Ghostbusters General Thread

Preordered Ray at BBTS today.

If Egon and the McFarlane Returns Batman and Catwoman come in quick enough, I can have a fair sized POL come in when I ship it.
 
My Egon 2-pack came just in time for Halloween, so after my wife and I got in Halloween night I decided to give the line another shot and opened up the again, very very large box. I will say, this box is at least filled out pretty well by the contents, mainly Boogieman's giant noggins. Not the absurd amount of negative space in the single edition boxes.

Again - absolutely beautiful sculpts and paint. I don't mind Egon being off color because he looks so good on the shelf. Having a giant ghost for both busters to bust really woo'd me, here, and now I'm silly enough to be lightly considering Samhain. Peter alone was eh but together with Egon and Boogeyman, the set comes alive. They make better statues than action figures, to the point where I wish I have a full class style display case for them instead of a glassed in shelf. They really look good from all angles, and benefit from seeing with a 360 view.

Unfortunately, though, my Egon's neck joints were completely frozen up and his neck popped out of his chest with very little effort when I twisted. It's almost as if it wasn't glued in. Likely an easy fix with some heat and glue, but I'm going to contact Mondo's customer service to see if at least they have a recommendation for an adhesive. Can't move him around too much without him becoming a headless Ghostbuster, which is a bummer considering the price. Speaking of heads, I could have done without the second Boogie head in exchange for more mini ghosts or accessories. It's a huge awkward piece to store. But it is cool. I'm also happy that the stand for him is well built and sturdy. I've been able to get him into a floating pose, which looks great. I may use that stand in the future for bigger figures, when I rotate out the display.

These are so close to being perfect that the antiquated articulation scheme bums me more out than say, a S7 figure. They have poor flow and wind up looking very toyish in certain poses, which clashes against how well they're rendered. I'm considering porting over some extra hands from other figures to repaint and use as gesture hands for these guys. I have an itchy feeling that instead of an accessory pack, we'll see added heads and hands to incentivize people to buy variant figure releases - like slimed versions - for an extra $110.

If you're reading this, Mondo, do not do that! Accessory pack is the way to go!

I hope you guys had a great Halloween and that the only ghosts you encountered were made of plastic.
 
I’m guessing, even if they do an accessory pack, it will have to be at least $101, and their license may not cover releasing something like this without a figure.
 
scottg10 said:
I’m guessing, even if they do an accessory pack, it will have to be at least $101, and their license may not cover releasing something like this without a figure.
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To be honest, I'd be fine spending that for several heads, hands, gloved hands—for each buster—as well as some smaller ghosts and fun accessories or small set pieces. Basically a NECA accessory pack. These I think should have been included but at the end of the day, a $25 upgrade kit per figure I can live with. Not ideal, but it'd make me a lot happier with what I have.

Now if the hands/heads are incentives for 4 new figure,s and it's $404 to get some variants, that'd be a bummer and I'd pass. So Mondo, do not do that! We already paid a lot and made the line a success, throw us a bone.
 
Give me 2 facial expressions and 2 sets of hands (preferably varied ones including gloved expressive hands) for each buster and 2 new mini ghosts (preferably from the intro) and I'll pay it.

I'm not buying slimed or other variants just to get expressions. I'm almost talked out of Samhain's reissue as well. I like RGB but I'm not a completist enough to buy everything they put out.
 
I definitely want more hands. More expressions would be nice too, but I really miss having extra gestures. They could do a hand pack for basically any amount of money they want since it technically wouldn’t have to be licensed. Sort of like McFarlane’s weapon packs. I doubt they’ll do it though and as has been speculated we’ll probably have to buy variants of that’s something we want. If they’re worried Janine won’t sell as well as the boys it would be a logical spot to do it.
 
I mean, they're probably rightly worried that ANYthing else isn't going to sell as well as the boys, and might be looking for ways to sweeten them with "essentials" for the four main characters.
 
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