Ghostbusters screening in Bexley, Ohio
Posted on June 29, 2008
As part of Drexel Theatres Summer Kids Film Festival, Ghostbusters will be screened six times total over the following dates - July 17, July 19, July 20, July 23. Click here for more information.
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Ghostheads podcast episode 2 (with 100% more Proton Charging)
Posted on June 29, 2008
Episode two for the Ghostheads podcast is complete and online - there’s a small hiccup via iTunes, but there are multiple options for checking it out, which you should. A great show, plus myself and Chad Paulson (who runs Ghostbusters.net) join them for a roundtable gab.
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Tokyopop reveals almost final manga cover
Posted on June 28, 2008
Hmmm. I’m not sure I prefer this over the GB logo cover as appeared in Previews catalog, but then it has to be kept in mind that the cover has to do two things - it has to attract Ghostbusters fans (which it will do, simply by having Ghostbusters in the title) and it has to attract fans of Manga, in which case the logo will mean little, but art means more. Still, it is marked “Not Final”, so it may change yet.
Thanks to Fome for spotting it.
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Another Tokyopop artist uncovered
Posted on June 28, 2008
While digging around Newsarama, Proton Charging’s new best buddy Nonchan discovered an article on Tokyopop’s controversial new Manga Pilot program - in the article, one of the artists interviewed, Maximo V. Lorenzo, mentions;
I submitted constantly to any of TokyoPop’s would-be projects, and finally one went through, a Ghostbusters anthology for this fall… it’s a series I’ve loved ever since I was a kid and I’m fired up, guns blazing to give it my all to produce my best work yet for this book!
Nonchan also turned up Maximo’s DeviantArt page, complete with a sketch of the Ghostbusters team - while not specifically cited as being for the anthology (he comments that it is how he would draw the team, if given the chance) it is a nice look at his style.
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Custom Ghostbusters Xbox360 skin
Posted on June 27, 2008
Normally I’m leery on unlicensed Ghostbusters anything on ebay, but in this case, it is kind of cool. Someone in California is printing Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters 2 skins for the Xbox 360. They are printed on vinyl (not paper sticker) and look pretty sharp, as seen by these photos by QZEDDEMOORE, who bought one.
Buyer beware kids - but if you’ve ever wanted to customize your Xbox rig, short of someone making something official, this is an option. Or, maybe you want to try your own hand at it - the web has no lack of resources to help. Just remember to send PC a picture, yeah?
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Born in 2000. Livin’ like it’s 1987.
Posted on June 27, 2008
I don’t know where this kid got his RGB sweatshirt, but it’s the mullet that makes the ensemble.
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Two new game previews and 8 new screenshots
Posted on June 26, 2008
Thanks to Matt for sending in this link to Computer and Video Games preview of the Ghostbusters video game, which includes a nice, if brief, look at some of the equipment settings. Also, IGN has waded in with their demo walkthrough.
Also, 8 new screenshots went out last night - some are awfully similar (if not the same) as we’ve seen before, but a few are downright gorgeous.
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Tokyopop Ghostbusters listed in July Previews
Posted on June 25, 2008
This is it - time to pre-order the Tokyopop Ghostbusters manga (if you are so inclined.) It’s three months prior to an October release date, which means Diamond Distribution will be taking pre-orders through your favorite comic shop. Big thanks to Dave for reminding me - he’s had a look at the catalog already and it features a blurb on the book. It will have at least four stories, including one where Ray learns busting ghosts isn’t always a blast, and Egon has a heart-to-heart with a ghost before having to bust it (I’m looking forward to that one.) More on this book soon!
[UPDATE] Diamond is saying this issue of Previews covers items shipping in September - this may mean comic shops will get the item earlier than we expected.
[UPDATE] Dave found the Preview listings write up online (at Wizard Universe.) The page also includes the “Art Not Final” cover image (classic logo on black, but of course.)
a possessed fashion designer offers a spring line aimed to displease; a cantankerous theater critic haunts a new production of a big budget musical; Ray learns that catching ghosts isn’t ALWAYS exciting; Egon has a touching moment with a spectral spook; and Winston shines when the boys go from busters to bustees to a quartet of peeved off poltergeists.
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Shot On Site: That’s My Baby!
