It works! Several years ago, a friend loaned a Swiss Army knife when mine went into hiding. It showed up a few months later, and I could return the loaner to my friend. Okay, technically I didn't buy another one, but my knife didn't know that! 😁
Hey Adam, you used the term "cyclotron" which is cool! I'm one of the original Ghostheads that started the DIY Proton Pack drawings and building, naming of the components (cyclotron) and research of the actual parts that were utilized in the original props for the GB community back in the early 90s. I was known as "Paranorman". I coined the term "Ghostheads" btw back in 1996. "Hey, man, let me tell you something. I love you." - Dr. Raymond “Ray” Stantz
It’s funny that you mentioned getting pizza with the Ecto-1. Because when I was a kid, there was a pizza restaurant that I lived near, the owner of which also had made a replica of it... and for a number of years, he used it to deliver pizza! Sadly, though the restaurant still exists, the owner no longer uses his Ecto-1 for this. As the maintenance got to expensive.
Holy cow. I was 7, and I remember being in an Oversold theater with people sitting on the floor in the aisles to see that movie, and also cracking up at that line. So many good parts in that movie. Just this Thanksgiving I acted like I was going to yank the tablecloth off with dishes on it and said, "The flowers are still standing..." I dressed as a Ghostbuster that fall for Halloween. My mom drew the logos and my last name on iron-on patches. Her and my dad made me a proton pack with painted cardboard box, a vacuum hose and some other bits pieces. The kids in school loved it. The older people who gave out the candy as I trick or treated thought I was a cable guy, a phone company guy, or the PSE&G guy. Good times!
If you could get the shell of a toaster you could make a set of spring loaded rods with an electric motor or servo that cams the rods back and let’s them go so they spring down and make the toaster pop about on a table
@@johnbeauvais3159 Make sure to put in a battery and a teensy or something that operates the jumping based on microphone input detecting musical beats.
I remember going to opening night in a local theater in 1984. And yes: the crowd reaction was exactly the way Adam describes it. (84 was an amazing year for movies besides Ghostbusters. Indiana Jones 2, Beverly Hills Cop, Karate Kid, Gremlins, Police Academy, Footloose, Star Trek 3, Top Secret, The last Starfighter, Buckaroo Banzai...I spent sooo much money of my allowance on movie tickets)
OH! For the4 red lights on the cyclotron - How about a single strip of red LEDs that spin behind (under) the cover, pivot on the shock mount column but only one side is lit up so the pattern is a single "window" shows the sweeping lights at a time. It would look like a sweeping / accelerating glowing mechanism!
For the LED pattern: use meteor/dripping/falling rain LED strips, arranged in a star shape. That would resemble what I imagine the cyclotron...function...to look like.
For proton pack lighting, what I thing of it using neopixels. Say, a cluster at each or the original locations then 1 or two that are in between each of those but hidden so you can't tell they are their when they are off. That way you can create the original look if you want it or you can create some really cool multi-hued spiraling / throbbing effects too. Since all the lights are individually addressable RGB, there is really no end to how you could make it look.
Great video! As to the 'cyclotron' lights on the Proton Pack, I've always wanted them to just pulsate brighter and dimmer while it is in rest mode and glow brightly when the Thrower is 'fired.' As to having an experience with the pack, I built a couple of them several years ago, and I put a small vibrating motor in the pack for when it was running, and a more powerful vibrating motor in the thrower to make it shake when fired. Ghostbusters is one of my top five favorite films of all time.
Adam, we also own a "Box" in our shop. All missing items like your knee and elbow pads, tools, etc. when they go A.W.O.L. are always in "The Box". It'll be a glorious day when I find "The Box" again!
Many years ago, back before the internet, when people didn't really have much reference on things like the proton pack, I saw a costume piece that someone had kitbashed for wearing at a sci-fi convention that had an interesting take on the cyclotron. Instead of a blinky light pattern, the lenses were clear, and inside, under red lighting, was a large rotating disc covered in reflective bits that spun like a record player, so that as it spun, and looking in through the lenses, you weren't entirely sure what you were looking at. You just got this felling of something swirling at great speed inside that glittered and shone with red light. Might be a good place to start thinking about your own "something else."
I dont know if you have a podcast or where the content would be. Maybe I can just watch all the vids here. But I love hearing your favorite prop items from movies and if you would like to own them. When you geeked out on ur fav vehicles it was great seei g and hearing that love and passion in your voice. As a beginner builder and wish I had found my way into the prop Industry its always been enjoyable hearing from you vet's what you love and enjoy.
It's a nuclear accelerator (Unlicensed) so I assume the circular part is the accelerator portion. I'd use the same four circle setup, but have the on switch power a ring of LEDs that light in sequence in a circle, speeding up and getting brighter until the entire ring is lit and the four light dots are, instead of glowing yellow, just pulsing or glowing white. Shows the accelerator powering up and is somewhat interesting.
