MOAR CIVIL UNREST

[cleolinda]

Yeah... you know how the Orland Park mall and security and police were "totally ready" for Twimania? Yeah. From wendyzski: Tickets Sell Out For 'Twilight' Star's Mall Appearance.

Tickets for an appearance by "Twilight" star Robert Pattinson at the Orland Square Mall went on sale early and were gone within an hour. [...] Tickets had been scheduled to go on sale at 7:15 a.m., but so many people came ahead of time that organizers decided to begin ticket sales by 11 p.m. Tuesday night. By midnight, they were all gone.

And people are Not Happy:

Hot Topic are liars. Once again, this Chicago one was a disaster. Tons of us have called over the week and they all gave us the same answer. "You can’t line up till 5am. If you do you will be escorted out." Well you can only imagine what a big surprise it was when we got there at 1 in the morning only to find out that they had started to sell them early. It is sad because they lied to so many of us. Some people had driven hours to get there only to find out it was too late.

And this is from someone who did get a wristband. Good job, guys!

From missmp: OMG, It's Edward Cullen: Boston Area Preps for Attack of Screaming Teen Girls. Your Guide to Surviving the Twilight Mall Tour.

Robert Pattinson answers your questions! When confronted by the screaming teenbarian hordes he feels like... crying, if only as a reaction to the energy coming at him. The scary, scary energy.

Another Twatlighter report from San Francisco, this one involving the Tom Sturridge (Lurky RPattz BFF) t-shirt:

Rob: Who's tha- OH MY GOD!
*everyone starts laughing, including Rob*
Rob: Jesus Christ!
Me: I love him. Shut up.
*Rob keeps laughing*
Rob: That's so funny. That's the most bizarre thing I've ever experienced.

Meanwhile, celticangel76 reports from Dallas, with pictures. (ETA: A more in-depth entry.)

From swsa: Zac Efron is jealous of Robert Pattinson and Twilight hype? "In fact, most seem to agree that Rob can rise above the Edward curse while Zac’s ability to make the leap is decidedly less certain. So rumour has it, he’s been in a snit for days, especially when he goes online and is confronted by Twilight hysteria everywhere." Also, Pattinson doesn't look like a melted Ken doll.

Tyra Banks Plans Tell-All On Twilight's Monsoon Of Fans, putting out an all-call for fans who were at the San Francisco maul.

Christian Science Monitor Reveals the Crackaliciousness of Twilight. It’s the Romance! I HAD NO IDEA!

'Twilight' Director Catherine Hardwicke Talks About Edward And Bella's Chemistry, Potential Sequels (apparently a Very Sekrit Midnight Sun Scene will appear on the DVD? ROCKING CHAIR Y/N?); Catherine Hardwicke Q&A: Twilight Sequels And Stunts ("It's not CGI. Oh, yeah, they're really in the trees").

Nikki Reed (Rosalie) Talks About 'Twilight.'

Reaser Confirms 'Ex List' Is Dead. Aw, Esme's out of a job, y'all. Times is hard.

Oscar Update: Defiance, Twilight(?), Australia, Wrestler and New Predictions. Okay, guys? Don't pick on the spelling of Stephenie Meyer's name. That's just petty and lazy and un-classy.

Pattinson Quit Beer And Dinner To Play Vampire Hunk; Video: 'Twilight' Vamp Robert Pattinson's 'Harry Potter' Past (shocking!).

And, following up from yesterday: Transcript of World's Best Interview.

ETA: The lines for Philadelphia and Saugus begin NOW, guys:

Below are the line-up locations:
Plaza at King of Prussia mall entrance - to the left of JC Penney
Square One mall entrance - between Best Buy and Sears

First come, first serve, no prisoners taken. Bring your riot gear.

Comments

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

Oh man, that wristband thing is...the hell? They were already lined up THE NIGHT BEFORE? This is just nuts. He's just Robert Pattinson, you guys. YOU HAVEN'T EVEN SEEN THE FUCKING MOVIE YET.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Bite your tongue! He is ~*EDWARD*~ MADE FLESH!!1!

