Egon Week was my little brain child to honor the late, great Harold Ramis, who passed away one year ago on February 24th. Sure, on the 24th of this month, there will be many a tribute out there to Harold, but why just one day?
As the kick off to Egon Week, we'll be looking at one of my favorite figures of Dr. Spengler! Kenner's Real Ghostbusters Screaming Heroes Egon!
Kenner no doubt had a herculean task to accomplish when releasing he next series of figures after the wildly successful first series and Fright Features lines.
They indeed struck lightning in a bottle yet again with the Screaming Heroes.
Here, Egon is decked out in a red flight suit, worn underneath what looks like a very high tech leotard. Nothing says Ghostbusters meets Jazzercise quite like these figures.
This particular Egon figure was great because not only does red look absolutely badass on him, but he also came with a PKE meter!
Sure, the first series of figures had the Proton Packs, but the Sreaming Heroes Egon came with a friggin' PKE METER! The absolute PERFECT accessory for Egon.
The whole premise of this series was that you would take the included ghost and attach it into a hole on the hero's armor.
The ghost would stay into place while you twisted part of the figure. In Egon's case, he twisted at the waistline.
Go ahead, grab your Screaming Heroes Egon figure really quick. We'll do this together.
Got it? Good.
Now get the big ugly blue ghost.
Don't have one? Well, I suppose any of them from the line will do.
You got the green one that came with Venkman? Okay, that works.
Lock it into place and twist Dr. Spengler around a whole bunch of times until you hear a bunch of clicking noises.
Got it? Okie dokie.
Once wound tight, there was a small red lever on the waist. When the lever was moved, Egon spun around fast enough to poke an eye out if you weren't careful enough.
While I tried at least seven and a half times to get a photo of Egon spinning, it constantly came out looking like he was trying to strut his stuff on the cat walk.
These figures were indeed nothing short of fan-freakin-tastic. With the idea that the boys in greay (or red in Egon's case) are out doing what they do best, and a sneaky ghost clings on to them and gives them one of the best "oh shit" reactions known to man, Kenner has us hooked from the start.
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Wow, I'm actually taking the time to update this site, weird!
Truth be told, I'm snowed in today (yet again) and cannot get and real grown up work done, so I took a few minutes to do a video review of Kenner's Ecto-3!
Yes, the video is kind of, shall we say, awkward, but they'll get better with time should I decide to keep doing them.
Anyways, if you're snowed in and getting ready to go crazy, as I am, hopefully this will provide you with a few minutes of relief.
In the late 90's, it was kind of the "in" thing to try and keep 80's cartoon franchises alive and well.
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles suddenly became Ninja Turtles, The Next Mutation, which added a 5th turtle, a female named Venus. Needless to say, this live action nightmare failed after only one season, and Venus was never heard from again.
Ghostbusters wasn't ignored either.
In the late 90's, talk of Ghostbusters 3 was all the rage. Wait, it still is. I guess some thing don't change. Either way, talk of a third movie was alive and well in 1997. Rumored stars who would make up a new team of Ghostbusters included Chris Farley and Will Smith.
While rumors of a third movie swirled around the fledgling World Wide Web, Ghostbusters fans old and new were treated to a cartoon series that served as a sequel to our much beloved Real Ghostbusters.
Egon Spengler led the pack with a new team of Ghostbusters, his college students. Kylie, Eduardo, Roland, and Garret. Janine returned to serve as the secretary, and we even got an older, really depressing version, of Slimer.
Naturally, with a new Saturday morning cartoon hitting the airwaves, we just had to get a new set of toys, right?
Among the figures and role play toys, there was the Plasma Blaster! A much upgraded version of the neutrona wand. Ghostbusting in the 90's, I guess.
Before we delve into the Plasma Blaster, I think we should pay homage to this little shit on the box.
If you'll recall, most of the children on the boxes for the Real Ghostbusters toys were very clean cut, coming across as looking like Timmy from Lassie.
That was so 80's.