2020 was so, so bad - but Afterlife getting delayed until next year was like an actual physical blow to my heart. Cannot wait to finally see it after all this time - and I'm desperately hoping there will be a Tested set visit video!!!
Question for Adam: When the Mythbusters team made the two idols that would deliver an electric current, which hurt more? The physical pain of 8,000 volts coursing through your body, or the emotional pain of your friends and colleagues pushed you to try it unknowingly.
The lighting for the back of the proton pack. I think it'd be neat if it were just a red-orange glow, like you'd see from the inside of a kiln or volcano---just something to give the illusion of intense heat. Maybe even with some caging, like the kind they put over light bulbs or deep-sea helmets.
I think i was 9, my aunt worked in a theater, so it was basically my daycare. Ghostbusters, empire, blue thunder, conan, basically everything through 87-88 i saw in the theater. Formative experiences folks, lol.👍👍
my very first replica build was a proton pack. made it out of 1/8 inch thick styrene plastic, pvc pipes, and cast resin parts. the thing definitely has some weight to it.
If I was making a Proton Pack, I would obsess over the charging whine. I'd put a real charging circuit in there. probably with like a 1.7 Farad automotive capacitor, just to get that sound right. I definitely grok everything he said about making it feel substantial, though.
I think Adam will be able to find that box again in the future (unless he threw it out xD). I bought a pop vinyl at least 6 years ago that meant a lot to me, but my family moved around so often that it got lost in a moving box somewhere. When we resettled I looked through all of the moving boxes we had left in the basement, but didn't find the figure. Really recently we somehow found it again, along with a few other random but memorable items I'd bought that were in the same box.
I've heard that the Marx Brothers used to set up stage shows of their movie scripts and have assistants time the laughter so they knew how long of a pause to leave in the film version so the next joke wouldn't get buried in the previous laughter. And leaving pauses for audience reactions are often done since then as well. That's just the earliest attempts I've stumbled over. And great horror filmmakers likewise have many times drawn out the punchline of jumpscares so that it hits just when the audience open their eyes again. As films are increasingly becoming made for home consumption, I do fear that that kind of commitment to the stage show experience is becoming a lost art. Like how editors used to be trained to know how eyes worked so that they knew where people are looking when they cut to the next shot. I really hope 2020 doesn't kill of the cinema experience.
That misplacing a box trick happened to me with a star wars blaster I was building and I know it would have been one of my best builds yet.. it burns a hole in my brain most days 😂
To Adam on your Proton Pack.... Might I suggest that the first time a pack is turned on it sounds like it has a low level slight vibration to the pack. From a tactile sense maybe yours should just have a slight vibration to it.
As far as favorite "regular" movie cars I'd have to think of that ridiculous yellow with tiger stripe interior 1963 Cadillac convertible from Scarface, along with that steely silverish grey 1980 Porsche 928 he bought to impress Elvira.
If you are going to create a modified Proton Pack, why not source a second hand Inductively-Coupled Plasma atomic absorption spectrophotometer. They use RF heaters to create a tiny magentically-confined plasma, needing a lot of current but not particularly high voltage. The detector and electronics could be stripped to leave a shoe-box sized plasma chamber running (briefly) on an 48v car battery. You could keep the sample nebuliser assembly an get it to automatically inject different metal ions to change the emission colour of the plasma. It'd be perfectly safe to carry on your back - for a highly specialised definition of the word "safe", which would add verisimiltude with the source material. (Really, the plasma would be no more dangerous and much better confined than an ignited butane gas lighter and the electrics no more hazardous that a diesel engine's starter motor) However, for the right 'feel' there needs to be a solid kick when the beam is ignited. Could this be simulated by a moving weight within the thrower wand which gets thrown forwards upon ignition while a slack elasticated cable running right through the plasma ducting from the wand is pulled taut by a mechahism in the backpack. And, to replace the cyclotron 'blinky lights' - a desk fan surrounded by a ring of strobe LEDs using a live action "rolling shutter" effect to make the innards of the pack appear to warp as the power goes up.
I think that it is safe to say that anytime you want to dress up for any video you are filming, we are more than happy to let you. first, because we are watching it after it has already been shot and edited so any argument we have is kinda moot. second, we like seeing you make and dress up in your various costumes so believe me when I say keep up the good work. third, you have a track record of being (mostly) safe in your work environment so that's on you. (disclaimer: I don't actually have permission to speak for anyone else in this or any comment section. The views and statements made here are my own and are expressly for entertainment purposes only.)