[waltzingalong.livejournal.com]

For some reason "moar civil unrest" nearly made me snort juice out of my nose. I can't believe I missed all this... must go catch up on the batshit now and not get any sleep tonight.

Edit: HTML FAIL!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Click the "tour of terror" tag, that should do it.

[rosina-alcona.livejournal.com]

Tom-stu?

[dives.livejournal.com]

Tom Sturridge (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0836432/)!

(note what the trivia section says)

[i-will.livejournal.com]

I seem to remember you having some ties to shoebox_project, so I just thought I'd let you know that dorkorific has been hacked by the same hackers (it appears) that got copperbadge. Please warn people not to click on the links in the shoebox_project post (they deleted all entries and made a new one) or dorkorific's post, as they have viruses or keyloggers or something.

copperbadge's post on the subject, with help for people who may have clicked the links (http://copperbadge.livejournal.com/2610603.html)

[elendiari22.livejournal.com]

OMG I saw that! Scary. I clicked the link before I realized it was a hack, so I'm glad for the security settings. Ugh.

[life-on-queen.livejournal.com]

Dear God, the Twilight frenzy continues to make me feel better about everything I've done in fandom ever. They should bottle the crazy and sell it as a self-esteem booster for the mentally-ill. Schizophrenic? No problem - at least your not a Twi-fan....

[caoil.livejournal.com]

Also, Pattinson doesn't look like a melted Ken doll.

*snorts* touché!
Zac's got about the same level of personality as a Ken doll, too, whereas Rob brings the cheeky snark!

[eofs.livejournal.com]

I hope this doesn't fuck RPattz up forever. In the booze/drugs kind of sense. It sounds like he pretty much hates the situation he's found himself in. It's not a huge leap to see him become another young star going off the rails.

[wordswoman.livejournal.com]

OMG = Best LJ usericon EVER!

Well...the trampoline elephant might be a tie.

[megalion.livejournal.com]

heehee

[eofs.livejournal.com]

From the "stop the presses, RPattz was in Harry Potter" link:

Robert played Quiddich captain and Triwizard Tournament contender Cedric Diggory in 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire' and 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,' the latter in which he comes to an untimely end at the hands of Voldemort.

Wow. Uh... yeah. Wow.

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

Waaaaaaait a second.

Someone watched a different series of movies than I did.

[dives.livejournal.com]

Jeeeeeeez, I am really glad I didn't go down to Orland Park now. Wristbands? Buying tickets? PEOPLE WERE LINING UP SINCE LAST NIGHT?


Madness...madness...madness.


That Tom Sturridge shirt is brilliant, though.

[quitesometime.livejournal.com]

i love how many twilight related tags you have.


also, remember my friend who's going to the red carpet premiere in la? i've been telling her about all this, and she's honestly getting scared.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

As she should!

(Well, in theory, a number of the tags are being used or will be used for other things.)

[flamingtoilet.livejournal.com]

Seems like Dallas is the only one who had their shit together with regards to this. From the pictures, it looks like they were smart and had him out on the ice rink. Where they could keep him a safe distance from the fangirls.

[jenfullmoon.livejournal.com]

*snickers at icon big time*

[mokeyhokey.livejournal.com]

Honestly, the Twihards' first mistake was expecting Orland Square Mall to not fuck this up. It sounds like a lot of the people hung out to dry weren't local though, so they wouldn't know that. I'm eagerly awaiting the local news tonight.

[bluehwys.livejournal.com]

I'm eagerly awaiting the local news tonight.

Seriously. I live literally five minutes from the mall, and if I wasn't so sick I would totally be there to witness the insanity.

[robinmc.livejournal.com]

Somehow I don't think it would be the rocking chair scene, if only because there is no way that is not creepy, and Rob would most likely play it that way. Then again, Catherine Hardwicke seems to be oblivious in that "it's like Romeo and Juliet!" way, and in her mind, the rocking chair scene is probably the most pure and true statement of Edward's love for Bella. Oh lord, I don't know how much more of this shit I can take.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

It would also be really, really easy to film--just him on a set they already have with Kristen Stewart in the bed. As opposed to, you know, the big Family Meeting scene.

