You get the first two animations by turning the dial clockwise (Slimer materializing and flying around, and Slimer floating in place waving his arms) and the second two by turning the knob counter clockwise (Slimer flying towards the wearer, and Slimer peeking down from up above) all accompanied with lots of Slimer groaning sound effects. Ready for a look at one of the Ghostbusters' signature devices used to view PKE valences and invisible ghosts? Then join me after the break. Having already released the PKE Meter and the Ecto Trap, Mattel has now moved on to the Ecto Goggles. While the action line fizzled out (even after attempts to get an Ecto-1 made for the 6 inch figures), what has seemed to be a success for Mattel have been prop replicas based on the great ghost busting gadgets from the film. That went pretty well for a while, but soon some problems began to rear their heads, such as Mattel's reluctance to release figures with unique bodies, their propensity to create multiple (and often pointless) variations of the main Ghostbusters, poor sculpting and likenesses from time to time, a Stay Puft Marshmallow Man who turned yellow, a tendency to be really stingy with accessories, and their near refusal to make ghosts for the guys to bust. Mattel seemed to really be banking on the often-hyped-but-never-realized Ghostbusters 3 to actually materialize so that they could have the rights for merchandise when the movie got made, but that obviously never happened, so instead they just made collector figures and sold them online. Where to even start? Well, a few years back Mattel managed to get the Ghostbusters license and started selling Ghostbusters action figures on.
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