I can see where Adam is coming from when he says he wants to 'feel' that it is a proton pack. The way I look at it is this, you can purchase a close replica of a WW2 flame thrower and can use it when cosplaying with friends or your in a WW2 re-enactment group but to the person that's using it, it does not 'feel' like the real thing. When you go to military historical places that have the real thing and you strap it on, you know it's the 'real thing' and not a very good copy. This is what I believe Adam is wanting to achieve with his proton pack. He's wants to make it feel as 'real' as possible as though Ghostbusting is a real and full time job and that he's just been hired as a ghostbuster and is given a the tools of the trade, a proton pack. It needs to feel right (weight), it needs to look right and sound right.
Interesting choice. But for some reason, the first thing came to my mind is that I would want a bank of the card catalog from the library scene. It would be cool to have and a useful thing to store supplies in.
Rabid Prototypes easily makes the best proton pack electronics kit. I've got it in mine. I'd love to see if Adam could do everything the RP kit does but also change the sequence of the lights. I also think the lighting sequence is boring, so to be different, I have my lights going in the opposite direction like Venkman's is during the hotel scene.
#Adamsavage Hey Adam ! you talked about how you like your proton pack to have feel and weight of the " real deal" and i can so relate to that I enjoy Cosplay and the one and only suit that i have is fallout related armor and i have a combat vest with aluminiumn sholderguard and bunch of punched metal sheets over as armor, my knee pads have aluminium covers and i use them while airsofting for that sweet sweet ware and tear, whole set with gasmasks and other gear it weigs around 20 kilos, i have done cons with it and i like it, its more authentic to me to go for real materials as for say foam and other such things, i made rocket pack from old high voltage connector parts they use on trains and single one weighs around 2 kilos they are solid metal with the female part acting as the caseing being about 500grams its made from aluminium and its spring tentioned to hold on to the connector, and I love it how it feels and looks like you would pop it in to a rocket launcher.
The wand would have to have gyroscopes (resisting motion). Like a thumping vibration in your hands with each revolution of the cyclotron, that resists motion. Increasing exponentially in hertz when fired. Then going back to the base level (power output selected). Obviously there would need to be a similar device in the pack. Few people apart from Dane knew that the circular decals on the right of the proton wand bar graph are actually meant to display the chosen power output from empty circle (everything on but activate not hit so the cyclotron not activated), then going from quarter circle to full circle: full stream, like the Hasbro and Matty wands illustrate. (with a few negligible errors). So few people have figured out what the propmakers of these GB props envisioned, while it is so obvious from the markings. That includes the knobs on the front of the ghost traps. They all have a logical function. (check the muon trap nrads post on GBfans.com) The blinky light in the cyclotron would make sense if they are designating the correct function of all 4 magnetic coil quadrants in both the D's (hollow semicircular electrodes) in the cyclotron. But they would have to blink counterclockwise (the direction of the exit port, or the hose). In some scenes in GB1 this is correct as it is in GBA. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclotron
You can go full metal parts for a proton pack, but it will be super heavy. I made one out of styrene and it's "light" enough to con with, but heavy enough to feel substantial if you make an aluminium motherboard.
Remember to add speakers somewhere onto the proton pack or the wand itself so when you light it up, your audience can hear it over the OOOHs and AAAHs haha
I just watched a mini documentary on Ghostbusters last night. I didn't know a brewing rift at ILM, allowed for the split, that created the new special effects company who created all the effects for Ghostbusters!
And now to make you a little bit jealous Adam, even though I liked the film very much, I've only seen Ghost Busters twice (in 1985 on the same day) and in a few minutes, I'm going to see it again after 35 years. 'Real wrath of God type stuff!'
I know this is shaped by my sense of nostalgia, but the Tim Burton batmobile is genuinely the best of all the bat mobiles. Everything else is either silly or an un-elegant hammer. That’s the only one that makes sense to me.
It really is amazing. The turbine at the front and the exhaust at the back really make it look like a beast. It has wings but they are just the right size so they don't look ridiculous. The Batman Forever one is ridiculous. Any ceiling lower than 8 feet will rip that shark fin off. The Tumbler is an amazing vehicle but it doesn't feel like a Batmobile to me. If you take 60% 89 Batmobile and mix it with 40% Tumbler you get the BVS one that I like much more than the Tumbler. If you take 40% 89 Batmobile and mix it with 60% Tumbler you get the Arkham Knight Batmobile.
I used to work at 6 Flags in Gurnee Illinois and they had a replica Michael Keaton Batmobile for the Batman ride there. He drove it off property one time to get Burger King.
I have a screen-used costume from Iron Man. I loaned a flight suit to a coworker who was an extra. I loaned it on condition that he wear my name patch, but the costume department wouldn't allow it. Should have had him get it autographed. I did get a few pics of the cars and private jet while on set though.
