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Ghostbusters United: Newsletter 2 now online!

Categories: FANS, franchises, GB

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Published on: May 23, 2011

Ghostbusters United is proud to present issue two of its quarterly franchise-centric newsletter, put together by Chris Sinquefield of the Northeast Texas Ghostbusters.

Available here for download, issue two of the Franchise Newsletter highlights the history of one of the first franchises to hit the scene: the West Coast Busters. We also take some time to highlight Busterpalooza, an upcoming gathering in Houston of some of the south’s finest franchises, and Brandon Carnahan of the Steel City Ghostbusters takes some time to reflect on the Boston Saint Patrick’s Day parade from March. Issue 2 is a solid entry in our newsletter, so take some time and read up on what’s going on with Ghostbusters franchises worldwide.

Download the PDF newsletter here!

Mattel outlines GB releases to end of year.

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Categories: GB2, MERCH

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Published on: May 23, 2011

With the release of the 6″ Ghostbusters 2, slimer-blower packin’ Winston, Mattel has announced their Ghostbusters release schedule for the rest of the year. Barring any changes, which are always a possibility, due to production and shipping issues, here’s the rundown;

June 15th:
-Ghostbusters 2, 6″ Winston Zeddemore with Slime Blower and Tri-Pod Trap

July 15th:
-Ghostbusters 2, 12″ Peter Venkman & Winston Zeddemore Double Pack.

July 20th: (San Diego Comic Con)
-22″ Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. (Left overs will be sold online around August 1st) Check out the Stay Puft Release Video

August 15th:
-Ghostbusters 6″ Lab Coat Egon Spengler with Library Ghost.

October 17th:
-Ghostbusters 6″ Ray Stantz with Cinema Ghost (Ghostbusters 2)
-Ghostbusters 2, 12″ Ray Stantz & Egon Spengler Double Pack.
-Something you’ve been waiting for that I can’t announce yet!

We still have one Ghostbusters 6″ Club Ecto-1 figure to reveal for 2011. That figure will ship in December and be revealed at SDCC along with the first 2012 figure! Just keep in mind that like what happened with our original Zeddemore sale date, various issues (like a potential fourth reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants or a mass sponge migration, for example) can cause things to get switched up so the schedule isn’t final until, well, it’s final. I’ll be sure to keep you updated because there are tons more great toys coming!

The “can’t announce yet” is most likely the second prop item – the first prop, the PKE meter, was announced at SDCC and went on sale in October, so it makes a certain amount of sense that they will do the same again this year.

As a small bonus, they included this Lab Coat Egon photo;

[VIA GBFans]

Spook Central nails one of the toughest Shot On Sites

by castewar

Categories: FANS, Shot On Site

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Published on: May 22, 2011

Over the last couple of years, most all scenes of both movies have been sussed out – but it’s a diminishing return on the effort, as the more scenes we figure out, the ones that remain unsolved are logically the harder and harder ones. Right now, most all of the shots remaining where their locations haven’t been identified are montage shots – quick shots where there isn’t a lot of time to make out any helpful details.

But Paul at Spook Central nailed one today – by using the shot in the film PLUS (and this is the amazing part) on location photos from various sources, including the Ghostbusters 2 trading card set – has figure out where the boys nabbed a ghost while wearing their Santa hats.

Check out the location detective awesomeness at Spook Central.

GBFans building interactive trivia feature for both movies, needs your help.

by castewar

Categories: ADMIN, GB, GB2

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Published on: May 22, 2011

GBFans is soliciting your help to build an interactive feature on the site that uses both Ghostbusters films. While they are currently being mum on the details, it’s not hard to draw a line between their first hints at the project and the group Twitter viewing of Ghostbusters 1 on May 13th, just a few days earlier – at a guess, it’s a crowd-sourced trivia database. Whether you access it directly or it streams in time with the movies remains to be seen, but either way, it’s an ambitious project that needs your help.

Step one is taking every frame from both films and grading them – not every frame is clear. Some will be glitched and need a re-grab. And the best way to sort out the good from the bad is to get YOU to vote… frame by frame. If you make it through (and contribute to the feature once it’s done – whatever that entails. Presumably contributing trivia) you get a supporting membership on the site.

