On NovemI wrote a “Rich Review” of my Matty Collector Ghost Trap with new detailed pictures.
For those who would still be interested, I’m sharing these original pictures. For whatever reason after the pictures were transferred to my MacBook Air I didn’t do anything with them for two years. Once I had it in my possession I took unboxing pictures. I was able to buy a Matty Collector Ghost Trap for about what it would have originally cost with shipping. “Call it fate, call it karma…” I found a listing on a popular auction site with a buy it now option too. As luck would have it, the seller was in my state. Fortunately their were some alternatives, I really didn’t want to pay a secondary or third party mark up. Not in a Mattel’s poor business practice way either. This auction is for a set of 3 Extreme Ghostbusters Deluxe Action Figures - 1) Kylie with Ghost Trap and Firing Plasma Blasters 2) Eduardo with Protonic. I couldn’t because they were finally sold out. In present day, on Earth, in New York City, the Ghostbusters meet Ectronymous Diamatron, an Autobot who tracked a Cybertronian signal on Earth, one that is trapped in the ghost trap. Personally I couldn’t afford what I wanted, which included a brand new sealed in box collectible Ghost Trap.Īs the year the Earth was suppose to be destroyed by ancient culture’s beliefs began I was finally ready to buy a Matty Collector Ghost Trap from the source. Cybertron is invaded by Gozer the Traveler, who unleashed a giant beast based on Starscreams imagination, leading the planet to its destruction. I always felt they should have been spread out over a quarter. During that October Ghostbusters retail wise, Mattel had made a somewhat odd decision to sell expensive new Ghostbusters collectibles at the same time. The Spoopy Month Halloween Celebravaganza continues this week with a look at Extreme Ghostbusters and the first season of Danny Phantom. The first was the P.K.E Meter, which originally went on sale in December 2010. I'm not sure if it ever made it to the plastic stage of development, but the resin figures are always better sculpts and paint jobs, often in non-production colors.On OctoMatty Collector brought ghostheads the second officially licensed Ghostbusters™ prop toy, the Ghost Trap. This unique piece is most likely a one of a kind prototype, which was used as a Toy Fair Paint Master Sample, since it's completely done up, like most Toy Fair Samples. His hair is also a lighter shade then his actual animated look, which was often the case with any prototype Trendmasters made before the final colors were established. Garrett's wheelchair here is completely modified to have a massive ray gun or missile launcher instead of what is seen on Extreme Ghostbusters, and would not fit in the Ecto-1 Cruiser.
Figure Condition: Sound works, I have no idea how. Trendmasters did a prototype of the Garrett Miller figure. ECTO-1 1997 Trendmasters Extreme Ghostbusters Action Figure. 1997 Trendmasters Extreme Ghostbusters Proton. Thankfully, collector Jonathan Shyman managed to, somehow, get his hands on the Garrett prototype and has shared pictures of it and information with the Ghostbusters Wiki. Ghostbusters Extreme Eduardo 4.5 Action Figure Vintage 1997 Trendmasters. Maybe if the show would have stuck around longer, it would have. It even went so far as the prototype stage, but for some reason, it never made it to the store shelves.
There were others, like me, who thought that maybe the folks at Trendmasters couldn't figure out how to make a wheelchair-bound figure that would, for lack of better phrasing, work in conjunction with the other able-bodied figures.Īs it turns out, Trendmasters did plan on making a Garrett figure, complete with specialized weapon-ized wheelchair. The only thing we were missing - besides Janine and ghostly villains from the episodes themselves - was the fourth member of the team: the wheelchair-bound Garrett Miller.Īt the time that the toys were released, some thought that maybe the lack of a Garrett figure was due to some sort of political-INcorrectness - even though the fact that there was a wheelchair-bound ghostbuster would demonstrate quite the opposite. We had both regular and DELUXE figures of Kylie, Eduardo, Roland, and Egon Slimer and Samhain figures (you know, in spite of the Spirit of Halloween not actually appearing in any of the show's stories) the generic "Mouth Critter" and "House Ghost" the Ecto-1 car for the 'busters to ride in and child-sized Ghost Trap and Plasma Blaster (a quasi proton pack) toys for pretend play. One area where a considerable effort was made in merchandising the show was in the toy and action figure line from Trendmasters. Extreme Ghostbusters may not have had much in the way of tie-in merchandise, but it did have some - with some of it being video games that actually came out years after the show ended its brief three-month run in the States.