I was brought in on the first movie, my parents was amazing with stuff that was scary and all for a kid my age. I was born in 85 but after I finally saw the movie the Real Ghostbusters was next then when two came out I saw it. I remember being a Ghostbuster for Halloween with the flight suit proton pack, pke meter and ghost trap!
I absolutely love this video to know that someone found ghostbusters through extreme ghostbusters is amazing as most people watched the movies or the real ghostbusters i was introduced to ghostbusters when i was about 3 and my mum turned on the TV half way through ghostbusters and i just fell in love with it and ever since its been a massive part of my life
Although I’m a huge Ghostbusters fan I never got to see Extreme Ghostbusters until recently, but when I was about 6, I saw “Ghostbusters” and it made me flip out, the way the story combined both scary and funny elements was pure magic to me, eventually I got to see “Ghostbusters 2” and I was once again in ectoplasmic heaven. I remember having many of the original Kenner figures from “The Real Ghostbusters” and also being a huge fan of the show. To this day “Ghostbusters” is one of my favorite and most beloved films and I really did enjoy the way you told your story, it made me very nostalgic about my own childhood and love for the franchise. Greetings from Mexico Stephen and all the very best! 👻
I've recently been watching Extreme Ghostbusters on TH-cam since I never saw it when it aired. And dang....they weren't messing around with the horror aspect in most of the episodes! And this was for kids!
I was the biggest RGB fan as a young kid, but spent several years wishing it was still on TV. By chance, I happened to find the first Extreme Ghostbusters episode. I was the happiest kid in the world every time that show aired a new episode. Now there are XGB episodes on TH-cam! What a time to be a Ghostbusters fan!
So, when I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, my grandmother on my dad's side had bought the 2 pack of Ghostbusters 1 and 2, the one with the green slime looking case, and I sat down one night with my mom and we watched it, I was hooked, I remember finding it kinda creepy but I was amazed, I had never seen anything else like it, and from that day forward I was a fan, I've bought plenty of merchandise, I even own every version of the 2009 videogame which I've played to completion on every version, and I now own a modified spirit Halloween pack and other accessories
Extreme was a really good sequel to Real that respected what had come before. Some great homages to horror movies as well. Very much like Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated.
Was born in 1991 so when I was old enough to remember toys, we already had a Kenner ecto 1 and a few of the Ghostbusters themselves. No proton packs, no accessories, ecto 1 was missing a door, the hook, and the gunner seat. A few years later I had gotten 2 extreme Ghostbusters figures for Christmas, Kylie, and the big slimer. Loved em! Even tho I never watched the show! I recently started watching them with my son. And I bought all the extreme Ghostbusters figures for my collection. I'll always remember that Christmas, so cool.
I found Ghostbusters through a collection of old vhs tapes my parents had. I saw the logo and was super interested as a 10 year old and I fell in love. It was a fun adventure that earned its place among the classics
I was 4 and watched the Real Ghostbusters religiously. Had every toy they made, also started collecting again this year with the Kenner Classic release
December 1984 my School class were taken to the cinema the week before we broke up for Christmas. We were taken to see Ghostbusters and that’s where my journey began…
Back in 1985 my dad rented Ghostbusters from the video/grocery store and fell in love. Right now I'm collecting both TMNT and Ghostbusters stuff. Got both the re-release of the real Ghostbusters and the plasma series Ghostbusters movie figures.
In 2007 (I was 5) on a trip to best buy, on an otherwise uneventful day my older brother who was 13 at the time picks up the back to the future DVD trilogy set with holographic covers and then grabbed both Ghostbusters movies and that night i went home and watched BTTF 1&2 and the BTTF 3 the next day and the Ghostbusters movies after that. At the time i thought these movies were new so after watching them i annoyed my parents about when i went to school and talked of these movies that no one else my age had seen it confused them and i was instantly known for it. it also annoyed my teachers too because when i got bored i just started drawing Deloreans and Ecto-1s. Anyway thank you for reading and i loved the video.
Amazing Video Stephen! I saw the original movie on a re run around Halloween and was hooked. From 10 to 100 I’ll be a Ghostbuster for ever 👻. Keep up the great work and content and happy Ghostbusters Day 🚫
There's something to be said on discovering franchises like this gradually. If you'd first discovered Ghostbusters now, you could have binged everything in a couple of weeks on Netflix and possibly would have got bored with it.
Not sure why, but I like the fact this is how you came to the GB franchise! By this time, I was at university and never saw this series except in magazines like ToyFare. I felt this was a pure example of an 80s property being revamped with 90s ideas of everything needing to be "extreme". With that said, it is cool this took you down the rabbit hole. I had most of the figures from the 80s line but I never got Ecto1.
What I'm enjoying as a Ghostbusters fan of 34 years old is that I, although somehow at the exact right age for Extreme GB, I never got into it at the time, I am now just watching EGB and enjoying. I think Pokemon was just starting to take over everything back then so i missed it, I did however start many years prior and had a good collection of RGB toys in the early 90s including the firehouse. Just recently bought Kenner Ecto 1 reissue again after trading mine with a friend when I was about 14/15 for something I can't even remember what.
I've been on a Ghostbusters nostalgia trip recently and have been rediscovering Extreme Ghostbusters as it came out when I was a child. I also had some of the toys which included Kylie (my favorite), Egon, Eduardo, and the Ecto-1. I vaguely remember having the same issue with the fin on the side of the car. The spring-loaded bumper was stupid but I loved the ghost trap because I considered it to be my own personal ghost trap asit was way big in terms of scale from what the characters would actually use. I watched some old episodes and discovered that the different pack that the toy of Roland is in a small way accurate. The color is off and minor differences aside, in the last frames of the end of the intro theme where the team and Slimer pose together, Roland stands behind a device that has shoulder straps too it but doesn't look like a typical proton pack but more like what you end up seeing in the toys of Roland and Egon. I can't recall if such device is ever used in the show but its interesting how it has been in our face the whole time. Its funny that I would never have discovered this had I not watched this video and some episodes of Extreme Ghostbusters. Thanks for the nostalgia trip!