Put a heavy motor in the cyclotron, so it hums and has a gyroscopic feel to it, that would get you the tactile experience, and the lead batteries would give you the weight :D
@AdamSavagesTested You should go DARK with your Ghost Buster. Kind of a jaded Ghost Buster, that powers his equipment and weapons with ghosts and extra terrestrials. Soo.. Your proton pack would glow red and have demon souls trapped in it, and every time it is used it slowly dies and screams. You can make a hologram in a cylinder!
I thought you'd say the containment unit. Imagine the possibilities of fleshing that out, with the anti-chamber and the interior which we've only seen in the cartoon. I'd love to be a part of something like that.
Hi Adam, i don't own any Ghostbusters props although i had the chance to create new props for the upcoming Ghostbusters part 4, i wish i could describe what i made but can't until after it's out, it was a lot of fun i have to say making them.
I think you should combine something like a tesla coil with an infinity mirror for the proton pack. If you can pull it off, it would be WAY cooler than the blinking light sequence.
I would love to have John Milner's deuce coupe and the ECTO-1. Just down the road from where I grew up is the new DMC factory and I have even delivered some parts there. Amazing facility and the people that work there are very knowledgeable/ passionate about the DeLorean DMC-12.
Not really a prop, but If I was stupid rich I'd want the GB firehouse built on my property. Just such a cool set piece and it would be awesome being able to decorate it and fill it with all sorts of Easter Eggs. One of my favorite parts about the video game was getting to explore the firehouse in between the missions.
If only the actual firehouse used for the exterior shots in New York was like the set and it was converted into a Ghostbusters museum. Ecto-1 inside and all.
The lights on the back of the packs should be a lit window showing the fuel that moves like lava but in a blue color. Like how metallic paints look still in the can.
I think it should be a kind of swoosh red blur that goes in circle but much faster than the real prop. It shouldn't just be 1 2 3 4. It should look like it's rotating in there. Either that or random flickering/pulsing on all 4 at the same time. Also it should change when the proton wand is being fired.
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I love your videos and you are awsome!
Thanks Adam
Where the faq do you think cosmolene goes in a proton pack or particle accelerator? Is that just a word you heard today and wanted to use it somehow?
The other joke that the audience howled at was "He slimed me"
I never understood why that was so fucking hilarious but the audience LOVED IT!
In my experience, the key to finding lost objects is to replace them. Buy new, and the old one is guaranteed to instantly turn up.
It works! Several years ago, a friend loaned a Swiss Army knife when mine went into hiding. It showed up a few months later, and I could return the loaner to my friend. Okay, technically I didn't buy another one, but my knife didn't know that! 😁
It's funny cos its true
Unless it's that mf'n 10mm.
This is the only time I haven't seen Adam able to run off screen and immediately get the box he needed
Best joke in Ghostbusters:
"Listen! You smell something?"
My favorite line is "Where do these stairs go? They go up."
That line for me is the best comedy line ever. EVER
I knew that line was hilarious when I was like 8.
egon! your mucus
I collect spores moulds and fungus....
11 month later you made a stunning pack that thrilled Jason Reitman and the cast. you are awesome Adam !!
Hey Adam, you used the term "cyclotron" which is cool! I'm one of the original Ghostheads that started the DIY Proton Pack drawings and building, naming of the components (cyclotron) and research of the actual parts that were utilized in the original props for the GB community back in the early 90s. I was known as "Paranorman". I coined the term "Ghostheads" btw back in 1996. "Hey, man, let me tell you something. I love you." - Dr. Raymond “Ray” Stantz
It’s funny that you mentioned getting pizza with the Ecto-1. Because when I was a kid, there was a pizza restaurant that I lived near, the owner of which also had made a replica of it... and for a number of years, he used it to deliver pizza!
Sadly, though the restaurant still exists, the owner no longer uses his Ecto-1 for this. As the maintenance got to expensive.
I get good bumps at the last part you can tell Adam loves Ghostbusters and he really respects the fan base.
Thank you sir!
I'd be happy with something small from the movie. The Ecto-1 should suffice.
More realistically, I would be very happy with a ghost trap.
Some sort of way of incorporating Nixie tubes would be a cool way to light up the back.
Holy cow. I was 7, and I remember being in an Oversold theater with people sitting on the floor in the aisles to see that movie, and also cracking up at that line. So many good parts in that movie. Just this Thanksgiving I acted like I was going to yank the tablecloth off with dishes on it and said, "The flowers are still standing..."
I dressed as a Ghostbuster that fall for Halloween. My mom drew the logos and my last name on iron-on patches. Her and my dad made me a proton pack with painted cardboard box, a vacuum hose and some other bits pieces. The kids in school loved it. The older people who gave out the candy as I trick or treated thought I was a cable guy, a phone company guy, or the PSE&G guy. Good times!
