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Bacon Terrorist posted:Dors anyone have a Spirit Pack? My wife and I are wanting to dress as Ghostbusters for the big Halloween party we usually go to, I may be due some money unexpectedly that would cover maybe two spirit packs and a trap (either spirit or one of the many custom props). To get a spirit pack sent to the UK the cheapest option seems to be £70 through amazon including import fees. I have heard the sounds arent great though. The other options are either DIY (and I am very much the kind of man who is good with his mind and terrible with his hands) or going the supse expensive replica route, which isn't really an option. Yeah, I have one. They’re actually pretty good, save for the backpack straps. For that, I’d highly recommend getting an ALICE pack and attaching it (there’s vids on YouTube). For £70 that’s really not bad, especially if that’s including postage and possible customs charges. They’re $70 (maybe $80 this year) in the US just to buy. You can buy a better proton gun kit that scales with it from Benofkent, as well as other upgrades.
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The_Doctor posted:Yeah, I have one. They’re actually pretty good, save for the backpack straps. For that, I’d highly recommend getting an ALICE pack and attaching it (there’s vids on YouTube). For £70 that’s really not bad, especially if that’s including postage and possible customs charges. They’re $70 (maybe $80 this year) in the US just to buy. You can buy a better proton gun kit that scales with it from Benofkent, as well as other upgrades. Thanks for the swift reply! I have seen the mods but even out of the box I'm sure they will look the part. Just need to procure them now!
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Sep 1, 2019 21:08
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Yeah, the Spirit packs are perfectly good for Halloween party’s. The lights and sounds are good enough. I might be looking to upgrade if I quit being lazy and finally join up with the Detroit Ghostbusters.
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Sep 2, 2019 05:25
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Eh, the Spirit pack is only about 2/3 scale so it's never looked right to me anyway. Here's one next to a full size replica:  Still way better than the inflatable proton packs you get with cheap Halloween costumes though!  Open Marriage Night posted:I might be looking to upgrade if I quit being lazy and finally join up with the Detroit Ghostbusters. Yeah if you're wearing a Spirit pack and you're hanging around with people wearing authentic replicas the difference would be really really noticeable.
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Sep 2, 2019 16:04
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Eh, the Spirit pack is only about 2/3 scale so it's never looked right to me anyway. The Spirit pack is about 80% scale, but the gun is annoyingly smaller.
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Sep 2, 2019 16:06
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I had the toy proton pack as a kid so part of me always thinks proton packs should be dark blue.
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Sep 2, 2019 18:53
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Lurdiak posted:I had the toy proton pack as a kid so part of me always thinks proton packs should be dark blue. 
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Sep 2, 2019 19:03
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Lurdiak posted:I had the toy proton pack as a kid so part of me always thinks proton packs should be dark blue. It’s surprising Spirit haven’t done an RGB pack this year because they’ve brought in RGB uniforms. Maybe next year!
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Lurdiak posted:I had the toy proton pack as a kid so part of me always thinks proton packs should be dark blue. Met a guy that paid $75 to get one for his kid this year. That one really won the day. Would have loved to have met people with real Ghostbusters suits and the car when I was his age.
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Sep 3, 2019 02:53
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The_Doctor posted:
They better make toys of the Hellraiser guys from Extreme.
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Sep 6, 2019 22:41
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Filming has finished in Canada, maybe NYC next?
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Sep 7, 2019 10:51
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Spirit Halloween sent me a 20% off coupon. One of you goons can use it on a proton pack or whatever... SPH1929 deoju fucked around with this message at 21:52 on Sep 8, 2019 |
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Sep 8, 2019 21:45
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Cage posted:Hello. I never had the googles, but the foam beam was the first thing to go for me because of "authenticity" or whatever words my child brain would have used
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Sep 16, 2019 17:28
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Iron Crowned posted:I never had the googles, but the foam beam was the first thing to go for me because of "authenticity" or whatever words my child brain would have used Yes! Exactly! In my kid brain, I'd rather imagine the whole beam than have some sort of poor tangible version. So I just took it out, and lost it forever ago.
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Sep 16, 2019 17:37
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Yes! Exactly! In my kid brain, I'd rather imagine the whole beam than have some sort of poor tangible version. So I just took it out, and lost it forever ago. See also: every crappy toy lightsaber I ever owned
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Sep 16, 2019 17:39
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At Gen Con this year I ran into a guy wearing a Real Ghostbusters cosplay and it made my day!  
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Sep 18, 2019 21:33
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The comics actually had a crossover between the movie and cartoon Ghostbusters. Blonde Egon even makes a return in the TMNT crossover.
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Sep 19, 2019 18:28
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I wish those comics didn't have the most offputting art I've ever seen in my life.
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Sep 19, 2019 18:38
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Yes! Exactly! In my kid brain, I'd rather imagine the whole beam than have some sort of poor tangible version. So I just took it out, and lost it forever ago. I think mine just got destroyed after a while because it was dirt-cheap foam not a pool noodle like you'd imagine.
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Justin Godscock posted:I think mine just got destroyed after a while because it was dirt-cheap foam not a pool noodle like you'd imagine. Yeah, dirt clung to it and it broke apart easily, even a kid who wanted to keep it would've had to toss it a few months down the line.