Awesome childhood story..... I remembered that 1st introduced me to the ghostbusters when I was a kid, were the RGB episode 'Mrs Roger's Neighborhood'... And it scared me the heck when Venkman were possesed by 'what', showed his evil scary face... So I stopped and say myself never to watch that cartoon show again... Then when my mom brought me to the mall, I saw the shelfs of RGB toys, it got me hooked to it to see how cool the toys is, then my mom bought me the vhs tape on RGB episode 'doctor doctor' and 'ain't NASA sarily so', and I'm loving those episodes alot... So I began my love on Ghostbusters franchises....
My introduction to Ghostbusters was in 1998 when I was 2 years old I was at my cousins house and they both had Extreme Ghostbusters Ecto 1s and I fell in love with the car, I was then introduced to the cartoon and my mum got me a Deluxe Kylie and Eduardo figure from Tesco, that Christmas I got the best present I ever got which was the Extreme Ecto 1 and my obsession and love with Ghostbusters just kept growing
You are a TRUE GHOSTBUSTERS Fan my friend. Really dig your story on how your interest in GHOSTBUSTERS started, kinda from the End of the Franchise to the Begining . I myself like many others my 1st intro to the GHOSTBUSTERS was the 1984 movie , then the Real GHOSTBUSTERS. As a kid ,i always asked my parents to call the Toy company (kenner) to make toys based on the live action movie 😂. Glad to see ur love for our boys in grey is still going . Dr Ray Stantz would be proud of you .
I first became aware of Ghostbusters about when the 2009 video game came out. I was six at the time, so I obviously couldn't play it, but I saw GB merch at Toys R Us, saw an infomercial for the Time Life box set for Real Ghostbusters, & heard the theme song at my gym class. I couldn't understand a word they were saying other than "Ghostbusters" but I really liked the sound of it & would ask the teachers to play it frequently. Around 2012, I got a copy of Men in Black 2 on dvd, & it had a trailer for the dvd of Ghostbusters, I watched it, & I knew I wanted to see it. Sometime after, I asked my folks to order it off of Amazon, I got it & immediately fell in love with it. For my birthday around the same time, my grandparents got me the Mattel Real Ghostbusters Retro Action figures of Peter, Ray, & Egon, the RGB Minimates sets of the 4 busters, & a glow in the dark Stay Puft Marshmallow Man bank.
My story is at 2-3 in 1988/89 I remember watching the Real Ghostbusters first run and when I was 5 I saw the second film at a budget cinema. Honestly I have a very soft spot for the second film as it was the first one I saw as I didn't see GB 1 on tv till 1991. Ironically my 7th birthday was the airing of the last RGB episode. Now I have my suit, pack and a lifelong love.
As a kid, I loved everything Ghostbusters. I was still a kid when the original TRGB came out and I had every toy they ever put out. I feel your pain with the 2 left wings. I had a similar issue one Xmas morning when I was gifted the Ecto & Firehouse. My Firehouse came with 2 left doors and on top of that I didn't know the HQ came with Ecto Plasm because my parents must have known it was going to make a mess so it was left out.
I discovered Ghostbusters when I was 7 at Universal Studios in Orlando. The Spooktacular show sparked my interest and made me want to watch the movies. My movie rental store only had the 2nd movie, so I actually saw it before the original. Lol. I also saw Extreme Ghostbusters before the Real Ghostbusters.
Wow Stephen, that’s an awesome story, appreciate you sharing. My first experience with Ghostbusters was from playing the game on my Commodore 64 off an old actually floppy, floppy disk not the “newer” hard plastic floppy disks but the big actually floppy ones lol good times. Still have it and it still works.
Love your story on how you got your toys. I have a similar story. I was Lucky, I was able to get the proton pack when I visited my aunt in Delaware. I was one of the guys who was Lucky to se TRG cartoon when they were airing and saw all of the movies. I even saw GB 2 in theaters. To the proton pack I taped some silly string and that was my rays. Good old times. Great story.
Ma story was one day I went to the Cinema and saw a Trailer for the 2016 version when I got home I recognized the logo decided to look it up I saw pictures of Peter’s famous he slimed me scene and I was instantly hooked! a couple of months went by and I eventually bought the first movie on Dvd at Walmart and then it just started from there
We watched the same first showing except I was 15/16 so I’d already been a fan of the show and movies … all I could think was holy shit ghostbusters are back
Ha, get on my level. I was there from the start when my mum took me to the cinema to see the original film in 1984 as a reward for being a good boy at the dentists and not crying when I had to have a tooth out. I was 28
I used to watch The Real Ghostbusters all the time on Fox Kids and didn't really think much of it compared to other shows like Spider-Man or X-Men. Then one day, I was going through the Sky Movies channels and found a film simply titled "Ghostbusters" was coming on. I watched it and the rest is history.
I don't remember how I discovered The Ghostbusters. I was 10 when the movie was in theaters. I do know it was the first soundtrack I bought on tape. I didn't have any Ghostbusters toys, so I just used my imagination. My buddy and I found a couple of old vacuum cleaners in a barn behind his house & we strapped them to our backs to combat ghosts around the barn.
Ah, this is really adorable I don’t think my heart can take it. I remember the first movie appearing on tv about 7ish years ago when I was about 11 and I was so fascinated by how they choose not only normal human ghosts but also weird looking creatures and was kind of hooked. I got really hooked a few years later when LEGO released an ideas set of the car with the four ghostbusters and then their firehouse hq a while later, and while I never got the hq, I love the look of the car and can’t wait for the 2020 movie, especially when the reboot in 2016 was kind of a let down. (Although I’ll argue that that teaser trailer music was good as well as holtzman’s fight scene)
Damn were the same age. I however watched the first film at five, then saw the real ghostbusters. I remember the toys for this didnt know their was a show until a few years later. I still love this show to this day. I hope and wish they could make The Extreme Ghostbusters toys. Give them good detail like the current Ghostbusters figures. Awesome video mate 👍👍👍
I got into ghostbusters because I really wanted the Lego ideas set because it looked so cool! So I watched the movies to justify it and ended up really enjoying it and since then I’ve collected all the Real Ghostbusters annuals from the 90s which are my favourite part of the franchise
I cant remember how old i was but my mom would put films on while she did house work to shut me up so she put ghostbuster on thinking it would put me to sleep for as she said "its an old film" she was really annoyed when i enjoyed it and asked if there was another film so she put the second one on and she's regretted it since
How I got into ghostbusters: my dad tried to get me to watch the movies a couple times on Halloween in kindergarten. I was not interested. And was scared of stay puft. My mom told me “he is just looking for a friend” that made me happy as I watched the rest of the movie. I was not even sad because I thought that if stay puft was real, id eat him?!? Then I got a ghostbusters costume the next year and the rest is history
Dude my sister introduced me to GB at 12 or 13 years old I'm not even an 80s kid, then after that I got into figure collecting and believing it or not I actually started to collect vintage figures and not figures that were out on the market so I saw the real GB toy commercial and I was hooked, but the cool thing about it is that my mother told me that my brother was into GB when he was a kid, and destiny then struck, my mom had an egon and ray figure for when my brother was a kid preserved in her drawer it was a cool way to get introduced to GB and I like still to this day with extreme ghostbusters being my favorite because it came out on the year I was born how cool is that?!
