my Ghostbusters props

Thanks, I'm glad you're enjoying them.

Got the navy blue flightsuit turned into a charcoal gray from GB2. Still awaiting patches for it.

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UPDATE: Patches arrived, but debating which logo to use.

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Well, if you look back up at the pics of my son in a store-bought Ghostbusters Hallowe'en costume, you can see that it's very plain, it's very yellow, the material is too thin, and it has an extra no-ghost logo printed where the name patch should be.

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Even though he requested a custom name patch after his first time meeting some of the Alabama Ghostbusters, we had to sew it on the wrong side of the chest. And after a full year of wearing this kinda-expensive little thing, he was just about to outgrow it.

So here's his new one...


Ironically enough, this authentic CWU-27/P flightsuit (size 40S) was about half the price of the woefully inaccurate Hallowe'en costume. Even with the necessity of ordering a no-ghost patch, it was still a better deal.

I found this at a military surplus shop about half an hour away, just one of those things I decided to try before going on eBay. At first I didn't see any flightsuits. They used to have them hanging on the racks with all the other stuff. Luckily before I left, I spotted some khaki bundles on a shelf in a dark corner, and found some 40S's and two 40L's.

I thought about getting a 40L for my older son, too, who has only expressed his own interest in Ghostbusters since my proton pack was finished and he announced he wanted one of his own! But he's almost tall enough that he can wear my first khaki, and I had only 'measured' the younger son before I left for the surplus place, noting where his shoulders were in regards to my own chest so I could ballpark it.

But the 40S, though a few inches too long in the legs for the son seen above, is actually a perfect fit on my older boy, so I went back and nabbed one more a couple of days later. I also ordered him his own name patch and some more no-ghost logos.

Now they're asking about belts!

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One of the more esoteric Ghostbusters props... Egon's Gamma Rate Meter.

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It can be seen in the hotel scenes:

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And when they briefly think they've neutronized Gozer:

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I've had a non-accurate one for a year or so, which I carried in a black camera pouch on my belt because it was so pristine looking (seen at left below).

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But now I found a beater 'Minirad' off eBay for only a couple dollars more than what an unpainted recast would have cost me.

I added a belt clip from an old tape measure. It's too small compared to the one in the film, which appears to have a 2" x 3" sized clip added, but it will do for now.

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And I printed my own label to replace the missing instructions on the battery cover.

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my preference would be the GB1 logo patch

Thanks for looking! Glad I'm not the only one who likes the GB1 patch on the gray suit. My patches will hopefully be affixed next week.

In the meantime, I got a really good deal on a yellow voltmeter similar to the one that can be seen in a few places in the movie, mainly Egon holding it just before Peck comes down into the firehall basement.

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Newest arrival...

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Purchased from the same guy who makes the shell I'm using... Vincenzo330 at GBFans.

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Awesome collection! And omg you met Ernie Hudson! I had the pleasure to meet him too! He's such a nice guy and really available too :D

I cosplayed as Ramona here! haha

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Agreed, he is very available. I've met Ernie Hudson twice now, but the second time I didn't get any personal pics with him, mainly because he was not wearing his flightsuit that day.

We are both in this group shot, however, along with my son and Brandon and several more friends of mine.

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And I have some video of us chatting informally but I'm sitting on the fence whether to post it or not. He tells a great anecdote, but I never asked his permission to post it.

Here's a great pic from that same day, snapped by Robin Shelby's hubby Sean Spence.

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And then there was this:

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Another celeb in attendance that day was Gil Gerard, someone I had tried to interview about his participation in a Star Tours TV special back when I wrote a 17-page article on the history of the attraction for Star Wars Insider magazine. Alas, LFL had no contact info for Buck Rogers, go figure.

The most stressful part of the day was misplacing my still camera right after getting that pic made with my childhood idol. I retraced my steps and asked everyone if they'd seen it, including Gil, who said he definitely saw me leave with it. About twenty tense minutes later, I dumped out the contents of the bag my son was carrying-- with the autographs and photos and spare tapes and batteries for all the cameras-- and there was the still camera in a pocket I'd already checked.

When I passed Gil's table later, he looked up from signing for someone and called out, "Did you ever find your camera?"

It dawned on me later, there were nearly 30 people there that day dressed in the same khaki flightsuit I was wearing, so kudos to GG for caring enough to distinguish us all from one another.

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Spent a few hours tonight drilling and tapping the metal thrower, and test-fitting some of the trim pieces.

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Doing a parade later tonight, my first one. The metal thrower is still lacking some parts, so I went back to the resin one for the time being.

BUT the sound card and speakers are all installed!


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I've only got a couple that were taken during the parade itself, found online, but I've got some before and after pics.

My youngest wearing the now-even-heavier pack for the first time since the speakers were added:
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My eldest showing off his own flightsuit for the first time:
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Me:
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Khaki-wearing group shot:
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That's me at left, Brandon driving his car, my boys closest to it, Brandon's wife Lindsey (in Slimer) and his brother Matt (in Brandon's proton pack), and two more guys named Adam and Andrew:
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This was the W.C. Handy Parade, which kicks off a week long celebration here in Florence AL.
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We were hot and tired by the end of it. Brandon drove us back over to where we'd parked. My proton pack had lost a 'banjo' screw at some point... the last thing I had repaired that morning, of course... so the red hose at the tip of the gun is dangling free.
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Big thanks to Brandon for inviting me to march, and extending his invitation to my sons at the last minute as well. We're all very tired here:
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When I was unloading my own car at home, I dropped my custom-painted PKE Meter on the driveway and knocked a deep chip out of the paint. Dang it.
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Now back to finishing my aluminum thrower.

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Haven't done an update here in a while...

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My GB2-style suit with the full gear for the first time. With the speakers added, the pack is currently weighing an even 30lbs.

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The same issue of People Magazine that Janine is reading when we first see her.

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The article she was reading when Egon climbed out from under her desk.

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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.

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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.

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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...

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... and after spotting the solder lug visible in this shot of Dan Aykroyd (on a Dale resistor instead of a Sage)...

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... I decided to replace it.

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While I was placing the resistor order with GBFans.com Shop, I went ahead and got several others for some additional projects.

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The same day these arrived, I also got something else in the mail...


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... 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.

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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.

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New acquisition:

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It's Egon's PC-4 calculator and interface, best seen in this shot:

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I've got the right camera, I've got a PKE meter...

If I could just get a Bacharach sniffer, I could visit the firehouse in New York and re-shoot their TV commercial.

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