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666h3llbl4ckc4t666 · 1 year

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Forgot to post about this but I digitally restored the “Peoplebusters” plush by A1 Novelty Ghostbusters knockoff symbol, couldn’t find any clear images online so I did this, it was kinda fun and I would like to do more in the future!

(Restore by H3llBl4ckC4t, can be reused with credit!)

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obsceremediaarchive · 1 year

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A-1 Novelty Co.’s “PeopleBusters”

A “Ghostbusters” knockoff stuffed toy that is theorized to released around the time the movie came out in 1984 that could be a parody though it’s highly unknown,

Just like many low quality toy products it’s not consistent, so it’s face is always looking different but not only that it comes in different colors white, blue/teal, yellow, pink and purple, telling by one of the photos it came in different sizes as well,

Honestly a classic example of a Ghostbusters bootleg

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ectolotl · 9 months

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“Lighten up, won’t you? Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, after all!”

I like bootleg toys and the Spook Chasers are so funny. I like their version of Egon’s cool glasses. (This is like- over a year old but I have no other art I’m wanting to post atm :p)

The toys in comparison

#he vaguely reminds me of Dippy Fresh tbh #eegie Fresh?? idk #what’re we naming fake Egon #egon spengler #ghostbusters #the real ghostbusters #the real Ghostbusters fan art #bootleg #bootleg toys #knockoff toys #sungold toys #Spook Chasers

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murderandcoffee · 5 months

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I love how almost no one takes the magnus institute seriously. like ohhhhhh you got a job there? at jonah "sucking and fucking my way to the top" magnus's whorehouse for mentally unwell academics and creepy motherfuckers? at the knockoff ghostbusters story emporium? at the defunct university campus turned spirit halloween? that's the direction you're taking your career?

#tma #the magnus archives #magpod #the magnus institute #jonah magnus #bs.txt

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homestuckreplay · 16 days

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I've just read the first 16 pages of this new webcomic 'Homestuck', and it's off to a fun start! The art is simple but there's some cool attention to detail - like on page 2 where the knockoff ghostbuster monster on John's shirt pulls the same anguished face as John at the same moment. The use of color as just occasional bursts for notable objects makes the pictures interesting to look at, and the frequent use of GIFs makes John feel very dynamic even while he's trapped in one room.

I'm also really interested in the cursor on page 6 that moves across the screen and selects the cake asset, and the description stating that 'you' (the reader) did this. I love meta elements in stories and it seems like this is set up as though the reader is using some kind of computer program, perhaps drawing the comic themself. That's definitely the most intriguing element of these first pages to me.

It's honestly really clever how the rules of the comic are set up so clearly in these first few panels - there will be a command ('quickly retrieve arms from drawer') followed by a rebuttal as to why that won't work ('your arms are in your magic chest, pooplord') and then an additional twist to the previous information (John using his physical arms, which it turns out he's had this whole time, to retrieve his fake arms from the magic chest).

I have no idea what this is gonna be about, the idea of a regular kid who has an inventory system dictated by data structures is entertaining, but probably won't hold my attention for long if that's all there is to it. But I'll definitely stick with it for a bit, hopefully there will be more pages soon!

#homestuck #reaction #not sure how often i'll do reactions or how in detail they will be. im feeling it out #id love to be tagged in other people's reactions for anyone who's reading along!

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lesboygamzee · 5 months

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ACT ONE - PART ONE

in reading homestuck again im going to try my best to analyse it to my fullest potential ; while i definitely like to enjoy homestuck Casually i think that doesnt necessarily mean i need to abandon fullblown analysis . i can acknowledge Hard Canon and The Implications in the same way i can acknowledge silly stuff + how im usually going to write characters . something something you have to know the rules to break them . thisll be half rambling half ( poor ) attempts at analysis and a bit of me going Hehe joke funny also i will use the characterses canon names and pronouns for simplicity + i feel its most suited . the exception is tavros because i have tried to not she/her tavros before and it was difficult and Painful i would never do that to her ... anyway .

