To “fire” the proton pack a kid pushes the trigger which makes clicking, proton stream like noises. If a child needs to use a P.K.E Meter or is finished ghost busting the Nutrona Blaster can slide onto and sit on the right hand side hook. Like the Ghost Popper and Ecto-Popper the foam proton stream could be inserted into the front of the Nutrona Blaster. The Proton Pack’s Nutrona Blaster came with a long, flexible yellow foam proton stream. You could pretty much “operate” it the way The Real Ghostbusters did in an episode. But when the wiring on my homebrew Ecto Goggles (made from welding goggles. Collectors Note: Brand-new and factory sealed. From what I could see of them in the box, I thought they looked cheap. This fully articulated, film-accurate 6-inch figure is sure to please the diehard Ghostbusters fan. I saw the goggles last year in the Spirit store and scoffed. I even kinda-sorta slammed them in my Spirit Halloween PKE Meter review. The simpler design was probably to differentiate from Ghostbusters and saved time for the artists/animators. It still had enough details for the time that it might as well have been real. For over a year, I thought the Ghostbusters Ecto Goggles from Spirit Halloween were junk. The Real Ghostbusters proton pack (like the P.K.E Meter) was different from its movie counterpart. Accurate 3D Ecto Goggles Build for scaling and 3d-Printing by METATRON - December 17th. To make it up to kids they included a “no ghost” logo arm band and ID card. Another company did sell plastic/vinyl Real Ghostbusters costumes (Egon being most memorable) in the mid ‘80s and probably another company by 1989 did sell children’s Ghostbusters costumes. Matty Collector (ignoring paint/color issues) by WraithTDK - November 4th. Kenner didn’t make The Real Ghostbusters costumes. Speaking of which every boy who was on a The Real Ghostbusters toy box practically had movie quality costumes. Just wearing one made a kid part of The Real Ghostbusters team! You thought it was the uniform.

I had a real wonderment about the ghosts in the movie and the equipment that caught them had almost magical qualities to me. If I thought the proton pack was really cool I couldn’t have imagined how happy Kenner was going to make me a mere few years later. By then we were beginning to learn more about how the proton pack worked and its features. The seller or sellers had a stack of The Real Ghostbusters cells listed. While perusing the ‘ol popular auction site that rhymes with day I came across 4 pieces of ECTO-1 production art used in different episodes during The Real Ghostbusters run. I first saw Ghostbusters in theaters when I was six. The Real Ghostbusters ECTO-1 Production Art.

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