Harry Potter Tickets

Nitefly · 30 Oct 2015 at 11:06

Currently 16,406 people ahead of me in the queue - feeling pumped.

Anyone else get a bigger queue fail?

Colleague got 2,000 and I only told her about it one minute before as she saw it on my desktop pfffft.

Glaucus · 30 Oct 2015 at 11:07

I have no idea what you're talking about.

Nitefly · 30 Oct 2015 at 11:08

Tickets for Harry Potter 8 - which is going to be a play.

Cosimo · 30 Oct 2015 at 11:08

Tickets for what?

Palace Theatre in London's West End next summer

Mat · 30 Oct 2015 at 11:09

Cosimo said:
Tickets for what?

Harry Potter 8 - which is going to be a play.

Glaucus · 30 Oct 2015 at 11:09

Sounds dreadful, fell asleep at cinema for one of the films.

Mynight · 30 Oct 2015 at 11:09

I hadn't heard about this one. Ms Rowling run out of money?

tom_e · 30 Oct 2015 at 11:11

Mynight said:
I hadn't heard about this one. Ms Rowling run out of money?

I don't think that's ever going to be an issue she'll have to face.

Cosimo · 30 Oct 2015 at 11:11

Glaucus said:
Sounds dreadful, fell asleep at cinema for one of the films.

The story takes place several years on from the end of the last Potter book, when Harry is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband and father of three children.

His youngest son Albus has to take on the weight of the family legacy, and "both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places."

This will probably have you in a coma.

Mynight · 30 Oct 2015 at 11:12

tom_e said:
I don't think that's ever going to be an issue she'll have to face.

Saving up for the next referendum maybe?

Cosimo · 30 Oct 2015 at 11:15

Mynight said:
Saving up for the next referendum maybe?

I hear that they're going to nationalise her when independence comes.

Zhokel · 30 Oct 2015 at 11:15

My friend is in the queue for this on two sites and has 20K people ahead of him on both haha. Apparently tickets are already up on ebay for £3K?

Mynight · 30 Oct 2015 at 11:17

Cosimo said:
I hear that they're going to nationalise her when independence comes.

Gotta get into the black somehow

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Greebo · 30 Oct 2015 at 11:18

Madness! I bet most tickets were bought by ticket touts to sell on.

How much are people been ripped off for tickets from the box office?

Nitefly · 30 Oct 2015 at 11:20

It's a two part play - £130 for both. There are cheaper seats but it's automatic seating at the moment. Most are £130.

Expensive but at £65 per part I've paid more for theatre tickets before.

Steeps · 30 Oct 2015 at 11:21

Had a colleague camp out the site to try and get tickets on Wednesday. They were about 18,000th in the queue. When they finally got to select tickets it crashed. 2nd time round they tried to select dates, but every time they looked at a date it added tickets to their basket which there was no way of removing, so they had to start again and lost the dates they really wanted.

3rd time lucky, after 6 hours of waiting on a website they got tickets for dates 3 months after the original date they had selected when they had basket issues. Reading the twitter feed there were a lot of people having issues with the site.

Nitefly · 30 Oct 2015 at 11:22

I think it's a case of book whatever tickets you can and make plans around it. Who has plans for 2017 anyway

platypus · 30 Oct 2015 at 11:34

A harry potter play? Jesus.

Mat · 30 Oct 2015 at 11:36

platypus said:
A harry potter play? Jesus.

No, that's Hagrid you're thinking of.

enkoda · 30 Oct 2015 at 11:41

Don't forget, you'll have to watch the next 7 plays to find out what happens at the end.