blackeyedprime wrote:I've heard good things about the extreme ghost busters ecto 1 but sadly I missed it at retail as the line didn't stick around that long (despite the cartoon being good, usually the way tho). Not sure how many figures it sat and I can't imagine the extreme ghost buster figures being sitting pose friendly (tho using orig kenner gbs might work for it).
The playmobil ones cheapest option and might be able to fit mp ecto op {or have some legend class deceptions running around it causing trouble) not sure how good the ko lego hq is as I usually stick to genuine lego but it's another display option. I still need a few 80s tmnt megabloks to go with the lego gb hq, using playmobil staypuft with the lego but diamond selects rgb staypuft may replace it.
Extreme was better than it had any right to be, and it was made by the same studio that did the Men In Black, Big Guy & Rusty, and Godzilla cartoons -- all of which are outstanding and surprisingly dark, with more accuracy to the source material than you'd expect.
The Extreme Ectomobile toy was a heavy retool of the Kenner RGB vehicle, and only sat two figures. (Hell, the Kenner one only sat three due to that roof-mounted chair thing!) Forget trying to find one now, though. Its prices on the secondary market are astronomical and ridiculous. Besides, the Playmobusters version is much more screen-accurate to the movie one and still looks like a toy, in a good way. If you want, there's a Playmobil Ghostbusters II version coming soon, and it ships with all four 'Busters! Now that's a deal.
Speaking of deals, I have the Bootlego GB HQ and it's outstanding. Obviously not quite up to Lego standards and you'll really need to set aside some time to put it together because you'll have to sort out all the parts, first! They're not bagged in a logical step-by-step way like the Lego one. That being said, if you're willing to put up with its crap and the risk of some pieces being missing or wrong (but if you're interested in buying a bootlego set of that size, you're obviously in deep enough to have enough spare parts in your collection and/or savvy enough to use BrickLink that it's not an issue), you can really make some big savings. My KO GB HQ cost less than half the price of the official one, allowing me to fill it up with other bootlego minifigs of characters that won't ever get official Lego versions (as well as some MOCs like Faith from Mirror's Edge and Deckard from Blade Runner, both on the roof in the photo below) and the damn-near-mandatory LED kits. Not quite up to the high standards of KO Figma, KO Figuarts, or even better, KO Masterpiece Transformers, but still!