I was never actually a huge ghostbusters fan, but I do remember going ape for the sequel so much so that one of my earliest memories is sulking in my parents' garage because they wouldn't give me more money to rent it on VHS for like sixth time and I was like five or six years old then xd
Happy GB day mate. Being a total Ghosthead already I used to book it home from secondary school to make sure I didn’t miss EGB. My story starts at the age of 3/4 my sister had the theme on 7” and I would get her to play it over and over. Eventually she rented the film and put it on for me, I was scared shitless! Soon after I found RGB being shown on Saturday mornings and my neighbour across the street the the toy of Peter and Stay Puft which I would always find an excuse to play with them. I ended up get a few of the toys for birthdays and Christmas’ but the line was coming to an end so it was getting harder to find ones I needed. I will always remember getting home from school and finding the fire house sitting in the middle of the living room floor with my Ecto-1 packed inside. I think my little brain must have melted when I saw the poster for GB2 at a bus stop as I demanded to see it there and then, lol. Again I had to wait to rent the vhs, my dad made a copy which I played to death any chance I got.
I think i got my first Peter figure somewhere in 1988 or something, and i lost it when i took it to school and threw it in the air and got stuck in the roof of my class... I remember also owning a Slimer that spit ecto-slime and had some sort of proton pack in the back, also had two different Egons (one in red/white suit that would spin his torso and a second firue with a white space suit with some ghostly alien hands holding his head), 1 Ray figure that his hair and ear pop up when pushing his arm (which got broke when i drop it from a table), the Ghost Toilet and one peter figure that had a yellow hasmat suit. In late 2018 I won a bid of the four first basic Real GB figures plus Janine in purple Flight suit all in very good condition, but without any accesories. Also, During a visit to Brownsville Tx in 2016 i bought a Mattel Peter and then ordered Egon and Ray through a similar site ebay in Mexico. Recently i ordered the Ecto-1 from Afterlife Fright Features, Winston and Trevor from Plasma Series and waiting for Phoebe to pop up in both Fright and Plasma series on Amazon. I never owned any proton or neutrona wand or even the Ecto-1 or Firehouse, i mostly had figures. Ghostbusters ranks second in my top 3 all time fav franchises, TMNT would be first and Jurassic Park third Place.
So I have known about Ghostbusters for all my life just from general pop culture but I haven't really gotten into Ghostbusters until... a year ago... Yep sometime during the May of 2020 I got into Ghostbusters. Long story short I rewatched the Ghostbusters afterlife trailer while I was bored. I thought the concept intriguing about the idea of ghosts being held in stasis rather than me originally thinking that it was just a cowboy style shoot'em up show... don't ask me how I thought of that. But after watching that I decided to see if I could find clips of the original film and that is when I found a compilation of the best of Egon... and the scene inside the elevator got me HOOKED. Ever since I have hyper fixated onto the franchise watching the films, buying the props, learning about the extended media, ect.
I'm old enough that for my 4th birthday I had a legit ghostbusters 2 party with the thermos and balloons from gb2. Sadly the pack of extra gb2 napkins got destroyed last year in a hurricane
I got first learned about ghostbusters when I was about 4 or 5 years old and my dad showed me the first movie, then about christmas time I watched the second movie, coincidentally around the same time the movie time was set in and then it was about until I was 6 or 7 I got into the real ghostbusters TV show series. I never knew about the extreme ghostbusters until about a year or two ago
I remember when I first watched this show, I was confused. I think I remember seeing it and wondering, "Uhhhhh..." Yeah, I was born in '85 so I had a much more clear idea of what Ghostbusters was back then. Seeing this I was not sure what to think. Of course, now, I accept it as what _should_ have happened with the franchise. I think this was some kind of market test seeing idiots in Hollywood promised Aykroyd something, used this as a test bed, sabotaged it because they didn't want to foot the bill for another movie, and then cancelled this show. its an odd chapter in Ghostbusters history, but seeing where it was going from there...
I got into ghost busters when one day I turned on the TV so I could watch the simpsons, then i dropped the remote and it switched the channel and it was playing the og ghost buster movie at the beginning
It's clear the toy developers never actually watched an episode or cared about the series at all. They were just throwing the craziest ideas to the wall (because "Extreme") hoping they'd stick 🤣 The proton gun w/ a voice speed setting & a talking pack? Whew, what a mess! I'm an RGB head & remember when Extreme "premiered," I guess. My family had satellite instead of cable, so there were test channels networks would run their programming blocks on before they actually aired to the masses. Coolest thing ever as I got to watch the entire Fox Kids lineup with no commercials at 2:00AM instead of 8:00AM! There was a channel that ran a number of episodes of Extreme on Saturdays around 6:00PM - 7:30PM Anyway, to this day, I have no idea what network Extreme actually ran on & from my understanding, that's what ultimately killed the show is the weird time slot scheduling issues. Did the Extreme toyline ever have those Play-Doh style buckets of ectoplasm? Great video btw! 👌🏿
6:23 I think i remember this, Any info about the Ecto 1 give away. I want to know who won it thought. Looks like somethong similar happen in dosney whoch was like already in mod 2000 once aor in there besides Cartoon Network where i saw Extreme ghostBusters along with Men in black the series and Godzilla the series which was made by the same ppl.
