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"We haven't had a completely successful taste of this equipment." [UPDATE]

Kayels attended a friend’s birthday party this past week – the minimally named D is apparently a big Ghostbusters fan and his brother set to work with online prop reference to create an amazingly detailed proton pack cake – I’m including the full image, so be sure to click on it to see the crazy level of detail. Licorice wire and edible labels!

Thanks to SRT40 for the heads-up!

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[UPDATE] SRT40, whom I think is the lucky birthday boy, and pal kayels, who posted the cake picture in the first place, have provided some more details.

# SRT40 Food colouring printed on icing for labels 🙂 Half cake was victoria sponge, half chocolate. Note the repainted kenner trap.

# kayels some of the cake was chocolate some plain.Everything is edible apart from stitches to hold the sugared jelly strips 2gether

In addition to the awesome cake, SRT40 also got a second Ghostbusters surprise;

# SRT40 Also received an overhauled Kenner Ecto 1, with the objective being ‘what the toy should have been’!! 😀


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“A proton pack is not a toy”

The US Defense Intelligence Agency is looking into recent advances in proton gun technology (used primarily in cancer treatment) as a possible option for dealing with biological threats – unlike a bomb threat, which you can hit deal with by blowing up the package (or various similar pump-it-full-of-energy-make-go-boom options), even the smallest part of a biological package can cause damage. So, the plan is to pump it full of protons, which can be set to stop at a particular distance (where they then dump their energy, but the surrounding area remains intact.) All this thanks to the equipment getting smaller and smaller – sadly, as the science improves, it also makes the movie equipment that much more fictional, but that’s a small price to pay to zap a tumor or a bundle of nerve gas.