[celticangel76.livejournal.com]

They sold them early??? WTF where they thinking?? Damn that is just wrong on so many levels.

Okay, updated my blog with a couple more things and I'll put a link to the site where all the pics and the vid will be once I have the vid edited. I'm so damn tired, seriously getting to old for this three hours of sleep only thing.

I very nearly made a big sign that said "Cedric Diggory Forever!" but ran out of time.

[mamapduck.livejournal.com]

If you have 500 tickets and a thousand people are lined up, why make them wait? It seems like you can either sell the tickets now and send them the fuck home or wait 8 hours, sell the SAME 500 people their tickets and deal with the original thousand and the next two thousand people all at once. Pushing, shoving, fighting, yelling, tense cops, huge piles of litter (have you SEEN the mess Black Friday shoppers can leave in a line. Eww.) and you've still sold the same tickets to the same people. It's not like it was a lottery and they drew names early- the people who were going to get the tickets anyway just got them without having to be cold for so long.

A very silly, silly, SILLY question

[serizawa3000.livejournal.com]

Isn't Twilight just basically a YA Romance version of The Lost Boys?

Re: A very silly, silly, SILLY question

[flamingtoilet.livejournal.com]

YES!!!!!!!!!! Oh my god, that's brilliant.

[jaded-lady.livejournal.com]

I'd just like to point out that when I went to see President Elect Obama speak at JMU a week before the election, I encountered infinitely less fuckery than this. Make of that what you will, I'm just saying.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

What I make of that is that the Secret Service don't play.

[isil-helyanwe.livejournal.com]

Poor poor Rob... This is getting really weird.

[flamingtoilet.livejournal.com]

Weird doesn't begin to describe it.

[poinsley.livejournal.com]

I got a friend to promise to see this movie with me. I definitely don't want to see it alone! Plus, she lives far from where I work, so maybe we'll see it down there to avoid running into our students.

A bunch of my 6th graders asked me today if I had heard of Twilight, and when they found out I hadn't read it, they insisted that I do so. I think 6th grade is kind of young for all this craziness. I just hope they are older when they get to book 4!

[scarolinagrl.livejournal.com]

Hi, don't know you, but wanted to reply to your comment.

A friend of mine just told me today that her 10 year old grand-daughter was on book 4 and I kinda paused and did the 'isn't she a bit young for that' thing. then I felt old. and seeing that I'm an adult, and a librarian, I felt bad that I wasn't even sure of the age range that is reading this. But I know book four even squicked ME out a little. Officially, Amazon lists the fourth one as '12 and up'. Go figure.

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

"Hot Topic are liars."

Um, yeah, because they knew that people like you would pull crazy shit (and did). Your crazy is so severe that it requires extra security, deception, and other extraordinary measures.

[anaroriel.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you've seen this yet, but yesterday I went to the bookstore and saw this with all the Twilight books:

http://www.amazon.com/Robert-Pattinson-Eternally-Isabelle-Adams/dp/0061765538

It's just another level of insanity for poor Rob. O_O

[icecreamprincss.livejournal.com]

0__0

There aren't words.

[shannonsequitur.livejournal.com]

When is Robert Pattinson's birthday, anyway? I kind of want to get him a shoulder-mounted grenade launcher.

[la-petite-singe.livejournal.com]

It's a good thing my roommate's not here, because I am laughing loudly and hysterically at those photos of Rob reaction to the TomStu shirt. BWAHAHAHAHA! That is so creepy and awesome. This just keeps getting better & better.

[demonoflight.livejournal.com]

Twilight is lolarious.

Aw, poor Ex List! Even the original Israeli version got to go the whole season. =(

[saralinda.livejournal.com]

This is absolutely unbelievable. Yet I can't look away.