Head here to get started – be sure to read the voting criteria at the bottom. If people don’t follow the criteria, it all kind of falls apart.

Know what your lawn needs this Halloween? 8 foot tall Stay Puft.

by castewar

Categories: GB, MERCH

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Published on: May 19, 2011

Big thanks to Matt Rude for the heads up on this Morbid Enterprises listing at Big Bad Toy Store – an eight and a half foot tall inflatable Stay Puft. Screw the inflatable pumpkin or witch on the lawn – we all need this. Well, I need this.

Currently BBTS.com is taking pre-orders at $99.99 (hmmm. Now I know why people always get the pumpkin), and while no due date is apparent, they have it listed for a Q3 release, which would put it at September, at the latest – right on time for Halloween!

Art Aslyum shows off TRU RGB Minimate packages

by castewar

Categories: MERCH, RGB

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Published on: May 19, 2011

Art Asylum has posted pack shots for the first wave of their Real Ghostbusters minimates, due on June 24th – the art on the back of the two-packs reveals that some small changes were made, such as making Slimer transparent instead of opaque (though he doesn’t keep his familiar, snaggletoothed mug from the cartoons.)

Toys R Us are currently taking online pre-orders on the Janine/Slimer and Ray/Egon packs, but not the Exclusive packs with the famous Real Ghostbusters ghosts (Samhain, Boogeyman, Egyptian Ghost, and Energy Terror Dog… ok, those last two aren’t famous RGB ghosts – cool, but not famous in the cartoon, compared to the other two.)

Janine (in GB jumpsuit) and Slimer

Ray and Egon

No word yet on what will become of secretary Janine, as she first appeared in early prototype shots.

Historic Ladder 8 firehall on the chopping block.

by castewar

Categories: Featured, GB

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Published on: May 18, 2011

The New York Daily News is reporting that they have the list – as created by City Hall – of 20 firehalls in the greater New York area that are slated for closing, after budget cuts were made.

City Hall is stressing that the list is only tentative, as some of the stations may remain open if more money is found, but that’s a bit of a big if, and even if they do find money, the chances aren’t great for any of the stations that they will be one of the 20 saved from closure.

We’ll have to stay tuned to see how this plays out, but at the moment it doesn’t look good for the world’s most famous firehall.

Thanks to Mike Sopronyi for the heads up.

Now that’s how you end a story arc…

by castewar

Categories: ART, COMICS, FANS

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Published on: May 18, 2011

James Stafford, the writing brain behind The Sorrowful Putto of Prague webcomic, is a bit of a ghosthead – his bio details, for no apparent reason, his chance meeting with Harris Yulin (Judge Wexler in Ghostbusters 2.)

And in keeping with his love of GB, he capped off his comic’s latest story arc in style.

Be sure to check out the entire comic from the beginning!

I’m having Mini-pops flashbacks…

by castewar

Categories: FANS, GB, VIDEO

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Published on: May 18, 2011

Cheers to GhostbustersNews.com for the link.

Golden Ghost fanfilm awards are now taking submissions.

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Categories: VIDEO

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Published on: May 16, 2011

The Golden Ghost Awards, the first Ghostbusters Fan Film Contest, has officially begun today with a 2-week application period for filmmakers to submit their work for competition.

The Golden Ghost Awards website is now open for business!

Want to compete in the first ever Ghostbusters Fan Film Contest?

Applicants will find links on the site below to review rules and guidelines, as well as instructions on how to apply to compete and a synopsis of how the voting will take place.

Here’s a brief timeline on the contest:

May 16-30th: Applications considered for competition.

May 30-June 13: Voting Period. Fans may vote once per day, per computer for 14 days and may vote for any combination of films they chose.

June 15: Winner is announced and contacted.

June 30: Acceptance speech is requested to have been sent back to us to post on the site from Winner and Runner-Up.

So if you’re ready, log over to the official site:

GOLDENGHOSTAWARDS.COM

And may the best film win!

Here’s a mockup of the trophy, now under construction….

Not able to compete or not ready? We will be exhibiting trailers for non-qualifying or work-in-progress Fan Films on our home page! Just email Ben_L@louisianaghostbusters.net or find him on Facebook to inquire.

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