MY FAVORITE FIVE GHOSTBUSTERS TOY GHOSTS
First off..."Bad to the Bones". This guy was pretty big, larger then most ghostbuster toys...and he could do all sorts of cool stuff, like trap people with his weird feet/bone tentacle things, open up his ribcage and stuff people in there, and cram people's heads into his skull, which would make his eyes pop out. Just why he'd want to do this stumps me, but who the hell am I to question the motives of a giant skeleton ghost? And you'll be hated forever if you ask Ghostbuster crazies if he was a skeleton, or a ghost, and if he was a skeleton, why didn't they just hit em with a bat?
It's Bug-Eye Ghost! This purple badass looked really nasty, and when you squeezed/slammed him his huge central eye fired out and took out anything nearby. What's more fun is that back then they made toys so they could hurt people, and this big plastic eye was guaranteed to give any irritating siblings a black eye in no time! This guy probably never made it on the air because he seriously could have beat the Ghostbusters, and he probably would have had more lines then Winston did in the movie! BADA-BING!
And while we're on that theme...Boo-Zooka and his Boo-Lets! This big pink tube shot things when you squeezed it. Evidence that 80's toy manufacturers had the same evil subliminal sexual plots as Disney. But actually, aside from the fact none of the three toys alone did anything, the shooting feature was really neat, and you could actually send those little suckers flying...and they were actually big enough to remain un-lost for a day or two! A word of advice though, is not to jam anything into Boo-Zooka, because then he can't shoot out anymore and becomes as useless as a GI Joe with a broken rubber-band.
Ah yes. Goop. Goop sells...ALWAYS. package a toaster oven with slime or goop and ever little kid will NEED THAT DAMN TOASTER! Yes, Stomach Stuff and Brain Matter here were possibly among the coolest 80's toys around, despite the fact that they did NOTHING. They came with the slime that you could pour through the firehouse grates that would INSTANTLY harden on everything and become impossible to remove. But you could actually fill em with slime and close em up, and they didn't leak. Don't ask why this enthralled me so much as a kid, but damn if I could punch my 12yearold self in the face for selling these along with all my Ghostbusters and TMNT stuff; I would just because I no longer have these.
And finally, how could I forget...Fearsome Flush! The Evil possessed toilet! I mean, sweet jesus this ghost probably ranked in the all time scaring hall of fame before he ended up in the containment unit. You walk into your bathroom and notice your toilet has gotten much larger and a different color...but what the hell, you gotta go. You sit down...and SWEET TAPDANCING CHRIST! Even seasoned veterans like the ghostbusters probably ran like hell from this guy. Of course, the ghostbusters in my play-world were kinda dumb and never seemed to recall the fact that every time they used the HUGE toilet in their Firehouse(It's about the size of a ghostbuster figure), it came alive and tried to eat them. Oh well.
Well, that's it...stay tuned for bigger and better to come, and I'll be getting to other Ghostbuster toys again someday. Also, to show I actually do have no life, I found a strange little MIDI sound file of the Ghostbusters theme some guy made that I'm sure you want to listen to over and over...Click Here
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