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"The last of five sections of the queue outside Apple's Regent Street store Friday. Video: onlygeek via YouTube\n&amp;#8220;I only need to say this one sentence to get across the magnitude of this launch,&amp;#8221; wrote Julian Alexander (AKA Tommo_UK) on Investor Village&amp;#8217;s AAPL Sanity board Friday evening:\n\n  &amp;#8220;The lines were bigger than for ANY launch, I have ever seen, for anything, anywhere. Including for any iPhone launched to-date or last year&amp;#8217;s iPad. \n  \n\n\n&amp;#8220;Simply awe inspiring,&amp;#8221; he continued. &amp;#8220;There must have been several thousand people  lining up outside the Regent Street and the Covent Garden stores by the  time I checked at 6-7 pm, when the queues were at their peak. They are selling on eBay for up to double the retail price, right now.\n&amp;#8220;AAPL under $450? What a joke.&amp;#8221;\nBelow: The best video I&amp;#8217;ve found of the five-sectioned queue outside Apple&amp;#8217;s \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAAPL\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Regent Street store, courtesy of OnlyGizmos. It took the videographer nearly four minutes to walk from one end of the line to the other.\n\n\nAlso on Fortune.com:\n\nVideos: iPad 2 mania Down Under\nVideos: iPad 2 lines in Europe, Canada\nVideo: Walking (what was at the time) the longest iPad 2 line\n\n[Follow Philip Elmer-DeWitt on Twitter @philiped]"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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