SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KTLA) -- Third time is usually the charm - but not for Comic Con fans. The online ticketing system once again crashed Saturday morning as fans tried to buy passes for the vastly popular convention.Users trying to access TicketLeap's website minutes before the tickets were scheduled to be available Saturday morning instead received error messages that the site was over capacity. The site was still down hours after the 9 a.m. start time. Despite refreshing, some reported seeing a page saying "We'll be right back. TicketLeap is currently down for maintenance."
TicketLeap was the third company organizers have contracted to host the July 21-24 event. A promising trial run of the site in December successfully allowed the sales of 1,000 four-day badges to the event.
Fans tweeting about their troubles sent the hash-tag topic #SDCC (San Diego Comic Con) to the top of the world-wide trending chart and went as far as blaming 'Twilight' fans for the meltdown. (The cast of the popular vampire film series is rumored to attend.)
"I mean, is it wrong of me to *assume* Comic Con #SDCC would have a freaking IT Geek under their belt?" wrote TrekJen.
