![]() ![]() TICKETS: Brown County community theater update WHAT: "Ghostbusters: Afterlife" (2021) film showing and photo opportunity with the car. "Last year we had a Mystery Machine (a flower-power van) when showing 'Scoob!' (a 2020 computer-animated film based on the "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!" TV cartoon series)," White said. There is also a Slimer (green hairy character in the film) hanging in the back that can be brought down for pictures with onlookers. No going inside the car yet, because it's been gutted and the interior isn't finished. Go ahead: "It's fine to touch it, get as many pictures (as you) can, 'cause we'd love to see people with it." The family drives it around town and in good weather it often sits at my dad's shop, Truax Car Care," Truax said. And, Truax recently converted it into an automatic. He bought the car to make it a replica of the Ecto-1 and has done all of the body work, including paint, stickers and the mounting and wiring of the top accessories. More: Arts Alliance Center opens in College Mall with gallery and gift shop "Truax has been a nut about 'Ghostbusters' his whole life and has a full 'Ghostbusters' costume with a proton pack and all," the theater's director, Andrea White, said in an email. It will be in Spencer this coming weekend during the Historic Tivoli Theatre's showings of the 2021 film "Ghostbusters: Afterlife." In the 1984 "Ghostbusters" movie and its sequels, the car, now famous, is a 1959 Cadillac limo-style endloader. David Truax bought and built this one to look like the movie's Ecto-1. In 2010, the Ecto-1 makes a brief appearance in the commercial for Sony's new panoramic digital camera line.This 1959 Chevy Comet coach hearse is dying to have its picture taken with us. In 2010, Hot Wheels released a "Ghostbusters Ecto-1" as part of the "2010 Hot Wheels Premiere" series. Polar Lights released a 1/24 scale model kit of the Ecto-1 in 2002. The toy version of this vehicle has sold approx. The shooting script for the movie described the Ectomobile as being black, with purple and white strobe lights that gave the vehicle a "purple aura".Ī miniature replica of the vehicle was mass-produced as a children's toy. The book "Making Ghostbusters" by Don Shay describes a deleted scene where a police officer places a ticket on the Ectomobile only to have it instantly burn to ashes.Įarlier versions of scripts written by Dan Aykroyd for the first Ghostbusters also included mentions of the Ectomobile having the power of interdimensional travel. ![]() A cartoon episode featured the "proton cannon", presumably a more powerful version of a proton pack, mounted on top for use against extra large or even giant sized paranormal entities. There are also various gadgets mounted on the top, whose function is never revealed in the movies. Its features include a special pull-out rack in the rear containing the staff's proton packs, which facilitates a quick retrieval without the complication of having to reach into the vehicle's rear. rear end., new rings, mufflers, a little wiring." It is assumed that Ray continues listing needed repairs after this scene cuts away.Īfter the necessary reconstruction, it was used to carry the team's ghost-capturing equipment, as well as transporting the Ghostbusters through New York City. In Stantz's own words, it needed "suspension work and shocks, brakes, brake pads, lining, steering box, transmission. In the original movie, this vehicle was purchased by Ray Stantz for the relatively high price of $4800 (over $9800 in 2009 dollars when scaled up for inflation) in a poor state of repair. Ecto-1 or the Ectomobile is a 1959 Cadillac Miller-Meteor limo-style end loader combination car (ambulance conversion) used in the 1984 film Ghostbusters and other Ghostbusters fiction. ![]()
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