Haslab Hasbro Spengler's Proton Pack Post-Release Discussion

After seeing so many people reporting they got an email from Hasbro and their FedEx apps updating to show their packs had shipped, my FedEx app finally updated!! Both tracking numbers they gave me have been cancelled. Never gave an estimated delivery date and haven’t received any emails from Hasbro. Happy Friday the 13th!

Success!

Would that working on the etco 1 popcorn bucket? I was thinking of painting mine.

OH NICE! A friend of mine bought one to mod into a GB2 pack. He’ll be super happy about the hose :smiley:

Ok this is is odd. I signed up for Fed Ex to email me, text me, call me. Everything. Suddenly last night I get a phone call on a number I didn’t provide saying a Fed Ex package is coming today and they gave me a tracking number. The tracking number says the item is 6 pounds(that seems a little light) but the dimensions are 37x18x17 inches.

Haslab still shows my order as unfulfilled and this item shipping is coming from Quebec(Dorsal). I’m in Ontario Canada.

So can anyone confirm with me please what dimensions their package was? I’m thinking this HAS to be it but what’s odd is Fed Ex called the one phone number I have that I never provided them. No email, no text. No nothing. Just a call with an automated message giving me a tracking #.

What’s also weird is I ordered 5 of these bad boys but it seems I’m only getting 1 at the moment. If that’s that this is? It has ti be tho. I’m not expecting anything else

How in the heck did you do that? It looked pretty permanent and I couldn’t figure it out.

Nothing yet in Victoria, hoping to get some kind of notification today… i need my gear!!

Somebody told me to post over here. For you guys who want a more accurate 1984 mode, I tapped into the cyclotron LEDs on my pack and the 3 LED setup on each light window, when turned into just the 1 middle LED on (and the 2 side ones off) for 1984 mode looks much better.

84 mode light mod demo.

Now that I have control over the cyclotron LEDs, I added a ramp up effect in 2021 mode and a anti-clockwise / clockwise toggle switch.

After poking around between the sleeve and plastic connector I found mine was only held on by a single patch of glue.

As I didn’t want to cut into the sleeve until after I’d released it (in case it was ugly/whatever underneath), I worked through the gap and released the glue. It’s quite tough glue and fairly stiff rubber, but go slow and don’t use anything metal - I used a couple of plastic spudgers.

Once the glue was released and I could slide the sleeve down the hose, I could see the hose bonds directly with the connector as I’d hoped, so simply sliced down the centre line of the sleeve.

(Be careful though as it would be easy to cut/mark the hose; I inserted something in between the sleeve and hose as a protective barrier as I cut gently with a scalpel).

I’ve wrapped the connector and a couple of spots up the hose with black tape and I’m really pleased with the difference

I’ve been following your progress in your mod thread - just wanted to say thanks for all your work on this, ‘84 mode with single LEDs looks so much better!

Ah, gotcha. It’s a permanent change cutting it off the loom.

Mine is scheduled for delivery today, but as of 3:30 this morning it was three hours away. And says it’s still there seven hours later. So not expecting it to happen today.

Looks like my third and final pack shipped today. It was the first one I ordered. Seems they shipped them out in reverse order. :cool:

UPDATE: due to be delivered tomorrow.

No updates for me yet. :sigh:

Just got my e-mails and app updates for my last two packs: 1 pack on Tuesday, 2 on Thursday.

HYPED

FedEx says they made a delivery attempt today and no one was home. I was at home all day waiting for it.

Thats typical FedEx, they usually dont even get out of their truck.

Yeah mine is not coming today. Still three hours away. Been sitting there for 12 hours not moving. Was the only day I will be home this weekend

VideoBob crapping all over the Haslab pack, comparing it to one of his $3500 packs

The only people that are really going to complain about the Hasbro packs are prop builders. They aren’t going to affect your business, that’s due on Bobby there. We might nit pick about certain changes we can fix with mod’s but I’m willing to bet money this guy already has plans on copying their shell.