And considering MR's fascination with sound chips, lights and blinking things if they did make a proton pack…it would have them

metallico33
I was thinking what could be the price a PRoToN PACK I'M guessing in the $2,000 area if a light saber cost at least $140 or something a pack is gonna be a little expensive.

I'm not quite sure where the logic comes from for the jump from $140 to $2000. Granted a pack will be more expensive sure, but I doubt it will be that much.

And the reasoning that most people sell them on eBay for $1500 is because they're so hard to come by. People pay more because they can't find a good quality product. If its being mass produced, it will certainly cost less. People on eBay can jack the prices up. I would estimate a pack will probably cost anywhere from $500-$750 from Master Replicas.

If this is true… I DIE FOR SEEING SOME PICS!!!

Doctor Venkman
I'm not quite sure where the logic comes from for the jump from $140 to $2000. Granted a pack will be more expensive sure, but I doubt it will be that much.

And the reasoning that most people sell them on eBay for $1500 is because they're so hard to come by. People pay more because they can't find a good quality product. If its being mass produced, it will certainly cost less. People on eBay can jack the prices up. I would estimate a pack will probably cost anywhere from $500-$750 from Master Replicas.

I don't really think it's going to get much under $1000 for a MR pack. The people on eBay aren't always making the killing you think they are by the time you figure in shipping and materials. MR is going to have the definite edge by being able to mass produce soundboards and lights, which is by far the most expensive venture for ebay packs.

I'm sure it would sell, but at the same time I'm sure that the stuff on ebay is going to be more accurate and will not be that more expensive to be uncompetitive; which means time for Sony to start cracking down on prop makers again.

The PKE and/or Trap size and cost wise seem to fit MR's MO better. But we are all overlooking the fact that MR makes more than props, for all we know this is a statue of Stay-Puft.

Jesusfreak
But we are all overlooking the fact that MR makes more than props, for all we know this is a statue of Stay-Puft.

You know thats a good point. I have never even thought of them making a character statue

Maybe I'm being naively wishful, but I could actually see them making a proton pack replica for about $500 more or less. Of course it depends on how good they want to make it, but assuming they use hard plastic & poly resin materials, things like that predominately, and get it down to a decent weight, I don't see why it should be super expensive. I mean, I've seen some super accurate packs made (without sound or lights mind you) for under $500, and that was using hundreds of individual parts consisting of metal, wood, poly resin, pvc, etc., and dozens of layers of crap, you get the picture. Very messy operation. If they were to factory produce packs though, it'd be clean, large, single parts grouped together for the most, with more detailed parts added accordingly. They wouldn't have to deal with a plethora of different building materials, or the layers upon layers of Goop, epoxy, etc. It'd be a smooth, streamlined operation, with clean, relatively lightweight finished products. So depending upon how “detailed” or “perfect” they wanted to make the packs, I reckon they could sell them for a reasonable price. Certainly for less than 1000 bucks. Of course I could be wrong…

I'd love to see them make ghost traps at the very least, and PKE meters (as those are a very difficult prop to make accurately), but it seems like kind of a let down almost to not make a proton pack replica. I mean that is like the Holy Grail of Ghostbusters technology, and perhaps sci-fi technology period. That's what everyone wets their pants over when they see the films. Maybe at the very least they could make some neutrona wands, by themselves. Granted, that would be pretty strange, dumb, & impractical for costuming purposes, but with full-on light & sound it could still be badass, and better than nothing…..

Alternatively, Master Replicas could be also making replicas of some of the ghost puppets, like Onionhead and the Terror Dogs.

How often does that newsletter come out? Because if it's monthly, a new one should be coming out in the next few days.

*Honestly - What they could accomplish on a mass-scale would probably pale in comparison to what has been accomplished in the fan-community over the last decade +…

*And I highly doubt that anything they produced concerning the equipment would pass even the lowest expectations concerning GB equipment replicas that we here and at the other boards have come to expect…

*Not only that it would most possibly be twice the price than what it costs to fabricate your own, and no customization, that you would get with building your own…

*Yeah that's almost as pricey to create one from scratch, however I'd rather have say-so in what mine looks like and be able to add or reduce as I see fit, than pay top-dollar for an “off-the-assembly-line” version, and not be able to do anything I would like to with it …Slight of ruining it completely…

*Which is what I've already started doing - Fabricating my own…And hopefully by Halloween at the latest, it will be done…And that's after over a decade of trying to get this project off the ground…

*But hey - I'm doing it, DIY, and I'm loving it…

*Take that “Master Replicas”…

*Cheers.

The possibilities are endless I guess. I hope an announcement comes soon and that it's a proton pack replica.