Apple Store London to open November 21

[Sayhey]

Found this via ifoAppleStore. Check out the photos on macobserver's site of an early press tour of the inside of the London store.

 

[blueskyredkite]

Cool, what if I was to stay, are there any car parks which charge hourly rates so that I won't need to keep going back to put money in the meters if I decide to stay?

Someone pointed me at this earlier so I'll pass on the good deed:
http://www.apple.com/uk/retail/regentstreet/map.html

HTH.

 

[iJoe]

Apple Store Regent St was just on BBC National news @ 10.

 

[blueskyredkite]

Apple Store Regent St was just on BBC National news @ 10.

That'll mean more people turn up :-( getting a bit concerned about whether I'll make it for a lucky bag.

 

[southernbelle]

Does anyone have a line count? 😕

 

[johnnyjibbs]

Wow, that's not going to help the old "BBC is biased towards Mac" arguement. But having the store broadcast on the national 10 O'clock news is brilliant publicity for Apple.

 

[Rhys24]

any update on the line ?

 

[Knox]

Apple Store Regent St was just on BBC National news @ 10.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/news_web/video/40545000/bb/40545825_bb_16x9.ram

Apple section at 23:40

 

[aswitcher]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/news_web/video/40545000/bb/40545825_bb_16x9.ram

Apple section at 23:40

Link failed for me...

 

[johnnyjibbs]

Link failed for me...

Make sure you have Real Player installed. You can access it by going to news.bbc.co.uk and clicking the "Watch BBC News in Video" button at the top right of the page. This brings up a separate news window where you can select "1, 6 and 10 o'clock news" bulletins at the bottom and then this video will play.

 

[iJoe]

BBC News 24 does a bit on it roughly every half hour, too.

 

[Applespider]

OK...nearly time for the midnight update! 😀

Just gone for a walk around the block and the people at the end now, think they are around the 250 mark. I think with the people who have called timeout for food and WC breaks that it may be closer to the 275-300 mark.

If you want a bag, you better get a move on.

Great atmosphere down here. Everyone walking down Regent St is stopping to gawp in the windows and take pictures. The front of the line on Regent St (the back is much more peaceful and quiet... and dark!) is getting a lot of drunken people now.

 

[mattmook]

OK...nearly time for the midnight update! 😀

Just gone for a walk around the block and the people at the end now, think they are around the 250 mark. I think with the people who have called timeout for food and WC breaks that it may be closer to the 275-300 mark.

If you want a bag, you better get a move on.

Great atmosphere down here. Everyone walking down Regent St is stopping to gawp in the windows and take pictures. The front of the line on Regent St (the back is much more peaceful and quiet... and dark!) is getting a lot of drunken people now.

Yeah i counted 240ish at 11:50pm. I'm not good at counting though - that's what you get for having a maths degree.

 

[Applespider]

Yeah i counted 240ish at 11:50pm. I'm not good at counting though - that's what you get for having a maths degree.

I gave up counting after the second beer and a bottle of wine! 😉

 

[aswitcher]

I gave up counting after the second beer and a bottle of wine! 😉

Shouldn't you be drinking local brews of Apple Cider 😉

 

[Savage Henry]

Yeah i counted 240ish at 11:50pm. I'm not good at counting though - that's what you get for having a maths degree.

The Beeb news bulletin reported it using the description 'dozens', but they must have pulled the footage from about 4 hrs earlier.

Man, it's cold in my house so you guys must be feeling it! More power to you.

 

[blueskyredkite]

The Beeb news bulletin reported it using the description 'dozens', but they must have pulled the footage from about 4 hrs earlier.

Could be those in the queue are exagerating? Maybe the cold has gone to their heads and they're not thinking straight 🙂

Those numbers are concerning me though, I really don't fancy getting up there in three hours and finding I'm number 400 and something... but I don't want to leave it and find that there weren't that many people there.

Oh, dilema. Is it worth standing in the freeeeezing cold for 7 hours to save 500 quid on some Mac stuff? At my hourly rate, yes... but, in the sensibility stakes I dunno... bed or apple, bed or apple, bed or apple, bed or apple? Oh I really don't know.

 

[CGT]

I'm afraid my bed is going to win this one.

Froze my nuts off coming home 😱 so I'm not going back in. Taking a friend iBook shopping tomorrow though so if any of you guys are still alive then I may see you in the store tomorrow afternoon.

Good luck to you all.

C

🙂

 

[Doctor Q]

What if Apple opens the doors in 9 hours and the first 200 people in line are frozen solid so they can't move their feet to enter the store? Will Apple employees use PowerBooks to heat them up again before letting anyone else in?

 

[aswitcher]

What if Apple opens the doors in 9 hours and the first 200 people in line are frozen solid so they can't move their feet to enter the store? Will Apple employees use PowerBooks to heat them up again before letting anyone else in?

I bet those Apple iPod socks are going to be bought for more than keeping your iPod warm 😉

 

[Santaduck]

somebody at the opening please post apple retail store ARS # on the iChat accounts on the machines there.

 

[knuxed]

So can anyone tell me the latest headcount for the queue

 

[hexdcml]

2.24am

I am starting to feel the cold here. My iBook has abour 18% of battery.

I'm trying to get some rest, but the amount of caffine I've been hacing is preventing me from going to noddy land.

I can barely feel my fingers.

I am pissed off at the amount of people asking us why we're here.

 

[Rhys24]

head count ?

 

[WinDoze9t8]

Must be quite a few of "hard core" mac fans there, if your noticed by passer-byes.

I'm 20 mins away but have decided to give the store a miss and go to the Expo instead.

Respect to the al-nighters.