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| - Silver Snail is a great comic book store. almost 90% of the time I go to Silver Snail I buy something or I want to buy something and I'm not even a hardcore comic book fan. Silver Snail is located at a great location on Queen st and is very noticeable with its facade painted with popular super heroes. This if the type of place that would make Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons very proud.
When you go inside you will be amazed at the interior of the place.The geek inside me does back flips whenever I'm here. It is not a very large place and the it feels very crowded at times but every nook and cranny is filled with merchandise. You will find many of the things that are "hot" in the geek world here. They have a huge array of hand made figures and even replica weapons from all your favourite characters. Most importantly they have a fairly large sized catalogue of new and classic comic books; be it western comics, Japanese mangas or critically acclaimed graphic novels. Lastly, Silver Snail keeps in-stock a bunch of popular designer toys.
One great thing about Silver Snail is that they make buying comic books and related items, easy and accessible.Even though the staff are not always attentive and they sometimes ignore you, they do know the products they are selling very well. I once was finding a certain toy for a friend but I forgot the name of the toy and the people there were kind enough to help me go through a huge amount of ideas on what the name of the toy could have been Gladly with their help I found what I needed. In other stores, they tend to either not help you properly if you are not a regular or are not well informed enough to help. Try going to a Toys R Us and watch as the staff's faces stare at you with confusion and disdain when you ask for a machine gun wielding Moses action figure.
This is probably one of Toronto's most popular comic book stores so if you are a hardcore fan of comics and you like your grungier, more underground joints, you won't find this store to your liking. One thing that does rub me the wrong way is that the pricing for many items at Silver Snail is quite expensive. I have heard that the pricing of books here is average compared to the competition but many of the toys and figurines are priced way too high for the average consumer. For example, they have a replica light saber from the Star Wars series that costs well over a hundred dollars. I say to myself that I would only buy that if it can actually cut down people that piss me off but it's nothing more than a stylized, silver metal tube.
So, if you do have the cash, go and check out Silver Snail. No matter how much you enjoy or immerse yourself in geek culture I'm sure you will find something that will make the inner asthma prone geek in you
jumping for joy.
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