The Real Ghostbusters Proton Pack & Ghost Popper Commercial

[SwazAttack]

So thankful I enjoyed these to their fullest

[sivazh]

I had all this stuff, my best friend and me used to run around my hometown busting ghosts! It was awesome.

[BoneThugsEternal]

the Ghost Popper was bad ass. the the blackish gun with the yellow foam things on top. i had that in 1987 when i was 10. for them to be foam they stung like hell. made a kid cry one time when i shot him with one. sorry brian. :( it was fun as hell though.

[Jonofthefuture2]

LOL Cute kids!!!

[Cml725]

You know, for some kids, these were the toys that made them happiest. I was included in that group, because it gave me something to be excited for.

[za100786]

@Cml725 Dude, YES! That and the original robocop toys, man they don't make cool stuff like that anymore or i'd still be into toys!

[Casanova1177]

why does that kid have a dildo in his gun?

[DevilMaster]

@Casanova1177 Because that Kenner proton pack toy was really, really lame.

As a kid, I never saw this commercial (only illustrations of the toy) so I was convinced that it was a Laser Tag-style toy. I lost all interest in that toy when the owner of a toy store explicitly told me what the toy was, after the parents of many disappointed kids bought it, then brought it back to the store and asked for a refund.

[DevilMaster]

In fact, that store went as far as calling it "Tube Pack" instead of "Proton Pack" to let customers know what they were buying and avoid refund requests.

[mysteriousjeffmather]

@DevilMaster

Wow, that guy sounds like just the kind of jolly soul you want working at a toy store. Where did you grow up, Dickensian London?

[DevilMaster]

@mysteriousjeffmather LOL, no, a small town in northern Italy. And you can't blame the guy: he was only being honest. As I wrote, many other kids before me got one of those but they were disappointed (like me, they mistook the photograph of the foam cylinder for an artistic representation of an infrared beam) so their parents brought it back to the store. He did not want that to happen again, so he told me: "Look, this toy is not electronic, the beam is foam, do you still want it?" I said no.

[AtticusRh0des]

waaaait Mr Stay Puft wasnt a ghost...It was just goer in the form of staypuft, hence wasnt he a Sumerian god? o.O Damn those are some tough kids lol

[PhireMadeFlesh]

I remember this commercial. Particularly the last part: "We ain't afraid of no...*window shade rolls up*...ghooooost!"

[johnianflores]

i had ecto 2 and all the ecto plasm cans....until i gave em away..

[SpartanOfSandtrap]

They called slimer 'green ghost' hah get you're Ghost Analyzer checked.

[cammy85]

@SpartanOfSandtrap Well, this WAS taken from the movie after all. :) That's why it only showed Stay Puft and Slimer and not classics like Samhain and the Boogeyman.

[britbeetle]

I had that crappy ghost popper, and always wanted the proton pack. But I did get the GB2 slime blower :)

[StubzTurner]

I am envious. I once saw on at a Canadian Tire as a kid. I would not leave my mom alone trying to get her to buy it.

[jediyves]

I had the popper when I was a kid!........until some kid took it away from me.......i think.

[utubepunk]

Stay Puff a class 3? Pfft! Somebody needs to get their equipment checked. Posers. =)

[DanSolo777]

Oh man I had all those and I had the trap too

[jesup25]

lol i had the ghost popper when i was little and i still have it and i'm 14, lol

[sjm757]

Holy crap. I had the proton pack, PKE meter, and ghost trap (which isn't shown in this commercial but was equally excellent). Awesome, awesome, AWESOME toys!

[tipsterboy]

i got em too

[vampirehunterx23]

lol i had the gun with the projection pics of ghost then you shoot em

[DevilMaster]

Me too. That was the "GhostZapper" (I wonder if there are commercials of it around).

I remember that I wanted the Proton Pack, but all I saw of it was a picture from which it wasn't clear at all that the "beam" was a foam cylinder. I assumed that the beam wasn't really there and the Proton Pack was a Laser Tag-style toy. I never got it. Only years later I discovered what it was, and I was SO glad I never got it... if I did, the look of the FFFUUUUU- picture would've been an understatement.

[kc86er]

Got that for my 3rd birthday in June 1989!

[Lollol84]

lol theh got scard by window