Inside the store, at about 3 pm they announced that there were 2.000 people in the virtual line waiting to enter and asked the people inside the store not to stay longer than one hour to allow other people to enjoy the experience. The shop announced a bit after noon that they stopped providing tickets for entrance, as they’ve reached capacity.
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To clarify how this virtual system works, each position in the queue represents groups of people of up to 6 people each, which means that one person in your group can go scan the code and they can input how many people are with them, instead of the whole group having to scan the code. Sometimes it went lower, but at the end we were able to enter the shop at 2 pm, 4 hours later, when the original estimate from the app was just 20 minutes when we got there. We went for a coffee, although the estimated time of return kept changing. We scanned the code and it told us we were in position 254 in the queue. Finally, at 10 am in the morning, the staff pronounced the Alohomora spell, and the doors of the store were finally open! Although the opening time was 10 am in the morning, the store staff provided the QR code at 9AM, so people could scan it and leave the place (remember, we are going through a pandemic so keeping a lot of people in the same place is not healthy). More people kept joining the queue, and at one point it was about five blocks long. Queue outside the Harry Potter New York Store Only when it was your turn (more on that later), could you access the shop and not before. The queue started at midnight the day before, where the first group of fans started arriving and therefore they began lining up unofficially to scan the code first come, first serve. The official social media of the store had previously informed that at 9 am they would put out a QR code that would give you a place in a virtual line, to avoid crowding in the store. It was a rainy morning in Manhattan, and as soon as we arrived at 935 Broadway, we saw there was already a queue of more than 250 people, excited as we were. We arrived at the store at 8 :30 in the morning, one and a half hours before the opening time. We were lucky enough to be there on its inaugural day. After many months of teasing this new official shop, fans were able to step inside on June 3rd, the official date for the opening of the biggest Harry Potter shop in the world. It affected the Wizarding World in several ventures, such as Fantastic Beasts 3, Cursed Child productions around the globe, and the official Harry Potter Store in New York. The COVID pandemic caused struggles all around the world, and some of them were delays in projects that were planned to open in 2020. The Opening of the Harry Potter Store in New York Gisela Cappiello 1083 words
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