I like it…
Since I mostly converted my Spengler wand to a Frozen Empire wand, I grabbed one as an alternate for my pack…
Apparently that crap looking handle weathering can be removed by alcohol wipes.
Received mine today (in a comically oversized box) and immediatly did it. Removed most of the handle grime and some very of the shoddy silver spots. The stuff on the handles come off pretty quickly, but the silver is a bit tougher.
Let’s see if it comes to pass that another pack is released. I’m speculating 1984 and Frozen Empire Proton Pack versions.
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Accurate
Considering the effort they went to with the Haslabs pack making certain Afterlife bits removable and the dedicated switch for 84-style animations I still think it’s unlikely. A Frozen Empire one, however… well that’s different.
I expect an arm cannon Neutrino Blaster release is in the works. It would be great for us old guys who’d rather not wear a 30 to 40 pound pack all day…
“Proton Gun”
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I ended up grabbing one of the 84 wands just to have an extra. I will say I love how it fits in my hand. The hat light doesn’t bug me too much. I just painted it. The orange tip though. I know everyone and their terror dog says just use a paint pen but no matter what paints I use this tip does not want to stay painted. I’ve water based paint markers, oil based paint pens…enamel paint…About ready to throw it out a window.
Rub n buff my friend. It’s what I used in the pictures above. Mix the right shade, let it dry a bit, clear coat with matte clear, then apply weathering (black r n b thinned down with Napthta), clear coat that too if you want but you really don’t need to.
I ordered one when it went up thinking it was a pre-order (stupid idea but it’s fine), that one came in, tried it immediately on the Haslab Spengler pack, noticed it was turning itself off whenever I would flip the activation switch, so tried some batteries in, had to hold them in as I had no access to the cover (with the stupid screw in) and it kept giving me the same thing as well as garbled/crackling audio, so it was definitely faulty, got in touch with Hasbro and the lass who took my call (Rio I think her name was) was absolutely amazing and said "Yep, no problem, ship it back free of charge, we will either send you a new one OR give you a full refund if there are no more in stock, but it could take about two weeks at the moment due to stock depleting quite quickly, which I agreed on.
Two weeks later I got a new one (which is now on my pack), I put it on, initially thought there was issues with that one, but found out thanks to people in the haslab proton pack group telling me that it’s not the wand, as the 2nd wand would not be faulty and to change the D cell batteries in there (I had panasonic ones, but I switched them out to Duracell branded ones!) and the wand started up properly, no sign of issues! Only issue I have is the orange tip, BUT, I can live with that since it’s due to convention rules now!
Some of what we can and can’t get in Canada means we sometimes don’t have those same options. I found a way to get mine painted however and it looks so good that apart from some orange in the underside of it where the bulb is, you can’t tell. My wife’s skill set painting comes in again.