Ghostbusters II
Diamond Select already gave us a more robust offering on the original movie compared to Mattel,
plus a huge diorama playset to boot. They've been trucking right along, giving the same treatment to Ghostbusters II. Well...almost.
We get all the montage/poster charcoal suits complete with Santa hats. We get Slime Blowers, Giga Meters, and mood slime. We get Ghostbuster Louis Tully with ear muffs. We get a more menacing Vigo the Carpathian. We get Janos Poha with an articulated Baby Oscar. Is the sequel worth all this plastic? Eh, probably not. At least not enough to shell out for rights to the ghosts.
I have heard that since a different FX company worked on the spooks, they were off limits. What the?! Mattel didn't give us Gozer, now Diamond won't give us the Scoleri Brothers?! But they made a full lineup in the Minimates line?! Jogger Ghost, Titanic Captain, Washington Square Ghost...At least I have Matty's too-short, limited-articulation Tony and Nunzio, and a wingless Movie Theater Ghost as stand-ins, right? Sigh...
Lots of Ghostbusters variants doesn't make this lineup all that appealing, so I guess the selling point is the firehouse diorama. It's looking pretty good so far, with interchangeable GB one and "peace sign" signs. The doors open and the whole thing looks to be in scale. Too bad there's never going to be a scale Ecto-1 to park inside it. We'll have to wait for the The Real Ghostbusters (plus Slimer and a pointlessly small Stay Puft) to show off the finished HQ.
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