Sales for new 'Star Wars' movie overwhelm movie ticket sites
NEW YORK (WABC) -- If you're a "Star Wars" fanatic, and there are only tens of millions of you out there, you already know about the debut of the short clip of the new trailer for the latest "Star Wars" movie coming out in December.
This trailer sounded the bell for the beginning of ticket sales for "Star Wars: The Force Awakens."
But getting those tickets online was not easy.
They may have little interest in football, but millions of "Star Wars" fans sat through the first half of the Giants game Monday night, to see the latest trailer.
After all, they've been waiting for quite a while.
"I guess my whole life, you know?" said Sean Snyder, a "Star Wars" fan.
Entertainment reporter Sandy Kenyon on the "Star Wars" hype:
Snyder is manager of "Ace Bar" in Alphabet City, where Sunday's tweet from Disney offered so little notice; he couldn't organize a party to watch the much anticipated trailer for "The Force Awakens".
It's the seventh installment in the "Star Wars" series and the first of a trilogy set to unfold over the next several years.
Tickets popped up online Monday night for the premiere two months from now.
And immediately, websites like Fandango and MovieTickets.com crashed under the demand.
Snyder's friend sat online for more than an hour to come up with tickets, and in the end...victory!
"It's a good time to be alive," Snyder said.