The 90's, the late 90's in particular saw society move into a much more extreme, hardcore, edgy lifestyle. Jerry Springer was giving America daily brawls featuring cross dressers and strippers with hoo hoo's the size of beach balls. Stone Cold Steve Austin was the foul mouthed WWF Champion. Playstation and SURGE soda were a much better couple than Ross and Rachael.
I think you get it.
Look at little Mister Attitude on the box. Dressed all in black, hat on backwards, ready to bust some ghosts, flip off a cop, and explore the world of internet porn.
Okay, maybe that was just me, I don't know.
I think the packaging definitely suits the time period and the Extreme theme of the cartoon, as we of course know, nothing said extreme in the 90's like a backwards hat. You hippie.
Oh, this toy.
The Plasma Blaster requires about 99 different batteries to operate. And they aren't the kind that tend to be laying around the house either. Nope. We're talking LR44's, C's, a Mazda MX3 battery, a small generator, and something big enough to electrocute a horse.
While we go through this review battery free, just mesmerize yourself with the complexity of this toy.
Oh, where to begin.
Jesus H. Christ, they made this one a little complicated, didn't they?
Just looking at this thing makes me feel like my 93 year old grandpa trying to figure out how to stick a tape into the VCR.
No, really, he got it like 20 years ago and I still don't think he knows how to use it.
The Plasma Blaster is equipped with several features that make anything from the RGB series look insufficient.
There are easily more lights and sounds available on this thing than any pre-2001 Cell Phone could possibly offer.
First, we have a nifty little radar that allows us to scope out a spook and fire a missile via the touch of the button in the middle. I like to think of it as the button you shouldn't touch for any reason, but totally touch in a panic.
You can just imagine your first day on the job, being handed your own Plasma Blaster, and Egon saying to you, "See that button? Don't ever touch it, under any circumstances."
But you do anyways.
The missile that shoots out even lights up.
How does one fire the Plasma Blaster?
Well, glad you asked.
There is a little red button on the handle that, when pushed, supplies us with lights and sounds. Of course, you can't just pretend that there is a proton stream coming out of the end.
Trendmasters one upped Kenner on this one.
While Kenner just gave up long pieces of foam, Trendmasters gave us a giant, yellow, plastic dildo to clip on to the end on the gun.
If all else fails, and you cannot find any of the 97 thousand batteries to power this little toy, take a selfie and try to make a bad ass face. Cigarette optional.
God, my bad ass face makes it look like I REALLY have to poop.
Is the Plasma Blaster a terrible toy?
Not by any means. However, much like the rest of the EGB line, I think they lack the overall simplicity and style that the RGB toys had. I don't think they changed for the worse, but I do think it was something that the 90's, and Ghostbusters fans, weren't quite ready to accept.
In recent years, EGB has found a following among a handful of original fans, but most purists refuse to give it the time of day.
Myself? I'm glad there was a EGB. I liked it. It wasn't what it could have been, and was very different from what I knew and loved growing up, but some kind of Ghostbusters is better than no Ghostbusters.
Plus, without EGB, we would have never gotten the Back in the Saddle episodes, which remain some of my favorites to this very day.
If you'd like to see this thing actually light up, check out the video, which was not made by me, but some guy who sounds like Crocodile Dundee, who makes a weird farting noise as the beginning. It's a terrible video, just so you know.
It's the perfect opportunity to review these AWESOME ghosts from the various GB toy lines.
First we had Mail Fraud, and yesterday was The Hunchback monster. Today, we have none other than the Bad to the Bone ghost!!!!!
While not part of a specific series of ghosts in the Kenner toy line, the BTTB ghost came out along with the first wave of Kenner Ghostbusters toys.
He doesn't quite look like your typical skeleton, more like the skeleton of a ghost. A really dorky ghost.
Hey, let's be honest, I don't know many ghosts who have buck teeth inside of their E.T. shapes skulls.
You know what? Come to think of it, the damn thing does very closely resemble E.T.
Maybe I'm just really tired while writing this, but I'll be damned, I swear.....
Anyways, the concept of the BTTB ghost is simple, yet very freakin' awesome!