Tell us more about the back to the future delorean your building.
Its most likely another model kit. :)
But I too would like to hear more about it.
I’d be happy with the toaster.
hehe complete with the little rod that pops out at the bottom that you can see when it dances!
If you could get the shell of a toaster you could make a set of spring loaded rods with an electric motor or servo that cams the rods back and let’s them go so they spring down and make the toaster pop about on a table
@@johnbeauvais3159
Make sure to put in a battery and a teensy or something that operates the jumping based on microphone input detecting musical beats.
What was also hilarious was Lenny slapping his buddy Mike after showing so much reverence when he entered the room.
I can’t wait to watch Adam build his proton pack. Having built 2 myself it would be fascinating to see how he goes about it.
Keep on Bustin’
Did he ever post the final product?
@@jsardone I think his is still a work in progress.
I remember going to opening night in a local theater in 1984. And yes: the crowd reaction was exactly the way Adam describes it.
(84 was an amazing year for movies besides Ghostbusters. Indiana Jones 2, Beverly Hills Cop, Karate Kid, Gremlins, Police Academy, Footloose, Star Trek 3, Top Secret, The last Starfighter, Buckaroo Banzai...I spent sooo much money of my allowance on movie tickets)
"Well that's what I heard!"
My favorite quote... "That's a big Twinkie"
"Tell him about the Twinkie."
"...what about the Twinkie?"
Please do a full build video (or series) on the proton pack? lol
"Til dickless over here...." LOL! My friends and I still laugh at that line!
OH! For the4 red lights on the cyclotron - How about a single strip of red LEDs that spin behind (under) the cover, pivot on the shock mount column but only one side is lit up so the pattern is a single "window" shows the sweeping lights at a time. It would look like a sweeping / accelerating glowing mechanism!
I just love the way you think, I am the same way . great job Adam. thanks for being you.
For my pack, I would want to feel movement of the pack when it powers up. Something spinning up and feel the hum though the body.
For the LED pattern: use meteor/dripping/falling rain LED strips, arranged in a star shape. That would resemble what I imagine the cyclotron...function...to look like.
you're telling me you build a time machine...Out of a DeLorean?!?
For proton pack lighting, what I thing of it using neopixels. Say, a cluster at each or the original locations then 1 or two that are in between each of those but hidden so you can't tell they are their when they are off. That way you can create the original look if you want it or you can create some really cool multi-hued spiraling / throbbing effects too. Since all the lights are individually addressable RGB, there is really no end to how you could make it look.
Great video! As to the 'cyclotron' lights on the Proton Pack, I've always wanted them to just pulsate brighter and dimmer while it is in rest mode and glow brightly when the Thrower is 'fired.' As to having an experience with the pack, I built a couple of them several years ago, and I put a small vibrating motor in the pack for when it was running, and a more powerful vibrating motor in the thrower to make it shake when fired. Ghostbusters is one of my top five favorite films of all time.
I can't wait to see your reimagined OG proton pack!
Adam, we also own a "Box" in our shop. All missing items like your knee and elbow pads, tools, etc. when they go A.W.O.L. are always in "The Box". It'll be a glorious day when I find "The Box" again!
Many years ago, back before the internet, when people didn't really have much reference on things like the proton pack, I saw a costume piece that someone had kitbashed for wearing at a sci-fi convention that had an interesting take on the cyclotron. Instead of a blinky light pattern, the lenses were clear, and inside, under red lighting, was a large rotating disc covered in reflective bits that spun like a record player, so that as it spun, and looking in through the lenses, you weren't entirely sure what you were looking at. You just got this felling of something swirling at great speed inside that glittered and shone with red light. Might be a good place to start thinking about your own "something else."
Florescent Yarn Strands, coming out of the nozzle, blown by a quiet high volume fan, to replicate the Zap energy rays...
The world definitely needs more fun, entertaining, quirky films like GB,
The dog suit John Candy wore would do me
I'm a Mog! Half man, half dog......I'm my own best friend.
I dont know if you have a podcast or where the content would be. Maybe I can just watch all the vids here. But I love hearing your favorite prop items from movies and if you would like to own them. When you geeked out on ur fav vehicles it was great seei g and hearing that love and passion in your voice. As a beginner builder and wish I had found my way into the prop Industry its always been enjoyable hearing from you vet's what you love and enjoy.
One of my favorite movie cars is more about looks than performance... The Bandit Trans Am
It's a nuclear accelerator (Unlicensed) so I assume the circular part is the accelerator portion. I'd use the same four circle setup, but have the on switch power a ring of LEDs that light in sequence in a circle, speeding up and getting brighter until the entire ring is lit and the four light dots are, instead of glowing yellow, just pulsing or glowing white. Shows the accelerator powering up and is somewhat interesting.
