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Old 05-05-2016, 11:48 AM   #1
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Old 05-05-2016, 12:22 PM   #2
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Those look awesome!
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The diorama rooftop looks amazing. I love the Real Ghostbusters but I would buy the Dio pieces alone without the figures (not my scale).
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Old 05-05-2016, 01:42 PM   #4
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Likeness rankings:

Winston: Solid, but not perfect.
Ray Stantz: Pretty damn good, off by only a hair.
Egon Spengler: Pretty much perfect, but his glasses suck.
Peter Venkman: TERRIBLE. He looks like Archie Bunker!
Louis Tully: Very good.
Dana Barrett: Pretty bad, but if you look hard you can see a little Sigourney Weaver in there. But you could also easily confuse this figure with the chick from Blade Runner, IMO.
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I've only got the Venkman and I like it. The likeness isn't the best but it's still Bill Murray. My big con is that the ankles on mine are ridiculously loose so he can't stand for shit on his own and then neither of his base pieces have pegs. I sorta feel like I could've waited for the non-select TRU version since I have no plans on finishing the roof display.
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I've only got the Venkman and I like it. The likeness isn't the best but it's still Bill Murray. My big con is that the ankles on mine are ridiculously loose so he can't stand for shit on his own and then neither of his base pieces have pegs. I sorta feel like I could've waited for the non-select TRU version since I have no plans on finishing the roof display.
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Likeness rankings:

Winston: Solid, but not perfect.
Ray Stantz: Pretty damn good, off by only a hair.
Egon Spengler: Pretty much perfect, but his glasses suck.
Peter Venkman: TERRIBLE. He looks like Archie Bunker!
Louis Tully: Very good.
Dana Barrett: Pretty bad, but if you look hard you can see a little Sigourney Weaver in there. But you could also easily confuse this figure with the chick from Blade Runner, IMO.
Maybe archie possessed veinkman....?
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Old 05-05-2016, 04:51 PM   #7
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I was so disappointed by these.

I waited until I had all 4 to open them..

Well, removing the hands was a chore, I broke 4 of them trying to remove them, I used heat to aid with three of them.. But no, and the pegs snapped off in the arm, so I literally had to dig them out. It's awful.

Then the wire for the trap broke almost immediately.. I hadn't even straightened it out, and bam.

Then the connection point for one of the streams broke off after one attempt at applying it. And it doesn't help at neither Ray nor Winston come with the connectors.

Then there's winstons proton pack, which after one attempt at connecting the wand to the back broke at the top of the ALICE frame. Ugh

And that brings me to the connections for the wand.. If they going to use those types of connectors, they better be really well sculpted and molded, but they're not. They all have a tough time slotting in, and a couple of them really don't want to stay.

Then we have the paint.. The paint in spots looks really rough and sort of messy. From a couple feet away they look fine, but up close they leave a lot to be desired.

Then we have the articulation.. No double jointed elbows?.. For figures whose main accessory is meant to be held with 2 hands?.. Anyone else see a problem with that?

Then there are the two black bases included with the TRU releases and the diorama pieces.. The black bases just don't work.. And the diorama pieces don't have pegs.

That brings me to another huge HUGE complaint. The sculpt of the feet.. My goodness, these have to be the worst feet I've ever seen. The bottoms are basically balls, you give a figure with a back pack round bottomed feet and it becomes a real pain in the ass to get them to stand. I REALLY REALLY don't understand it. I do not understand how anyone approved something like that.

I had really high hopes for these.. I was so excited for them. But now I'm just bleh about them. I'd love to see a company like figuarts or medicom get a license for these.. Maybe then we'd get some really great ghostbusters figures. I'd kill for 3 four packs.. One with the original suits, one with the dark grey suits, and a set of the real ghostbusters.. I'd also love to see a bogeyman for the real ghostbusters.

I doubt any of that will ever happen. Mattel couldn't do it right, DST couldn't do it right.. Will we ever get real collector quality ghostbusters? It doesn't seem like it, not in the near future anyways.

It's cool if you like these, but I just can't get behind them anymore.

Also.. I'm by no means the kind of person who is rough with their toys and breaks a lot of them.. I can count on one hand how many figures I've broken.. Hell, I can list them.. The lower leg of the masked berserker predator, the hip of the red predator and that's it.
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Old 05-05-2016, 05:08 PM   #8
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The bottoms of their feet are rounded? Whaaat?
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The bottoms of their feet are rounded? Whaaat?
Unfortunately yes. The bottoms of their boots are not flat and while this is technically accurate to how shoes look in reality these toys aren't people so they can't shift their weight the way a person actually could. Combined with what I'd call loose ankle joints it means that, as I said, "he can't stand for shit on his own." When I first picked up Venkman it crossed my mind that I might want to get the other three but now I've had a hard enough time getting one Ghostbuster to stay up so I'm probably just gonna stick with Venkman on his own. I've gone through varying poses trying to get around the feet problem and the best I'm at now is a slightly squat position with the proton pack leaning against support.

I can't bring myself to dislike the figure though because it is still a solid representation of one of Murray's best/iconic roles. Also knowing Mattel couldn't do any better makes me feel better, I think.
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Unfortunately yes. The bottoms of their boots are not flat and while this is technically accurate to how shoes look in reality these toys aren't people so they can't shift their weight the way a person actually could. Combined with what I'd call loose ankle joints it means that, as I said, "he can't stand for shit on his own." When I first picked up Venkman it crossed my mind that I might want to get the other three but now I've had a hard enough time getting one Ghostbuster to stay up so I'm probably just gonna stick with Venkman on his own. I've gone through varying poses trying to get around the feet problem and the best I'm at now is a slightly squat position with the proton pack leaning against support.