A pair of tabs on the back of the figure allow for his rib cage to open up, while he waits for the perfect opportunity to pounce on his Ghostbuster prey.
Once he latches on to the prey, said prey becomes trapped inside of a skeletal prison, where he is not likely to escape with any type of ease.
Seriously, I freakin' love this toy.
I never had one as a kid and didn't own one until a couple of years ago when I spotted it, along with a few other GB items at a garage sale.
I haven't come across another since, so, surprisingly, this is the only one I have, but it takes up a very special place in my collection.
Day 4 tomorrow. No idea what I'm going to feature yet, so I suppose we'll both be surprised. Or not.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it is OFFICIALLY October 1st! Halloween is upon us!
What better way to celebrate the biggest day of the year for all of the Ghostbusters franchises and fans that to review 31 ghosts in 31 days?
Yes, the Mr. Ghostbuster blog is your place to be this Halloween season for all thing Ghostbusters!
I thought, perhaps, I would ease into this one a little bit. It is, afterall, going to be a VERY long month. Not only do I have a job to deal with on a daily basis, but everything else that comes along with being a grown up as well, so if at some point these reviews become slightly half assed, don't say I didn't warn you.
For day one of our long 31 day countdown, we will take a look at MAIL FRAUD!
Mail Fraud, one of the tougher figures to find from the Haunted Humans line by Kenner, is one disgruntled postal worker.
While he doesn't officially have a name, aside from his ghostly alter ego, works for an unnamed post office in an unnamed city.
We'll pretend his name is Pat, and he is a carrier for the Bronx Post Office? Cool?
Nah.
Anyways, Mr. Postal Worker here deals with fugly (yeah, I used it) housewives and beer drinking welfare men all day long. He is just plain miserable.
He used to wake up happy, and ready to go to work until he met Gertrude off of East 9th street, who tried to seduce him while wearing her hair rollers and night gown.
Perhaps he wouldn't have minded so much had it not been for the mole with three dark hairs sticking out right above her lip.
Day after day of lugging around people's bills and those stupid Pizza Coupons that you get ever Wednesday, he snapped and hung himself.
A little depressing, but one person can only take so much.
He came back to haunt all of his old stops, ready to make the hairs on Gertrude's mole jump off of her face.
Mail Fraud has come to unleash holy hell on every person along his old route.
The Mail Fraud figure was a great toy indeed. The Haunted Humans line was one of the best indeed, taking normal, everyday people in blue collar jobs and giving them the perfect mixture of poltergeist and take this job and shove it.
Mail Fraud transforms flawlessly from United States Postal worker to ghost by lifting his torso up.
His stomach suddenly becomes a mouth clad with razor sharp teeth, his neck tie becomes a nose and his shirt pockets become eyes that glare straight into the depths of your soul.
I do no at all doubt that Mail Fraud would gladly scare the daylights out of anybody who gets in his way.
Now, lets just hope he takes out those people who clog up my mailbox with pizza coupons and grocery ads.
I was in the process of writing about something else for this site when the mail man came a knocking at my door to deliver me all kinds of goodies.
If you're wondering (trust me, you probably aren't) that "other" post will be up tomorrow.
I was pretty excited to see mister mail man today, as I knew that today would finally be the day that I got the items I had ordered online a week ago.
I typically HATE ordering things online as the wait takes forever. I'm one of those weird people who likes to have the item in my hand the moment the money is forked over.
Regardless of me being weird, lets see what today's mail brought!!!!
First up we have the Real Ghostbusters volume 1 DVD set.
I had this so long ago, and was nearly heartbroken when it got lost in a move years and years ago.
This set, still factory sealed, was scored off of Amazon for around $8 after shipping. Not too bad.
To make things even better, I only ordered it 3 days ago. Boy, they sure are fast. Big props to the seller for being so quick!
The Ghost Spooker!!!!!!
It's a rare day that I get to add a Kenner item to my collection that I do not already own. I think I'm down to about 5 or 6 items now to have a complete Kenner collection.
