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Jesus gently caress, timg that poo poo.
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Sep 21, 2012 18:25
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He couldn't help it. It just popped in there.
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Sep 21, 2012 18:31
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Timby posted:Jesus gently caress, timg that poo poo. He's fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing.
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Sep 21, 2012 18:35
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This happen to you before? Oh, first time?
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Sep 21, 2012 19:23
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I wish this thread would go away so I can write a new, better op. I've got this sitting on my bookshelf at the moment. Foam rubber stunt ghost trap (that handle would end your kidneys on the hero version when you fell on it). I love the props from GB, obviously, but the trap has always spoken to me. It's only recently that I've realised it's the form of them - you can't see it so much in this casting, but the actual shape has a really constructivist feel. There's a lovely, solid geometry to them.
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Sep 21, 2012 19:50
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Boinks posted:He couldn't help it. It just popped in there. What? What just popped in there?
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Sep 21, 2012 19:50
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Timby posted:Jesus gently caress, timg that poo poo. Whoa, sorry, it automatically resizes on my screen, so I didn't realize how big the image was. echoplex posted:I wish this thread would go away so I can write a new, better op. I just have some fan made thing, but it does the job! It's all wood, though. 
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Sep 21, 2012 20:17
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echoplex posted:I wish this thread would go away so I can write a new, better op. I think that's actually a GB2 trap that you have. Seem to recall there being more stripes (and them not being so thick) on the GB1 prop.
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Sep 21, 2012 20:21
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Stripes are the same, but the details are the second film. My secret shame. Scroto: niiice. Serious question: the digital video file that was used for the screenings last year was, I'm sure, much better than the blu-ray that exists. Is there even a legitimate way of getting of hold of said file? I'm assuming not, but having watched how horrible the blu-ray was the other day, I would love to see a decent HD transfer.
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Sep 22, 2012 01:32
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I looked at the trap, Ray.
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Sep 22, 2012 01:38
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Anyone else reading the IDW Ghostbusters comics? I just caught up the first 10 issues of the ongoing, and its really fun! Lots of pleasing stuff all over with references from the films, RGB, EGB and the video game. If you're not reading, I highly recommend you do. They're currently seeding stuff in the issues that I can't wait to see a payoff for.
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Sep 23, 2012 18:03
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The_Doctor posted:Anyone else reading the IDW Ghostbusters comics? I just caught up the first 10 issues of the ongoing, and its really fun! Lots of pleasing stuff all over with references from the films, RGB, EGB and the video game. I've had them in my pull since issue #1 and have never been let down. The dialogue is fantastic and always makes me laugh.
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Sep 24, 2012 00:13
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I need to get in on this. I'm not much of a comic reader, but I would for GB. Might ask for them for Christmas, if I haven't picked them all up by then. So be good, for goodness sake... whooaaaaa....
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Sep 24, 2012 00:18
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The_Doctor posted:Anyone else reading the IDW Ghostbusters comics? I just caught up the first 10 issues of the ongoing, and its really fun! Lots of pleasing stuff all over with references from the films, RGB, EGB and the video game. The upcoming arc, direct competition for the Ghostbusters, was one of my favorite rumored GBIII plots from yesteryear. The creators are really good about communicating with the fanbase as well.
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Sep 24, 2012 03:55
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Boinks posted:I've had them in my pull since issue #1 and have never been let down. The dialogue is fantastic and always makes me laugh. Absolutely. The writers have a real ear for the sound of the boys bantering from 1 and 2, and have got it down pat. One thing that has made me laugh is the back-up story of #10's art of Venkman. It's the RGB action figure!
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Sep 24, 2012 05:39
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I love the on-going series. There are so many little background jokes too, like Jeanine dating a guy who looks just like the pony-tailed, EXTREME Ghostbuster's Egon, or a RGB client walking around in the background.
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Sep 24, 2012 14:07
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Saw the best Ghostbusters poster while I was overseas this week. It has everything: lots of people in business attire arguing with one another, one actual Ghostbuster and zero top-billed stars, the logo printed backwards, and no evidence of ghosts and/or ghost "busting" equipment. To those unfamiliar with the movie, perhaps the tall bespectacled gentleman is the ghost and the hero Red Beard is telling him the what-for?