I got in to Ghostbusters because it was one of the first movies I watched with her and shows me oven new and old can like some stuff to get her and its so cool😎
I got into ghostbusters do to my great uncle showing me the 1st and second one at the age of 2 and wanting the ghost and ending up years later getting 2 collectors banks of staypuft and glow in the dark slimer and getting a ghost popper reissue from Walmart and real ghostbusters pke meter from a yard sale and dressed up in a suit with a inflatable proton pack sadly that thing popped the ghost popper replaced that and im thinking of getting a proton pack replica someday great video
Hey, I'm late to the party as I've only just come across this video 😮. I think it was Christmas 1986 I first see the movie on TV and I immediately got blown away, it was so iconic the ecto 1 the proton packs it was immediately one of my favourite films. My mum had a pull along vacuum that I strapped to my back for a proton pack... not long after seeing the film we were treated to the real ghostbusters every Saturday morning and with the cartoon come the toys and of course the holy grail the kenner proton pack. GB2 hit the cinema in 1989 and we had 2 more years of the real ghostbusters which I no longer enjoyed as it was slimer and the real ghostbusters, they toned down the scary content and centered it too much around slimer. I don't know how I missed extreme ghostbusters when it aired on tv, but somehow I did. The 2 films I would regularly watch over the coming years, and finally 2.5 years ago I finally came across a kit to build my own proton pack. It was a rush to build it and have the full outfit ready for afterlife which with 4 other people we have started our own franchise, but that's another story as its been a mental time and we have everything from dancing toasters to containment unit. Keep on bustin mate 👌
I had spent the night with my aunt and uncle, and they had the original movie rented. I fell in love then and there. My aunt had a friend rig two vcrs together (illegal) to make me a copy because at the time the vcr was sort of a new thing and you had no record button. I watched it literally every day. I was lucky enough to be almost 10 yrs older than you so i got to see the Real Ghostbusters in real time and the 2nd movie was the 1st movie i ever saw in a theatre. My mom was a cheapskate so i had few toys from the trilogy but i do remember making my own proton packs and stuff. I discovered the Extreme Ghostbusters when i was in high school and driving age and so on. I tried watching it but i hated it. Now ffwd my teenage daughter loves the whole thing. I bought her the entire series of the real ghostbusters. I have both of the 1st two movies and i hate the 2016 remake. We went to the theatre and saw afterlife and it was awesome! We all loved it and can't wait for it to be out on dvd. I had a lump in my throat at the theatre at the climax toward the end seeing the originals together again and the ghost of Egon standing beside them. I hope they continue with new movies as good as that one was. That's my story and i liked yours. I'm glad a guy from a little bit younger generation discovered it and got so hooked.
5 years old watching robocop and terminator my old man put ghostbusters on vhs I still remember the first time seeing the librarian ghost jump-start the screen I s***t myself yet I would watch the film over and over to the point where the wear marks would show on the vhs playing now in my 30's family of my own I sit and watch the origional 2 and the new film with my kids
Enjoyed your video 😊👍 subbed 🙂👍☺️ how I got into Ghostbusters 👻 well it goes back to the original film there was TV show on itv back when we had afternoon childrens programs they was was having a competition to win a Ghostbusters arcade machine this would be for the 1984 video game and thay showed a clip from the film the clip was Peter getting slimmed I hadn't even seen the film and I was sold sadly there was no toys I still have my original photo book from the film from that year
Yep. Now you know how the fans feel lol. Except for me it was the real Ghostbusters then I seen the movies lol. My first figure was real Ghostbusters ray. Didn't even know about the movie or cartoon lol
Extreme Ghostbuster was very grounded dark and environment creepy ad love every aspect of it and yea Extreme Ghostbuster ecto 1 got to be my favorite one. I did saw other custom concept of the Extreme Ghostbusters on what they usually wear in tere progress of work but the garret fogure was more clpse to the prototype that was unrelease whoch does exist difer if you had not know yet. Also Ghostbuster Afterlife is a bit inspired base on Extreme Ghostbuster so expect forward on
I want to be like Larry. Larry ... lol Sponge bob .. lol ... anyways I got into Ghostbusters from the first movie, even tho the terror dogs scared the crap out of me at first, and now i think they need to do a George Lucas up date on the terror dogs .. lol and yes i loved the real Ghostbusters as a kid apparently i must be a few yrs older than you.. lol but of course i was about 5 and it was about 1988 before the 2nd movie came out and i loved everything about it.
Hey there I was wondering where you found the clip at 6:20? If you still have the file I'd like to upload the clip myself to my channel I upload clips just like this from the Danielle Nicholls and Stephen Mulhern era of CITV. If you're able to send me an email at queenofVHS@gmail.com or DM me on Twitter @QueenofVHS_97 to discuss me allowing to upload the individual clip to my channel where I'll give you credit for the video file then that would definitely be awesome! Thanks so much and you have great content
OMG, I made those Extreme GB customs, I'm so happy they went to a full on collector and one that loves XGB as much as I do.
Please like and share the video if you enjoyed this look back at my childhood!
I was brought in on the first movie, my parents was amazing with stuff that was scary and all for a kid my age. I was born in 85 but after I finally saw the movie the Real Ghostbusters was next then when two came out I saw it. I remember being a Ghostbuster for Halloween with the flight suit proton pack, pke meter and ghost trap!
Thanks friend and remember the future Is what you make of it as doc brown says . GREAT SCOTT
I absolutely love this video to know that someone found ghostbusters through extreme ghostbusters is amazing as most people watched the movies or the real ghostbusters i was introduced to ghostbusters when i was about 3 and my mum turned on the TV half way through ghostbusters and i just fell in love with it and ever since its been a massive part of my life
Although I’m a huge Ghostbusters fan I never got to see Extreme Ghostbusters until recently, but when I was about 6, I saw “Ghostbusters” and it made me flip out, the way the story combined both scary and funny elements was pure magic to me, eventually I got to see “Ghostbusters 2” and I was once again in ectoplasmic heaven. I remember having many of the original Kenner figures from “The Real Ghostbusters” and also being a huge fan of the show.
To this day “Ghostbusters” is one of my favorite and most beloved films and I really did enjoy the way you told your story, it made me very nostalgic about my own childhood and love for the franchise.
Greetings from Mexico Stephen and all the very best! 👻
I've recently been watching Extreme Ghostbusters on TH-cam since I never saw it when it aired. And dang....they weren't messing around with the horror aspect in most of the episodes! And this was for kids!