Seriously, I have no idea what I am going to do with myself when I accomplish this goal. I mean, obviously I will move on to completing the Extreme Ghostbusters set, and then Matty and whatnot, but the Kenner line, as it was the original, is kind of a big deal for me to finish. It's bittersweet, that's for sure.
I'm not going to go into great detail about the Ghost Spooker since it deserves a review of it's own.
The item was not sealed in it's box by any means, so I took the contents out for a photo, but hey, the box IS there, so it makes it that much cooler, right?
And last, but not least, there is the Extreme Ghostbusters Plasma Blaster!
This is yet another item that I did not already have, but to be fair, my collecting focus for many years has been the Kenner stuff, so I have only picked up the EGB stuff when it is readily available, or cheap.
Again, not going into a lot of detail since this item will get a post of it's own at some point, but like the Ghost Spooker, the toy has been opened and played with before, so I had no bad feeling about opening it to take a photo.
All in all, I'd say it was a pretty good day, when you factor in the Stay Puft pencil sharpener and sealed Ertl Ecto-1A model kit that I picked up locally today.
Can't hate seeing your Ghostbusters collection grow!
I'm thinking sometime after the Halloween season, I am going to ask all of my readers here and on Facebook to show me a pic of their collection, which I will feature in a slide show or gallery here in a future post. It's always fun to see what other Ghostbusters collectors have, and I'll admit, even I sometimes get jealous!
Yes kids, it's time for another edition of 3 Random Things here on the blog that nobody knows exists!
Shhh, it'll be our little secret.
This time, we stray away from the normal "look at 3 things from Mr. Ghostbuster's colletion" and put a little twist on it.
This edition of 3 Random Things will be all about our friend, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man!
Stay Puft has long been my favorite character in Ghostbusters. He is just so darn cute. How could you not want to give him a big hug? Even when he is sent to destroy all of humanity, you can't help but love him, and have a very soft spot in your heart, to the point to shedding a few tears, when the boys in grey roast him.
Yes, folks, this time we check out 3 Random Stay Puft items in the biggest Ghostbusters collection you will ever see.
1: Singing Stay Puft!!
A few years ago, I was able to score one of these at our local Toys R Us for about $20., which is a real shock.
See, our TRU is typically the last store in the world to get anything good, and if they luck out and do, they get one case of it. Once that case hits shelves, there is nothing but douchey Ebay dealers lined up at the door (every Friday morning at 10am!!!) waiting to get a hold of it to flip it for seven times the retail price.
Push the little blue sticker on Stay Puft's torso and you'll hear roughly 20 seconds of the Ghostbusters theme!
2: Stay Puft Plushie!!
I have several of these, but the first one was the worst one to get.
We were down in Memphis, TN on vacation for a week back in 2012. We had gone into Wal-Mart and spotted him trapped inside of the evil claw machine.
Oh, but he could be ours should we be lucky enough to master the claw at only $1.00 per play!
$1.00 per attempt to watch this fat chunk of fluff fall out over and over and over and over....you get it by now.
By the time he was rescued and in my loving arms, roughly $30 had been spent. I could have done so much more with $30, but I'll never pass up the chance to bring home a stuffed Marshmallow Man.
3: The Stay Puft Army!!
Over the years, I have seemed to acquire 10 of the original Kenner Stay Puft figures.
On average, I seem to gain around 2 of them a year from various sources locally.
I'll never forget the first one. I was about 4 years old, at day care. I was wearing a Ghostbusters 2 logo shirt.
Some of the other hillbilly kids decided that they wanted to play Ghostbusters. Shit, man, I was down! They quickly turned me away because I was wearing a Ghostbusters 2 shirt. I should be mad about it to this day, but chances are, those little kids, mullets and all, are probably toothless and digging in the dirt, only dreaming to live in the "big town" these days.
I decided to go off and do my own thing, which I would grow very accustomed to throughout my life. Soon enough, my Dad was there to pick me up and free me from the clutches of the evil day care provider.
In his hands, he had the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man!
I could not have been more excited in my 4 years on Earth than I was at that moment. Holy hell, my own Marshmallow Man!