2020 was so, so bad - but Afterlife getting delayed until next year was like an actual physical blow to my heart. Cannot wait to finally see it after all this time - and I'm desperately hoping there will be a Tested set visit video!!!
did you like it josh?
@@samuelbasher1987 It made my heart sing.
If Adam wants to do a proton pack he should build the video game version. They are just badass.
Question for Adam:
When the Mythbusters team made the two idols that would deliver an electric current, which hurt more?
The physical pain of 8,000 volts coursing through your body, or the emotional pain of your friends and colleagues pushed you to try it unknowingly.
The lighting for the back of the proton pack. I think it'd be neat if it were just a red-orange glow, like you'd see from the inside of a kiln or volcano---just something to give the illusion of intense heat. Maybe even with some caging, like the kind they put over light bulbs or deep-sea helmets.
All the wall stuff from the Containment Unit (the lights, trap dock and pipes) on my wall ready to go
One of my earliest memories is seeing Ghostbusters in the cinema and the librarian ghost scaring the crap out of me, to be fair, I was 4 years old!!
I was the same age, and I loved every minute.
I think i was 9, my aunt worked in a theater, so it was basically my daycare. Ghostbusters, empire, blue thunder, conan, basically everything through 87-88 i saw in the theater. Formative experiences folks, lol.👍👍
No need to add caveat, for that was the point. To make you jump.
@@stephen300o6 no need to add that comment but you did.
thank you for continuing to spread the message of safe social interactions.
All I want is more ghostbusters content it's my favourite film by far
That hero Proton Pack was not lightweight, it was basically as heavy as gear a firefighter needs to carry.
my very first replica build was a proton pack. made it out of 1/8 inch thick styrene plastic, pvc pipes, and cast resin parts. the thing definitely has some weight to it.
I would definitely want the Ecto 1 as well. You could probably fit it out as a mobile makers unit.
From the title. This vid doesn't need to pass the 5 second mark. But I think we're all glad that it does.
He has a little cameo in Ghostbusters Afterlife wearing a Proton Pack he made, so now he has a "screen-used" prop
If I was making a Proton Pack, I would obsess over the charging whine. I'd put a real charging circuit in there. probably with like a 1.7 Farad automotive capacitor, just to get that sound right. I definitely grok everything he said about making it feel substantial, though.
I think Adam will be able to find that box again in the future (unless he threw it out xD). I bought a pop vinyl at least 6 years ago that meant a lot to me, but my family moved around so often that it got lost in a moving box somewhere. When we resettled I looked through all of the moving boxes we had left in the basement, but didn't find the figure. Really recently we somehow found it again, along with a few other random but memorable items I'd bought that were in the same box.
Damn it Adam! Now I'm more hyped for the after life!!!!!!!!!
I've heard that the Marx Brothers used to set up stage shows of their movie scripts and have assistants time the laughter so they knew how long of a pause to leave in the film version so the next joke wouldn't get buried in the previous laughter. And leaving pauses for audience reactions are often done since then as well. That's just the earliest attempts I've stumbled over.
And great horror filmmakers likewise have many times drawn out the punchline of jumpscares so that it hits just when the audience open their eyes again.
As films are increasingly becoming made for home consumption, I do fear that that kind of commitment to the stage show experience is becoming a lost art. Like how editors used to be trained to know how eyes worked so that they knew where people are looking when they cut to the next shot.
I really hope 2020 doesn't kill of the cinema experience.
That misplacing a box trick happened to me with a star wars blaster I was building and I know it would have been one of my best builds yet.. it burns a hole in my brain most days 😂
Favorite Movie of all time
Yes that was a very memorable jab I remember it well I was 16 as well back then.
To Adam on your Proton Pack....
Might I suggest that the first time a pack is turned on it sounds like it has a low level slight vibration to the pack.
From a tactile sense maybe yours should just have a slight vibration to it.
As far as favorite "regular" movie cars I'd have to think of that ridiculous yellow with tiger stripe interior 1963 Cadillac convertible from Scarface, along with that steely silverish grey 1980 Porsche 928 he bought to impress Elvira.
Thanks for the pick me up Adam👍
Welcome to Ghostbuster's Skunkworks. Go see the Workshop manager Adam, he's over there up to his elbows in Ecto1
If you are going to create a modified Proton Pack, why not source a second hand Inductively-Coupled Plasma atomic absorption spectrophotometer. They use RF heaters to create a tiny magentically-confined plasma, needing a lot of current but not particularly high voltage. The detector and electronics could be stripped to leave a shoe-box sized plasma chamber running (briefly) on an 48v car battery. You could keep the sample nebuliser assembly an get it to automatically inject different metal ions to change the emission colour of the plasma.