"Happy as Larry, whoever he is."
His name is Brian Richardson and he is a granky shit of a brother of mine
I was the biggest RGB fan as a young kid, but spent several years wishing it was still on TV. By chance, I happened to find the first Extreme Ghostbusters episode. I was the happiest kid in the world every time that show aired a new episode. Now there are XGB episodes on TH-cam! What a time to be a Ghostbusters fan!
So, when I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, my grandmother on my dad's side had bought the 2 pack of Ghostbusters 1 and 2, the one with the green slime looking case, and I sat down one night with my mom and we watched it, I was hooked, I remember finding it kinda creepy but I was amazed, I had never seen anything else like it, and from that day forward I was a fan, I've bought plenty of merchandise, I even own every version of the 2009 videogame which I've played to completion on every version, and I now own a modified spirit Halloween pack and other accessories
Extreme was a really good sequel to Real that respected what had come before. Some great homages to horror movies as well. Very much like Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated.
Indeed
Ghostbusters 2 was my introduction to the greatest movies and toys ever made. Yes I watched 2 before the first movie lol
Was born in 1991 so when I was old enough to remember toys, we already had a Kenner ecto 1 and a few of the Ghostbusters themselves. No proton packs, no accessories, ecto 1 was missing a door, the hook, and the gunner seat. A few years later I had gotten 2 extreme Ghostbusters figures for Christmas, Kylie, and the big slimer. Loved em! Even tho I never watched the show! I recently started watching them with my son. And I bought all the extreme Ghostbusters figures for my collection. I'll always remember that Christmas, so cool.
I found Ghostbusters through a collection of old vhs tapes my parents had. I saw the logo and was super interested as a 10 year old and I fell in love. It was a fun adventure that earned its place among the classics
I like how you made the best of everything despite many shortcomings.
I was lucky enough to have been little in the 80s, so liking the Ghostbusters was inevitable.
I was 4 and watched the Real Ghostbusters religiously. Had every toy they made, also started collecting again this year with the Kenner Classic release
December 1984 my School class were taken to the cinema the week before we broke up for Christmas. We were taken to see Ghostbusters and that’s where my journey began…
Extreme was also my intro to the franchise. I loved it!
Back in 1985 my dad rented Ghostbusters from the video/grocery store and fell in love. Right now I'm collecting both TMNT and Ghostbusters stuff. Got both the re-release of the real Ghostbusters and the plasma series Ghostbusters movie figures.
In 2007 (I was 5) on a trip to best buy, on an otherwise uneventful day my older brother who was 13 at the time picks up the back to the future DVD trilogy set with holographic covers and then grabbed both Ghostbusters movies and that night i went home and watched BTTF 1&2 and the BTTF 3 the next day and the Ghostbusters movies after that. At the time i thought these movies were new so after watching them i annoyed my parents about when i went to school and talked of these movies that no one else my age had seen it confused them and i was instantly known for it. it also annoyed my teachers too because when i got bored i just started drawing Deloreans and Ecto-1s. Anyway thank you for reading and i loved the video.
Amazing Video Stephen! I saw the original movie on a re run around Halloween and was hooked. From 10 to 100 I’ll be a Ghostbuster for ever 👻. Keep up the great work and content and happy Ghostbusters Day 🚫
It's a 2yr old video, but the feels are always ever lasting. Pure love for the GBs, EGBs and RGBs 💙👻🚫
There's something to be said on discovering franchises like this gradually. If you'd first discovered Ghostbusters now, you could have binged everything in a couple of weeks on Netflix and possibly would have got bored with it.
Not sure why, but I like the fact this is how you came to the GB franchise! By this time, I was at university and never saw this series except in magazines like ToyFare. I felt this was a pure example of an 80s property being revamped with 90s ideas of everything needing to be "extreme". With that said, it is cool this took you down the rabbit hole. I had most of the figures from the 80s line but I never got Ecto1.
What I'm enjoying as a Ghostbusters fan of 34 years old is that I, although somehow at the exact right age for Extreme GB, I never got into it at the time, I am now just watching EGB and enjoying. I think Pokemon was just starting to take over everything back then so i missed it, I did however start many years prior and had a good collection of RGB toys in the early 90s including the firehouse. Just recently bought Kenner Ecto 1 reissue again after trading mine with a friend when I was about 14/15 for something I can't even remember what.
I've been on a Ghostbusters nostalgia trip recently and have been rediscovering Extreme Ghostbusters as it came out when I was a child. I also had some of the toys which included Kylie (my favorite), Egon, Eduardo, and the Ecto-1. I vaguely remember having the same issue with the fin on the side of the car. The spring-loaded bumper was stupid but I loved the ghost trap because I considered it to be my own personal ghost trap asit was way big in terms of scale from what the characters would actually use.
I watched some old episodes and discovered that the different pack that the toy of Roland is in a small way accurate. The color is off and minor differences aside, in the last frames of the end of the intro theme where the team and Slimer pose together, Roland stands behind a device that has shoulder straps too it but doesn't look like a typical proton pack but more like what you end up seeing in the toys of Roland and Egon. I can't recall if such device is ever used in the show but its interesting how it has been in our face the whole time.
Its funny that I would never have discovered this had I not watched this video and some episodes of Extreme Ghostbusters. Thanks for the nostalgia trip!
Awesome childhood story..... I remembered that 1st introduced me to the ghostbusters when I was a kid, were the RGB episode 'Mrs Roger's Neighborhood'... And it scared me the heck when Venkman were possesed by 'what', showed his evil scary face... So I stopped and say myself never to watch that cartoon show again... Then when my mom brought me to the mall, I saw the shelfs of RGB toys, it got me hooked to it to see how cool the toys is, then my mom bought me the vhs tape on RGB episode 'doctor doctor' and 'ain't NASA sarily so', and I'm loving those episodes alot... So I began my love on Ghostbusters franchises....
Steven's mom: "STEVEN"!
Steven: "What did I break"!?!?
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As a 80's / 90's kid, I know the feeling. You never forget.
You've made an excellent video. Well done!