To this day, no matter how many of them I have, I always get just as excited when I get another. Stay Puft always has and always will hold a special place in my collection.
Hard to believe that this is creeping up on a year and a half ago now. Back when I had my old website, I did an interview with my good friend Jennifer Runyon. Of course, we talked about Ghostbusters.
The interview even made it to a Yahoo article, a posting about the cast of Charles in Charge and where they are now.
I'm only about 3 or 4 years late to the party to talk about Slime Sours candy, but when I got word that our local Bed, Bath, and Beyond had practically a whole damn box full of them, I wasn't going to pass it up.
While I already owned a box, along with several opened and unopened tins, there was just something about the $2.99 price tag that screamed, "Mr. Ghostbuster! Buy all of these! Who cares about bills? We are Slimer shaped sour candies!"
Yeah, it went a little like that.
Or, you could just say there was no voice in my head at all, because I've practically become a robot programmed to buy anything Ghostbusters related when I see it.
The candies come in wonderful white tins with the Ghostbusters logo on them. The tins, while cool, don't serve up much purpose once the candy is consumed, although I could totally see my grandparents using one to take along those all important pills wherever they go.
Hey, it could be a new hipster-ish thing. Keep your pot and Ibuprofen inside your Ghostbusters tin.
The candies themselves are, obviously, shaped like Slimer!
While I'm not a huge fan of sour candy (it's not fine and dandy like you may have been led to believe) there is just something about food shaped like a green gluttonous ghost that draws you to it right away.
Slimer has long been popular with Ghostbusters fans, so it really only made sense to keep promoting him all these years later. Smart move.
While Slimer Sours were initially found in a wide variety of places during the year or so period where Ghostbusters: The Video Game had come out and everybody wanted a piece of the Ghostbusters action, I have still been able to locate them not only at Bed, Bath, and Beyond, but at smaller specialty stores as well. They are still out there, so grab them up while you can.
Just don't buy a whole damn case like I did. I'll be enjoying Slimer Sours until I turn 895.
Don't forget, Halloween is rapidly approaching! Here on the Mr. GB blog, I'll be reviewing 31 Ghosts in 31 Days! All part of the Halloween fun with Mr. Ghostbuster! The fun starts on October 1st!!!!!!!
Before we get into all of the fun of looking at Ghostbusters stuff, notice the new graphic on top.
Starting October first here on the Mr. GB blog, I will be reviewing one ghost figure every day for 31 days! Talk about having a lot more on my plate huh?
I figured I would put the graphic up now to get the 4 people that read this excited about it.
Marching along now, we continue on in the fun that is looking at 3 more random things from my Ghostbusters collection. I'm not sure how many of these we need to do, but it is a great way for you to check out some of the smaller items in my collection that may not be significant enough to receive a post of their own.
As usual, I'll show you a photo, say a few words about it, and we'll move on.
1: Johnny Lightning Ecto 1-A!
I picked this up a couple of years ago at a flea market.
They aren't the most rare item in the world, but they are pretty neat to have in your collection. As I recall that particular flea market had a higher than normal yield of decent Ghostbusters stuff.
I walked away with this for $8 and also picked up a box of unopened packs of Ghostbusters 2 cards for $5. Not too shabby.
2: Slimer Bookmark
I bought the Slimer bookmark about a year or so ago from a scuzzbag wannabe antique dealer for $2.
Imagine dropping your spouse off at work before the sun comes up in the early hours of a winter morning, and then driving all the way across town to slip $2 in a dude's screen door while retrieving a Slimer book mark.
Dedication? I think so.
I wonder whatever happened to Billy Davis. Dude is at least 60 and recently fathered a child. 1-888-45-MAURY, remember that.
3: Hot Topic Exclusive Funko Stay Puft!
We decided to eat in the mall food court last night. The mall these days is good for two things. Gawking at weird people who belong in a freak show, and making brief stops to Hot Topic. Yes, brief because too much Hipster shit is TOO MUCH.
The moment I walked in the door, well entry way, it's not cool enough to have actual "doors", I spotted two, yes TWO of these bad boys sitting on the shelf.
