So today I went to the Westfield Doncaster pop up store in Melbourne, Australia.
I was surprised at how long the queue was! 😪 I started queuing at 1140am, and didn't reach the store until nearly 2pm 😵
By the time I got there, the Twice baseball shirt was sold out, sigh 😔 The fan featuring Sana was sold out, much to the disappointment of some ONCEs. Luckily, my bias is Momo, and there were plenty of Momo handheld fans 🥳
I also bought a Twice Australia T shirt and a Twice cap keyring.
When I left at 215pm, the queue slowly died down, but still a sizable number. I think the queue should be less hectic from tomorrow onwards.
Finally I must give credit to the security guards who were friendly and pretty easygoing. The ONCEs were well behaved too.
Usually I hate queuing for anything, but this event was an exception 🤭
Oh, the pop up store is located opposite the Koko Black chocolate store ( Ground Floor ).
One of the Koko Black employees actually came out and distributed chocolate balls to the queuing ONCEs 😄
by javelin3000
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Did you see if there was any accessibility line or something like that? I’m going tomorrow 😁
Nice review! I got there about 11 and it took 2.5 hours to get to the top of the line, both Sana and Mina pickets were sold out when I got in so they must randomly restock. I saw a few people looping the line with bags full of merch and couldn’t tell if they were scalpers or just trying to hunt all the cards.
The Koko black guy came past us as well with chocolate buttons but he gave one to my husband waiting outside the line, then my kid and I missed out 😭 wtf lol
I got the same portraits shirt, the Boston bag (Hella small) and the cassette! The shirt feels really nice. No way I’m going back to get anything else but it was somewhat fun. The robe looked better irl than the image preview.
The security were pretty friendly but the staff doing payments were done with life 😅 the layout meant it was hard to move around and form a line, then it was hard to see where the bags were stored, and it felt like I was in the way trying to get a photo of the signatures so I didn’t try 🫠 I’ll save yours and pretend it’s mine if that’s okay 😅
I got the Nayeon photo card and Chaeyoung scratch card but I didn’t scratch it yet
A woman with a bunch of Sana merch and Savely bag beelined up to me because I had a Movely bag and gave me custom chopsticks! They’ve got “ONE IN A MILLION” printed on them and it’s so sweet 🫶 She also offered them to the people waiting ahead of me but they dismissed her kinda rudely (imo) and she left. I hope she knows they’re a really thoughtful, practical gift 💜💜💜
What was the sizing fit like for the shirts and shorts (if you bought them)? Was there plenty of stock for the shorts?
Does anyone know how to attach the magnetic wallet to their phones 😅? I bought it but it’s not strong enough to not just fall off