I was looking up people's home movies of the Universal Studios Florida "Ghostbusters Spooktacular" attraction the last couple of days. I generally skew towards the 1990 version of the show, because that's the only one I saw in person in June of 1991. But I wandered into a video from 1994...
One of the first things the uploader shows is a closeup of a clever bit of set dressing to the revised 'containment unit' frontispiece.
I thought the 'Ghost Motel' and 'Zom-B-Gon' parodies of insecticides Roach Motel and Bug-B-Gon were incredibly fun and charming.
Using some very basic photo-editing software, I did a skew and a stretch to see how the box might have looked from straight on.
I began to wonder what the text on the Ghost Motel box said. The first thing that popped to mind was that they would very likely have parodied the Roach Motel slogan, but changed it to "Ghosts check in but they don't check out".
The visible lighter spots did seem to support the correct number of letters (except where hidden by the edge of the shelf). No real way to know what the font was, so these letters are just placeholders at the moment.
And then while staring at the upper right corner blurb, the middle word popped into focus as potentially saying "Slime".
Maybe "New Slime Recipe"? No, the top word looked like it was only two letters. Not "New", but maybe "No"?
From there it was a short leap to "No Slime Residue!"
Now I'm really wanting to re-create the entire box and print/assemble one.
Alex