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PostPosted: October 24th, 2011, 9:19 am |
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http://www.gbfans.com/news/27836/125-sc ... ed-by-amt/Quote: Pictures are just starting to trickle in from the iHobby Expo in Chicago Illinois. At the show, AMT has unveiled a number of models to be released in 2012, among them was a re-release of the Ghostbusters 2 Ecto-1a. The model will be identical to the previous release in the early 90's, and will reuse the same molds where available.
We'll have more information as it becomes available. Round 2 Models is the current owner of the AMT/Ertl catalog and properties, and they've repoped a lot of AMT's old Star Trek models, often with improvements. I have one of the original releases, but may get one anyway--I have a lot more patience than I did in 1990, and the end result will no doubt be a quantum improvement. Heck, if I feel really adventurous, I'll try to turn one into the ECTO-1N.
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PostPosted: November 13th, 2011, 2:26 am |
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Cool! Can't wait to try and get one.
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PostPosted: February 11th, 2012, 9:31 am |
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There's now a page up for it at the Round2 web site: http://www.round2models.com/models/amt/ecto-1/productQuote: Ghostbusters Ecto-1
Item No: AMT750 Release Date: May 2012
Ghostbusters is a classic American film full of spooky humor from beginning to end. The Ecto-1 returns to help the 'Busters save the day once again. Loaded with all of the gear necessary to take down any nasty poltergeist that gets in their way. The kit features a detailed equipment rack and decals to decorate the car as the Ecto-1 or the Ecto-1A.
* Scale: 1/25 * Skill Level: 2 (ages 10 and up) * Glue assembly, paint required * 10" x 3.5" x 4.5" * Molded in white, plus chrome and clear parts o Detailed equipment rack o Expanded decal sheet The line about "a detailed equipment rack and decals to decorate the car as the Ecto-1 or the Ecto-1A" is interesting. Technically the ECTO-1 has some differences in the roof equipment; I suspect what this really means is "You can build the ECTO-1A with the GB1 logo!" Which would actually be pretty cool--I already have an ECTO-1A model I built in 1990, so maybe that would be a neat way to have a build that wasn't exactly like one I already have. The post-GB2 ECTO-1, as it were AJ Quick has it available for preorder at GBFans: http://www.gbfans.com/shop/merchandise/ ... ale-model/
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PostPosted: June 11th, 2012, 7:45 pm |
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As an aside...do you also build model trains? We're trying to find a way to put a smoke effect into our guns without using dry ice and are having a heck of a time finding out how they make model trains with smoke stacks. We make these, btw: MessengerI have definite plans to turn one of these into a not-so-proper Proton gun.
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PostPosted: June 11th, 2012, 8:58 pm |
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APaleHorse wrote: As an aside...do you also build model trains? We're trying to find a way to put a smoke effect into our guns without using dry ice and are having a heck of a time finding out how they make model trains with smoke stacks. We make these, btw: MessengerI have definite plans to turn one of these into a not-so-proper Proton gun. Never built trains. In my teens, I was big on "realspace" models (Space Shuttles, Saturn 5s, ect) and, for a time after Top Gun hit it big, fighter planes. Then I got into Star Trek and mecha models for a while, Revell's Robotech line and such. c.1990 and AMTs models of the ECTO-1A and the Batmobile (from the 1989 movie) were the last gasp for about a decade, then I did a few Gundam models when they became relatively readily available here. Then last fall I got a nostalgia trip when Airfix repopped their Saturn 1B model, which I wanted as a teen but never got; since then I built another Saturn 5 (ten times better than I did in 1983, because I had no patience in 1983) and am finishing a Revell Space Shuttle (Which has been labelled the Endeavour, because that was the only Orbiter I never built back in the day ) Even then, I never really did a lot of kitbashing or customizing. Certainly nothing along the lines of getting a train smokestack to smoke. tl:dr :Not really anything I can say to help. There's lots of prop whizzes on GBFans who might have some ideas.
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PostPosted: June 12th, 2012, 8:26 am |
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Wow, haha! And here all I put together was a Millennium Falcon and a couple WWII fighter planes.
Thanks anyway!
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PostPosted: June 21st, 2012, 8:21 pm |
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Just the other day, I dug out the Minimates I bought a few years ago (mostly X-men, though also the set with Movie Egon and the Library Ghost) and realized they'd be more or less the right size to display with the ECTO-1 models. Egon, Janine, and Ray arrived in the mail today. Hopefully Winston and Venkman will get here tomorrow.
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