plankie wants to know do i actually own a screen used prop from ghostbusters i do not
i do not and i don't i don't feel like i need a specific prop from ghostbusters i don't think
i need and i don't feel it burning that's also not the kind of prop collector i am necessarily
um and that's being informed by the fact that any real ghostbusters props are surpassingly
expensive because of how important the franchise is and i'm not into spending huge amounts of money
on my props if it's gonna be a very expensive uh outlay that's why it's one of the reasons that i
would choose to build them myself and i have back there i'm working on some ghostbusters proton
packs i have parts and bits and pieces and i've made one in the past and i now have pretty much
all the stuff ready for a hero og proton pack with mostly real parts one thing that's been getting me
so once i got this suit and i did a t-stating on it and i washed it five or six times
then i went looking for my elbow pads and my gloves and all that other stuff and there is a bin
somewhere in my life that has like four sets of elbow pads two sets of gloves a whole bunch of
belts some of the leather carrier hardware for the walkies and i cannot find it it's been driving me
batty it used to sit at the base of my pool table but then when i went and looked at the box that
was at the base of my pool table was no longer that box i've looked through all the boxes in
storage it's feasible i may have tossed it out it didn't include anything super important it didn't
include anything that's irreplaceable but it was like it was a costume box full of some costume
parts and i have misplaced it and it's like i said it's driving me just a little bit batty
um but the follow-up question is if there is a prop if i could have any problem from ghostbusters
if i could have any prop from ghostbusters what would it be i mean
yeah it would be the actor one yes it would be the echo one it's such a beautiful beautiful
film vehicle it's funny that i'm building the ecto one at the same time as off-screen
i'm working on the delorean from uh back to the future because they are two along with the blade
runner spinners two of my favorite vehicles in film yeah blade runner spinner's amazing
the first bat the the first christopher nolan batmobile the tumbler beautiful
yeah the aston martin db5 those are some of my favorites but it would be the ecto one if
i could wave a magic wand and the ghostbusters prop could arrive on my doorstep it's the echo
one and i would use it to get pizza i would use it every single day i have nowhere i have no
idea where i would park it here on the mission that would be a tall order uh peter ferguson
asks have you ever considered making a proton pack ah there we go uh and if so what elements
do you foresee being the biggest hurdle well my biggest hurdle is that i want an experience and um
if i may when i start to put those parts together to build myself my og proton pack uh
i want that pack to feel like a real thing and what do i mean by that
i mean i wanted to have a weight and a heft and a functionality
that feels genuine not that it's going to shoot beams out of the front but
many of the parts that i have sitting up there are actually made of metal uh the the thrower
wand is made of metal most of the bolt-on parts are welded aluminum and that to me is exactly the
kind of experience that i'm looking for um the coldness of the metal as i move the pack around
that's what i want um the biggest hurdle for me is that i don't like the blinky light pattern
in the cyclotron i just don't think it's that interesting um and so i would not replicate
it in my proton pack and i still haven't figured out necessarily what i am going
to do for my proton pack but i'm going to do something different than that lighting sequence
there are few prop replicating groups that have achieved more specificity
than the ghostbusters fans they know
all the things it's shocking it's such a deep well of knowledge when you start to unpack it uh and
there are some perfect renditions that are literally almost indistinguishable from the
original hardware um and i really appreciate that but that is not the kind of replication
that i'm interested in so yeah the biggest hurdle would be figuring out what that light pattern is
i have a couple of other tricks up my sleeve for the generator and some of the other parts but um
suffice to say that 2021 will include some more ghostbusters builds by yours truly
um last question uh
this is a username that is quite uh extreme the username is in life i am dead in death i am alive
so user in life i am dead and death i am alive wants to know
if you were in charge of one main set piece or prop for a new ghostbusters what would you like
to work on the most the inside of a proton pack yeah i'd like to see all of the insides
all of how they work like to take it apart to its constituent components and see all
the coils and windings and cosmoline and uh pitch and copper wire and relays and uh yeah
yeah it would look pretty amazing in there that would be a really fun team to head up um as it
is my friend ben edie was one of the one of the armor prop folks on the set and those the teams
of people on the set for afterlife did incredible work um i can't say specifically at what um
but uh the the fidelity achieved in the new film is a very satisfying thing it was very important
to production accuracy was super important and it was achieved i'm here to tell you um
that was delightful that was delightful and i i really think i i may i may just uh i may
just rock this look for a few days i'm not taking this off until the end of the day that's for sure
um i really appreciate you guys letting me do a little bit of cosplay the ghostbusters theme for
questions was an awesome one uh it was such an important movie it was such an important movie
i so i was 16 17 years old and and the there's this point in which uh uh the may
is it true right the mayor and the villain are talking to to danny eckhardt and bill murray
and danny danny ackroyd says god till dick was over here i pulled the plug and the mayor turns
to paul maureen says this is true and bill murray says it is true this man has no dick
it's hard to explain just how funny that was in an audience full of people who were loving the
crap out of that movie at that moment i mean rule i remember a roar in the in the odd in the sold
out movie theater i saw that moving in a roar of how funny that joke was oh my god that dry
perfect delivery and i think the editors even pause in the edit so that you have time to laugh
that is true mastery that's my last ghostbusters memory for you today
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