Be sure to check your discs immediately. Some people are getting duplicate discs
Best bet is to contact Sony ASAP at [email protected] or call 1-800-860-2878.
Has anyone heard back from sony yet?
One minor complaint: they went through all of the Ghostbusters footage for Afterlife. They have the restored version of the “World’s Fair” scene at the end of Afterlife, so they must have found it. It’s a shame the deleted footage from the original movie haven’t been upgraded – still the same old standard definition clips.
Am I missing something or is there only one afterlife deleted scene? If not which disc has more
It’s been a few hours at best, people need to be patient.
Nope, this is correct. Everyone was expecting more, but when the back cover went up a month ago, it stated only one deleted scene for Afterlife, later confirmed by the press release and now the finished disc.
Ouch 
Guess I’m gonna wait for the ultimate ultimate box set in 2025
Don’t know if it will be interesting or painful, but there’s a thread in the dedicated Afterlife forum discussing the deleted scenes that appear in the trailers and behind-the-scenes footage.
Is it possible that Sony can’t really extract a better image because the Assembly cut is being sourced from the Betamax tape?
Regarding adding the scenes back into the film all nicely restored, I feel like that would go against the fact that I. Reitman considers the original cut of the film to be his preferred presentation of the film, no?
Considering the quality of the scenes from the steelbook (Ecto-1 Ticket, Fort Detmerring) and the new dallies, I would say that the film elements still exist somewhere. Maybe not in an edited state, but it looks like the original raw footage is in a vault somewhere. I imagine that GB2 is largely the same fate, I haven’t seen the scenes yet, but I’ve heard that they seem like they were recently edited.
I thought that when I watched the Central Park Bums scenes on the Steelbook - thinking “wow that’s Bill Murray” (I never recognised Dan) - completely missed that I’d had that scene all along on the 1999 DVD. Funny how you appraise stuff in later years.
Have American fans worked out how to replace the batteries in the light up box when it’s needed?
It’s both. 
Yeah this is my thinking too. Where did these scenes come from? The guy that runs Spoon Central, Paul something, might have a line on how this was done. i know for the previous steelbook release someone from the company that Sony contracts these jobs out to contacted him and asked what fans really want to see special features wise. They pretty much gave him everything he asked for with that release and now this one, everything except for all the GB2 deleted scenes. I have to think they’ve lost anything not included here. I don’t think they are holding anything back, the more I think about it. It just doesn’t make sense.
D Osborn might also know. He’s working on the GB2 documentary and might know when this stuff was found, or if certain stuff is for sure lost. He’s mentioned some big surprises on the documentary but whether or not that’s deleted scene related I’m not sure.
I just don’t see why they wouldn’t include Ray Possessed or the ending at the Statue of Liberty,
Now. That being said. There’s also William Forsche. That dude seems to have a black & white workprint of GB2. He has scenes in black & white on his YouTube channel and aren’t included here(Louis hanging KFC chicken up & opening the trap when Slimer falls for the bait). So does he have the Ray possessed scene in black & white? I dunno. I know that man pretty much documented ILM’s involvement working on the film & his footage is a damn treasure trove of GB2 awesomeness. Some of its been taken down tho over the years.
Mysteries abound
Ever since I got the trading card as a kid, I wanted to see the scene of Ray crying.
The one where he’s wearing a flappy skull cap. Do you all know what I mean?
OHH I’m pretty sure this is it
“Sony came to me back on December 5th asking what items the fans would like to see on a new release. Let’s just say, that I was not shy in providing a list…and continual updates in the months since”
- Paul Rudoff, Spook Central (April 2019)
It’s strange since he was consulting on the 2019 Steelbook, and while it was good it wasn’t as comprehensive as this. Did they use his entire list? Or save it for this set? Maybe he stayed on with this new one, but it doesn’t seem so. Any good fan when asked by Sony about what scenes they want would say Possessed Ray and Statue of Liberty in a heartbeat, and not so much “Janosz making noise in the hallway”.
My only thought is that they had to meet a deadline, and were editing from raw takes, and these are simply the scenes that were done in time. I would not be shocked if they do another release with any last GB1 scenes (I don’t think there are at this point) the rest of the GBII ones and some new Afterlife ones.
2024 40th anniversary here we come!
I can verify this. After a month and change, around January 17, 2019, Paul contacted by me about what unreleased content he’d hypothetically like to see be released for the 35th anniversary. I’m fairly sure they were asking webmasters of fan sites that they had contact info of. Myself and Devilmanozzy helped him compile a list. We spent two days going back and forth in an email chain. When I talked with Eric Reich on January 23, 2019, one of the things he asked me about was what new special features I would like to see and I pretty much gave him the whole shebang as well and suggested some other fan site owners to contact. We didn’t leave anything out yet and then there are things you just can’t account for like, Eric mentioned a few things in passing over the past 3 years that shocked me. Like in one of the GB1 drafts, there’s one bit from the 1st montage where it’s late night and Ray is driving back to the Firehouse while the others are asleep in Ecto-1, tired from all the caseloads. And Eric casually mentioned something to the effect of, ‘yeah that was filmed.’ (I don’t have my copy of this Ultimate set, so I don’t know if that’s on).
I would guess this stuff came from the Kansas salt mine where Sony kept stuff preserved. But as they’ve hinted, back then in the 80s, they weren’t thinking of archival (and probably organizing) so finding it was like a bit of Indiana Jones and the time between the 35th anniversary steelbook and this set was probably how much more stuff they found from that mine that still had to be processed. Whatever is missing in this set, there’s the possibility there’s still more things they are still going through from the one Kansas mine and more mines and/or vaults they are currently searching through. I think Ivan Reitman has his own storage in San Fernando for example. The GB2 soundtrack is probably more most extreme case of bad archiving. It’s possible these other GB2 deleted scenes are still being searched for.
I saw a tiny bit in the test cut of Peter asleep on Ray while driving
Food for thought: maybe they’re holding back on possessed Ray to use it as a plotline in a sequel for Vigo’s return. It’s been hinted at by Jason in a couple of interviews and that footage could be a comfortable way to open the door. Time is but a window…
After all the criticism GBA got for being a lazy fan service Easter egg hunt there’s no way they’d be dumb enough to re use a villain.
I say for the next movie Sony goes all out and spends like 300 million to de age and deepfake the OGB’s and do some sort of time travel thing. The latest episode of “The Book of Boba Fett” features bar none the best de ageing/deepfake I’ve ever seen. I won’t spoil it but..it’s flawless. We are living in a strange new world with that technology.