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Sep 23, 2019 01:01
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some kid on the block took a giant bite out of mine so i threw it out
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Sep 23, 2019 01:42
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The usual literature... (from Reitman’s insta feed)
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Sep 24, 2019 09:52
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I remember that thing from the first Ghostbusters movie!
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Sep 24, 2019 13:17
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Is that a ghost busting title belt?
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Violator posted:Is that a ghost busting title belt? Making his way to the trap, from Queens, New York City, Ray STAAAAAAAAaaaaaannzzzz. Also, the eye of Rassilon makes an appearance too.
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Mooseontheloose posted:Making his way to the trap, from Queens, New York City, Ray STAAAAAAAAaaaaaannzzzz. Huh, not quite, but I can see what you mean!
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Jose Oquendo posted:I remember that thing from the first Ghostbusters movie! A sequel referencing something from the first movie? WHAT!!!!
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Sep 27, 2019 23:00
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Bill Murray got into a car accident in Scotland the other day (he’s fine), so I guess he’s not filming on the new movie yet? If at all?
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The_Doctor posted:Bill Murray got into a car accident in Scotland the other day (he’s fine), so I guess he’s not filming on the new movie yet? If at all? He's just a really bad driver.
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The_Doctor posted:Bill Murray got into a car accident in Scotland the other day (he’s fine), so I guess he’s not filming on the new movie yet? If at all? If you get into a car accident with Bill Murray, does he say "Nobody will ever believe you" and drive away?
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Yes! Exactly! In my kid brain, I'd rather imagine the whole beam than have some sort of poor tangible version. So I just took it out, and lost it forever ago. My friend took the swirly green pool noodle from a different GB toy and put it in his regular proton gun, which I thought was an effective compromise.
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Icon-Cat posted:My friend took the swirly green pool noodle from a different GB toy and put it in his regular proton gun, which I thought was an effective compromise. Ah the neutrona blaster! 
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I was watching the Ghostbusters 2 deleted scenes on youtube and I got to thinking about this scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQt9qDxOjOA&t=404s, where the Mayor's assistant is sucked into the slime, leaving only smoking shoes behind. The effects aren't finished so it's not quite clear what's happened to him, but is the implication here that he's dead, melted by the slime or something? In the finished film you see him singing with the crowd at the end, so he doesn't die in the final film, but I know there's a lot of alternate takes and differences between what was planned and what ended up in the final cut. Case in point; this scene shows Venkman informing the Mayor of the Ghostbusters being institutionalised, which is played as something that's new to the Mayor, whereas in the final film the Mayor learns this earlier and fires his assistant as a result. If so, is the Mayor's assistant the only character to be killed in either two original films? Maybe that's why they changed it? The guy's a dick, but being melted alive seems like an overly harsh punishment, whereas being fired seems to be more fitting for the kind of dick that he is. It also kind of makes Venkman and the other Ghostbusters look like a sociopaths as they seem largely unconcerned and didn't even try to stop him from running straight up to the slime. Though to be fair, they went swimming in it earlier with nothing lethal happening to them, so maybe they thought it would be okay.
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I'm guessing that if they had kept the scene of Hardemeyer getting sucked into the slime, he'd still be singing at the end, but of course slimed (and positively charged).
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There’s a supposedly leaked plot line for GB3 doing the rounds on reddit. It sounds pretty decent if true.
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Karloff posted:I was watching the Ghostbusters 2 deleted scenes on youtube and I got to thinking about this scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQt9qDxOjOA&t=404s, where the Mayor's assistant is sucked into the slime, leaving only smoking shoes behind. The effects aren't finished so it's not quite clear what's happened to him, but is the implication here that he's dead, melted by the slime or something? In the finished film you see him singing with the crowd at the end, so he doesn't die in the final film, but I know there's a lot of alternate takes and differences between what was planned and what ended up in the final cut. Case in point; this scene shows Venkman informing the Mayor of the Ghostbusters being institutionalised, which is played as something that's new to the Mayor, whereas in the final film the Mayor learns this earlier and fires his assistant as a result. Hardemeyer was sucked into the slime in the original shoot and while I don't have my February shooting script on me, I don't believe he ever returned. A lot of the stuff outside the museum was very heavily re-shot in March and April 1989, though.
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The_Doctor posted:There’s a supposedly leaked plot line for GB3 doing the rounds on reddit. It sounds pretty decent if true. Seems like a collection of the theories everyone had when the movie got announced. I'm skeptical.
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Timby posted:Hardemeyer was sucked into the slime in the original shoot and while I don't have my February shooting script on me, I don't believe he ever returned. A lot of the stuff outside the museum was very heavily re-shot in March and April 1989, though. Ah, thanks. I'd love to see a tell-all book about the making of these films one day, maybe one that could go into the Ghostbusters 3 project that never got off the ground. I mean Ackroyd would probably write such a book if someone asked him to.
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Karloff posted:Ah, thanks. I'd love to see a tell-all book about the making of these films one day, maybe one that could go into the Ghostbusters 3 project that never got off the ground. I mean Ackroyd would probably write such a book if someone asked him to. The big one that came out a few years ago is likely the closest you'll get. Also, there's an upcoming documentary about BOTH films called "Cleanin' Up the Town". It's got interviews with virtually everyone. Not sure if it has Harold Ramis, but they managed to get David Margulies before he died.
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