My introduction to Ghostbusters was in 1998 when I was 2 years old I was at my cousins house and they both had Extreme Ghostbusters Ecto 1s and I fell in love with the car, I was then introduced to the cartoon and my mum got me a Deluxe Kylie and Eduardo figure from Tesco, that Christmas I got the best present I ever got which was the Extreme Ecto 1 and my obsession and love with Ghostbusters just kept growing
Love these retrospective, almost documentary, videos. Keep it up!
You are a TRUE GHOSTBUSTERS Fan my friend. Really dig your story on how your interest in GHOSTBUSTERS started, kinda from the End of the Franchise to the Begining . I myself like many others my 1st intro to the GHOSTBUSTERS was the 1984 movie , then the Real GHOSTBUSTERS. As a kid ,i always asked my parents to call the Toy company (kenner) to make toys based on the live action movie 😂. Glad to see ur love for our boys in grey is still going . Dr Ray Stantz would be proud of you .
He murdered his wife and unborn child and tried to cover it with a fake livestream. He's a trash human being and disgrace to Ghostbusters culture.
I first became aware of Ghostbusters about when the 2009 video game came out.
I was six at the time, so I obviously couldn't play it, but I saw GB merch at Toys R Us, saw an infomercial for the Time Life box set for Real Ghostbusters, & heard the theme song at my gym class.
I couldn't understand a word they were saying other than "Ghostbusters" but I really liked the sound of it & would ask the teachers to play it frequently.
Around 2012, I got a copy of Men in Black 2 on dvd, & it had a trailer for the dvd of Ghostbusters, I watched it, & I knew I wanted to see it.
Sometime after, I asked my folks to order it off of Amazon, I got it & immediately fell in love with it.
For my birthday around the same time, my grandparents got me the Mattel Real Ghostbusters Retro Action figures of Peter, Ray, & Egon, the RGB Minimates sets of the 4 busters, & a glow in the dark Stay Puft Marshmallow Man bank.
My story is at 2-3 in 1988/89 I remember watching the Real Ghostbusters first run and when I was 5 I saw the second film at a budget cinema. Honestly I have a very soft spot for the second film as it was the first one I saw as I didn't see GB 1 on tv till 1991. Ironically my 7th birthday was the airing of the last RGB episode. Now I have my suit, pack and a lifelong love.
As a kid, I loved everything Ghostbusters. I was still a kid when the original TRGB came out and I had every toy they ever put out. I feel your pain with the 2 left wings. I had a similar issue one Xmas morning when I was gifted the Ecto & Firehouse. My Firehouse came with 2 left doors and on top of that I didn't know the HQ came with Ecto Plasm because my parents must have known it was going to make a mess so it was left out.
Someone needs to submit The Real Ghostbusters & The Extreme Ghostbusters sets to Lego Ideas. These sets need to exist!
I discovered Ghostbusters when I was 7 at Universal Studios in Orlando. The Spooktacular show sparked my interest and made me want to watch the movies. My movie rental store only had the 2nd movie, so I actually saw it before the original. Lol. I also saw Extreme Ghostbusters before the Real Ghostbusters.
Wow Stephen, that’s an awesome story, appreciate you sharing. My first experience with Ghostbusters was from playing the game on my Commodore 64 off an old actually floppy, floppy disk not the “newer” hard plastic floppy disks but the big actually floppy ones lol good times. Still have it and it still works.
Love your story on how you got your toys. I have a similar story. I was Lucky, I was able to get the proton pack when I visited my aunt in Delaware. I was one of the guys who was Lucky to se TRG cartoon when they were airing and saw all of the movies. I even saw GB 2 in theaters. To the proton pack I taped some silly string and that was my rays. Good old times. Great story.
Great video my man
Ma story was one day I went to the Cinema and saw a Trailer for the 2016 version when I got home I recognized the logo decided to look it up I saw pictures of Peter’s famous he slimed me scene and I was instantly hooked! a couple of months went by and I eventually bought the first movie on Dvd at Walmart and then it just started from there
Thanks👌 Great video
Ghostbusters will always be a Classics movie, and toys and Cartoon
Great video Stephen, can we have more videos like this please! 🤞
We watched the same first showing except I was 15/16 so I’d already been a fan of the show and movies … all I could think was holy shit ghostbusters are back
Cool video.. liked and shared.
It really does puzzle me to why this channel does not have more subscribers.🤷♂️
Your content is great.
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Ha, get on my level. I was there from the start when my mum took me to the cinema to see the original film in 1984 as a reward for being a good boy at the dentists and not crying when I had to have a tooth out.
I was 28
That sound after the police siren was my fav. I used to rap to that sound lol
My Ghostbusters story is that I found the Original movie on TV and watched it.
I used to watch The Real Ghostbusters all the time on Fox Kids and didn't really think much of it compared to other shows like Spider-Man or X-Men. Then one day, I was going through the Sky Movies channels and found a film simply titled "Ghostbusters" was coming on. I watched it and the rest is history.
I don't remember how I discovered The Ghostbusters. I was 10 when the movie was in theaters. I do know it was the first soundtrack I bought on tape.
I didn't have any Ghostbusters toys, so I just used my imagination.
My buddy and I found a couple of old vacuum cleaners in a barn behind his house & we strapped them to our backs to combat ghosts around the barn.
Ah, this is really adorable I don’t think my heart can take it.
