adam savage at tested in my cave and it is all ghostbusters all the time here at tested right now
i'm standing next to my friend ben eady who worked props and electronics and wrangled tons of proton
packs on the set of ghostbusters and you've come to the cave to work with me on a super exciting
tested project but you've also come bearing gifts of course what is this thing this you just pulled
this out of your luggage and i am kind of like i'm a little overwhelmed by how beautiful it is and
does it does it do anything well yeah of course it does stuff you can't it's ghostbusters man
oh that is really beautiful oh for sure oh i particularly are these little donuts of
red acrylic they're they're stacked and then a little straw on the inside for the led just to
diffuse it out and just give it that little pop but like even the rough cuts you know this is one
thing that's nice working at props like this is that if you have rough or damaged you're like hey
it's a feature it works with the whole thing right the aging and the weather
okay so you your the prop department built this from scratch wasn't so much your prop department
is there's a buddy of mine that's uh shannon shannon chapel he's okay we brought him in at the
middle of the show to help out a whole bunch of props because we're in a bind we need an extra guy
and shannon's a magician with stuff so you this is like production draws a lot of things ahead of the
shoot and things get built in la and in canada and all over the place but then once you're shooting
there turns out to be a whole new set of things to build right there's all these extra things so
you guys are constantly playing pick up playing catch up oh yeah and he was a key member of this
team huge huge he made he made the difference of making timings and not making time is it there was
a few times where there without him we would not have made the show now i'm looking at stuff here
i'm seeing some laser cut pieces i'm seeing some 3d are these little cappers 3d printed
you know what this is entirely laser cut the whole thing the whole thing oh that's brilliant
oh my gosh there's so much to unpack then oh for sure wow and so these heating these copper
coils those are i'm assuming those are not copper they're not these are just their laser cut acrylic
or sorry these are laser cut mdf okay and then and then painted and they're laser laser-cut mdf
yeah and then just uh we took a dremel router bit and got all the the bevel so it took a little
time to oh my god that makes me tired just thinking about it and then you've got the the
chase of the three different light circuits right even the contr actually the control board is like
one of the most beautiful aspects of this well for sure it was you know we were talking about
that too is like this is awesome but we're like our favorite parts the little tiny box at the end
well the red and black stripes are never never a bad idea those uh just like stereo connectors
holding it up yeah yeah yeah yeah oh my god okay so this was a fun project for the shop
yeah so you know we had wrapped and i mentioned to shannon that hey you know i'm going to be
going out to to adam's cave and he's like can we make him something i'm like of course we make him
something he's like well i'll put in the time if you buy the materials i'm like done so i handed
some money and i came back like i helped i didn't even this is the kind of guy where
you have a prop jason would go i need like a laser right and everybody's like well
we won't know what it's going to look like and whatnot and chan's like i got this and
normally you'll give a director or anybody a prop and they'll go no i've got to tweak this
gut tweak back yeah shannon will come up and put it in front of jason jason's like perfect
every time that is so so solid gold on it yeah oh yeah it never happens no it never does and
he did it consistently so when he said hey i can build something you know i just want
the materials i give him the money and i just walked away because i knew you don't have to
that's amazing i also love that he did a division of seven which is like you know dividing 360
degrees by the prime numbers that's tricky yeah uh it is a beautiful thing will you please hand
him my re to send him my regards and i think i'm gonna literally like clear some wall space here
in the cave for this to live and get dusty yeah and dirty over the years because it's magnificent
and you know one thing too is like you know i break up shannon but the entire props department
we had was like phenomenal but there was also another builder there's peter white okay okay and
he was another he's one of these guys that come in and he's breaking stuff down and we were missing
we needed a rubber trap for for stunts yeah and i don't know anybody these are all new people to me
and i sat there and i went well we need a rubber trap he's like well i can make one instead of
ordering from one of the prop shops and i'm like okay well we this is at the beginning okay we got
a little bit of time to go and the next day next day 24 hours right i come out and he goes i've
got the trap and i'm like where is it and have all the traps are laid out on the table and he's like
right there i couldn't identify it ah i'm just like dude suddenly you're just like yes i've got
what i need so peter was another magician on the show so how was it uh working within the franchise
that we love so much within ghostbusters and making new aesthetic pieces that fit within the
canon of the original production i mean clearly this is the result of like a brain infused with
a specific aesthetic yes exercising it in any way that they can yes very much so you know it's
it's it's kind of funny it's a two-stage process the first stage is is that you're going i get to
work at ghostbusters and then after you get over that you have to okay i gotta make it serious and
i mean but you're also like you're on set wrangling these delicate intense props like you're
managing over a dozen proton packs at different times oh yeah yeah yeah parts are snapping off and
you're having a rebuild on the fly literally like you know snot tape hot glue constant
a constant scramble ah well it is beautiful please thank the whole team on my behalf it is a gorgeous
addition to the cave maybe this should go in the bathroom maybe that's the kind of thing you wanna
okay i'll be honest shannon was going yeah watch out he was like i want to see it in his bathroom
oh okay good done done that's an easy call dude thank you so much my pleasure fabulous