After thinking about it, plus some excellent info and feedback from readers, it seems like a good look at everywhere you can get a Ghostbusters t-shirt is in order. After all, we’re all going to need a way to fly our freak flag between now and next October when the Ghostbusters video game comes out.
Glenzz teez – Makers of the always hilarious Ghost-Buster shirt have a new shirt that is an 8bit mash-up of Ghostbusters and… Pac Man?
Target – As mentioned previously, Targets everywhere are carrying a single line of logo, no-text shirts. The logo is a nice, fully outlined one (as in, the red “no” circle has a black border, inside and out) on grey, with deliberate, trendy, artificial aging. Ipdate – Word has it that Walmart is selling the same shirts similar shirts, only they have the text logo, not the ghost logo – thanks BK and Jacob.
Anchor Blue – If you live in the North West and South West USA (plus Georgia and Florida), you’re in the right neighbourhood for Blue Anchor, who also currently carry a GB shirt. Anybody that has a picture, please send it in – Jade sent in the tip, but it’d be cool to see one.
[UPDATE] Ron sent in a picture of the shirts for sale at Anchor Blue. While they’re my least favorite type (logo and text on black), they GLOW in the dark. Which is, simply, awesome. Thanks ron.
[UPDATE] K-Mart is selling a new Ghostbusters t-shirt as well. It reminds me a little of 60s rock festival posters. And best of all – $7. Thanks to Ectoman57 for the picture.
80s Tees – If you’re comfortable shopping online, this is probably THE place to go right now, with nearly a dozen different GB designs. I can’t say I’m a fan of all of them, but they do say the wearer is a ghosthead, loud and clear. I’m still puzzled by the “Classified Information – 1983″ shirt.
Fright Tees – Rarely shown any love, the Terror Dogs now have a nice t-shirt, proclaiming “There is no Dana, only Zuul.” Be prepared for lots of positive attention, with an equal amount of explaining what it means.
Matt’s Stay-Puft – While 80s Tees do have a Stay-Puft t-shirt, I like this one better. And better yet, since it’s a limited run Matt mostly made for himself, plus a handful of others, you’re unlikely to bump into someone with the same thing. Which is always embarrassing.
Paul Frank – If you’re looking for a really unique, nay, fashionable and trendy (meaning, if you want to be a Ghostbusters fan, while remaining hip and ironic to the in-crowd), you might consider this Paul Frank t-shirt featuring his signature brand character, Julius Monkey, and co. These also go over big with girlfriends, who might not want to be a Ghostbusters fan, but appreciate all things ironic and/or hip. (See above photo)
Kerrang! – While the web is awash in places you can get shirts with the Ghostbusters logo, this one is notable for their retro (ie artificially aged) Ecto-1 t-shirt – plus they have logo hoodies and beanie/toques.
Cafe Press – While I’m not a fan of the quality of Cafe Press t-shirts (they are the lightest shirts I’ve ever seen, which means they are excellent summer shirts, and aren’t very durable), the quantity of fan generated designs is fantastic! Here are some particular favorites or mine, but you should browse anyhow – there are pages and pages of designs. Get em now before Sony cracks down!
I Heart Rick Moranis
Too Zuul for School
NYC Keymaster
Ray’s Occult Bookstore
Mr. Stay-Puft Costume
There are others – I know there are. But I’m having trouble finding them. Like, that cool one with Egon menacing a Pac-Man ghost, tearfully displaying pictures of his little ghost children.
That’s where you guys come in – if you know of a good place to by a cool Ghostbusters t-shirt, let us know! I only ask that you keep Ghostbusters logo t-shirts to a minimum – if there’s a twist (like they glow in the dark, or are on something other than a t-shirt, or make you fly) then share – otherwise, the classic, basic tee is pretty well covered.
[UPDATE] Took a little hunting, but I found those stray shirts I half-remembered, but couldn’t find online.
