hey everybody adam savage from tested and i am standing in the beautiful jacob javis convention
center on the west side of new york city because we are at new york comic con and i am with my
friend puppet master master maker rick lyon oh and ghostbuster rick lion rig it's really good
to see you man and you thank you for having me over here you've been well oh excellent excellent
welcome to new york thank you i so tell me tell me about your ghostbusters tell me how brian puts
together a ghostbusters well this is you know everybody has their own approaches to to cosplay
some people go for super screen accuracy and and i really have a lot of respect for that some people
just do whatever they can with whatever they have on hand uh some people put stuff together with
cardboard you know which is great i love it one of my favorite things yeah i love those approaches
i did that when i was in college i might i had a whole backpack made out of chipboard wow because
i was taking architecture classes and we had to make all our architectural models out of chipboard
i had tons of it everywhere so that's what i made my first backpack out of this is a real heinz 57
this is like a massive mix of different stuff um it's it's a commercially available jumpsuit that i
died down to get more appropriate color you know the original ones read gray in some scenes and
they're actually khaki yeah but but they have a cast of gray so that's what i did i dyed this down
to make it a little bit more gray and i got you know an original you know army web belt
my what this is officially called the belt gizmo looks really great thank you it's it's all is this
is the dollar store belt gizmo you know there's so many people online providing scans and pictures to
make i know that's where i got the file for the printed circuit board great uh but the rest of
it is all these are literally you know pens from the dollar store that i cut into and i sectioned
and i took pictures of nixie tubes from the web and i printed it out and i inserted the photos
inside the clear tubes and then the rest of it is all just like bits of styrene and you know
wires that were from other things thank you and somebody i read online somebody you know that's
that's the wonderful thing about cosplay nowadays is that there's all kinds of forums where people
share information right and their and their executions yeah the access to that information
is wonderful and and people are so sharing and so this real weird little fitting here
is just something very predictable that you can get at a hardware store never seen before but it's
so perfect for just attaching the phone cord and then this was a circuit board from a dollar store
calculator that i just broke into bits and you know cleaned together um so the radio looks like
a commercial toy am i right i know it is it's the it's the spirit halloween thing amazing it looks
great it is great it is so so accurate i mean it's hard to beat the spirit stuff they they really
did a wonderful job it is and i just covered up some logos and and put a more accurate motorola
uh mt 500 label on it yeah you know and uh you know what one of the hardest things to find was
that a pair of black rubber gloves that i could live with really they're well they're almost
all too short yep or they're or they're up to your elbow the ones they had were this weird sort of
medium so that was a that was a real tough find i had never thought of taking them off my belt yeah
i found a pair i liked but i never put them on oh i don't know no they get too hot yeah they're just
they're sweaty all right let's turn around and start to see the other pack oh this is uh the pack
is a spirit halloween pack that has been heavily modified and it's mounted to it in real life yes
it is on a real alice pack frame with correct you know uh straps and correct waist buckles yeah the
waste buckle on the early vietnam ones is thin and a lot of the later ones are all thick yes this is
this is screen accurate to the first ghostbuster movie and it was one of those ebay finds yeah
yeah and it was a strap that i bought all by itself you can't find an alice pack with these
kind of straps on them anymore you just can't i wonder where that market went so the uh seriously
so it's a spirit halloween pack but i took off their horrible undersized neutron wand and i and
i stuck on the oh this is the oh yeah this is the hasbro toy which is really marvelous i mean bang
for the buck it's extraordinary i can't this was something i keep saying because i'm going to do a
show and telling us soon is how good a time it is to be into cosplay because the way the companies
are making stuff i appreciated specifically how they went for the worn look down here like this
is beaten up oh yeah no the weathering on this is actually i haven't done a repaint on this
yeah this is this is as it is out of the box um the one thing i really want to do is i want to
change out their horrible rubber you know tape on what i notice a lot of people doing is just
finding some uh fiberglass tape and going over that and that looks great yeah no i wanna yeah
this is actually a separate oops sorry sorry don't cry actually it's actually a separate
piece that you can cut off oh that's great i had no idea but but part of the grip is missing
so you have to have an insert right you have to have an insert and then re-tape it which is my
plan eventually but the nice thing about this gun was that you could easily take off the v-hook and
make it compatible with the v hook that's on the spirit oh my gosh i also have the maddie collector
wand but completely incompatible v-hook it's molded into the magazine right also just for for
shits and giggles the spirit pack the loom tube is too small yeah so i just kind of split it and one
of the things that they actually had an issue with even on the original packs is that you that that
yeah that needs to rotate right the tube needs to rotate as they change orientation with the gun
and if you see in the original movie packs they totally fudged it they just have like a screw
and a twist tie or something like no idea it's crazy so i actually just put a zip tie on this
that's loose enough that it still turns but uh that's something that i'd like to swap out
to a bigger loom tube that actually fits this thing and i even left this is an old
spirit pack the newest ones the newest ones have upgraded electronics with the correct
uh sequence of lights on the cyclotron cyclotron yeah and this is not but i left the switch
i took it from the old gun and i left it on here so i can still oh just for you know just
for laughs i can still activate that oh that's great my big question is how does it feel to
be out and about again and cosplaying i said we saw each other in florida yeah which was uh super
crowded um but really lovely to see everybody out and about how do you how is it for you well
it's interesting because the first the first con that i went to i was very apprehensive yeah and
and it's been you know two years and one of the things that i really began to appreciate about
people who go to cons is that they're all very like-minded and they're all serious about you know
compliance and everything that and so there's a there's a security that i felt that i didn't think
i was going to feel a self-selected group yes it's true and they they it very specifically it's not
something that i have been worrying about at the cons i appreciate that too yeah no it's it's been
and of course here in new york it's really great because there's a vaccination mandate everybody
here has to have proof of vaccination to enter and that you know i'm comfortable with bringing my
daughter on sunday yeah i this year it's the first time i ever thought to say it people are asking me
for pictures all the time and it's very gratifying actually and for the first time i appreciated you
know wouldn't it suck if i got all dressed up and nobody took a picture of me yeah wouldn't it
be really awful all this bother and nobody noticed or wanted a picture and uh so that's actually been
great that's why you come to the cons you come to exulta alongside well it's it's like you said in
your in your ted talk it is a communication you know it is an interchange with like-minded people
and and sometimes even not like-minded people yeah who who get drawn into that conversation
and that's the nice thing about cosplay is that it it crosses so many borders and and
it encompasses so many interests yeah and so many different types of people there's people who just
get dressed up in a halloween costume and go and they're cool with that and i think that's great
there's people who work for years yeah on a costume like these guys over here yeah and
that's great and then there's people who just go and watch and take pictures and that's also great
i'm i'm going to wear my ghostbusters costume tomorrow rick thank you so much man for coming
out and showing me your beautiful pleasure all right have a good time adam and rick we are out