Posted on June 25, 2008
Rolling along from the last Shot On Site, I’m still in a Ghostbusters 2 frame of mind. And so, I present to you 325 East 77th Street, New York. This is the site of Dana’s post-Gozerian apartment with her baby boy, Oscar. We first see the apartment as Dana approaches with bags fulls of groceries and a carriage full of Oscar - however, having stepped in some pink goo (likely shot in LA by a second unit practical effects team), things soon go wrong and the carriage careens off on its own, mom in pursuit. The entire sequence is shot on 77th Street, starting near the West end of the block, and moving down to 1st Ave, where Oscar has a near encounter with a bus.
To kick things off, I’ll start with some bits of trivia from the tail-end of the scene, which will make for a nice bookend effect, as this post will end with the same shot and a big piece of trivia I’ve dug up. Observe;
Only briefly seen flashing by (not counting the nice continuity of seeing it in the distance the shot before), the bus is the M15 - this is an actual Manhattan bus route that actually travels the route seen in the movie. You can see the bus’s number on the front - you can also see an ad for HOT 97 FM. What’s interesting about HOT 97 FM, is that the station as advertised was barely a few months old when the scene was shot in the fall/winter of 1988/1989. A station purchase saw the formerly WYNY 97 swap frequencies with WQHT 103 FM (a dance music station.) The station’s claim to fame was playing the same 12 inch version of popular dance tracks you could hear in the clubs. And now you know.
On with the breakdown.
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Ghostbusters game website login now working
Posted on June 24, 2008
That’s it - where as registered users couldn’t login (and thus their accomplishments at the two employee tests weren’t being saved), now you can. Plus, if you’ve forgotten your password, the system will send it to you at the email with which you registered. Credit to Ectoman57 for being the first to spot the fix.
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New game equipment setting - The Boson Dart
Posted on June 24, 2008
Initially lost to me (due to the red haze) - and lost to everyone else because most every gaming site in the world was too lazy to look past the juicy jab at Rick Moranis - is the fact that we know a name for one of the weapons equipment settings (I prefer that - remember, a proton pack isn’t a toy, but nor is it a weapon. It’s a tool, if you have the talent) - the Boson Dart (not the “Boston Dart“, as one site incorrectly copied.) That’s, like, a moth or something.
Aykroyd went so far as to change names of weapons, “He changed things like the Proton Torpedo to the Boson Dart because he thought the original sounded too ‘Star Trek‘.”
Well, he’s not alone. And hooray for Boson beams! So, we’re talking about, what…? Gluons? As long as they zap nicely.
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1/6th scale Proton Pack for sale
Posted on June 23, 2008
Nick-o-tron at GBFans.com has created a 1/6th scale proton pack resin kit (1/6th scale is about 12″ GI Joe scale, for those wondering) and is offering them for sale. The packs look fantastic when assembled, and start at approximately $70US plus shipping (the price drops when you buy more than one pack.)
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Yes, it’s true…
Posted on June 23, 2008
…these men have no dicks. Well, that’s what I heard.
Seriously though - observe a lesson in being too cool for school. As Chad spotted over at GB.net, Kotaku (the gaming wing of the Gawker network of blogs, infamous for their remarkable snark to effort ratio) contacted Sierra to find out why Rick Moranis wasn’t going to be voicing Louis Tully in the Ghostbusters video game.
The brief to the point of flippant Sierra response;
He made so much money off of Honey I Shrunk The Kids that he retired. He just doesn’t want to work anymore.
The snarky to the point of dickitude Kotaku analysis;
Oh. Well. Good for you, Rick Moranis.
Which then turns into a Rick Moranis-bashing free-for-all in the comments. Unfair, and uncool. While the Sierra rep is correct, I can only hope he said much more than that, and that Kotaku cut it down to size, making it seems so glib. If only someone had thought to, you know, maybe ask Rick why he would or would not do Louis Tully every again. Oh wait, someone did. And it’s a lot deeper an answer than “He’s rich and doesn’t want to work.”
[UPDATE] Sorry, Kotaku didn’t talk Sierra, Das Gamer did. They were just reposting and snarking. Like they do. But still… tacky.
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Kubrick Ghostbusters - up close
Posted on June 22, 2008
Someone at the Tokyo Toy Fair posted their photo of the Ghostbusters Kubrick figures, so you can have a much close (and occasionally blurry) look at them - still no good photo of their packs mind you.
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I heart Gary Owens
Posted on June 20, 2008
Big thanks to Lanny D. Crepit for spotting this YouTube vid of the commercial ABC used back in the 80s to promote their showing of Ghostbusters. The narration by 80s stalwart, Gary Owens, is priceless.
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