![]() There was another self-sliming when Playmobil released a series of mini vehicles, with the Ghostbusters figures kitted out in the Real Ghostbusters cartoon colours. The Firehouse was an improvement also on the Lego set – more than £200 cheaper and also packed with details and accessories – and the Ecto-1 better than the toy version produced by Kenner in the 1980s, which, if you’re a thirty-something geek like myself, is the benchmark. There was Terror Dogs, a library ghost, and a cool app that created little holograms of ghosts. Related: Ghostbusters 3 already has a teaser trailer! Happily, when fans got their hands on the Playmobil versions, that quiver of geekish delight turned to full-on ectoplasmic sliming of the pants (unless it needs clarifying, I’m talking about myself). But while the Danish brick company’s Firehouse was a tasty piece of kit and filled with Easter eggs to keep fans of both movies happy, at almost £300 it wasn’t the most accessible merch. Lego has long held the monopoly on fan-baiting movie tie-in toys. When Playmobil first released their Ghostbusters line last year, there was a quiver of geekish delight, though it did initially look like a budget alternative to the Lego Ecto-1 and Firehouse. Because if there’s one thing Ghostbusters II has over the original, it’s this: a superior Ecto-1 vehicle, with added nondescript sciencey stuff on the roof, black and yellow stripes down the side, the Ghostbuster II logo, and an LED screen that flashes “We’re back!”. Of course, we all know that the original Ghostbusters film is objectively the best, but for fans – especially those who were kids in the late Eighties and loved the Real Ghostbusters cartoon, which Ghostbusters II trades off as much as it does the original movie – the sequel holds a special place in ours Twinkie-ravaged hearts.Īnd fans are exactly who the all-new Playmobil Ecto-1A has been made for. Not to mention Bobby Brown’s infectiously catchy tune ‘On Our Own’. It’s got some of Ghostbusters’ most inspired comedy (Pete Venkman’s sham TV show World of the Psychic is a stroke of genius), one of the best action sequences (their court room battle against the Scoleri brothers), and fun villains in the creepy-but-hilarious museum curator Janosz (“Oh, but I woo!”) and haunted painting Viggo (“Viggy, Viggy, Viggy, you have been a bad monkey!”). The film has long been (unfairly) maligned as inferior to the original: an example of an Eighties sequel that retreads the exact same formula, just substituting the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man for a walking Statue of Liberty.īut Ghostbusters II deserves to be celebrated. : Finally I have reworked the instructions to V3 after I have build this amazing car in real life, as you can see on the updated pictures.It’s been 30 years since Ghostbusters IIwas first released in cinemas. Hope you like my MOC, feel free to add some comments. And the trans black slope at the front side window is only available in black or dark bluish gray. ![]() The trans yellow cone and 2x2 round tile used for the iconic big light on the roof are only available in bright light orange. Sadly not all parts are yet available in the used color. The proton packs are totally different in this movie, so I tried to rebuild 'em. Hope you like the updated engine, interior and trunk section, too. ![]() Most of the time required the totally different roof rack with all the ghost hunter equipment on it. So I reused parts of my classic movies Ecto-1 and recreated all the unique parts of the reboot movie Ecto-1. Hi guys, I just watched the 2016 reboot movie and thought the 80's Ecto-1 with its box shape would be ideal to build it with bricks.
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