[…] My intent was always to make the start date a very significant number in the story, recurring frequently. Consequently, I decided to make him thirteen years old, thus making the story about four thirteen-year-old kids. There are more references to this number than can be mentioned casually, some of which are serendipitous. Playing cards, which have a good deal of relevance later, are comprised of four suits of thirteen cards each, for instance.

(page 1 author commentary)

i wont point out every case of 413 occurring but i will point out cases i find particularly interesting or fun :o) the suit of cards thing isnt something i picked up on at first but thats interesting to know ! on page two john is incorrectly named ' zoosmell pooplord ' . zoosmell being a reference to an older comic ( series of comics ? ) of hussies . i read it to see if theres anything of value i can find in there ; even in the silliest and least plot driven media you can find some sort of significance to an authors later work . maybe an idea , a character archetype , or just the plot structure . zoosmells holds no value at all and is stupid though so

im not sure if i talk about it much but i do really like how each main characterses room is in homestuck . not only are they typically really good at getting across a characters basic interests but early on with the beta kids they really sold the whole ' webcomic pretending to be a game ( that is actually a game pretending to be a webcomic ) ' thing . the simplicity of it all , the items of interest scattered around in sometimes nonsensical places , even shit like how the walls are drawn just gives the impression of a guy who you can walk around and play as . and you can ! eventually .

Your name is JOHN. As was previously mentioned it is your BIRTHDAY. A number of CAKES are scattered about your room. You have a variety of INTERESTS. You have a passion for REALLY TERRIBLE MOVIES. You like to program computers but you are NOT VERY GOOD AT IT. You have a fondness for PARANORMAL LORE, and are an aspiring AMATEUR MAGICIAN. You also like to play GAMES sometimes. What will you do?

(page 4) time for analysing interests . while characterses interests definitely dont mean NOTHING in the greater scheme of things theyre probably not as important as most other shit . i find them fun to look into , though :o3

really terrible movies - i need to actually watch these , and i plan to ! im not much of a movie guy unfortunately . i dont think theyll be the end all be all of john analysis but i doubt theyll hold NO value . apparently theyre quite shit but i willing watch the big bang theory so i think ill be fine programming computers - john is the ' player character ' in a story that is currently quite programming-joke-heavy . the fact that hes kind of dogshit at it adds to this . guy doesnt know what hes doing yet and neither do you ! simple enough . paranormal lore - johns interest in ghosts is relatively significant but id consider it more ' iconic ' . the guy likes ghostbusters , his tshirt is a knockoff slimer , etc. i think all of the kids have one of these . it doesnt matter much in the greater scheme of things but i think its cool to see what interest a character is sort of built off of even if it gets overshadowed by other shit quickly ameteur magician - im a little lost on this one honestly . it can kind of go hand in hand with pranks i guess ? maybe theres something worth looking into with regards to characters and their relationship with magic . john seems to specifically focus on magic tricks which is opposed to roses interest in Real Fucking Magic . probably not though thats stupid

on page six is a rare appearence of the cursor . its a remnant from the homestuck beta where every panel was going to be a flash panel . it was ditched for good reason

its also one of the most blatant parts of the video game feel of early homestuck . thats a reader input interacting with a fictional world ! thats all there really is to say on it though i just thought it was neat

biggest plot twist in fucking history

You stow the SMOKE PELLETS on one of your CAPTCHALOGUE CARDS in your SYLLADEX.

(page 9)

i love sylladexes . johns is obviously based off a stack data structure . john rose and dave all have data structure inspsired moduses which i appreciate but i kind of like the silly ones that come into play later on too !!! like all of jades . unfortunate that they get dropped almost entirely eventually :o(

i should give characters that dont get one them . theyre pretty awesome i think

John: Examine Problem Sleuth Poster.

PROBLEM SLEUTH MENTION !!!!!!!!!!!

