culture Scene: Silver Snail Moves, With Help From Some Friends

SHOW CAPTION  ✉ Share on:  188785 Boba Fett and a storm trooper discover the value of teamwork. 20120818silversnailmove12 https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120818silversnailmove12-100x100.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120818silversnailmove12.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120818silversnailmove12.jpg 1024 683 https://torontoist.com/2012/08/scene-silver-snail-moves-with-help-from-some-friends/slide/20120818silversnailmove12/ 20120818silversnailmove12 0 0 188775 About 400 people showed up to participate in the event. 20120818silversnailmove https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120818silversnailmove-100x100.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120818silversnailmove.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120818silversnailmove.jpg 1024 683 https://torontoist.com/2012/08/scene-silver-snail-moves-with-help-from-some-friends/slide/20120818silversnailmove/ 20120818silversnailmove 0 0 188776 20120818silversnailmove1 https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120818silversnailmove1-100x100.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120818silversnailmove1.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120818silversnailmove1.jpg 1024 683 https://torontoist.com/2012/08/scene-silver-snail-moves-with-help-from-some-friends/slide/20120818silversnailmove1/ 20120818silversnailmove1 0 0 188777 20120818silversnailmove2 https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120818silversnailmove2-100x100.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120818silversnailmove2.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120818silversnailmove2.jpg 1024 683 https://torontoist.com/2012/08/scene-silver-snail-moves-with-help-from-some-friends/slide/20120818silversnailmove2/ 20120818silversnailmove2 0 0 188778 These are pretty good costumes, right? These kids obviously have nerd genes. 20120818silversnailmove3 https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120818silversnailmove3-100x100.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120818silversnailmove3.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120818silversnailmove3.jpg 1024 683 https://torontoist.com/2012/08/scene-silver-snail-moves-with-help-from-some-friends/slide/20120818silversnailmove3/ 20120818silversnailmove3 0 0 188779 20120818silversnailmove5 https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120818silversnailmove5-100x100.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120818silversnailmove5.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120818silversnailmove5.jpg 1024 683 https://torontoist.com/2012/08/scene-silver-snail-moves-with-help-from-some-friends/slide/20120818silversnailmove5/ 20120818silversnailmove5 0 0 188780 20120818silversnailmove6 https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120818silversnailmove6-100x100.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120818silversnailmove6.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120818silversnailmove6.jpg 1024 683 https://torontoist.com/2012/08/scene-silver-snail-moves-with-help-from-some-friends/slide/20120818silversnailmove6/ 20120818silversnailmove6 0 0

188781 20120818silversnailmove7 https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120818silversnailmove7-100x100.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120818silversnailmove7.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120818silversnailmove7.jpg 1024 683 https://torontoist.com/2012/08/scene-silver-snail-moves-with-help-from-some-friends/slide/20120818silversnailmove7/ 20120818silversnailmove7 0 0 188782 20120818silversnailmove8 https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120818silversnailmove8-100x100.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120818silversnailmove8.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120818silversnailmove8.jpg 1024 683 https://torontoist.com/2012/08/scene-silver-snail-moves-with-help-from-some-friends/slide/20120818silversnailmove8/ 20120818silversnailmove8 0 0 188788 20120818silversnailmove16 https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120818silversnailmove16-100x100.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120818silversnailmove16.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120818silversnailmove16.jpg 1024 683 https://torontoist.com/2012/08/scene-silver-snail-moves-with-help-from-some-friends/slide/20120818silversnailmove16/ 20120818silversnailmove16 0 0 188787 At the end of the line there was, of course, a life-sized TARDIS. No nerd gathering would be complete without one. 20120818silversnailmove15 https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120818silversnailmove15-100x100.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120818silversnailmove15.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120818silversnailmove15.jpg 1024 683 https://torontoist.com/2012/08/scene-silver-snail-moves-with-help-from-some-friends/slide/20120818silversnailmove15/ 20120818silversnailmove15 0 0 188786 20120818silversnailmove14 https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120818silversnailmove14-100x100.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120818silversnailmove14.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120818silversnailmove14.jpg 1024 683 https://torontoist.com/2012/08/scene-silver-snail-moves-with-help-from-some-friends/slide/20120818silversnailmove14/ 20120818silversnailmove14 0 0 188784 A TIE fighter pilot outfit, in this heat? That's ridiculous. 20120818silversnailmove10 https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120818silversnailmove10-100x100.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120818silversnailmove10.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120818silversnailmove10.jpg 1024 683 https://torontoist.com/2012/08/scene-silver-snail-moves-with-help-from-some-friends/slide/20120818silversnailmove10/ 20120818silversnailmove10 0 0 188783 The Doctor could have saved everyone some trouble by transporting all the boxes in his TARDIS, but presumably he decided not to for some fate-of-the-universe type of reason. 20120818silversnailmove9 https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120818silversnailmove9-100x100.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120818silversnailmove9.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120818silversnailmove9.jpg 1024 683 https://torontoist.com/2012/08/scene-silver-snail-moves-with-help-from-some-friends/slide/20120818silversnailmove9/ 20120818silversnailmove9 0 0



WHERE: Between 367 Queen Street West (Silver Snail’s old location) and 329 Yonge Street (Silver Snail’s new location).

WHEN: Saturday, August 18, 9 a.m.

WHAT: More than 400 volunteers and staff showed up on Saturday morning to help Silver Snail, the famed downtown comic shop, move from its Queen Street location of 36 years to new digs on Yonge Street, next to the Yonge-Dundas HMV. Among the participants were members of the Canadian Garrison 501 Legion (that is, people who like dressing up in Star Wars storm trooper costumes), a real-life Boba Fett, at least one Doctor (as in “Who”), and a whole bunch of other people in nerdy getups. Everyone formed a massive line along the sidewalks between the two storefronts, and passed boxes from hand to hand in the style of a bucket brigade. When all the boxes had arrived at a park on the Ryerson University campus that abuts the new Silver Snail location, the crowd lined up to receive prizes and gift bags, courtesy of the store. The new Silver Snail is scheduled to open in September.