Anakin Skywalker Crashed Sideshow's Site

[WillowLover]

I'm not sure if I should post this here or the Pylea forum so if its in the wrong place, forgive me.

Today Sideshow made their exclusive Anakin Skywalker 12" figure avaible for preorder. The site almost immediately stopped responding and ultimately crashed. I know Star Wars has a much larger fan base than Buffy but I was wondering if any of the Buffy exclusives ever crashed the Sideshow site when they went up for preorder. It would be very irritating if they had something like this happen before and didn't take any steps to solve it.

[Slayer44]

I thought that thier site crashed today when I could not get to it at all. Thankfully I got my exclusive Anakin before the site went down. However I do not think that this has ever happened with any of the Buffy figures or even for any of the other products that they sell.

[SiteC]

I expect it to only get WORSE with every SW release. I tried for an hour and a half to get through on that site yesterday. Luckily I was able to snag the exclusive before they sold out. Something needs to be done with the bandwith of that site during releases.

The site never crashed with Buffy releases, as far as I know...then again SW fans outnumber Buffy fans by about 100-1.

It also takes longer for the Buffy ones to sell out it seems. Luke sold out within a week, I dont expect Anakin to last much longer than that.

[ajmets]

Same thing happened to me. It was probably about a half hour of me trying to get on the site and it not working. I was in a panic that I wouldn't be able to get the exclusive. I did wind up getting him but not without a struggle.

[DanMan]

They could fix that from happening but simply having larger productions runs and then cutting down on all the hype about the release. The whole 'act now, or never get it' thing is stupid, especially if it crashes the site!