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Marvel has billed its upcoming Avengers: Endgame release as an absolutely can’t-miss appointment movie, so it might be no surprise that when Canadian movie theatre company Cineplex released pre-sale tickets to the movie, fans rushed to buy theirs.

Now it appears the site crashed because of the volume of people who tried to get the tickets to the 182-minute movie (that’s three hours and two minutes, or more than twice the runtime of 1994’s The Lion King, which at 88 minutes you can watch twice and still have a spare eight minutes for snacks and a bathroom break).

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A spokesperson for Cineplex confirmed “technical challenges” on Cineplex.com to National Post, but that tickets were still available. Transactions are being processed, albeit at a much slower rate than usual.

Cineplex apologized to customers and fans on Twitter early Tuesday morning.