Haven't done an update here in a while...
My GB2-style suit with the full gear for the first time. With the speakers added, the pack is currently weighing an even 30lbs.
The same issue of People Magazine that Janine is reading when we first see her.
The article she was reading when Egon climbed out from under her desk.
Ironically, the REAL mayor of New York in 1984, the Hon. Ed Koch, can just barely be glimpsed in the movie when Janine folds her pages backwards.
Sort of a little goof there. In the GB movie continuity, the mayor of New York is named Lenny (Leonard Clotch if I remember the novel correctly) and is played by David Margulies in both films.
Fun ad for The Making of Thriller found in this issue.
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I have been watching the original movie on the 4K Blu-Ray a lot lately, and just like many other GB fans who've built packs, now my eyes keep going to the tiny details.
It's sort of ironic... in order to really understand how to build a proton pack, you must first build a proton pack!
Anyway, I had always been unhappy with my decision to clip the solder lugs off of this Sage resistor on the ion arm...
... and after spotting the solder lug visible in this shot of Dan Aykroyd (on a Dale resistor instead of a Sage)...
... I decided to replace it.
While I was placing the resistor order with GBFans.com Shop, I went ahead and got several others for some additional projects.
The same day these arrived, I also got something else in the mail...
... so I'm beginning work on an Aura Video-Analyzer helmet. Sometimes known as a Keymaster colander. I just need to source some of the other resistors.
Anybody got some Sage m50w's lying around?
I'll take Dale RH50's too. I have a friend who is doing a parallel build of this same prop.
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UPDATE! I forgot to report that I found the rest of the resistors I needed at MultiMediaMayhem.net
Here's the current state of the Aura-Video-Analyzer helmet. I also replaced the first colander with a handle-less strainer.
Alex