I rushed over and snatched one up, looked to my right and saw a sign saying "Entire Store, buy one get one half off" so I decided to take the other one home as well.
I mean, really, would you ever be able to sleep at night knowing you split up twins?
I didn't think so.
If I still have your attention at this point, come on over and "LIKE" me on Facebook. Every like counts, even though I have no goal or anything, it's just cool to have more people to talk Ghostbusters with.
In my defense, it's been busy lately. I've had articles written about me in the news paper, been to a showing of Ghostbusters every day for the last 5 days so far, and been working, so it's nice that I finally found a little time to review something on here.
Gearing up for October 1st. That starts Halloween around here. I am going to be doing a "31 Ghosts in 31 Days" countdown. I've been slowly prepping that, so there has at least been some shred of effort being put into this site, most of which you are not yet able to see.
Now that we got the boring "where the hell have you been" stuff out of the way, let's talk toys!
Ecto-Glow Winston was kind of a big deal for me to own. As far as the actual Ghostbusters (Egon, Ray, Peter, Winston, Janine, and Louis) go Ecto-Glow Winston was the very last one I needed.
I was super excited to buy him off of the evil machine empire called Ebay. While I typically hate the hell out of that site, sometimes I must use it to fill in small gaps in my collection.
Now, I know you're thinking that the whole Ecto Glow concept is a bit silly. You're not wrong. Of course it's crazy.
At this point in the Real Ghostbusters toy line, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were dominating toy shelves around the world. Ghostbusters, in the eyes of many kids, had lost their luster.
The big shiny new super cool Ninja Turtles were where the toy market was at, and would continue to be until a few years later when Power Rangers took over.
The Ecto Glow line was Kenner's last attempt to keep our heroes relevant.
Large quantities of these figures were not produced, sadly, making them much harder to find than their earlier produced counterparts.
Our pal, Winston, comes equipped with his Ecto Glow uniform, as well as a mask and Proton Pack to bust the Ecto Glow Wrapper Ghost.
I'm seriously trying to think how glow in the dark equipment could fit into catching ghosts. As silly and strange as it may sound, here is what I came up with:
Ghosts are running amok in New York City, destroying everything in sight. A select few were electrocuted by a downed power line, causing a major power outage in the city.
Still with me here? Yeah, I know, stupid, but keep going.
Ready for action, the Ghostbusters are equipped with their all new, top of the line, glow in the dark uniforms and Proton Packs to take care of the power munching spooks.
Again, stupid, but really the only scenario, save for "everybody jumped into a vat of glow in the dark goo" that really could work.
I should note that on the back of the card, the unreleased Ecto-Glow Copter is advertised, meaning Kenner was all into doing it until some big wig saw sales numbers and decided to totally pull the plug on production. Had they held out for another few months, I'm sure we would all still be playing with Ecto-Glow Copters today.
It was clearly a rushed judgement to pull the line on the series as several other items were in the process of being made, such as Egon's Lab and the Backpack Heroes set, among a few other things.
It was a great run for Kenner and The Real Ghostbusters, but it had to come to an end at some point.
I have always wished that the Trendmasters Extreme Ghostbusters Toys would have caught on a lot more along with the cartoon. That could have been the big revival for the Ghostbusters, but I think the 90's wasn't ready for it as the Ninja Turtles were already being revamped to a live action show, and Power Rangers were starting to plateau in popularity.
While everything big that we have grown up with has been remade at some point (Ie: 2 more Ninja Turtles cartoons and a recent movie, Power Rangers is still on TV, Thundercats, Masters of the Universe, etc) Ghostbusters has yet to really get that type of treatment.
I think if they were to release a new cartoon, based on the same characters, they would do pretty well with it. I can definitely see it being a contender for kids' attention.
And of course, a new cartoon series would mean new toys.
I thought I would try something a little bit different today.
Instead of taking one bigger item out of my collection and writing about it, I'm taking three smaller items and talking a little less than I normally would about them.
Think of it as my way of somehow justifying having so much Ghostbusters stuff.
