Ghostbusters + Lego... the possibilities are limitless!

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Glad you liked them. Some additional parts arrived for the blowers, so here is the new and improved design.

Here’s a breakdown of the parts used, per slimeblower. If you want to make 2, double the amounts shown here. The black ‘wand’ is what holds all of the blower gun parts together internally.

I used dark bluish gray for the tank, metallic silver for the gun, and black for the other parts, but you can easily change these details to suit your own aesthetics.

But the big news is what all else arrived in that same rather large parcel full of Lego’s…

This was made by me eyeballing and best-guessing what bricks I would need. I’m currently tweaking the design with my newly downloaded Lego Digital Designer software. It’s free and it’s a blast.

I’ve already changed one detail between the Peck photo above and this ‘tell him about the ■■■■■■■’ setup, which was taken second.

Although this version looks good, it suffers internally from a lack of interlocking along the vertical seams between red and tan colors. The ‘pressure’ from the S-flex of the black and gray hoses wants to push the central section downward and out.

Once I finalize the digital design, I will be ordering a few more bricks to make the entire wall a bit more solid. I also want to get lots more tan bricks to make more of the surrounding basement.

I’ve also got a different design for the red and green lights. The red parts are all in, but I’m still awaiting one replacement green from a transaction gone awry. The lights seen here are just placeholders for the time being.

Alex

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@ Alex Newborn,

My hat is off to you!!!

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I did a little experiment in making my own stickers for the Lego pieces, with the CAUTION LASER AREA sign seen here.

The font isn’t 100% perfect to the movie, but I found a fairly close online image and tweaked it so it would fit on the shape of the two 2 x 2 yellow tiles I’d bought for the vignette.

Once printed, I used a top layer of packing tape to add a little sheen to the paper, trimmed it to fit the bricks, and applied it.

I’m very encouraged by how it turned out. I’ve got a few other things I wanted to add graphics to… such as Janine’s desktop nameplate, and the bows and things for her torso.

And I continue to teach myself how to use the LDD software. Here’s the current progress on the firehouse basement.

Alex

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Love the Lego containment unit! Alex as always great job love what you’ve done here!

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Alex, I second what @ Jake LeRoy said. Keep up the good work, Stephen aka Peter Venkman Jr.

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A little love for GB2 today…

Slime scoop is made by combining two existing parts.

When I first posted a pic of Ray, Egon, and Winston in their yellow rain suits, my pal Zack Myers was quick to point out a detail I’d overlooked… Winston should not have a moustache in any GB2 scenes.

I quickly ordered this replacement head from eBay but the seller was in the UK so it just now arrived.

Been waiting like two weeks to use that boombox accessory for a pic!

Alex

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Is it just me or does Winston look about 5 years younger in GB2 than he did in GB1?

These are all awesome Alex!

Have you seen these utility belts? http://www.brickforge.com/store/search.php?mode=search&page=1

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I think some came with the particle pack sets? The gear I didn’t use are in a ziploc baggie somewhere.

I’ve wanted to make THIS since before there were Ghostbusters Lego’s. These caution-striped 1 x 4 tiles came in some Lego set that I collected-- I wanna say Jurassic Park?-- many aeons ago.

I’ve moved at least once, possibly twice, since obtaining them and thinking, “it would be neat to make a ghost trap out of these!”

Here it is, at last.

Alex

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Holy ■■■■ on a cracker!! Any chance of a parts list and instructions?!

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That’s one sexy Lego trap!

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Oh, I think I can oblige. I originally made it just by eyeballing it, but it didn’t take very long to re-create it in Lego Digital Designer.

Some of these aren’t quite accurate. The ‘radiator grille’ that I used is silver chrome, not metallic silver, but I couldn’t find chrome parts in the LDD.

It’s also frustrating that even among real physical Lego bricks, you can’t find every color you want in metallic silver. Websites like Bricklink can tell you every known color for most bricks, and sometimes the shape you need has just never been made in the right color, so for several of them I substituted gray.

(Although, now it occurs to me that the cone piece IS available in silver, because I used it on the minifig’s slimeblowers, which I made later. Oh well.)

Similarly, on the physical model, I only used one un-decorated round tile on the sides; the other had a neat gauge design printed on it. While I was lucky enough to find the caution stripe tile in the LDD, the gauge tile wasn’t in the digital file, so I just indicated two blank ones.

A lot of the Lego names for parts and colors feel counter-intuitive, but maybe I’m just used to the classification system on Bricklink. What Lego calls ‘medium stone gray’ is what Bricklink calls ‘light bluish gray’. (To distinguish the later mix from an earlier gray, some fans call the newer color ‘blay’, from what I’ve recently learned.)

BUT at least the parts numbers agree from one to the other, so maybe this guide will be handy after all.

As for instructions, it’s pretty much ‘what you see is what you get’, but here’s how I made mine. Feel free to experiment and improve your own version.

Have fun!

Alex

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That trap is just sublime. :3

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I did notice that in the earlier images myself Alex. Still I must say that your GB2 Winston custom looks even better now.

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Yes, I always thought that too as a boy, until I found out that Ernie Hudson in reality was born in 1945! If I did not know any better, or if lacked access to the internet, I would guessed him to be closer in age to Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd and not one year younger than Harold Ramis was at the time both movies were made! Also I always though that it was funny that of the four actors from the movies, the Real Ghostbusters version of Winston looked the closest to his original film actor especially when the summer of 1989 came around with Ghostbusters II being released in June.

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Alex, I won’t quote that instruction post because its long, but thank you!!! These are all really cool, but that trap blew me away!

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Thanks for the instructions on the trap Alex! Gonna have to build one of those!

Any plans on making a more accurate pack to go with that trap?

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No ‘plans’ at the moment, but the thought did occur that I should make companion pieces on this scale. I’ve got some round 1 x 1 tiles in trans-red that should be perfect for the cyclotron. I’ll have to play around in the LDD and see what inspiration occurs.

Funny that the whole trap is scaled off of the existing caution stripe panels, so any additional bits of gear this size will be too.

Alex

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@ Alex Newborn:

The Ghost Trap looks really great Alex! I hope that soon, more Ghostbusters Lego’s come out or else I am just going to build my own Fire House, Ecto 1A, Ecto 2, and Ghostbuster II mini figures!

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Given that the Firehouse wasn’t chosen to be made by the Lego Ideas team, there’s no guarantee there’ll be any more official sets.

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My Thoughts exactly Kingpin!