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Sep 30, 2012 16:54
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The_Doctor posted:Anyone else reading the IDW Ghostbusters comics? I just caught up the first 10 issues of the ongoing, and its really fun! Lots of pleasing stuff all over with references from the films, RGB, EGB and the video game. Yeah it's not bad. And as a bonus a bad image of me is drawn on the variant cover to number 1. 
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Sep 30, 2012 21:11
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You look like the Rookie!  In other news, this week's Doctor Who episode had the Statue of Liberty walking around Manhattan...
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Sep 30, 2012 22:46
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Lobok posted:Saw the best Ghostbusters poster while I was overseas this week. It has everything: lots of people in business attire arguing with one another, one actual Ghostbuster and zero top-billed stars, the logo printed backwards, and no evidence of ghosts and/or ghost "busting" equipment. To those unfamiliar with the movie, perhaps the tall bespectacled gentleman is the ghost and the hero Red Beard is telling him the what-for? Did you buy it? I MUST HAVE IT. I used to have an original theatrical poster that crumbled over the years, replaced by a less beautiful repro. I've been thinking about buying this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GHOSTBUSTERS-Original-Quad-Cinema-Poster-BILL-MURRAY-/110949777180 But the Quad is actually quite ugly. I have the Japanese... somethings that go with both films. Press booklets? PR pieces? Full of behind the scenes stills photography and merchandise. Utterly pointless, but really nice little items.
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Sep 30, 2012 23:14
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You gotta give the Italians credit for finding a nifty one-word translation for Ghostbusters. (Something like Ghostcatchers, Ghostseizers.) I think European markets would show the logo facing that way to more closely mirror the international "no" sign (where the slash runs northwest-to-southeast).
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Sep 30, 2012 23:54
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Lobok posted:Saw the best Ghostbusters poster while I was overseas this week. It has everything: lots of people in business attire arguing with one another, one actual Ghostbuster and zero top-billed stars, the logo printed backwards, and no evidence of ghosts and/or ghost "busting" equipment. To those unfamiliar with the movie, perhaps the tall bespectacled gentleman is the ghost and the hero Red Beard is telling him the what-for? Also, forgive me if I don't recall this correctly, but isn't that shot either backwards, or not quite from the movie? Maybe an alternate take? I don't remember them standing exactly in those spots. And let's not kid ourselves, we're all just as obsessed about this movie as the next guy. Does this look weird to anyone else? You're right, no... human being would stand like that.
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Oct 1, 2012 00:37
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Also, forgive me if I don't recall this correctly, but isn't that shot either backwards, or not quite from the movie? Maybe an alternate take? I don't remember them standing exactly in those spots. And let's not kid ourselves, we're all just as obsessed about this movie as the next guy. Does this look weird to anyone else? Check out this scene, at 0:19 we see:  What that picture looks like is a still photo taken of this shot, from slightly to the left of the camera's position.
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Oct 1, 2012 00:49
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echoplex posted:Did you buy it? I MUST HAVE IT. I used to have an original theatrical poster that crumbled over the years, replaced by a less beautiful repro. I've been thinking about buying this: I did not buy it, no, sorry. But in my travels across the Internet trying to simply find the image to post it here, there were a couple sites that sold Italian Ghostbuster posters so you may be in luck. The one I posted is actually only one in a series, some that make sense with the Ghostbusters in their usual poses and then others like one I saw that features only a shot of the dark section of road outside Dana's building near the very end of the movie, with no people and nothing remarkable in the frame except small fires and white, foamy [marshmallow] debris everywhere. Even for people who are intimately familiar with the film, it's quite possibly the least interesting still one could use for a poster: no characters, very little to catch the eye, no identifiable lines from the movie that could be associated, no plot elements, not even the Ecto-1... just a patch of black, dystopian street.
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Oct 1, 2012 02:32
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Glass Joe posted:What that picture looks like is a still photo taken of this shot, from slightly to the left of the camera's position. Yup, THAT'S where my confusion is coming from. Thanks!
