Andreas Stephens from Sydney, Australia was the first person reported in line to reserve the Tesla Model 3 in store a whole 2 days before the doors open, but now that we are about 24 hours away from Tesla accepting reservations for its $35,000 long-range vehicle, we are starting to get reports of lines and tents at Tesla stores around the world.

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Tesla will take reservations when the stores open during local business hours – you can check your local store business hours here. Online reservations will start at 8:30pm (3:30am UTC) at the same time that the livestream of the event will start.

A $1,000 deposit is required in the US and Tesla published the list of currency amount per country. Surprisingly, it requires only a $1,000 CAD deposit in Canada despite the very weak Canadian dollar, which could encourage people to go ahead and place a deposit especially since it’s refundable.

It seems to already have an effect as we see two tents already set up in front of the Tesla Montreal store and a line in front of the Vancouver store:

Via Imgur

Update: The owner of the awesome Model 3 custom tent in Montreal, Ian Pavelko, reached out to us and you can follow his Twitter feed for updates:

Dawn! 1 night down, 1 to go. #Model3 reserve camping https://t.co/fxHiLr4mj8

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Mad Hungarian (@IanPavelko) March 30, 2016

Some people have also been spotted in Melbourne:

Campers have hit the Melbourne store #model3 #tesla https://t.co/jrOmkCAkK0

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Heath Walker (@TexWalkerRanger) March 30, 2016

And someone also set up a tent at the Tesla Boston store:

First one in line! #boston #tesla #elonmusk #model3

A post shared by @ nzwolsky on Mar 29, 2016 at 2:31pm PDT

Tesla is now also sharing a few pictures of early adopters waiting at its stores:

Fort Worth, TX

And Toronto (appropriately reading Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future):

A queue is starting at Tesla’s Rocklin store in California:

And so it begins #Tesla #Model3 https://t.co/ldmUh9Uygr

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Bonnie Norman (@bonnienorman) March 30, 2016

Please let us know if you spot waiting lines or tents at Tesla’s locations. You can contact us via Twitter, email or simply leave a comment below.

The Tesla Model 3 will be unveiled at Tesla’s Design Studio in Hawthorne, California, on March 31st at 8:30pm Pacific. If you want to reserve the vehicle, Tesla revealed all the reservation process details per region and here’s everything we know about the vehicle.

Update: Exclusive Tesla Model 3 leaked specs show 0-60 under 4 sec and 300+ mile range options

Update 2: Tesla Model 3: in-store reservations a success as impressive lines of people are spotted around the world [Live updates]