I remember the first movie appearing on tv about 7ish years ago when I was about 11 and I was so fascinated by how they choose not only normal human ghosts but also weird looking creatures and was kind of hooked. I got really hooked a few years later when LEGO released an ideas set of the car with the four ghostbusters and then their firehouse hq a while later, and while I never got the hq, I love the look of the car and can’t wait for the 2020 movie, especially when the reboot in 2016 was kind of a let down. (Although I’ll argue that that teaser trailer music was good as well as holtzman’s fight scene)
Damn were the same age. I however watched the first film at five, then saw the real ghostbusters. I remember the toys for this didnt know their was a show until a few years later. I still love this show to this day. I hope and wish they could make The Extreme Ghostbusters toys. Give them good detail like the current Ghostbusters figures. Awesome video mate 👍👍👍
I got into ghostbusters because I really wanted the Lego ideas set because it looked so cool! So I watched the movies to justify it and ended up really enjoying it and since then I’ve collected all the Real Ghostbusters annuals from the 90s which are my favourite part of the franchise
The LEGO proton pack...you got all my esteem
I got into Ghostbusters from seeing the movie one day when I was little
I cant remember how old i was but my mom would put films on while she did house work to shut me up so she put ghostbuster on thinking it would put me to sleep for as she said "its an old film" she was really annoyed when i enjoyed it and asked if there was another film so she put the second one on and she's regretted it since
How I got into ghostbusters: my dad tried to get me to watch the movies a couple times on Halloween in kindergarten. I was not interested. And was scared of stay puft. My mom told me “he is just looking for a friend” that made me happy as I watched the rest of the movie. I was not even sad because I thought that if stay puft was real, id eat him?!? Then I got a ghostbusters costume the next year and the rest is history
Dude my sister introduced me to GB at 12 or 13 years old I'm not even an 80s kid, then after that I got into figure collecting and believing it or not I actually started to collect vintage figures and not figures that were out on the market so I saw the real GB toy commercial and I was hooked, but the cool thing about it is that my mother told me that my brother was into GB when he was a kid, and destiny then struck, my mom had an egon and ray figure for when my brother was a kid preserved in her drawer it was a cool way to get introduced to GB and I like still to this day with extreme ghostbusters being my favorite because it came out on the year I was born how cool is that?!
I was never actually a huge ghostbusters fan, but I do remember going ape for the sequel so much so that one of my earliest memories is sulking in my parents' garage because they wouldn't give me more money to rent it on VHS for like sixth time and I was like five or six years old then xd
Happy GB day mate. Being a total Ghosthead already I used to book it home from secondary school to make sure I didn’t miss EGB.
My story starts at the age of 3/4 my sister had the theme on 7” and I would get her to play it over and over. Eventually she rented the film and put it on for me, I was scared shitless! Soon after I found RGB being shown on Saturday mornings and my neighbour across the street the the toy of Peter and Stay Puft which I would always find an excuse to play with them. I ended up get a few of the toys for birthdays and Christmas’ but the line was coming to an end so it was getting harder to find ones I needed. I will always remember getting home from school and finding the fire house sitting in the middle of the living room floor with my Ecto-1 packed inside. I think my little brain must have melted when I saw the poster for GB2 at a bus stop as I demanded to see it there and then, lol. Again I had to wait to rent the vhs, my dad made a copy which I played to death any chance I got.
My older brother forbidde me from watching Ghostbusters as he was a fan of it and I was very jealous of him
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Happy Ghostbusters Day!!!!!!!! :D
I think i got my first Peter figure somewhere in 1988 or something, and i lost it when i took it to school and threw it in the air and got stuck in the roof of my class... I remember also owning a Slimer that spit ecto-slime and had some sort of proton pack in the back, also had two different Egons (one in red/white suit that would spin his torso and a second firue with a white space suit with some ghostly alien hands holding his head), 1 Ray figure that his hair and ear pop up when pushing his arm (which got broke when i drop it from a table), the Ghost Toilet and one peter figure that had a yellow hasmat suit. In late 2018 I won a bid of the four first basic Real GB figures plus Janine in purple Flight suit all in very good condition, but without any accesories. Also, During a visit to Brownsville Tx in 2016 i bought a Mattel Peter and then ordered Egon and Ray through a similar site ebay in Mexico. Recently i ordered the Ecto-1 from Afterlife Fright Features, Winston and Trevor from Plasma Series and waiting for Phoebe to pop up in both Fright and Plasma series on Amazon. I never owned any proton or neutrona wand or even the Ecto-1 or Firehouse, i mostly had figures. Ghostbusters ranks second in my top 3 all time fav franchises, TMNT would be first and Jurassic Park third Place.
So I have known about Ghostbusters for all my life just from general pop culture but I haven't really gotten into Ghostbusters until... a year ago... Yep sometime during the May of 2020 I got into Ghostbusters. Long story short I rewatched the Ghostbusters afterlife trailer while I was bored. I thought the concept intriguing about the idea of ghosts being held in stasis rather than me originally thinking that it was just a cowboy style shoot'em up show... don't ask me how I thought of that. But after watching that I decided to see if I could find clips of the original film and that is when I found a compilation of the best of Egon... and the scene inside the elevator got me HOOKED. Ever since I have hyper fixated onto the franchise watching the films, buying the props, learning about the extended media, ect.
Fun fact: my first exposure to ghostbusters was the second ghostbusters movie.
I'm old enough that for my 4th birthday I had a legit ghostbusters 2 party with the thermos and balloons from gb2. Sadly the pack of extra gb2 napkins got destroyed last year in a hurricane
I got first learned about ghostbusters when I was about 4 or 5 years old and my dad showed me the first movie, then about christmas time I watched the second movie, coincidentally around the same time the movie time was set in and then it was about until I was 6 or 7 I got into the real ghostbusters TV show series. I never knew about the extreme ghostbusters until about a year or two ago
Yes I do love the 80s and 90s
I loved the toys as a kid
I remember when I first watched this show, I was confused. I think I remember seeing it and wondering, "Uhhhhh..." Yeah, I was born in '85 so I had a much more clear idea of what Ghostbusters was back then. Seeing this I was not sure what to think. Of course, now, I accept it as what _should_ have happened with the franchise. I think this was some kind of market test seeing idiots in Hollywood promised Aykroyd something, used this as a test bed, sabotaged it because they didn't want to foot the bill for another movie, and then cancelled this show. its an odd chapter in Ghostbusters history, but seeing where it was going from there...
I got into ghost busters when one day I turned on the TV so I could watch the simpsons, then i dropped the remote and it switched the channel and it was playing the og ghost buster movie at the beginning
My first GhostBusters toy was Rowan Ghost from the 2016 reboot, so You are lucky
Great tale
Hey I won't blame you.
Being a fan and collector
Has to start somewhere.
It's clear the toy developers never actually watched an episode or cared about the series at all. They were just throwing the craziest ideas to the wall (because "Extreme") hoping they'd stick 🤣 The proton gun w/ a voice speed setting & a talking pack? Whew, what a mess!
I'm an RGB head & remember when Extreme "premiered," I guess. My family had satellite instead of cable, so there were test channels networks would run their programming blocks on before they actually aired to the masses. Coolest thing ever as I got to watch the entire Fox Kids lineup with no commercials at 2:00AM instead of 8:00AM!