John: Read note on drawer. This note is rich with the aromas of FATHERLY AFTERSHAVES AND COLOGNES.

(page 12)

i made a seperate post awhile back on how dadbert is a sort of symbol of masculinity of fatherhood of manhood etc etc and more specifically how this interacts with reading jeggbert as transfem or otherwise Not A Dude . i still think that holds some decent value

In any case, you now feel like you have gathered enough things to get down to business and do some really important stuff. The next thing you do will probably be exceptionally meaningful. John: Squawk like an imbecile and shit on your desk.

(page 15)

snrk . anyway , since it reminded me : regarding analysis that strongly take timelines into consideration when i look at a lot of homestuck character analysis i see a lot of people try and make a point of ' oh the homestuck characters dont actually HAVE these specific character traits because in ANOTHER TIMELINE they did so and so ' and while i get that , timelines are interesting as a concept and its fun to think about , it doesnt exactly have a place in character analysis . homestuck is ultimately a story and the characters are less like people and moreso tools to tell that story . this is simple shit i am well aware i am not acting like what i am saying is revolutionary but it does lead to people losing the plot a little ( literally lol ) but like .. character a doing something instead of character b or character c sparing character d or whatever blah blah blah . did these all happen ? yeah sure probably . hell you can explore that in an au and ill probably go ' woah , cool ! ' because again its fun to think about . but it doesnt matter .. homestuck tells a story and while it focuses on multiple timelines . just because john took a shit on his desk in one timeline doesnt mean i need to be factoring in ' probably took a shit on his desk at least once ' to how i write him as a character . he would not fucking do that because he does not do that in homestuck . go and write your shit-on-desk-taker!john au but it has no place in canon analysis and you dont really need to think about it all that much

typheus is a wind god etc etc basic observation . i would really like to read more on the denizens and what gods theyre inspired by but the sources i find are really long and hard to parse .. ill have to look at other peopleses analysis if i want to understand anything i will be honest

on page 25 is the first pesterlog to appear in homestuck , between john and some loser nobody cares about . in a post i unfortunately dont have the link to , said loser is compared to a sort of tutorial character for early homestuck , similarly to johns status as the player character . obviously as homestuck goes on more characters become ' playable ' , as in you see the story through their perspective . but its a pretty neat observation for the early comic !

TG: but who cares about this lets stop talking about it TG: did you get the beta yet EB: no. EB: did you? TG: man i got two copies already [...] TG: why dont you go check your mail maybe its there now EB: alright.

(page 26)

^ classic tutorial conversation . go do your objective !!! your first quest !!!!

[...] The red flippy-lever thing means you have new mail. And that means the beta might be here!

(page 28)

FACT CHECK : this is false === SHITTY ASCII 'BANNER' THAT OF WE ARE DONE HERE ===

anyway it is day two of me working on twenty eight fucking pages and it just hit midnight which means i am going to play miitopia . this is likely going to be one of the shorter posts but i hope i get less rambly as i go on so i can read more than an average of fourteen pages a day jesus fucking christ . Anyway

#homestuck #gamzreread

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huntedvideo · 4 months

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who wants a starter from the knockoff ghostbuster?

#starter call.

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bonnielunkas · 6 months

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damn it's already been a year, huh?? happy anniversary to hps :]

i'm gonna ramble under the read more so just ignore that if you don't wanna see me get sappy

a whole fucking YEAR holy shit. it really doesn't feel like it's been that long to me.

it's been a really weird year. i graduated highschool, i became an adult, i've made and lost friends, it's all been so strange.

hps is what got me into the fazbear frights community. i've met a lot of great people through it. it's what got me to finally read a lot of the stories. it got me to finally start writing for fun again. and now we're here, a whole year later.

to all my followers who followed because of hps, or maybe even earlier, or even fnaf in general, thank you. and to anyone who followed for dsaf, or a hat in time, or tmc, or kirby, or even the less posted stuff like splatoon, thank you. it means a lot to me that people enjoy the content i produce, and maybe get inspired by it.

here's to another year of a bunch of teens being knockoff ghostbusters.

