The final spot for the highly anticipated Avengers: Endgame dropped today just as advance tickets went on sale — and the result was numerous sites being clogged with traffic.
After months of waiting, tickets finally went on sale today, two weeks later than they did for Avengers: Infinity War.
Fandango’s website crashed. AMC’s website crashed. Cineplex’s website crashed.
The next three weeks could go by very slowly for diehard fans.
Atom told Deadline it sold three times as many tickets in the first hour of pre-sales as it did for Avengers: Infinity War over the same timeframe last year.
Pre-orders also outstripped first-hour sales for Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
Fandango said it had strong sales too, so at least some people were able to endure the wait long enough to grab their tickets.
The last teaser for the Marvel film is about one minute long and shows a lot more footage of what to expect from the next chapter in the Disney blockbuster franchise.
It seems Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) lived, Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) and Captain America (Chris Evans) make up and another huge battle with Thanos (Josh Brolin) will take place — not too surprising, but this is the first good look at Thanos in an Endgame trailer.
Iron Man and Captain America trust each other once again.
Not long after advance tickets went on sale, #AvengersEndgametickets was the No. 1 trend on Twitter, as fans were having trouble with clogged theater websites.
When Heat Vision attempted to purchase tickets for opening day (April 26), the AMC site gave a 503 error code.
Around 8 a.m., the website was down entirely.
We want everyone to be able to grab their Avengers: Endgame tickets, but it looks like we’ve gotten Thanos’ snap. We’re working on getting things back up and running, and in the meantime, please keep trying our website and our partner sites!
— AMC Guest Services (@AMCHelps) April 2, 2019
Fans on Twitter shared their own issues with other sites, including wait times of more than 30 minutes in a queue.
The film will hover around three hours in length and be the final Marvel movie for Evans’ Captain America.
Watch the new teaser below.
Here are the exclusive Marvel Studios’ #AvengersEndgame posters from @IMAX, @DolbyCinema, and @RealD3D. Get tickets now: https://t.co/EDzhu4cKwi pic.twitter.com/xpd5NHaYGC
— The Avengers (@Avengers) April 2, 2019
Trying to buy #AvengersEndgame tickets got me like… pic.twitter.com/zRDdRjrFux
— Douglas Wesley (@DougWintemberg) April 2, 2019
Me, a ticket holder watching all the peasants who have to fight over the #AvengersEndgame tickets while the AMC app is crashing simultaneously. pic.twitter.com/eIS9b2ISpg
— AirPods & Airwaves (@A_A_Ron_Rodgers) April 2, 2019
Fun Fact: At no point in any of the #AvengersEndgame Footage we’ve gotten thus far, do the Original 6 Avengers stand together in frame pic.twitter.com/B0dwq5OOhm
— Charlie Schneider (@AwesomEmergency) April 2, 2019