Links not working to book Pokémon museum tickets? Try this

Update 19/11/25 – 04:09 pm (IST): SeeTickets has somehow managed to botch it up AGAIN! Less than two months after the priority booking links for the Pokémon Fossil exhibition all 404’d into oblivion, general sale for the separate Pokémon pop-up shop at the Natural History Museum dropped this morning and the exact same circus started all over again.

Queue pages spinning forever, access codes not working, half the people who pre-registered never even getting their email, and the SeeTickets site buckling like wet cardboard the second traffic hit.

X is an absolute warzone of people screaming “IS IT JUST ME” and posting screenshots of the endless loading wheel. A few users did manage to get in eventually, but not everyone has the same luck.

No word from SeeTickets or NHM yet (shocking, I know). Moral of the story: if you’re still trying to bag pop-up shop tickets today, keep smashing F5, check your spam folder religiously, and pray to Arceus that SeeTickets doesn’t get handed the inevitable Pokémon Centre London ticketing contract next year or fans are doomed.

Original article published on October 1, 2025, follows:

Pokémon fans eager to secure their spot at the Natural History Museum’s pop-up event hit a frustrating roadblock with dead links. The booking links sent via email returned nothing but 404 errors. So, within minutes of the email drop, people began flooding platforms like X and Reddit with complaints about them being stuck staring at broken pages instead of ticket queues.

“I just want to join the queue!” posted one exasperated user, while others bombarded See Tickets and the museum’s social accounts asking for working alternatives. Here are some more complaints for reference:

The timing couldn’t have been worse – priority access holders who’d eagerly awaited their chance to book were suddenly locked out by what appeared to be a technical glitch on the ticketing platform’s end.

But where official channels faltered, the Pokémon community came through. Reddit user Deathorglory quickly shared a workaround that’s been confirmed working by multiple fans: heading directly to https://nhmpe.seetickets.com/timeslot/nhmpe and entering the code from the original email gets you straight through to booking.

The fix spread fast, with grateful replies flooding in from people who’d successfully nabbed their tickets using the manual workaround. “You’re a star – got tickets!” one Reddit user celebrated, while another simply declared the helper “a real one” for sharing the solution.

User chatter online suggests that this is circulating on other platforms like Instagram and X too.

See Tickets hasn’t issued a public statement about what caused the links to fail, though their system appears to have logged the error.

For now, anyone still holding a priority code and getting 404 messages should skip the email link entirely and head straight to the working URL. There’s still time to catch this collision of natural history and Pokémon – assuming the booking system cooperates.

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