~ bonnie <3

#hps #hpsverse #fnaf #fazbear frights #fnaf toby #fnaf pete #bonnie does art!!

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plantmayo · 6 months

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^ knockoff ghostbusters

#mayo's sketches #mayo's ocs #death's errand girl #mayo's ocs noah #mayo's ocs dante #clip studio paint #october 2023 #hiiiiiii i havent posted art in forever but i finally did a drawing of my 2 main ocs that im happy with... so here they are

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nokingsonlyfooles · 8 months

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WTYP: The Shandor Building, Part 5

[Do you like the colour of the fanfic? This is long and if you expand it you're gonna get the whole thing, because Tumblr hates you. Don't say I didn't warn you!]

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4

Part 5: Alice's Pick

[Beware of strong language, mention of all kinds of death, gore, and Lovecraftian horror.]

[SLIDE: Ad with blue background, WTYP avatars on yellow, and PO box information, but it appears to be dripping a certain amount of pink slime.]

[soothing music]

R [voice-over]: Hi, it’s Justin. This is a commercial for the podcast you’re already watching. People are annoyed by these so I’ll get right to the point: We’ve pissed off an ancient Sumerian deity and we may not live through this. Thank you for joining the Patreon, we really appreciate it, but we need a little more help. I’d say “pray for us,” but I think we’re trapped in some kinda pocket dimension, and it may not do any good. Far be it from me to impose upon your religion, or lack thereof, in any case. If you know anything about Gozer the Gozerian, or ancient Sumer, you might want to update their Wikipedia pages, because we do somehow still have our laptops and what appears to be a working internet connection, but by the time you see this it’ll probably be too late. So, for the first time ever, don’t join the Patreon. Or do, if you want. It’s your call. I’m sure my cats will appreciate the money in the event of my untimely disappearance or death. And, as always, we do not want to die. Now, back to the show.

[SLIDE: Gozer the Gozerian, the Ghostbusters version, with Vinz Clortho and Zuul.]

G: HOW ARE MY LEVELS? TEST. TEST.

D: No, you don’t need to, uh… Fine, actually. Thank you for turning down the howling noise.

G: NO PROBLEM. JUST LET ME KNOW WHEN WE ARE BACK FROM THE BREAK.

D: We’re already… Uh, yes. We’re back in, uh, three, two, one…

G: MY NAME IS GOZER THE GOZERIAN, I AM THE ENTITY THAT IS SPEAKING NOW, AND MY PRONOUNS ARE XE AND XEM.

A: Neopronouns! That’s interesting!

G: THEY ARE ANCIENT SUMERIAN PRONOUNS.

A: Oh. Lovely.

L: Sweet, I don’t think we’ve had one of those before.

A: …and I’m not just saying that because this form you’ve taken is smoking hot.

G: THESE ARE VINZ CLORTHO AND ZUUL, WE DO NOT SPEAK MUCH, AND OUR PRONOUNS ARE WE AND US.

R: That’s a bit presumptuous.

A: And I am there for it! Are they, er, are “we” your pets, Lord Gozer, or is it more of a polycule?

G: YES.

A [thrilled]: I don’t think it’s going to solve anything, but this podcaster is definitely becoming more rigid!

D: Please don’t make me get the spray bottle, the control room is full of slime.

A [wistful]: “Control room,” what a lovely thought.

R: Are we gargoyles or grotesques?

G: WE ARE YOUR DOOM!

[thunder, lightning, gales of wind]

R: Oh.

G: AND WE IDENTIFY AS TERROR DOGS.

L: Aww. Tummy rubs.

G: SO, ARE ANY OF YOU GODS?

R: We are definitely gods. I misspoke before, and I apologize. We are all gods here, thanks.

A: We’re a regular pantheon! Is that a knockoff Rolex you’re wearing?

G: I ALSO HAVE A CAMERA.

A [awestruck]: Fuck.

