That’s right – flying in under the radar of next week’s impending E3 tradeshow, Atari has announced that tomorrow, June 1st, they’re releasing a Challenge Pack for Sanctum of Slime, which adds two new gameplay modes – Lone Hero and Arcade Action. The one let’s you play by yourself, without any back-up. And the other… it’s unclear what arcade action means.
All in all, if you liked the game, you’ll probably like the little variety the pack gives you. And if you didn’t, this is unlikely to lure you in.
This may not be interesting to some of you, but for those of us that make an amateur career out of all things Ghostbusters, stuff like this – a week by week breakdown of how Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters 2 performed at the box office – is a wealth of information.
For example;
- Ghostbusters opened June 8th, 1984 and was number 1 for a total of 8 weeks, 7 of them consecutively.
- Ghostbusters ran in theatres for 30 weeks, officially closing at the end of December.
- Ghostbusters re-opened for two weeks at the end of August, 1985. It broke the top ten both weeks.
- Halloween did in fact give the movie a small bump.
The Phoenix Comic Con was this weekend and ABC TV gave it some special interest attention – of most note is they got to speak to Ernie Hudson a bit, who professed his appreciation for all the Ghostbusters fans out there. In doing that, the cameras also got a great look at the Arizona GBs and the spectacle they brought to the event.
The Phoenix ComiCon was unbelievable this year. The attendance was record setting and they ended up having to limit the number of people in the hall and extended the hours because of it. Our booth was considered one of the most popular thanks to Puft looming over the hall. Anywhere you were you could see him. A lot of people used it at their meeting point.
William Atherton was only supposed to be there Friday and Saturday but he decided to stay all of Sunday too. William is a true gentleman and professional. Ernie was only in attendance on Sunday due to filming a movie here in Arizona. He stopped by our booth to see us and William. It caused a media circus and was an amazing moment to see the two actors together again.
We raised just $875 from raffles with $100 of that coming from the arcade machine. At $.25 a play that means it was played 400 times over the weekend.
All of our panels went great and Ernie’s was filled to capacity. We handed out 600 AZGB buttons and held the Slime Scavenger Hunt and Ghost Trapping Game for kids. We had tons of kids come in costume and a mom and her daughter came in Stay Puft costumes. The Zombie walk was also a huge success. Elvira also stopped by which caused another media circus. We set up our sound system speakers behind Vigo so after every few songs we had a Vigo quote play. It scared quite a few people, especially when they were in front of him for a photo.
Jerry, who has dropped a couple of great Ghostbusters inspired t-shirts already (like his Star Wars/GB mash-up, It’s a Trap!), is back with a new tee – this time, paying a little nod to the Ghostbusters from the turn of last century… The Spectral Smashers!
As with all Tee Fury shirts, you have one day to buy it. On the plus side, they cost a mere ten bucks! So go get one!
Big ups to Adrianna from the Ontario GBs for the heads up!
Thanks to a number of people, most notably GB2 effects whiz William Forsche, we have had a lot of great looks behind the scenes during Ghostbusters 2 production. And William treats us again with two more clips.
On Friday, June 3 beginning at 11:00 a.m. officials of the Uniformed Firefighters Association (UFA), Uniformed Fire Officers Association (UFOA), New York City Firefighters, community leaders, citizens and elected officials will march across the Brooklyn Bridge to protest Mayor Bloomberg’s plan to close 20 fire companies.
They will then hold a major Save the Fire Companies rally in City Hall Park (Broadway side) beginning at 11:45 a.m., with speeches by various political and union officials. Come on down and March Across the Brooklyn Bridge to protest Mayor Bloombergs insane plan.
A listing for Ghostbusters 3 casting is making the rounds – before you get too excited, the solicitation for GB3 extras is the same page that made a small noise back in November. And I mean the EXTACT same page. Here’s Proton Charging’s coverage from last year, including Entertainment Weekly’s news that they had contacted Anna Farris’ representation and she was not up for the role.
That link to the casting page is the same page making the rounds today – they changed the date on the top of the page to May 23rd, but the page link still contains the 2010/11 (november 2010) date.
Nothing came of the last call and no official announcement was made to confirm it. It remains a slim possibility that it was legit and stalled, and this is just the same process starting up again, but for now, it’s a giant question mark.
IDW Honcho in Chief, Chris Ryall, has posted a look at the variant cover for the first issue of the monthly Ghostbusters comic – coming this September – by artist Nick Runge. Nick has contributed covers to previous Ghostbusters comics, including Con-Volution, Past, Present, and Future, and… well, all of them, I think.
Ryall also explained that the covers will have a theme, with each variant cover paying homage to classic album covers – the first is modeled, loosely, after the KISS Destroyer album.
For our coming GHOSTBUSTERS series — starting in September — artist Nick Runge will be doing a variant cover for each issue that pays tribute to classic album art. Up first is this little “Kings of the Nighttime World” tribute to Ken Kelly‘s classic painting from 1976…
While Minimates Ray, Egon, Janine, and a host of Real Ghostbusters ghosts will be out in Toys R Us two-packs at the end of June, Diamond Select revealed today that Peter, Winston, Louis, and Mr. Stay-Puft (yes, another one) will be available as a specialty store exclusive (meaning, you have to buy it through your local comic shop or any other store that buy through Diamond’s Preview Catalog… meaning comic shops, mostly) four-pack!
A Diamond Select Release! Art Asylum Designs & Sculpts Following up on the hit Ghostbusters Movie line, DST now continues the line based on the ’80s cartoon series, The Real Ghostbusters! Based on the character designs from cartoon, this specialty market exclusive four-pack includes Peter Venkman in his uniform, Winston in uniform, Staypuft (evil), Janine Melnitz, and the set exclusive Lewis Tully! Each Minimate stands 2.5″ tall with 14 points of articulation and a variety of removable and interchangeable parts and accessories and is packed on a blister card.
Look for these to be out by the end of September 2011.
Ernie Hudson will be signing stuff and talking to fans at Packrat Comic’s (in Hilliard, Ohio) Free Comic Book Day celebration on Saturday, May 5th! Mark your calendar (or, watch the new Proton Charging calendar on the right – you can add events from it to your own calendar and [...]
Dan Schwab shared this awesome picture he did for The Porch, a bar in Key West. Here’s his explanation; There is a haunted bar called “The Porch”, here in Key West and they enjoy cool 1980′s stuff, like I do. So I did this little bit of art for them, [...]
That’s right, tomorrow – how last minute is that? But then, that’s typical of the CHV tours. Bottle Signing @ Widder Bar Thursday February 16 From 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM Zurich, Switzerland Rennweg 7 CH-8001 Zurich, Switzerland
LEGO Cuusoo is a third party site that takes third party LEGO designs and sells them as kits. They also have the attention of LEGO. After reaching 10K names, LEGO agreed they would look at Minecraft as a LEGO license. Which is cool and all, but that inspired this new [...]
With a new Ghostrider movie due in theatres soon, why not show up as a GR fans AND a GB fan? Impossible? Nope. Check out this hilarious Ghostrider / Ghostbusters mash-up tee at ShirtVegas.com. [VIA GBNews]
Underground Toys, who make the lions share of GB merch these days (mugs, glasses, cufflinks, keychains, and of course plush toys, etc.) have revealed their upcoming plush Slimer at New York’s Toy Fair. Like last year’s plush Stay-Puft, the Slimer comes in a medium (approx. 10″) size that plays “movie [...]
Currently in the UK, Aykroyd was interviewed by Empire Magazine. The inevitable GB3 questions came up of course, but Dan also addressed rumours of Bill Murray shredding the script, and hinting at possibly replacing him.
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