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Cross the Streams podcast, episode 11 now online

The guys kind of went nuts on their opener this episode. Was it like that last episode?

Celebrate this February Valentine’s Day Special of ‘Cross the Streams Radio Show’ with Matt Prov as he is out of the studio ready to report on his “big finding” in Toronto. We also have special guests, Louisiana Ghostbuster Ryan Burke, Ghostbusters United’s Kevin James…and the guy who made ‘The Ghostbusters Snuggie’.

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Intro
Matt Prov’s ‘Big Surprise’
Commercials
Round Table:
Singing Stay Puft plushies now available for pre-order
It’s a Ghostbusters Snuggie!
Custom Janine Melnitz inspired by IDW comic
McBusters Episode 3 now available
Ghostbusters United Handbook + Newsletter
Commercials
Goodbyes

Special Guests: Kevin James, Ryan Burke… and that dude who made the ‘Ghostbusters Snuggie.’

We hope everyone enjoys the episode, and we’d love to hear from more franchises all over the world to keep every posted and to help promote charity events or any and all Ghostbuster gatherings.

To touch base with either Brendan, Matt or Andrew write to us at ctsradioshow@gmail.com

We can’t wait to hear from anyone, good, bad or even ugly.

Check out our new deviant art account at http://crossthestreams.deviantart.com/

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Photos of Mattel display at NYTF 2011 (75+! and video) [UPDATE]

[UPDATE] Video! With a nice look at the tri-pod trap used at the Orrefors bust in Ghostbusters 2.

[UPDATE] Toy Ark has posted some pictures from the Mattel booth as well – particularly nice are the pics of the Winston/Venkman 12″ figs.

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ActionFigs.com has posted three pages of pics from the Mattel display at the 2011 New York Toy Fair, while Toy News International has 22 pics of their own. ActionFigs has some nice pics, but I think TNI has the clearer pics.

Today Mattel was showing off;
– Retro Action Real Ghostbusters
– Movie Masters (12″) GB2 Winston and Venkman (Both have an AMAZING array of accessories. Winston, of course, has his slime blower)
– Lab coat 6″ Egon with Library Ghost
– 6″ Vinz Clortho with interchangeable heads and pieces (Louis head with Terror Dog shell, in collander scanner, pizza suitable for face rubbing, and big glass jar of popcorn)
– 6″ Marshmallow Mess Ray Stantz (with marshmallowed GB logo)
– 6″ GB2 Winston with slime blower

Release dates at the display are as follows;
– Vinz Clortho, March 2011
– Marshmallow Mess Ray, March 2011
– Ghostbusters 2 Movie Masters Winston and Peter, April 2011
– Egon with Lab Coat, May 2011
– Winston with Slime Blower, July 2011

Mattel has been talking about some special news tomorrow, Monday, so stay tuned. I’m posting a very small selection of pictures here – be sure to check out the gallery links above for all of today’s Mattel Ghostbusters pics.

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Early look at Hot Wheels Elite Ecto-1 [UPDATE]

[UPDATE]Mmm, sorry – I think I’m perpetuating Entertainment Earth’s typo. Model scales are in fractions – so it should be 1/18 and 1/43, not 1:18 and 1:43, which are ratios.

So, a ’59 MM is 20 feet long (as far as I know), so at 1/18, the Hot Wheels Elite will be 1 foot, 1.3 inches long.

I’ve just put a ruler to my Joyride Ecto (I have one at home and one at the office – doesn’t everyone?) – it’s just a hair under 12 inches, which is exactly right for 1/21 scale.

So, no, it’s not going to be 6 inches longer as I originally had in the article. I should stop taking the word of people on the Internet for these things. If anybody is interested, this means the 1/43 scale Ecto will be a touch over 5 and a half inches long.

[UPDATE] Big Bad Toy Store is taking pre-orders and are offering the 1/18 scale for $99 and the 1/43 scale for $37. They are including list prices as being as reported at Entertainment Earth (their pre-order prices are discounted), so those figures do seem to be the actual prices.

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While the New York International Toy Fair doesn’t start until this weekend, The Nurnberg Toy Fair happened last week and Hot Wheels was there, showing off some of their upcoming Elite line of die-cast cars.

Hot Wheels Elite are high detail cars that are targeted at adult collectors, usually in 1/18 (the same as the Joyride Ecto-1 from years back The Joyride Ecto was 1/21 scale, meaning this new one will be about 6 inches longer an inch and a quarter longer.) and 1/43 scale (1/43 is double the size of a typical Hot Wheel car, roughly – more traditionally, it’s O scale in model train terms.)

The Hot Wheels Elite website had one, long shot of the display (you can see the smaller 1:43 scale car in the back, nearly complete by the looks of it, or at least sporting paint), but GBFans member Nisei has some attendee close-up shots that show the 1:18 scale prototype, unpainted. Judging from the pieces of tape holding it together, the car will have a LOT of moving pieces.

Entertainment Earth is taking pre-orders on both cars – 1:18 at $115 and the 1:43 at $41. Both are listed as due September 2011, which means you can likely order them through your local comic shop in June. Stay tuned.



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Take Me Home Tonight teaser runs through the 80s in under 4 minutes


Topher Grace (Predators, Ocean’s 12, That 70s Show) has a film coming out on March 11th, Take Me Home Tonight, which is about a group of friends celebrating the last night of their youth (apparently there’s a best by date on that sort of thing), and as a teaser for the film, the game does a short video for… a band Atomic Tom. Whom I’m not familiar with, as I’m old, but I like the cover. The video packs a couple of dozen 80s film references in to less that 4 minutes. Ghostbusters will be easy – how many others can you guess?

[VIA Cinema Blend]

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IGN Sanctum of Slime gameplay preview!

[UPDATE] It’s been pointed out that this trailer is a little spoilerific, or rather, contains one sizable spoiler – in the hurry to post it up during a work day, I neglected to point that out. So, better late than never, don’t watch the trailer if you want the story of the game to be a total surprise. Otherwise, you’re going to get an eyeball full of story screens.

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The title says it all – check out this brief, but highly informative look at Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime. Revelations include a look at the IDW supplied story segments, guest cameo by Janosz Poha (not just his nephew, as previously heard, one of the new team), and a look at the trapping mechanics, which in this isometric gameplay angle, involves following a variable button sequence (a simple and clever alternative to the not-bad, but not perfect 3D in 2D method TVG had.)