WWE Ghostbusters

WWE Ghostbusters

Mattel - Walmart exlusives

Who ya gonna call?  No, after them...Transformers!  No....Ninja Turtles!  No...Stone Cold Steve Austin?  GIMME A HELL YEAH! (Cue breaking glass sfx.)  Just when you think a Ghostbusters crossover couldn't get more bizarre than a turtle with a Winston stache, comes a death knell from Mattel.  Gotta squeeze a couple more bucks from a license we're losing to Hasbro, right?  Anyway, weird and goofy?  Yes, but are they cool?

I think so.  The wrestlers they chose to strap proton packs to may not match the characteristics of the true Ghostbusters, but make sense as recognizable faces of the WWE brand: Shawn Michaels, John Cena, The Rock, and Austin.  Solid choices, but I do wish they had thrown in at least one 80's classic.  Or a whole team to be era appropriate.  Maybe Hulk Hogan, Roddy Piper, Junkyard Dog, and Macho Man?  Slimer with the head of George the Animal Steele?  Oh well, I'm happy with the two Attitude era choices.

Austin and Rock get the most costume variance, with full removable jumpsuits and slime-green undershirt decos.  Shawn adds some tan to his already green DX gimmick, plus a name-tagged half-shirt and GB logo hat.  Cena has some GB logo sweatbands and a bigger one on his removable shirt.



















  

GB accessories include the removable proton packs from the Mattel figures at the end of the Mattycollector era.  You know...the ones they released to bait fans into committing to a make-or-break Ecto-1 campaign.  Good times.  The packs are a bit small on these guys, considering they are almost 7-in figures and the Matty GB figures were on the short end of the 6-in scale.  I would compare it to a large man wearing the scaled-down Spirit Halloween pack.  They also have removable belts with walkie talkie, belt gizmo, and such.  Shawn is packed with the ghost trap that has opening doors to plug in the trap effect.  I'm disappointed by the lack of PKE meter.  Hell, they could have thrown in so much more considering they already have the molds:  video camera, tripod trap, sniffer.

These are Elite figures, so at least they didn't go cheap with basic articulation.  They are Walmart exclusives, priced less than your standard Elites elsewhere:  $15.88...not too shabby!  There is a translucent purple, "ghost" Undertaker figure that I missed out on picking these up.  From the wrestling toys forum, I gather that strict wrestling fans poo-poo this GB gimmick save for Taker and his slime-green classic championship belt.  It's easy to say these will "peg warm" when you are helping to ensure that GB and completist fans can't find a full set, you sacks of monkey crap!

In the absence of Undertaker, I threw in some 7-in articulated skeletons to take the smack down.  These are under $5 at Home Depot, and feature 24 points of articulation!  The plastic is flexible, allowing you to pop off joints for customization.  They scale okay with the wrestling figures, and should work great with Masters of the Universe Classics and most spooky NECA offerings.

Bonus:  I also recently picked up an older Mattel Egon figure with removable pack from Ebay to complete the larger No-Ghost Logo build-a-figure (mentioned in an earlier review).  It doesn't do much as figures go, but it looks nice in the background and glows in the dark.  Man, does it glow!