the gym that works inside the shopping center. “We went up to see how the movement was and we took advantage of the fact that there were not many people. We waited for more or less 30 minutes until they attended to us, everything was very calm ”, admitted the citizen.
With the same provision, the communicator accessed the box office Andrea jumps. After meeting a friend for coffee on site, she went upstairs, where the cinema is, to try her luck. She also got three tickets to the premiere. “It was crazy today, but at least I will get to see Spider-man before they make me! spoilers! ”, Joked the young woman.
As for online sales, some were able to access their favorite cinema websites with ease. That was the case with Sheyla Triviño. “Finally, 15:30 was the moment in which everything was in favor, the shortcomings appeared again, but the mobile app system flowed better than at dawn,” he shared.
“I was able to get my tickets and I am happy to be able to attend with my family. I didn’t manage to make the premiere, which was the ideal way to get ahead of the spoilers, ”agrees Sheyla. “I will not check social networks until after watching the movie. It is almost impossible, but you always want to live your own experience. “
The same happened to Omar San Andrés. At 15:40 he got his ticket, thanks to the management of his cousin, although for the function on Friday. “It only remains to be careful on Thursday and part of Friday to any kind of spoiler that does not spoil the long-awaited surprise. This phenomenon has not occurred in previous films or Marvel, Star Wars or DC “.
Omar tried to buy his tickets at 1:00 p.m. at a movie theater box office. But he found a queue that reached the parking lot, “comparable only to the lines at the bank. I stayed in the sun for more than 20 minutes to try to calculate the time it would take me to get to the checkout, ”he recalls. “Almost 3 hours would have taken me !!! Time that I would unjustifiably absent myself from my work to buy tickets … Through networks and friends I saw that the panorama in other cinemas was very similar ”.
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