There was a channel that ran a number of episodes of Extreme on Saturdays around 6:00PM - 7:30PM
Anyway, to this day, I have no idea what network Extreme actually ran on & from my understanding, that's what ultimately killed the show is the weird time slot scheduling issues. Did the Extreme toyline ever have those Play-Doh style buckets of ectoplasm?
Great video btw! 👌🏿
6:23 I think i remember this, Any info about the Ecto 1 give away. I want to know who won it thought. Looks like somethong similar happen in dosney whoch was like already in mod 2000 once aor in there besides Cartoon Network where i saw Extreme ghostBusters along with Men in black the series and Godzilla the series which was made by the same ppl.
I got in to Ghostbusters because it was one of the first movies I watched with her and shows me oven new and old can like some stuff to get her and its so cool😎
great video btw
My theory as to why they gave kylie a ponytail is to give her head articulation
Watching the movies..they are great movies.
My mom showed me the original movie. but at the time I only knew of the song and i thought it was a fun Halloween song.
Chris Moyles as the outro?
"International radio 1"
I got into ghostbusters do to my great uncle showing me the 1st and second one at the age of 2 and wanting the ghost and ending up years later getting 2 collectors banks of staypuft and glow in the dark slimer and getting a ghost popper reissue from Walmart and real ghostbusters pke meter from a yard sale and dressed up in a suit with a inflatable proton pack sadly that thing popped the ghost popper replaced that and im thinking of getting a proton pack replica someday great video
extreme ghostbusters the complete series is coming to dvd on 3/19/2024
My introduction was the ghostbusters just dance from 2014
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Hey, I'm late to the party as I've only just come across this video 😮.
I think it was Christmas 1986 I first see the movie on TV and I immediately got blown away, it was so iconic the ecto 1 the proton packs it was immediately one of my favourite films. My mum had a pull along vacuum that I strapped to my back for a proton pack... not long after seeing the film we were treated to the real ghostbusters every Saturday morning and with the cartoon come the toys and of course the holy grail the kenner proton pack. GB2 hit the cinema in 1989 and we had 2 more years of the real ghostbusters which I no longer enjoyed as it was slimer and the real ghostbusters, they toned down the scary content and centered it too much around slimer. I don't know how I missed extreme ghostbusters when it aired on tv, but somehow I did.
The 2 films I would regularly watch over the coming years, and finally 2.5 years ago I finally came across a kit to build my own proton pack. It was a rush to build it and have the full outfit ready for afterlife which with 4 other people we have started our own franchise, but that's another story as its been a mental time and we have everything from dancing toasters to containment unit. Keep on bustin mate 👌
I hope you're taking the Ray figure to jail with you 😂😂
Hopefully it's put away somewhere less chaotic
I had spent the night with my aunt and uncle, and they had the original movie rented. I fell in love then and there. My aunt had a friend rig two vcrs together (illegal) to make me a copy because at the time the vcr was sort of a new thing and you had no record button. I watched it literally every day. I was lucky enough to be almost 10 yrs older than you so i got to see the Real Ghostbusters in real time and the 2nd movie was the 1st movie i ever saw in a theatre. My mom was a cheapskate so i had few toys from the trilogy but i do remember making my own proton packs and stuff. I discovered the Extreme Ghostbusters when i was in high school and driving age and so on. I tried watching it but i hated it. Now ffwd my teenage daughter loves the whole thing. I bought her the entire series of the real ghostbusters. I have both of the 1st two movies and i hate the 2016 remake. We went to the theatre and saw afterlife and it was awesome! We all loved it and can't wait for it to be out on dvd. I had a lump in my throat at the theatre at the climax toward the end seeing the originals together again and the ghost of Egon standing beside them. I hope they continue with new movies as good as that one was. That's my story and i liked yours. I'm glad a guy from a little bit younger generation discovered it and got so hooked.
5 years old watching robocop and terminator my old man put ghostbusters on vhs I still remember the first time seeing the librarian ghost jump-start the screen I s***t myself yet I would watch the film over and over to the point where the wear marks would show on the vhs playing now in my 30's family of my own I sit and watch the origional 2 and the new film with my kids
You should do this kind of video but with Doctor Who or Back to the Future.
I just saw the movie on Netflix and liked it
I red the comics and my brother had the merchandise.
Enjoyed your video 😊👍 subbed 🙂👍☺️ how I got into Ghostbusters 👻 well it goes back to the original film there was TV show on itv back when we had afternoon childrens programs they was was having a competition to win a Ghostbusters arcade machine this would be for the 1984 video game and thay showed a clip from the film the clip was Peter getting slimmed I hadn't even seen the film and I was sold sadly there was no toys I still have my original photo book from the film from that year
Sweet, thank you for watching! 😁
Yep. Now you know how the fans feel lol. Except for me it was the real Ghostbusters then I seen the movies lol. My first figure was real Ghostbusters ray. Didn't even know about the movie or cartoon lol
Extreme Ghostbuster was very grounded dark and environment creepy ad love every aspect of it and yea Extreme Ghostbuster ecto 1 got to be my favorite one. I did saw other custom concept of the Extreme Ghostbusters on what they usually wear in tere progress of work but the garret fogure was more clpse to the prototype that was unrelease whoch does exist difer if you had not know yet. Also Ghostbuster Afterlife is a bit inspired base on Extreme Ghostbuster so expect forward on
I want to be like Larry. Larry ... lol Sponge bob .. lol ...
anyways I got into Ghostbusters from the first movie, even tho the terror dogs scared the crap out of me at first, and now i think they need to do a George Lucas up date on the terror dogs .. lol and yes i loved the real Ghostbusters as a kid apparently i must be a few yrs older than you.. lol but of course i was about 5 and it was about 1988 before the 2nd movie came out and i loved everything about it.
My dad showed me the movie the the real ghostbusters then I found Xtreme ghostbusters
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I was wondering where you found the clip at 6:20? If you still have the file I'd like to upload the clip myself to my channel I upload clips just like this from the Danielle Nicholls and Stephen Mulhern era of CITV.
If you're able to send me an email at queenofVHS@gmail.com or DM me on Twitter @QueenofVHS_97 to discuss me allowing to upload the individual clip to my channel where I'll give you credit for the video file then that would definitely be awesome! Thanks so much and you have great content