The first is Ghosts Have Families Too, wherein a very Egon character menaces a despondent Blinky. Not only is it available in a couple of colours, but you can get it on a hoodie and bookbag. So that’s cool.
I can personally vouch for the shirt. I got great service, and I’ve washed it many times and the design doesn’t come off and it still feels and looks brand new after having it for nearly a whole year.
-Protonstream
The second is this one – currently, I can only find an Ebay listing, which is really all I could find when I originally found it. It’s origins resist all attempts to be uncovered – hopefully someone out there may know of an actual store that carries it.
While on ebay, I found this Stay-Puft shirt – again, that overused, worn-out look, but still a nice shirt. In this one case, the aged-by-design style works, since it kind of helps ground the fictional brand in reality. As if they actually made Stay-Puft
t-shirts in the 80s.
I would caution people against buying on Ebay – In the case where the shirts are being sold by an Ebay store, it’s probably alright, but Ebay tends to be flooded with cheap shirts, often ink-jet printed iron-ons, using images lifted from the web. Booo. Better safe than sorry – have a close look at the pictures (clip-art examples of the shirt or just an image of the design, don’t bode well – look for pictures of the actual shirt.)
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*The “Venkman 1983″ mystery huh?…
*Look inside your 2005 Dvd Boxset Booklet, and you will find your answer grasshoppa ;P…
*Cheers.
” Too Zuul for School ” is the great one and so cool design.
Sorry – let me clarify. I’m not puzzled about where it came from. It didn’t make any clear sense in the booklet either. I’m confused about how that made it onto a, presumably, licensed t-shirt product. Did it deliberately grow out of the DVD? Was it don’t at the same time as the DVD, and they had the leeway to pick their designs, and lifted it from the booklet? Are those t-shirts even official?
Come back when you have information for finding those stray art-tees I can’t find – that would be more useful.
And don’t call me Grasshopper, kid.
The Egon/Pac-man shirt sounds sweet. I want one!!!
*I hardly think I’m a “kid” @ 28 years old Caste…If that was meant as a “term of endearment” then…
*And to answer your question – the reason it said that in the booklet, is that the movie started production in 1983, and being as though the booklet was showing “the making of”, the “Venkman classified information” thing was a play on that fact.
*As to why it made it to a T-Shirt – One has to only look at the “almighty dollar”, and the “unschooled-in-all-things-GB” schlob that came up with the idea…
*Cheers.
Lanny, I meant “kid” pretty much the same way you meant “grasshopper” – it was a diminutive (and an appropriate one, as I waved bye-bye to 28 years ago.)
I don’t need you to explain to me the concept of shirts=money and I understand where the date could have come from too.
What’s really starting to bug me is you drop into every conversation (here at on the boards) not to help, but to try and show everyone that you’re the better know-it-all. And if you want to, that’s fine, but you’re going about it in a really socially inept sort of way.
The best example is on the custom, Mignola-style Ray. You didn’t post, “cool!” or “Cool! Here’s one I made.” – you just posted a link to yours. Not cool dude – that’s “It’s the Me show” behaviour.
And the bit where you and I found the same article within 11 minutes of each other, but you make a point of commenting here that “You found it first.”
You’re a fount on GB knowledge, kid. But instead of sharing it with everyone, you’re lording it over them. And it sucks.
Please keep this conversation in mind for the future.
Now…
Does anybody know where that Pac-Man/Egon t-shirt is?
Tuff, I agree – it’s one of the more inspired shorts. I kind of like the Stay-puft shirt – it also comes in a hoodie. But then I start thinking, “Man, keeping it clean would be such a pain!”