It'd be perfectly safe to carry on your back - for a highly specialised definition of the word "safe", which would add verisimiltude with the source material.
(Really, the plasma would be no more dangerous and much better confined than an ignited butane gas lighter and the electrics no more hazardous that a diesel engine's starter motor)
However, for the right 'feel' there needs to be a solid kick when the beam is ignited. Could this be simulated by a moving weight within the thrower wand which gets thrown forwards upon ignition while a slack elasticated cable running right through the plasma ducting from the wand is pulled taut by a mechahism in the backpack.
And, to replace the cyclotron 'blinky lights' - a desk fan surrounded by a ring of strobe LEDs using a live action "rolling shutter" effect to make the innards of the pack appear to warp as the power goes up.
Maybe a slow pulse for the cylcotron?
I think that it is safe to say that anytime you want to dress up for any video you are filming, we are more than happy to let you. first, because we are watching it after it has already been shot and edited so any argument we have is kinda moot. second, we like seeing you make and dress up in your various costumes so believe me when I say keep up the good work. third, you have a track record of being (mostly) safe in your work environment so that's on you.
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I can see where Adam is coming from when he says he wants to 'feel' that it is a proton pack. The way I look at it is this, you can purchase a close replica of a WW2 flame thrower and can use it when cosplaying with friends or your in a WW2 re-enactment group but to the person that's using it, it does not 'feel' like the real thing. When you go to military historical places that have the real thing and you strap it on, you know it's the 'real thing' and not a very good copy. This is what I believe Adam is wanting to achieve with his proton pack. He's wants to make it feel as 'real' as possible as though Ghostbusting is a real and full time job and that he's just been hired as a ghostbuster and is given a the tools of the trade, a proton pack. It needs to feel right (weight), it needs to look right and sound right.
Interesting choice. But for some reason, the first thing came to my mind is that I would want a bank of the card catalog from the library scene. It would be cool to have and a useful thing to store supplies in.
Happy Christmas Adam!
Rabid Prototypes easily makes the best proton pack electronics kit. I've got it in mine. I'd love to see if Adam could do everything the RP kit does but also change the sequence of the lights. I also think the lighting sequence is boring, so to be different, I have my lights going in the opposite direction like Venkman's is during the hotel scene.
Thank you Adam:-)
#Adamsavage Hey Adam ! you talked about how you like your proton pack to have feel and weight of the " real deal" and i can so relate to that I enjoy Cosplay and the one and only suit that i have is fallout related armor and i have a combat vest with aluminiumn sholderguard and bunch of punched metal sheets over as armor, my knee pads have aluminium covers and i use them while airsofting for that sweet sweet ware and tear, whole set with gasmasks and other gear it weigs around 20 kilos, i have done cons with it and i like it, its more authentic to me to go for real materials as for say foam and other such things, i made rocket pack from old high voltage connector parts they use on trains and single one weighs around 2 kilos they are solid metal with the female part acting as the caseing being about 500grams its made from aluminium and its spring tentioned to hold on to the connector, and I love it how it feels and looks like you would pop it in to a rocket launcher.
The wand would have to have gyroscopes (resisting motion). Like a thumping vibration in your hands with each revolution of the cyclotron, that resists motion. Increasing exponentially in hertz when fired. Then going back to the base level (power output selected). Obviously there would need to be a similar device in the pack.
Few people apart from Dane knew that the circular decals on the right of the proton wand bar graph are actually meant to display the chosen power output from empty circle (everything on but activate not hit so the cyclotron not activated), then going from quarter circle to full circle: full stream, like the Hasbro and Matty wands illustrate. (with a few negligible errors).
So few people have figured out what the propmakers of these GB props envisioned, while it is so obvious from the markings. That includes the knobs on the front of the ghost traps. They all have a logical function. (check the muon trap nrads post on GBfans.com)
The blinky light in the cyclotron would make sense if they are designating the correct function of all 4 magnetic coil quadrants in both the D's (hollow semicircular electrodes) in the cyclotron. But they would have to blink counterclockwise (the direction of the exit port, or the hose). In some scenes in GB1 this is correct as it is in GBA.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclotron
You can go full metal parts for a proton pack, but it will be super heavy. I made one out of styrene and it's "light" enough to con with, but heavy enough to feel substantial if you make an aluminium motherboard.
Remember to add speakers somewhere onto the proton pack or the wand itself so when you light it up, your audience can hear it over the OOOHs and AAAHs haha
I just watched a mini documentary on Ghostbusters last night. I didn't know a brewing rift at ILM, allowed for the split, that created the new special effects company who created all the effects for Ghostbusters!
Can’t wait till the next live build.
Get Bill Murray on a virtual "Talking Room" call!!! It would be SO GREAT!!!
