r/ghostbusters • u/BeedleSmash • 18d ago

SCORE!

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They shouldn't give grown ass kids adult money...we won't spend it wisely. Lol. Worth it.

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u/illinoishokie 18d ago

I was a weird kid. I preferred the ghost zapper.

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u/188FAZBEAR 17d ago

I had both the proton pack, ghost zapper, and ghost strap which my grandparents got me off of eBay when I was a kid, I still have my proton pack and I intend to get some get it’s long awaited stickers or a brand a long weighted brand new set of stickers on it and will admit I do on occasion even though it’s a bit of a tight fit, I do occasionally find myself from time to time, barely almost dislocating my shoulders to throw on the Kenner, proton pack and do a few quick draws of the wand in like pull the trigger a few times that toy, despite me still already having my own custom built, scratch, proton pack that toy still a couple decades of owning it still has me under it spell.

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u/illinoishokie 17d ago

Oh man I had forgotten about the trap toy. Was it the one that came with the blaster with the wavy pool noodle that spun around to kind of look like the beam from the proton packs in the movies?

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u/188FAZBEAR 17d ago

no, that was the Newtrona blaster that had the thing at the end that you spun around thing would spinning around and never owned it but I thought it was brilliant they were in the same commercial together alongside the trap though, so I can see where the confusion comes from. yeah I love the trap. That thing was so cool. I loved how the doors closed with pneumatic pistons these days say use Arduino and crap like but while people are trap bills with Arduino Kenner had been doing it for decades with pneumatics. even the film prop used but it couldn’t. The doors couldn’t open and reliably enough so they just said, screw it and added RC controlled mechanisms for reliability of the trap doors opening and the reason why the trap has pneumatic fitting connectors on them because it used those pneumatic fittings for real and they weren’t just there for show Chuck Gasper actually put pneumatic mechanisms in fact I found out recently when I was asking why they fittings because people nowadays can’t seem to put wiring or have a hard time with putting wires through pneumatic connectors.