In fairly close proximity to one another, two new merch items have popped up. The first is a beach towel, found in Europe by Chibigear at GBFans.com – the towels are retailing for 17 euros each.
Then today, Atari posted their next prize for fans of Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime that sign up for their newsletter – a full bedsheet set. Both items are produced by Björna DK. Currently, there is no word on price for the bed sheets, and it is assumed it can be found in the EU, but there is no info on them appearing yet in North America.
Mattel put out the call on MattyCollector.com and their Facebook page today – they want to know what prop you’d like to see them make next and how much you’d be willing to pay. Your choices are Ecto-Goggles, Ghost trap, and the holy grail, a proton pack. I’m going to turn off the comments, as discussion here is awesome, but I don’t need to know what you’d like – THEY need to know what you’d like.
Yesterday everything was aflutter online, as Ivan Reitman, while promoting his new film, No Strings Attached was asked (you can always see this coming) about Ghostbusters 3, to which he replies that Bill Murray has seen the script. Ashton Kutcher, Reitman’s No Strings star, jokes, “He’s seen the cover!” – This gives Ivan a chuckle before ending with “So… fingers crossed.” This was taken to mean Murray had read the script by most, but it turns out Ashton was closest to the truth.
While talking, quite frankly, with Howard Stern this morning, Murray talked about Ghostbusters 3
Howard Stern: Is it true that there is a Ghostbusters 3 and that you’re the problem and you will not sign off on this? Do you know about this?
Bill Murray: Yeah, I guess I’m the problem. Before I was an asset, [but] now I’m a problem. There’s a script somewhere [on my desk], but I haven’t read it yet.
Robin Quivers: So you have no interest?
BM: Well, I’ll get to it… I gotta get to it – I feel bad. I got a message and I think people – I don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings – it’s not the foremost thing in my mind, so I don’t think about it.
You know, the studio gets excited every 10 years or so. What they’d really like to do is recreate the franchise. I remember when the new Ghostbusters was going to be Chris Rock, Chris Farley and Chris Crane… Kris Kringle… someone [laughs] – that had it together.
HS: Is that a threat to you? In other words, did they try to threaten you by saying we’re going to put together a new Ghostbusters and therefore you guys will have to go do it?
BM: It’s not a threat, it’s sort of businesslike – they’d like to keep it going. There are still kids today that watch this movie and love it, it’s still very popular. They still sell a lot of toys and everything.
This 8×10 acrylic portrait of everyone’s favorite receptionist (1984 version) is available for sale by the artist, Anthony Pedro, at his Etsy store! A steal for collectors of unique pop culture pieces!