*Dude – Chill out…I never meant to “lord over” anyone…Nor have I ever tried to purposely “out-do”, “out-funk”, or “out-know” anyone either…If I come off that way, I apologize…When I’m passionate about something, especially something I’ve followed “tooth-and-nail” since I was a wee 4 years old, I tend to come on strong…And I can’t help that…
*And as for that “Kylie” figure – That came from the very same site you found the “Mignola-style Ray” – And it was NOT mine…Though, I thought that I’d be nice, and shoot you and your readers the link as so you could check it out…Had I know you’d mistake that as “boasting” or “self-grooming” I would’ve refrained…
*What I was trying to accomplish by posting in this entry was “lending a hand to someone to whom I thought needed it”, as I thought those were honest questions, and not rhetorical ones…
*Maybe I’ll think twice next time before I decide to actually be “helpful”…
*Cheers.
*Oh and as an added note: I don’t ever remember ever trying to “best” you in finding ANY article…If I found “it” before you [which I don't even remember what "it" was] – I would NEVER be like “Looka at me and what I found!! Boo Castewar”…
*I’ve only held you in the HIGHEST regard Caste – But somehow I’m questioning that now…
*”Happy Thanksgiving” though, nonetheless.
*Cheers.
All right, I’m chill now.
This will be one part apology, one part not, and one part excuse. Hopefully we can bury the hatchet (a rarity on the internet, but I’m game to try.)
Firstly, the excuse. I’m old and forgetful – not Methuselah old, but the prime, it is gone, and it gets me into trouble sometimes. This is sort of one of those times.
In the huge burst on info scrabbling when the game was announced, I did what I do, and dug up the Variety article – nothing special, and something many others did at the same time. I posted it, and quickly got a comment on the post from someone essentially whining that they’d found it first. That bugged me – and without going into names, his was, well, close to your messageboard posting nick, Lanny. And I mistook one for the other.
Add in your self-described nit-picker status (plus old age, remember) and my brain pinned it all on you.
A few days later, you posted that link to the Kylie doll – I didn’t realize it was on the same site, and as you had no other comment, plus my newly formed, erroneous opinion that you were a whiny nit-picker (plus old age), and I thought it was a “me too” post, not an addendum.
Get to today, and this is where my apology kind of ends, sort-of.
As you said, you’re hardcore – it shows. You’re holding a lot of GB stuff in your head. I saw your firehall door post. I’m hardcore too, but just not like you – I’m not a stats or trivia guy, though I know more than the average, ordinary bear.
So, your comments on the Japanese playing card post (which, whether you meant it or not, implied that I’m not a serious collector) and today, where you called me Grasshopper (dude, that means only one thing in English slang – “I know more than you.”) I’d had enough.
Now, thing make a bit more sense.
I got you wrong on a couple of things and again, I apologize.
And on a couple of others, you rankle people, and you rankled me on a day when I wasn’t interested in someone talking down to me.
In the future, I’m going to accept at face value that you are genuinely contributing to the conversation – preaching and teaching. Not talking down to the crowd.
In return, besides accepting my apology, try and frame things a bit more casually – like you’re making additions, not proclamations – it’ll help in the long run.
And don’t call me Grasshopper – I’m too old for that shit.
And yes, Happy Thanksgiving to everyone Stateside. Enjoy the long weekend!
Oh the “card thing”…That was in reference to myself, meaning that even as a “serious collector” I wouldn’t even touch the things…I was never meant as a “zing” on you…
On the “grasshoppa” thing – I’ve always used that as a joke, not to defame someone, but as a “term of endearment”…Now that I know the literal translation, I’ll use it more wisely from now on ;P…
The “board status” thing – I never meant to become the “nefarious nitpicker”…As it is a place for the discussion of one’s thoughts on the upcoming game, I thought it only fair that I get to post my feelings on certain things as well, especially as one [or all of] the Dev team is lurking around the forums…If that wasn’t the case, I most likely would be less inclined to post pictures and what-not, as it wouldn’t get to the people it was intended mostly for, and all of the work that went into compiling them would be for naught, as they aren’t the most “popular” thing for discussion in that thread right now…
But as one Dev team member asked Ben to relay to us collectively – He wanted our “suggestions”…And that was what I was trying to do…Some are content to talk about “gameplay”, “game mechanics” and the like and I have no problem with those what little I’ve seen of the game, in-action…My problem lied with some [not all] of the graphics…For me it has to be a complete experience, and as such if the graphics are lacking, it’s not going to be a 100% experience…
And it doesn’t hurt that my faith in Sony is next to nill right now…Throwing out things with the GB brand [I.e. the 2005 Dvd's] and hoping it’ll sell on that alone…For casual fans maybe – For guys like me – Not a chance…I was just doing my part, and hoping to try to steer them [Dev team] in the right direction, if by chance they were perusing the boards…
Though for some odd reason I seem to be the one that everyone “zeros in” on to judge, even though there have been members on there with the same aim, just on different aspects of the game, and just sans the “pictorial”…Even when I explain myself before hand, and have toned down my “delivery”…
I guess everyone’s a critic…Myself included.
