sully from the block ([info]sully2001ca) wrote in [info]toronto,
@ 2006-10-23 09:53:00
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Toronto Zombie Walk 2006 in pictures
Thankfully, yesterday's zombie outbreak in the heart of the downtown core was successfully yet mysteriously contained. Here's some photos of Toronto Zombiewalk 2006.



That's [info]toronto's own [info]rocketbox in the blue dress and pink hair, as it turns out. :)




Hmm, someone's missed a step...


Not everyone will get this costume, but those who do (like myself) applauded wildly for the guy. He even made the right sounds.


A very many people came out. Two hundredish? Anyone do a headcount?


Being an intrepid photojournalist can sometimes be quite hazardous.


AUGH!


She wants me. Clearly.


Miss Cadaver cemented her claim on her crown in the congeniality category.


Probably the best photo I took all day. Messed up the vast majority of them due to one-handing the camera and holding an umbrella at the same time. F%*k.


Spontaneous and quite unplanned swarming of a Queen St. W streetcar as the zombie horde headed west. There were four police officers in two squad cars about a hundred feet back from this scene, looking on in amazement/disbelief/amusement. It was pretty funny.


The streetcar driver goosed the accelerator to make a getaway. The Rocket lives up to its name.


That's all! Check out the full gallery for more photos and at larger sizes.

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[info]skippyalto
2006-10-23 02:38 pm UTC (link)
Great pictures! Thanks for sharing. I can't believe I missed it again this year.

Note to self: pay attention to things advertised in [info]toronto

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[info]ellstar
2006-10-23 03:05 pm UTC (link)
As a Toronto Afterdark volunteer, I must say I enjoyed watching the zombies for about half an hour milling around the Bloor and the MAD confusion on everybodys faces, especially the sunday-shopping-late lunch crowd :D

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[info]suckingalemon
2006-10-23 03:25 pm UTC (link)
i skipped this for some reason but last years was alot of fun. im glad there was a good turnout despite the weather.

flickr will probably have lots of photos up soon hopefully if the photographers were out sunday.

cheers

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[info]sully2001ca
2006-10-23 03:47 pm UTC (link)
I spotted and talked to a number of other SLR camera-carrying folk at Nathan Philips Square. At least a half dozen. :)

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[info]amaaanda
2006-10-23 03:29 pm UTC (link)
I don't understand his costume, and I want to. Someone please enlighten me?

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[info]sully2001ca
2006-10-23 03:38 pm UTC (link)
It's a Headcrab zombie from the video game Half Life and Half Life 2. :)



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[info]da_goalie
2006-10-23 03:51 pm UTC (link)
he did a near flawless job on the headcrab zombie from HL2

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[info]littlehoudini
2006-10-23 03:29 pm UTC (link)
In the top two photos of this post, you can see a cop at the back of the group. But if you go to the album, you'll see it's really a zombie cop - cool! And in one photo, the zombie cop has a gun! I'm amazed that didn't cause some problems, somewhere along the walk...

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[info]sully2001ca
2006-10-23 03:40 pm UTC (link)
I have more shots of him, but again due to one-handing the camera they're mostly blurry. At one point he yelled, "Let's storm City Hall!" and loped off towards the buildings with a (fake) gun head above his head, pulling the trigger repeatedly.

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[info]littlehoudini
2006-10-23 03:46 pm UTC (link)
Seriously, I'm amazed a real cop didn't take him down. I remember 15 years ago I was dress as a 'thug' with a fake gun tucked into my waistband, just bar-hopping on Hallowe'en, and no less than three cops make a point of checking that the gun was plastic.

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[info]d_mac444
2006-10-23 05:02 pm UTC (link)
Ah the pictures are awesome and the event was totally rad, I can't wait to see more!

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[info]the_pirate_show
2006-10-23 05:35 pm UTC (link)
That was one helluva zombie walk. I was the dancing pirate zombie.

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[info]bloody_ibiza
2006-10-24 04:29 am UTC (link)
Are you sure you were not a french dancing pirate zombie?

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[info]the_pirate_show
2006-10-24 11:11 pm UTC (link)
No, I can only flog three sterotypes at a time. So I can be a french pirate (dancing if neccesary!), or a dancing zombie pirate, or any other permutation of the three (french zombie dancer? maybe?), but four makes my head explode.

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[info]deathbymoshpit
2006-10-23 07:07 pm UTC (link)
Good times for all. I got some of my pictures on photobucket

http://s113.photobucket.com/albums/n215/deathbymoshpit/Zombie%20Walk/?sc=5

These arent all of the ones I took, just some of the best ones...and as it appears, I was trailing you most of the time, because we have alot of the same photos, but mine are different angles or a little further back in the horde

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[info]kimberly27616
2006-10-23 10:20 pm UTC (link)
Wow, I'm missing more than I knew having moved south. You'll have to send me the link to the entire album... I know you, there must be more where these came from. :)

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[info]l__a__m
2006-10-24 12:40 am UTC (link)
Tooo bad it was rainy, but that looks fun!

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