Hey, the little shit needs love too, right?
Any who, here are 3 random items I pulled out of my collection to show you.
1: Ghostbusters Key Caps!
I really had no intention of ever putting these on an actual key when I bought them.
I do believe that the sole purpose of purchasing a set of Ghostbusters Key Cap was that they are GHOSTBUSTERS Key Caps. Aside from that, no real reason for needing to have them.
It gets harder and harder to find anything Ghostbusters related anymore, so when I stumbled across these at the local mall, I couldn't pull out my wallet fast enough.
Though if I ever were to put these on actual keys, I'd for sure be the coolest kid on the block rocking a Stay Puft key.
2: Ghostbusters Energy Drink Can
For a short time I could pick these up at the mall in certain stores (you know, the kind ran by kids who have far too many piercings and like to listen to Phish records?) but all of the sudden they seemed to go away.
Lucky for me, there is a little shop here in town that specializes in weird candy and soda, so they always have them, although I'm not sure if they do anymore since it has been no less than two years since I've forced myself to go in there.
Regardless, I always seem to keep the cans after I drink them. There is just something about throwing a Ghostbusters thing in the garbage that doesn't work well for me at all.
3: Slimer Bike Horn
These may very well have been the best set of toys McDonald's ever offered us.
I can recall the day I found out that Mickey D's had these. The commercial came on TV and it was totally an, "Oh shit! We need to go there NOW, and I don't care if it's not 10:30 yet. Buy an Egg McMuffin but get me the Ghostbusters toy" moments.
I seriously own enough of these right now that I could set them all up and hire a seal to play me a wonderful tune with his nose.
No, I wouldn't buy a seal. My bathtub is too small and I don't like raw fish.
Ugh, I have so many sets of these. Five of them at the very least.
Kenner's Mini Traps, much like Fearsome Flush, were stand alone toys in the Real Ghostbusters toy line, meaning they weren't tied down to a particular series such as the Haunted Humans or Monsters.
I remember when I got my first set of this. My mom and I had gone somewhere, where it was I do not recall, we'll just say the ends of the Earth because that's about how big the small town I lived in was to me in the late 80's, and when we arrived home, my dad had called from work.
Just being old enough to use the phone was a pretty cool thing. i was pretty hooked on it, to the point where I would climb up on the kitchen table, asking my mom for the numbers of anybody that I knew so that I could call them.
Anyways, my dad had asked me if I had seen what he got me.
Hell no I hadn't.
On the kitchen table, which I recall being super freakin' ugly, was a brown paper sack from Wal-Mart, because, you know, they had those back then before everybody decided to complain and be all environmentally friendly and junk.
Inside of the now defunct brown paper Wal-Mart sack were the Mini Traps!
I have always been a little more partial to the orange one being my favorite.
I really have no reason for it, other than the horns on the top of his head that perfectly compliment his one giant cyclops eye.
I always liked to think of these as ghostly version of Venus fly traps, just chilling with their mouths open, waiting for their unsuspecting prey to make a landing.
Today we'll use Dr. Raymond Stantz as our test subject.
Ray wanders carelessly around wherever the hell he is wandering. He unfortunately forgot to bring along his Proton Pack, PKE Meter, or Ecto Goggles. He figured he wouldn't really need them where he was going. Turns out, he needs them now more than ever.
All of the sudden Ray makes ones wrong move and is snatched up by the orange mini trap.
How in the hell he didn't notice a big orange thing with teeth on the ground, I'll never know.
Able to finally pull himself free, Ray moves along. A little shaken from the whole experience, but still moving along carelessly.
Well, for the second time, Ray, not paying attention, is swept off his feet, this time by the purple mini trap.
All Ray can do is lay there helplessly and smile.
Better you than me, Ray.
FYI, don't ever trigger these things with your finger. It hurts like hell when they snap down on you.
Before I end this, I want to send out a HUGE THANK YOU to the Montana Ghostbusters for the wonderful package they sent me! Trust me guys, it means a lot to me! You guys are awesome. Be sure to hit them up on Facebook.