I can't bring myself to dislike the figure though because it is still a solid representation of one of Murray's best/iconic roles. Also knowing Mattel couldn't do any better makes me feel better, I think.
looks wise i think they're great.. but QC, and functionality is what kills it for me. i think i'm going to try and figure out a way to flatten the bottom of the feet and perhaps chisel away at the inner elbows to give them better range when holding the wand.

i didn't realize mattel was also rereleasing the classic ghostbusters in stores.. i would've LOVED for them to give them their real ghostbusters color schemes.. i may have bought them if that were the case. but no, they're the standard releases without any accessories and a BAF piece to complete the "no ghost" symbol.

right now i have the DST ghostbusters displayed in a detolf.. but winston and egon are leaning against 1/6 clone troopers, ray has recently started leaning against the door.. and peter is actually standing on his own, but who knows how long that'll last.

it'd be different if the little black base's included with the toys r us releases actually worked. but they don't.

i'm just disappointed. there's just so much potential. i really don't understand the elbow choice either. i mean, if they weren't going to give them double joints, they could've at least improved the range of motion, but no. it's frustrating.

in my dreams.. hot toys would give us perfect 1/6 scaled versions of each ghostbuster, and figuarts would give us the real ghostbusters plus the bogeyman.
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Old 05-06-2016, 07:04 PM   #11
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My Egon and Peter arrived today. They both look great from a distance, but they each have a few visible issues up close. Egon has some sloppy paint, in particular his hair is unpainted in some noticeable areas. I almost broke the peg on his left hand trying to swap it out for the gloved version. And it kinda looks like someone has taken a crafting knife to the corner of his left eye (probably a moulding error and at least it's hidden by those awful glasses). Venkman looks OK in hand, but the likeness is not great and his eyes are extremely small/squinty. In my opinion Ray and Winston are better in both production quality and character/actor likeness. Still it's nice to have the four main heroes back in my collection after I sold off my Matty versions (a while back) in favour of this upcoming 7" line. My Ghostbusters figure collection is now complete again.

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Old 02-08-2017, 07:42 AM   #13
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The Peck likeness is amazing, probably the best of the line. Gozer looks good. But ones again, Venkman looks like dogshit. I guess that, like William Shatner, Bill Murray has one of those faces that are hard for sculptors to capture. *sigh*
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The Peck likeness is amazing, probably the best of the line. Gozer looks good. But ones again, Venkman looks like dogshit. I guess that, like William Shatner, Bill Murray has one of those faces that are hard for sculptors to capture. *sigh*
Almost every company I've seen has had trouble with Bill Murray's likeness. DST, Mezco, Soldier Story, Blitzway and Hollywood Collectibles have all attempted and not gotten it right recently.
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I got the first wave of these, but the constant tipping over of the Ray and Winston figures put me off of them. They tip over even when using the peg stands. Also, for some reason, part of the proton pack on Ray broke and the wire on the neutrona wand snapped off in a place I hadn't even bent it.

At first I didn't mind the sculpt so much but it seems like it got worse starting with the second series. The faces are way too smooth and lacking in definition and lines.
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Almost every company I've seen has had trouble with Bill Murray's likeness. DST, Mezco, Soldier Story, Blitzway and Hollywood Collectibles have all attempted and not gotten it right recently.
We probably need Hot Toys to give a shot at a Bill Murray likeness. He's one of my personal favorite actors. There's a customizer I've seen that probably has done the best likeness ever for Murray.
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Eh, I think the Mezco figures look good enough. I might get them sometime. Hot Toys collecting is too expensive a hobby for me.
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Eh, I think the Mezco figures look good enough. I might get them sometime. Hot Toys collecting is too expensive a hobby for me.
I'm actually pretty interested in the Mezco ones. They looked pretty good. I just hope they see release as we may have hit Ghostbusters over saturation by now.
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"The ability two swap out the two style of horns was a nice touch. Fans who don’t want two versions won’t have to pick up a second one and will be able to display the figure with the desired horns."

What kind of fan wouldn't want BOTH versions of the Terror Dog?!? They're a pair! I guess you can get the second dog from TRU that does not come with a diorama piece so you don't get stuck with 2 pieces.

Speaking of which, which figure comes with the lenticular backdrop? Is it the Terror Dog? That lenticular backdrop looks really good.
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"The ability two swap out the two style of horns was a nice touch. Fans who don’t want two versions won’t have to pick up a second one and will be able to display the figure with the desired horns."

What kind of fan wouldn't want BOTH versions of the Terror Dog?!? They're a pair! I guess you can get the second dog from TRU that does not come with a diorama piece so you don't get stuck with 2 pieces.

Speaking of which, which figure comes with the lenticular backdrop? Is it the Terror Dog? That lenticular backdrop looks really good.
Yeah, the Terror Dog comes with the backdrop.

People have complained, a lot, about variants coming with Rooftop pieces. So 2 of the exact same figure with slightly different horns probably wouldn't have gone over very well.
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Old 06-23-2017, 10:37 AM   #22
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Even though I sold off my collection of these, because I was very disappointed by the figures inability to stay standing up, even with a stand, I picked up the ghost and zombie, because they are creepy enough to fit in with my horror stuff. The zombie can't stand at all, so I will probably cut him off at the waist & display him crawling.
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Is anyone able to take some photos of the 'busters next to some NECA figures for a scale comparison? I'm realllllly tempted by the upcoming GBII Ray but I don't want him to tower over Reeve Superman or look Jason Voorhees in the eye haha
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Luckily, I just picked one up solely for the Santa hat.
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Luckily, I just picked one up solely for the Santa hat.
Jeez, you even got them scaled up to the figures I mentioned, now THAT'S dedication too bad Ray is so tall, in real life Reeve was 6'4 and Ackroyd is 6'1 but I guess I can fudge it haha
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