Bill Murray was shot
And now to make you a little bit jealous Adam, even though I liked the film very much, I've only seen Ghost Busters twice (in 1985 on the same day) and in a few minutes, I'm going to see it again after 35 years. 'Real wrath of God type stuff!'
Exactly how I feel about plastic armor. Easier, lighter, and cheaper. But just not the same!
I know this is shaped by my sense of nostalgia, but the Tim Burton batmobile is genuinely the best of all the bat mobiles. Everything else is either silly or an un-elegant hammer. That’s the only one that makes sense to me.
It really is amazing. The turbine at the front and the exhaust at the back really make it look like a beast. It has wings but they are just the right size so they don't look ridiculous. The Batman Forever one is ridiculous. Any ceiling lower than 8 feet will rip that shark fin off. The Tumbler is an amazing vehicle but it doesn't feel like a Batmobile to me. If you take 60% 89 Batmobile and mix it with 40% Tumbler you get the BVS one that I like much more than the Tumbler. If you take 40% 89 Batmobile and mix it with 60% Tumbler you get the Arkham Knight Batmobile.
Hey Adam! Make the lights sweep. It should cycle and make it look like there is an arm in there moving the protons around.
Haptic feedback to run the sound files on a proton pack?
Proton pack has gotta at the very least make the, "power up" sound, that they back away from in the elevator.
I used to work at 6 Flags in Gurnee Illinois and they had a replica Michael Keaton Batmobile for the Batman ride there. He drove it off property one time to get Burger King.
I've lost stuff that way. Put stuff in a box and lost the box. I still miss them.
I have a screen-used costume from Iron Man. I loaned a flight suit to a coworker who was an extra. I loaned it on condition that he wear my name patch, but the costume department wouldn't allow it. Should have had him get it autographed. I did get a few pics of the cars and private jet while on set though.
I can put you in touch with a DeLorean expert as well as person who helps owners of DMC cars turn theirs into time machines.
Thanks for the awesomeness!
Put a heavy motor in the cyclotron, so it hums and has a gyroscopic feel to it, that would get you the tactile experience, and the lead batteries would give you the weight :D
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You should go DARK with your Ghost Buster.
Kind of a jaded Ghost Buster, that powers his equipment and weapons with ghosts and extra terrestrials. Soo.. Your proton pack would glow red and have demon souls trapped in it, and every time it is used it slowly dies and screams. You can make a hologram in a cylinder!
Ghostbusters 3 will always be the video game, and it'll always be a pretty good Ghostbusters Interactive Movie.
I thought you'd say the containment unit. Imagine the possibilities of fleshing that out, with the anti-chamber and the interior which we've only seen in the cartoon. I'd love to be a part of something like that.
Put a microwave inside and when it's done cooking it does the big red alarm light like when they shut down the containment unit.
Hi Adam, i don't own any Ghostbusters props although i had the chance to create new props for the upcoming Ghostbusters part 4, i wish i could describe what i made but can't until after it's out, it was a lot of fun i have to say making them.
Adam, I think the light pattern simply needs a longer fade between each blink (think Nightrider bar), instead of just on-off.
I think you should combine something like a tesla coil with an infinity mirror for the proton pack. If you can pull it off, it would be WAY cooler than the blinking light sequence.
I might have some original nycoil tubing and maybe some legris elbows left over from my build. Let me know if you need anything.
My two favorite vehicles in film are, like yours the BTF DeLorean and John Milner's piss yellow Deuce Coupe.
I would love to have John Milner's deuce coupe and the ECTO-1. Just down the road from where I grew up is the new DMC factory and I have even delivered some parts there. Amazing facility and the people that work there are very knowledgeable/ passionate about the DeLorean DMC-12.
Not really a prop, but If I was stupid rich I'd want the GB firehouse built on my property. Just such a cool set piece and it would be awesome being able to decorate it and fill it with all sorts of Easter Eggs. One of my favorite parts about the video game was getting to explore the firehouse in between the missions.
If only the actual firehouse used for the exterior shots in New York was like the set and it was converted into a Ghostbusters museum. Ecto-1 inside and all.
Add a sound device to make the start up sound and a gyroscope to give it a feel when you try to move it in some planes.
it's a no brainer...ECTO 1 !
I am, here comes the Replica Ghostbusters 2 Courtroom Scene Proton Pack... 😂
The lights on the back of the packs should be a lit window showing the fuel that moves like lava but in a blue color. Like how metallic paints look still in the can.
I think it should be a kind of swoosh red blur that goes in circle but much faster than the real prop. It shouldn't just be 1 2 3 4. It should look like it's rotating in there. Either that or random flickering/pulsing on all 4 at the same time. Also it should change when the proton wand is being fired.