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PostPosted: July 21st, 2011, 9:43 pm 
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Well, the San Diego Comic Con is going on, and the announcements about Mattel and Diamond Selects' lines for the next year are coming out.

http://www.gbfans.com/community/viewtop ... 26495&f=54

After twenty two years, somebody is finally making a figure of Vigo Von Hamburg Deutchendorf. To this day it amazes me that it took this long--you think there wasn't a Ghostbusters based toy line at the peak of it's popularity running in 1989 that would want the virtually guaranteed sales of a tie-in from a major motion picture.

Other than a Janine figure, this is the thing most likely to make me break my boycott on fighting Mattel's server and it's White Screen of Death. But we'll see...issues below may affect that decision.

http://www.gbfans.com/community/viewtop ... 26494&f=54

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Unveiled today at San Diego Comic Con the latest in the Ghostbusters prop line up from Mattel. This year it is the Ghostbusters Ghost Trap! No official details will be known for a day or two, but for now we hear it is aiming for a Halloween release 2011.


I'm not as excited about this as I was the PKE Meter, but it's still cool. The bitching at GBFans hasn't been as massive as you'd think. Yet. But just wait until the day to order them actually comes and the traps aren't teleported to their mailboxes the second the credit card clears.

And from Diamond Select's Minimates...

http://www.gbfans.com/community/viewtop ... 26504&f=54

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Diamond Select Toys has their Ghostbusters display up at San Diego Comic Con 2011 and it includes two new Ghostbusters items to be available in the next year. The best news is of the Real Ghostbusters Minimates Series 3, which features the guys as the ghosts from the Real Ghostbusters episode "Citizen Ghost".


I hope to get the Series I RGB Minimates soon, the box set with Egon, Ray, Office Janine, and a Slimer. I'll definitely get Venkman and Winston when they come out in Series II--Louis I can pass on. The Anti-Ghostbusters will be cool too.

In other news, there was a "leak" of the 2012 Club Ecto exclusive figure, apparently via a Mattel webmonkey who revealed a page too early. And the big deal is...

The Rookie.
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I guess I can see the appeal from Mattel's standpoint. All they need as far as new tooling is concerned is a head and possibly a Proton Pack if they give him the "upgraded" pack from the Video Game. But on the other hand...they make a figure of this nameless cipher when important character like Janine and Dana haven't made the line yet? If neither of those two (particularly the former) are announced for next years regular line, Mattel officially sucks big, floppy monkey balls as far as I'm concerned.

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PostPosted: July 22nd, 2011, 7:14 pm 
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Confirmation that The Rookie is the Club ECTO-1 Exclusive. snore.

Mattel avoides sucking monkey balls by adding a Dana Barrett as Zuul to the line.

While Janine isn't in the Movie-based line, there is something announced that I'll cover in a different thread

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PostPosted: July 23rd, 2011, 4:15 am 
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had a chance to hold the trap to day. close up It looks and feels a bit mote like a to toy in my book. Nothing like the PKE. Still it is dame cool.

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PostPosted: July 23rd, 2011, 9:08 am 
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I moved your post to this thread, Jason, since it was about the Trap and not the Retro Action figures.

You're very lucky for getting to see this stuff. I keep forgetting you're the one member of the GBWC who actually lives in that area. :lol:

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here is the vid i shot of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqFDr5zO ... ideo_title

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While unofficial, it is technically just what you asked for Fritz!
And for a good cause. Let the bidding war begin!

http://cgi.ebay.com/Ghostbusters-Custom-GB1-Janine-Barbie-Doll-/290589571585?clk_rvr_id=249995924325

Her evil twin from GBII is also represented along with some other neat stuff...

http://www.alabamagb.com/index.php?page=auction

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PostPosted: July 25th, 2011, 8:44 am 
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I think that's been posted on GBFans--a member there made them both. I remember joking that she should pose them with Mattel's 1/6 Egon and the caption should read...

:egon: "I don't have very many fantasies that don't involve science. This, however, happens to be one of them..."

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