G : IF YOU ARE THE GODS OF THIS WORLD THEN WE MUST FIGHT…

A [happily]: I promise I’ll lose!

G: …TO THE DEATH.

A: Oh. Nevermind. Damn.

R: This Wikipedia page badly needs updating.

G [with mild irony]: ARE ANY OF YOU GOING TO SHOOT AT ME DURING THE NEGOTIATION AND VOID THE TERMS OF THE DUEL?

[slight pause, frantic shuffling]

D: We don’t have any proton packs, do we?

A: I have a bit of cheese in my purse, and a Slimfast bar…?

D: Proton, not protein!

A: I KNOW, I’M JUST VERY NERVOUS!

R: I got this here laptop and a stapler, I guess. Shame nobody uses CRTs anymore, at least they accelerate particles…

L: Uh, no?

G: THEN, AS THIS IS YOUR WORLD, I CEDE THE FIRST PICK OF FORM TO YOU.

L [excited]: We get to pick our form?

D: Uh, I don’t think…

L: I mean, I’m totally a god, so I knew that. It’s just cool! I’m gonna be a ‘93 Nissan Lamassu!

D: Liam…

R [quietly]: We can’t actually pick our forms.

A [muttering]: I can, but it’s a bit of a process…

D [raising voice, trying to sound confident]: Um… We choose the form of an engineering disasters podcast!

G: WOULD YOU NOT PREFER THE FORM OF SOMETHING SLIGHTLY MORE POPULAR?

L: Ouch.

R [defiant]: No.

A: God, I want liposuction.

D: We’re good like this, Lord Gozer! Thanks!

G: VERY WELL. THEN I CHOOSE THE FORM OF AN ENGINEERING DISASTER.

A: Shit.

R: Makes sense.

L: Yeah, probably should’ve seen that coming.

D: I’m so sorry, you guys.

A: S’all right, Dev. You tried.

R: I died doing what I love… Podcasting and editing a Wikipedia page for accuracy. And I got to ride a high speed train made of meat.

L [raising voice]: Hey, Gozer! Which engineering disaster? There’s a lot of ‘em! You haven’t been back here for a while, buddy, we’ve had a few more fun ones.

R: Yeah, these billionaires got crushed in a submarine of their own making, that was fun…

A [hyperventilating]: Oh, God. Oh, God…

D: Rocz, shut the hell up!

[crinkling wrapper, sound of Alice self-soothing by eating a bit of cheese]

G: THAT DOES SOUND INTERESTING. MAY I BORROW YOUR LAPTOP AND HAVE A LOOK?

L [quickly]: No! Engineering disasters don’t have laptops!

R: Y2K…

D: Shut up!

G: CHOOSE THE FORM OF YOUR ENGINEERING DISASTER!

L: All right. This is it.

D: Nobody say anything. Nobody think anything! Play dead! Eventually, xe may get bored!

A: Like a grizzly bear?

D: Happy thoughts, Alice. Happy thoughts. Anything but an engineering disaster…

Part 6

#wtyp #well there's your problem #ghostbusters #long reads #fanfic #fanfiction #crossover fic #gozer the gozerian #alice caldwell-kelly #liam anderson #justin roczniak #devon #engineering disasters #podcast

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kdinjenzen · 1 year

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Random game rec: 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' for the Mark 1 X-Brick (works on current X-Brick too IIRC). Srsly, besides the creatively dustable vamps & surprisingly OK voice acting for an early-oughts tie-in there's anglerfish sirens with armor tiddy, pointy Ghostbusters hellhounds, Cenobite knockoff demons and a *barbarian vampire were-sabertooth* dude with even bigger chesticles than the sirens. Oh, and the fighting engine's surprisingly good-all it's really missing is a dodgeroll mechanism.

I remember hearing that game was shockingly fun for a TV to Game adaptation. I’ll keep that in mind!

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newjenns · 2 years

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why do u hate love 🤨 let knockoff shane and ryan be in gay love !

okay well fine the ghostbusters can be in gay love .