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Oct 1, 2012 15:02
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Spent a little while going through this thread, and it brought back a lot of memories. I guess you could count me as a big fan when I was a kid. I was seven-eight when GB2 came out. I remember cutting out the black and white movie ad from the newspaper and hanging it on the door of my bedroom. I had the GB2 picture-book story, as well as the novelization. I had all the Real Ghostbusters action figures as well as Ecto-1A, Ecto-2: and Ecto-3:  My parents were too poor for the bigger stuff, so I made my own fire house out of a big cardboard box complete with Tinkertoy firepole. I made proton packs and traps out of Construx. Remember Construx?  One time my sister and I visited my cousins and they had the toy slime-blowers. The "slime" was just a piece of pink plastic that protruded out of the gun, and I remember aiming it point blank at my sister's head and shooting her, which gave her a big bruise. Good times. porkfriedrice fucked around with this message at 13:11 on Oct 8, 2012 |
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Oct 8, 2012 00:07
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Wow! I just realized I actually had an Ecto-2! It's been probably 20 years or more... HUGE nostalgia wave.
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Oct 8, 2012 00:20
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I had the Ecto-1, Ecto-1a, the Ecto 2, and the Ecto 3. And the firehouse. I remember when I got the Ecto-1a. My brother was running around our house with his socks on. He slid down the hallway and split his forehead open on a door frame. He had to go to the ER. My mom got him an Ecto-1a for being brave and I got one for being the older brother who would have thrown a fit otherwise.
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Oct 8, 2012 00:45
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ToastyPotato posted:Wow! I just realized I actually had an Ecto-2! It's been probably 20 years or more... HUGE nostalgia wave. It was actually a pretty cool toy, until the trigger that made the rotor spin broke. E: I just remembered that I also had the soundtracks for both Ghostbusters movies. porkfriedrice fucked around with this message at 13:15 on Oct 8, 2012 |
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Oct 8, 2012 13:09
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Even when I was a kid I thought the slime blower toy was kind of.. suggestive. The prototype was so much better though! 
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Oct 8, 2012 13:27
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The_Doctor posted:Even when I was a kid I thought the slime blower toy was kind of.. suggestive. I still have that (sans stickers and gun) in my basement at home. Don't try to fit a 20+ year old man body into the straps, you will never escape.
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Oct 9, 2012 16:47
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Does Ecto Cooler still exist under a new name?
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Oct 9, 2012 18:22
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Man, the GB toys I always wanted were the Ecto 1a (had 1, 2, and even 3, with those weird waffle-hands out front. I even had the 'Bug' car, that turned into some sort of mantis), the Slime Blower, and most importantly... the fire house. In fact, I would STILL love to own the fire house someday.
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Oct 9, 2012 18:39
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The Ecto-Cooler Story As it turns out, Ecto-Cooler went on WAY longer than anyone has ever thought it did, as Minute Maid only cancelled it sometime in 2001. However, by 2003 Nostalgia had firmly grasped the internet and the website X-Entertainment managed to do some Internet Detective work to find out that the flavor "Shoutin Orange Tangergreen" was (for all intents) Ecto Cooler without the branding. If you lived in the right parts of the country, you could simply walk into your local super-market, and pick up a 12-pack of ecto cooler as if it weren't this awesome thing. Unfortunately, Minute Maid decided to cancel that flavor as well, but thanks to some incredible nerds over in Chicago, you can simply make your own Ecto Cooler.
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Oct 9, 2012 20:59
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Man, the GB toys I always wanted were the Ecto 1a (had 1, 2, and even 3, with those weird waffle-hands out front. I even had the 'Bug' car, that turned into some sort of mantis), the Slime Blower, and most importantly... the fire house. Ecto-1A was just the Ecto-1 toy with a different sheet of decals.
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Oct 9, 2012 21:15
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WeX Majors posted:The Ecto-Cooler Story Just going to embed for prosperity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-ISy3T1MU8
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Oct 11, 2012 15:38
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http://www.vulture.com/2012/10/new-ghostbusters-movie-shooting-next-summer.html I'm actively pessimistic about this whole thing. You've got nothing without Murray.
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Oct 18, 2012 16:00
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Tuxedo Jack posted:http://www.vulture.com/2012/10/new-ghostbusters-movie-shooting-next-summer.html I doubt it's even happening.
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Oct 18, 2012 16:07
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echoplex posted:I doubt it's even happening. Yeah, sorry Aykroyd, we are NOT ready to believe you.
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I don't think that they'd NEED Murray, but they'd definitely need that type of humour.
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