Tickets went on sale at noon on Tuesday, drawing many Pok\u00e9mon fans to the queue.<\/p>\n
An NBC Chicago producer who was in the virtual line around 1 p.m. was told that over 23,000 people were in line ahead of her.<\/p>\n
The website also said her estimated wait time to get to the page where tickets can be purchased was more than an hour. <\/p>\n
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Screenshot of the Field Museum ticket queue website on March 3 around 1 p.m.<\/p>\n
“We\u2019re experiencing high web traffic \u2014tickets to After 5 at the Field for Tuesday, March 3 are available for purchase in person at the Museum,” a banner on the Field Museum’s website said Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Many Reddit users discussed workarounds to getting the tickets after losing hope on the long virtual line on a thread titled “Anyone successfully get tickets to the Chicago Pokemon Fossil Museum?”<\/a> on the r\/pokemon subreddit. <\/p>\n “It’s been 3 hours of trying to get tickets.. I’m about to give up. Anyone have success?” the original post says. <\/p>\n Created by the Field Museum, the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo and the Pok\u00e9mon Company, Chicagoans can visit the exhibition until April 11, 2027. <\/p>\n \u201cAligned with the Field Museum\u2019s mission to connect us to the natural world, the\u00a0Pok\u00e9mon Fossil Museum\u00a0will inspire visitors to make new discoveries about some of their favorite Pok\u00e9mon while offering a pathway to science, especially budding paleontologists,” said Jaap Hoogstraten, Head of Exhibitions at the Field Museum.<\/p>\n