![]() The Ghostbusters: Afterlife Ecto-1 does require a little bit of assembly. In the back, the Remote Trap Vehicle sits where the Busters’ Proton Packs once sat, and there’s a peg there to keep it in place. On the passenger side, you can see the pop-out rear seat from the trailers, and that seat actually pops out. ![]() Even the bottom of the car has plenty of detail to make it look like a car, and the wheels spin in case you’re feeling extra frisky. The mechanism doesn’t feel especially sturdy, but it’s more than sturdy enough for display and occasional toying around. The front drivers’ seat, both passenger doors, and the trunk door all open with a sliding mechanism that moves smoothly the doors all click into place when closed, too, so they shouldn’t pop open unless your toy is haunted. There are a lot of mechanical details, too. The far back has a bunch of different dials and readouts painted red, white, grey, and black. In the back seat, you can see the Remote Trap Vehicle’s labeled control box, even though it’s not reachable or movable. The front doors have the dual window cranks seen in the 1959 Cadillac hearse that the Ecto-1 was built from, showing a great attention to detail. The interior is largely just grey throughout, but it’s not without its charms. The paint details continue to the interior. The char on the front is significant without being overpowering you can still see the Cadillac logo, and the ECTO-1 license plate is clear as day. The car, having sat in a barn for a few decades, has rust around the doors and wheelwells, and it’s subtle without being overwhelming. Around the back, the half-dome directional dish is clear with a checker-pattern band around the base. The yellow compressed air tanks on the drivers’ side have black brackets holding them on. There’s also a lot of paint detail throughout. They’re not station wagons, and some Ecto-1s make that mistake. The dimensions are about right hearses are long cars that look like stretch limos for dead people. ![]() There are tons of little details that make this especially impressive when I compare it to lots of previous renditions of the Ecto-1. That, then, is what we have here–the original Ecto-1, ravaged by time and ambient moisture, with modifications made for modern-day bustin’. It seems that after the events of Ghostbusters 2, the guys stripped a lot of that stuff off, leaving us with a largely-restored Ecto-1. If you remember Ghostbusters 2, you might remember that the boys in beige made a few modifications to the Caddy, stacking it with LED signs and containers for the happy goop they were using to fight the angry goop. So we can respond to our feelings about it based on the original movie and some images and trailers from Afterlife. We haven’t seen the exact movie this version of the Ecto-1 is from, so we don’t know yet how we feel about it. But that puts us in a bit of a weird spot. So that’s how we get toys months after a movie’s promised release date but long before the movie’s actual release date. In other words, the movie can be delayed, but once the toys are being made, they have to come out. Once manufacturing for a toy spins up, though, all the molds are taking up space, and all the toys that eventually come out will end up in boxes in a warehouse, taking up space there, too. A movie delay is certainly annoying for us moviegoers, but once a movie is done, it just sits on a hard drive somewhere waiting for release. So why is it here, right now? The giant gears of toy manufacturing are hard to stop once they get moving. Afterlife is the direct sequel to the first two Ghostbusters films, which was originally set to hit theaters last summer, in July 2020, in a world where our polticians took the Coronavirus pandemic seriously and we got to go to movie theaters again. This version of the Ecto-1 is based off the one we’ll see in the upcoming film Ghostbusters: Afterlife. ![]() This ain’t the Ghostbusters all us old kids remember. That makes it that much more satisfying when something drops that you can get on the shelf at Target and be happy with, like the Ghostbusters: Afterlife Ecto-1, a toy that feels impressively authentic and high-quality for the price. Yeah, you can make a line of toys with dope packaging, but if you’re not careful with those face sculpts, you get a Venkman that looks less like Bill Murray and more like Ted Cruz. For things like Ghostbusters it can be tougher. Each license has its own premium line with great packaging and good-looking toys. It’s almost trivial these days to find cool toys and models from stuff like Marvel, DC, and Star Wars. # Ghostbusters: Afterlife Hasbro Toy Reviews Review ![]()
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