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.
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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’.
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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. It’s been 30 years since Ghostbusters IIwas first released in cinemas.
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