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The Real Ghostbusters?
… completely wrong, he had red glasses and atrocious blonde hair. It didn’t look anything like Harold Ramis (Spengler).
I felt, in no small way, really cheated.
I opened the Stanz figurine and whilst far from perfect I could live with the new look, Zeddemore’s figurine looked generally like him, kind of, and then Venkman’s figurine bore only the most remote hint at the film character. I then realised that the cartoon series was not going make me happy.
It did not.
The Stay …
Tags: Ghostbusters Harold Ramis Real Ghostbusters Spengler Stay Puft
Spike: Who you gonna call? [Buffy looks askance at him.] Spike: God, that phrase is never gonna be usable again, is it? Buffy: Doubt it.
Well it should generally not come as any great surprise that Ghostbusters is indeed my favourite film of all time. I’ve seen it more times than can be counted (seriously people I’ve had this thing on three times a day in the background on occasion), I can recite the lines 10 seconds prior (this is annoying, ask Tracey), I know all of the songs off of the soundtrack, I know where the Stay Puft references appear prior to his appearance, establishing him as a brand in the Ghostbuster universe, I know all the names of the equipment and I know what scene they cut out of the Australian 80s television cut for no reason I can imagine apart from running time*.
I just love this film, I grew up on this film, this film makes me want to see New York in person.
It’s a film I can talk about for hours but as I write this I can barely conjure up the sheer bloody awesomeness of this film.
God I hope they don’t screw up the third film.
I leave you with this**:
* in case anyone was wondering the scene cut out was when Spengler pokes at a guest in the shoulder during the hotel sequence.
** can you pick which line in the trailer is not used in the actual movie?
A while ago I did the illustration above, the most awesome garage in the world. I stand by my choices in this piece, these are the three cars I would most love to have sitting in my backyard and I’m pretty awesome so I know this stuff.
Of course some of you felt that there weren’t enough bays in our awesome garage (one of you also made a groan worthy joke about the garage itself being fairly ordinary but the cars being awesome…). So I’m going back into the pop culture auto industry and letting you guys nominate and ultimately vote on the next three cars to go into the awesome’st garage part two.
Now I’ve got some suggestions of my own to get you rolling:
- The Gadget Mobile (car mode)
- Any vehicle from MASK
- The 60′s Batmobile
- The Galileo shuttle craft from Star Trek (whatever, it would fit in a garage)
- The A-Team van
- The Star Car from The Last Starfighter
- Light bike from Tron
- KITT (though it would be boring to draw… shut up, don’t judge me)
Well that should have gotten you thinking and since I know you guys are all very clever and knowledgeable in the art of popular culture I expect some out of left field suggestions in the comments. I would also love to see some new names in the comments, time to come out of the shadows and be embraced by the Quit Your Day Job community!
When I’ve got a healthy list I’ll cross off any I don’t think I’ll be able to draw (fair go) and then offer the rest up for you to vote for in a poll!
Be a part of awesomeness, tell your readers and friends and that shady guy down the street who smells like wet carpet… actually don’t bother telling him.
Now speaking of awesomeness I had two awesome ideas today that made a little bit of stardust seep out of my left ear out of sheer bloody amazingness. The rough pencil thumb guide is up at my Posterous site for the first idea and the second will take a little bit of time but involves two characters from the Goodies and Baddies set.
It’s going to be cool.
Get in on the ground floor, share the coolness with others.
Proclaim your commitment to the cool.
Arnold was cool, why don’t you want to be?