But anyways – Apology accepted, and yes the “hatchet” is buried…And even though I’m only 28 [And only getting older by the year] – I forget with the best of ‘em Caste ;P…
*Cheers.
Here’s one hidden on the Urban Outfitters website:
http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/catalog/productdetail.jsp?color=30&navAction=jump&id=13889639
These are so cool. Now I know what links to send everyone so they know what to get me for x-mas!!!
That “as if they actually made Stay Puft” is my favourite.
What are your thoughts on an Evo Shandor (sp?) shirt. “Too sick to survive”?
I just bought a GB shirt from Wal Mart of all places. It’s gray like the shirt at Target (which they unfortunately didn’t have in my size), but it says “GHOST BUSTERS” like the title in the first movie. Here’s a picture.
http://a343.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/99/l_365f320c37f3519fc1e6aa93b2b4191e.jpg
oh ho! So the Walmart t-shirts aren’t the logo, they’re the text! Ok, still a cool shirt – I’d better make the distinction in the post though – thanks for the pic!
I just wanted people to know the shirts from 80s tees aren’t very good. The two shirts I got (the blue shirt with the symbol and the slimer one) are very thin and seem like they may deteriorate sometime soon. They’re also from some strange company which put very strange writing inside the shirt starting at the tag running down the inside of the shirt. Usually 80s tees shirts are of better quality so I probably will return these shirts.
does anyone know if the k-mart ghostbusters shirt is available on-line?
It’s not, sadly. That seems to be the case with a lot of the big box stores – it suggests the shirts aren’t likely to be around long enough to warrent entry into the system. Meaning, get em while you can.
Its a shame I live in the UK ‘cos thats one sweet shirt!!
Ok i found the KMart shirt in of all places KMart…:P
it is a nice shirt for sure, and one thing i noticed right away from the pics was the artist used the newer toys as reference for the designs for Stay puft, slimer, and Zuul, is the same up top, just a flipped image.
i got the last one they had and found it under the little section they had in the middle of the store with the rest of the screen t-shirts.
i am planning on just hanging the shirt up as a poster of some sorts because of course it is a tad too small (a Large)
but on the plus side, the quality is really nice, and it’s made by Mad Engine, and they do have a website.
http://www.madengine.com/
the site has not been updated since jul 07, but does make reference to the gb shirt on the front page, no images or ordering info but maybe some different designs in the future maybe?
Hope this helps…
I just ordered the Rock Poster-style t-shirt off of eBay. Cost about $20 (plus $6 shipping), so it’s much more than the $7 at K-Mart quoted in the article, but at least I don’t have to make a trip to the busy stores and *HOPE* they have it
Here a high-quality image of the t-shirt’s design, which was used in the eBay listing:
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2006-1/1138372/ghostbusters.JPG
It’s an awesome image!
Another Ghostbuster’s tee is here.
http://www.crazydogtshirts.com/servlet/StoreFront?gclid=CKf715P_sZACFQGRPAodUiQIMQ
You need to scroll to the bottom to see it.
just picked up yesterday the shirt from kmart. totally cool in person.