Can't find a Triangular Prism in Toronto...

08/20/2009 01:55:20 PM · #1

WTF!?!?

I bought a nice triangular prism at an awesome toy store in Ottawa three years ago. It's been kicking around the house ever since, kids play with it, I play with it... it has always seemed to be everywhere.

Now I get a request to shoot a cover, and could really use it as a prop, and the darned thing is nowhere to be found, and my daughter with nearly photographic memory doesn't even know where it is. And I know why, because I finally put it away somewhere 'safe' for future use, so it wouldn't get lost.

I just spent the last hour and a half walking around the Eaton Centre and down the east side of Yonge street from Dundas to Queen looking for one, and talking to a dozen people.

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

KarenNfld

08/20/2009 02:18:43 PM · #2

Oh you must have gotten it at Mrs. Tiggy Winkles? I love that store!

Have you tried the gift shop at the ROM? I bet they'd have one, or the gift shop at the science centre (there's a science centre in TO, right?).

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08/20/2009 02:43:41 PM · #3

Originally posted by KarenNfld:

Ya, Tiggy Winkles!

I thought of the ROM too, but it's a bit of a walk up the street. And the Science Centre is really far. I wish Toronto had a Tiggy Winkles, but then I'd just spend all of my money there. There used to be a science shop in Burlington, which I'll try Saturday if I have no luck. Photo is due Sunday night.

soup

Canon EOS-30D

08/20/2009 03:26:03 PM · #4

i feel your pain. i've spent around 4 hours over three days scouring the house for the nice 'real' poker chips we have stored in an m&m's candy tin. my best guess at this point is some guest of ours thought they were giant flat m&m's and stole them...

i hope they got theirs when they tried one... :)

ralph

Nikon Z9

08/20/2009 03:31:54 PM · #5

EfstonScience Inc.
3350 Dufferin Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
M6A 3A4

LanndonKane

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08/20/2009 03:33:26 PM · #6

Try Efston Science, near yorkdale. They gotta have one.

ralph

Nikon Z9

08/20/2009 03:37:23 PM · #7

or Boreal bag-of-prisms

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08/20/2009 03:59:18 PM · #8

Thanks, Efston is a good bet, but I take the train to downtown for work, and it's way up by the 401, so too far to get at for me. :-(

BeeCee

Nikon D40

08/20/2009 04:54:38 PM · #9

I have noooo idea where anything is in Toronto, but...

Science City, Holt Renfrew Center, Bloor St?