#NOT . TOU INOW YOU #cirque.du.soleil

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alex-unjust-vibing · 8 days

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I played Ghostbusters yesterday and it’s a pathetic knockoff of Luigi’s Haunted Mansion.

The video games are not the strong suit of the great busting of ghosts. Perchance you have simply attempted to enjoy the incorrect one. Perchance.

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alanthebothersome · 4 months

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My job is long stretches of boredom interrupted with hellish bouts of customer service, as a result I've been working on several RPG settings and a custom system during the downtime.

The settings are as follows:

H.E.A.R.T.s: A Thunderbirds ripoff where you play as Humanitarian Emergency Aid Response Teams using futuristic gadgets.

Warsmith: Crystalpunk Ghostbusting Airship Pirates V.S. Cosmic Horrors.

DreamScythe: Personal Horror where you must confront your inner darkness (Manifested as your Shadow, played by another person at the table, using an inverse version of your character sheet) while navigating a dream-realm shared by all of the characters in play.

Corpus Cove Capers: Scooby Doo style mysteries by way of Hellblazer.

P.E.S.T. C.O.N.T.R.O.L: Paranormal Eliminations Service Team (Certified Occult Nuisance Trapping & Removal, Operations Limited). A setting in 3 parts: Freelancers (which is just a legally distinct Ghostbusters knockoff), Special Taskforce (X-Files if they actually caught the unexplained phenomenon), and Apocalypse (Scooby Apocalypse, but with more psychics and super unreliable old Ghostbusters Tech, takes place 60 years after the "End").

It'll be a while before they're polished enough to post anything substantial about them, but I'd like to encourage you to ask questions to help me think about how to flesh them out.

#rpg #ttrpg homebrew

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pouringmeout · 2 years

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COMIC BOOKS

X-Men was my first comics that weren't Ghostbusters-the Real GB. I had money somehow and a dimestore by Kohl's Department Store had a rack. X-men, not Uncanny X-Men was in its early 90's redux before a bunch of new books were coming. Psylocke had a cover piece with some other X-Men characters and she was slammin' hot.

Toys R Us had a bunch ofg the earlier ones: X-Men 1-3 or 4, so I was getting the new books from a drug store.

Before the Guitar Center ever came, and Harry Schwartz Book Store got turned into Half Priced Books, moved from the Old Country Buffet Plaza just across Bluemound Road, there was a small and nice comic book store in that strip mall-Loehmann's Plaza. I used to get my hair cut there too! Oh the memories Brookfield, Wisconsin...

X-Files was popular and just coming to comics. I think it was just after Jurassic Park, the winter of 93' and I was in fifth (5th) grade. My friend liked comics too. The movies were not Marvel yet, and the 89' Batman and the 92' Batman Returns were the only real comic book films yet, besides Richard Donner's Supermans, and a terrible Hulk movie I saw in a Disney hotel in Orlando with my dad and brother, late at night.

I remember playing Waukesha Park and Rec (WPR) baseball and coming home, taking my plastic cleats off, to my little brother watching X-Men cartoons. Thirty (30) minute shows with the X-Crew against the Sentinals, and Magneto. The most basic early 90's "This is the X-Men." Like it. Buy it. Kids had Ninja Turtles and Legos, Silverhawks, He-man and Star Wars were for the older kids. Along with Thunder Cats and Voltron. We didn't have any of those. Construx, Lincoln Logs, Go Bots, Robocop, Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, Michael Keaton Batman and Jack Nicholson Joker. And Anton Furst's and Tim Burton's Batmobile, Batwing and Batcave.

