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My old theater had 2 showtimes, 9:30pm and 11:30pm. Saw the runtime of the episode was an hour and 5 minutes, so figured that’s a pretty tight turn around for a sold out weeknight thing. Especially due to the tickets being a voucher for concessions. If you have a 4DX you know how much it sucks to clean. And legit a showing with 5 people who had food can be a mess.

Then I see in the Regal sub that they had a full trailer package. Assuming this also was the typical ads after the start time before the trailers, seems like they probably gave you maybe 30 minutes to clean?

And it’s a Tuesday, which means less staff. And a lot of the backup were probably helping the rush on concession. I can’t even imagine how bad that was for the ushers and concession teams.

Okay, obviously it’s a “while supplies last” type thing. They promote them from Thursday-Sunday, and I’d say it’s not crazy to think maybe late Saturday or early Sunday you could expect to be out of luck. That’s not the case here.

Got mine on Thursday. Really liked the movie, and I’m a geek for this type of stuff. So the next day I went back. This was Friday at 4pm. Used my A-List and they were already out of them. This was the 6th showing overall. 3 the day before, 2 others earlier that day. The one I went to Thursday wasn’t anywhere close to sold out, and I doubt the earlier Friday ones were either.

There are two other AMCs with IMAX I can make it to. So I call them both today before making the trek, right as they open before the first shows of the day. Both of them are ALSO totally out of the cards.

If you’re gonna run a promotion like this, you really should send out like 10x the product per seats in the IMAX. If an IMAX has 100 seats, send 1,000 packs. That would cover 10 sell outs, something likely not to happen for a movie like this. Worst case, you got some cards left AFTER the promotion.

Other option, say it’s just the preview night. Same deal, if you have some left over it’s a bonus. But people showing ip for an early afternoon one on Friday won’t be walking in thinking they’re set.

Not a massive deal, but I think it’s absolutely worth calling them out over.