Aw, That Is Bull(APPLAUSE)

[Ghostbuster Don]

Apparently the guys who released the 1983 He-Man cartoon picked up the rights to three Filmation cartoons. You know where I'm going with this but this is just an injustice to the fandom:

www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=4915

[ghostdiva]

I know tell me about it! But I probably will get them seeing as I have them all on tape anyway. My poor grandmother never understood there is a difference. She would pick up the tapes at the dollar store and by like "I found some ghostbusters tapes at the store, and I bought them just for you" She was very sweet. So I'll probably get them for sentemintal reasons.
ghostdiva

[Fritz]

I know some people actually liked that show, I even worked with one of them for a while (Peter Kong, a member of the GBWC), but I really really didn't.

In fact, I vented my dislike here:
www.ectozone.com/apocrypha/gbfs.html

[ECTO-1]

I liked it when I was younger. Dunno if I still will. Guess we'll find out.

[Yami Mirai]

Thankfully, I never saw that show when I was a kid. Or, if I had, I don't remember it.

I'm definitely not going to pick it up. I'd much rather blow all my money on episodes of The Real Ghostbusters.

[SuperStantzio]

Me either. I despise Flimation's Ghostbusters so much!

[BlackMaria]

Haven't seen any eps; was too young, but based on the concept it's nothing that would interest me, either as a child or adult.
Just give us the real deal please & stop taunting the fans.

[ECTO-1]

Tehcnically, they ARE the real deal. Or at least spin-offs from them.

[Miss Janine]

IIRC, and it galls me to say this, the FGB DID come first. That's why Columbia had to call OUR GBs the REAL Ghostbusters.

*still likes the idea of a public burning*

[ECTO-1]

There's room in this world for 2 sets of GBs. It's called competition.

[CJ]

I'll probably end up getting the set, only because I enjoyed the FGB's goofy concept.

[Cliff]

ecto1 said:

There's room in this world for 2 sets of GBs. It's called competition.

And, boy, did I wanna pilfer THAT idea!

I always thought that if there were to be some movie made based on that pile of crap (not looking to start anything, I'm just saying), the only way that it could be ANY good --on it's own-- is if they ditched 90% of their ideas, and cast Jack Black and Johnny Knoxville in the main roles. And no dumbass gorilla stuff.

Just my two cents on the matter, because I thought for a long time on it for a story I was writing.

...that, and the car was cool...when it was just a car, not a plane or a taking heap of junk...just a car.

And, that I liked it when I was younger (around 10, 11). My grandma bought it for me and my cousin and I acted out one of the episodes over and over. Even though I knew that they were BS "ghost chasers" and not old-school Ghostbusters.

--Cliff

[ECTO-1]

Guess ya can call me a traitor...I ordered this set after a convo with Kingpin on Saturday where I was reminded it came out. Oh well. If it redeems me any, one of the main reasons I bought it was research for a GB/GB X-over I wanna do in PPE.

[Fritz]

Due to Peter Kong's stories, the FGB are considered to exist in the fan fic version of the Timeline at least. I don't exactly emphasize that, and the "If the canons conflict, ours wins" rule is definitely in effect. I even used Jake Sr. once myself, in "Opening Night" where he got to beat up a guy who looked like Earring Magic Ken.

In the apocrypha version of Future Shocks I speculate that the Kongs are actually some sort of "techno-wizards"; it's inspired by a character class in the Beyond the Supermatural RPG from Palladium Games (c. 1988) called the "Psi-Mechanic", who have actual psionic powers but require mechanical devices as a focus: the power is actually in them, but require the focus to make it work.

In other words, Jake Kong didn't "really" build a device that blasts ghosts back into their home plane of existance, he built a device that focuses his own innate power to blast ghosts into another plane of existance. They just didn't realize it, and thought they needed the Dematerializer.

Though in that version, Jake's furniture doesn't really talk--he's just batsh*t insane and thinks it does.

Another possibility would be to have the Kongs as sort of modern day shamans of some sort--it's just instead of pre-industrial stuff like swords and staves, they channel spirits into electronics and their Model T. That would let them keep more of the talking furniture from the cartoon.

I guess what I'm saying is, if some of the overblown goofiness was toned down, and a little more thought put into it, the FGB concept is NOT unsalvageable.

[ECTO-1]

I dunno, is "haunted" furniture any more goofy than a resident ghost?