2023 Continued

In May, the Ectozone celebrated its twentieth anniversary. Holy cow. It's older than my niece and nephew...who just graduated high school.

Sony announced the official name of the fifth Ghostbusters movie: Frozen Empire. Over the next few months more information comes out, including the return of the entire Afterlife cast and all four surviving members of the original crew. Yes, that includes Bill Murray. And in early 2024 came pictures from the movie...with Janine in a flight suit, something that had never happened in movie canon before. But using her to sorta plug the Egon-sized hole in the original line up is totally appropriate. It doesn't totally make up for the way she was creatively screwed over in GB2 and GBA, but it helps.

Gen Con 2023 was awesome again.

I released a number of fan fics, most notably the first three chapters of "The Monster of Lungbarrow", a big story in both TJ Anderson's solo arc and her joint one with John Spengler. It's also packed with an absurd amount of Doctor Who injokes (including the title).

(Part Four is almost finished. I promise!)

HasLab announced a PKE Meter and Ghost Trap set. Having a Matty Collector meter and a Spirit Halloween trap, I don't feel as bad about not being able to get in on this one.

2024

New toys!!! A repop of the classic RGB Fright Features figures from 1988, and new figures for the new movie. Trevor was just a repop of the same one from Afterlife with a name tag, Callie and Phoebe reused Lucky's body, and Gary Grooberson was the exact same body used on the figures of the original Ghostbusters, but hey, it's Hasbro, we're used to it. Hell, remember how Kenner used the same molds for four runs of RGB figures, with a fifth in the works before the line was canceled? Yeah, this is practically a tradition. Now all we gotta see is if they'll do a second wave with repainted/resculpted aged versions of the surviving three and most of all a flight suit Janine.

Feb 3: My GBN profile is now old enough to buy alcohol in this country. Yet another Boy Do I Feel Old moment.

Of course, with Presidential Election From Hell Part Three revving up, I can understand wanting to get stinking drunk..

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2024 Continued...

In March, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire comes out, the fourth movie in the original continuity and the fifth movie overall. I...didn't get to the theater to see it.

But I did see it in July when I got ahold of the DVD. Enjoyed it a great deal. It wasn't perfect, but still think it might be my second favorite Ghostbusters movie; it helped that unlike GB2 and GBA, none of my favorites had their characters assassinated, and the influence of a little cartoon called The Real Ghostbusters was all over it.

Didn't get much toy-wise; still have the original Fright Features, so skipped the repops. Got Callie, Phoebe, and Gary of the new figures; Trevor, as mentioned above, was the exact same except for the nametag, so I skipped it unless/until I could find it on sale (never did).

Mondo teased, and then confirmed, a set of gobsmackingly on-model RGB action figures. Problem is, they're also gobsmackingly expensive. Maybe if I win the Powerball...

Finished "The Monster of Lungbarrow" as noted above, then launched into a new set of stories that began with "Every Future Has A Past" and continuing with the currently unfolding "The Sign of the Twins". "Every Future" was a collaboration with Ghostdiva, and featured turning points in the relationships of the Spengler Twins with each of their respective love interests. "Sign of the Twins" continues that, and is finally addressing some of the situations set up almost twenty years ago in "Gemini Rising".

Gen Con 2024 was awesome as always.

Presidential Election From Hell Part III was immensely unsatisfying--the villains win, just like they did in Presidential Election From Hell Part I in 2016. Part II in 2020 was definitely the high water mark of the series so far.

2025

February 3: I once more make a self-indulgent post marking twenty two years since I first stepped into the waters of online Ghostbusters fandom.

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