Oh yeah and some kids got to see the 92' T2: Terminator 2: Judgement Day from Jim Cameron-a rated R movie about robots killing some kid named John Connor and traveling back in time. Those toys were pretty cool, and Toys R Us at the end of Bluemound Road was where you got this shit, near Brookfield Square Mall. There was a playset that Scotty had, where you had a Terminator skeleton and a pink, Gak, rubbery Play Doh formed around it to make a human looking T-400 or was it T-500? Not sure, you could buy new refill packs of the pink human flesh skin to put the Terminator/robot/skeleton in a forming playset device to be shot at by the enemy/villain/T-1,000, just like Arnold and Stan Winston did, when guitarist Adam Jones and Morello were young friends and still had zits. Just kidding, they weren't that young, yeah the guitar player from Tool worked on the visual effects before the band made Aenima and whatever else. Adam Jones seems like a really cool guy.

Toys led into X-Men comics and eventually the Warner Bros. Books snuck their way in. My weekly or bi-weekly visit to the 3 or so comic shops were only for the Big Two (2): Marvel and DC (Detective Comics). Spawn was getting popular and the independent comics were getting notoriety. I had a Spawn toy and some books from Image Comics.

The movie sucked, but the soundtrack was good. In that time, Crow: City of Angels and all these bullshit knockoff sequels didn't sell you with their previews-it was the soundtrack with the trailer. Obviously CD's and not cassettes from Bluemound Best Buy and Circuit City, and the Mall will have to be an other article.

So Batman, Wolverine, X-men, Uncanny X-Men, Detective Comics, maybe Superman and/or Action Comics were my main books. My friend Matt liked X-Factor-so I checked it out around the 100-or 101, 102 issue.

My dad took me and Andy, Scott, Matt and maybe Tony Scott to our first comic convention-or more so a place where people gathered to sell stockpiles of books from all around south eastern Wisconsin, Illinois and Minnesota. It wasn't very big, but they had way more books than the Pewaukee store or the one near my current dentist and karate place by Pizza Hut and those gas stations.

I got an X-Factor back-issue and an Art of Star Wars three (3) book set, that my dad let me and Scott get. It was in Milwaukee near the stadium, before it was Miller Park and whatever they mistakenly call it today. Fuckin' Wisconsinites!

As I got older and more X-Men related comics came out, we had all sorts of spinoff's and solo stories of Rogue and Bishop and all X-Men. Generation X was fancy with tin foil and I loved that book. The Phalanx Covenant was also a fancy, shiny with tin foil, and fun summer crossover event in the Marvel universe of comics, to get books like X-Force, or Excalibur and Cable, that you would never be caught dead reading.

The world of buying and collecting comics completely changed at the age of sixteen (16), with the ability to drive to the comic shop any fuckin' day we wanted to go. Having pocket change was not just given, but my dad being a Pediatrician used incentives to us motivcated in school, chores, or birthday money.

Bags and boards at all times, and trade paperbacks.

The comic book collector I was and still want to be.....

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therobotmonster · 2 years

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Ever since the episode of the Bootleg Zone on the topic, i've really wanted the ghosts from the Real Ghostbusters knockoff-line "Spook Chasers" but they're well outside my price range. So instead I've semi-meticulously recreated them for eventual 3d printing, shown here with model renders and a few of the photographic references I used.

The models aren’t finished. I’m tweaking details and haven’t hollowed them out, which is essential for the three more lump-shaped ones to engulf figures’ heads in imitation of the RGB Gulper Ghost concept.

There was something fundamentally magical when you got an action figure, and it came with a little critter, sidekick, or pet. They were literally glorified accessories, usually unarticulated, unpainted, and in TMNT's case they could come on the weapons tree, but they ruled.

While the unfortunately named Spook Chasers themselves aren’t terribly impressive imitations of the real, uh, Real Ghostubers, the Ghosts themselves hit closer to the mark, though they’re less polished in terms of concept.

But the wonderful thing about the little mini-ghost concept is that you’ll never have more ghosts than stuff they can haunt, so the more clear figures between 1.25 and 1.75 inches tall you have, the better.

#knockoff toys #spook chasers #ghostbusters #real ghostbusters #3d printing #toy design #3d sculpting #sungold #galaxy warriors

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