For those interested, I have written an article on the unreleased Egons Lab playset. I felt it was time to showcase a few new images and add some further insight to the development of that project. Enjoy!
http://ghostbusters.wikia.com/wiki/Egon's_Lab_Action_Figure_Toy
~Josh
All Information and Images provided Josh Blake from his collection.
Some images of the last version of Egon’s Lab…
Josh also has scanned the 1991 promo booklet. (includes text about toys!)
Josh provides information and more details on article in question.Also all 10 images can be found there.
Full versions will be seen in gallery of “Egon’s Lab Action Figure Toy” shortly.
Fantastic find, if Kenner had gone ahead and made Egon’s lab back in the day I would have certainly purchased it. Also it is nice to know more about the other canceled RGB toys and to see pictures of some other toys that never were.
Thanks for sharing; while I’ve seen the other canceled toys before, the “Slimerizer” is news to me.
Awesome, cool to know what toy’s we could’ve had
Technically the firefighter toy was in Extreme Ghostbusters “Back in the saddle” episode 
I’m glad some of you are interested and have an appreciation for these items! I have always had a interest in unproduced toy relics and enjoy doing research to learn and report my findings. I am planning on getting some professional pictures taken of the Egons Lab playset and may eventually post a few videos demonstrating the playset features in action.
~Josh
Very nice, JBlake!
I would love to see some videos! Play with it, and let us watch! :lol:
I’m also curious as to how you acquired it. Was it on ebay? And if you don’t mind, how much did it cost you? (Even an approximation would be nice, but I understand if you don’t want to say.)
I acquired this item from a former Kenner employee - not ebay. The examples that went to auction are now in private collections. As far as the price is concerned, I will only tell you what I was told when I first began searching for an example of my own. I am friends with the individual who originally brokered the Labs that went to auction back in 02 and 08. He told me that he had a standing offer of $3500 for an Egons Lab should one ever surface. He also said that the former Kenner engineer who worked on this project reported that only 3 were made for Toy Fair and for internal photography use - I believe this number to be inaccurate on account that the one used for photography does not match any of the known examples that have surfaced (Kenner typically made 4 to 5 examples at this stage of production). In the end, his only advice to me was “good luck”. In any case, if another example ever went up for auction its hard telling what it would fetch. You would not only have Ghostbuster fans bidding, but a vast pool of individuals who love Kenner preproduction and pop culture items.
~Josh
Hey Josh,
Wondering if the only prototype you own is Egon’s lab? Do you also own the slimerizer, glow copter and fire truck as well? Do you know if the power pack heroes ever did make it to protoype?
Sorry for so many questions, just would love to exchange an email or phome chat with you as I am a huge collector.
im also curious if these were ever made. i read somewhere that a few ecto copters made to stores, but I doubt that since ive never seen one on ebay before. I had never seen the slimerizer and ghost blaster! I would have killed to have those as a kid! Especially the slimerizer since I loved GB2 so much!
Rumors are rumors. Aside from ebay, has anyone actually seen or know someone who has one? This item should’ve been further along in production than the Lab and Firefrighter (if box art was created and it ended up on the back of the Ecto Glow line, we can assume this). The fact that very little injection mold tooling needed altered (from the Crime Mulcher Police Academy vehicle) before production ready examples could be generated, supports this notion as well. However, the Kenner documentation that I have suggests that the Ecto Glow Copter never reached production ready stage, therefore, never would have made it to retail shelves. This is what is known: the item used for photography was a painted model of the Crime Mulcher Police Academy vehicle (information previously known), what has not been documented is the fact that the wheels on the Ecto Glow Copter actually say “Crime Mulcher” - tooling that would have needed altering before the final stage of production. The documentation that I have lists each of these unreleased items and refers to them as either “painted model” or “inside sample”. Another name for inside sample is “first shot” or more commonly referred to as “test shot”. This was one of the last stages of toy production before a toy shipped to vendors. Before Kenner launched a toy, such as this, they would generate anywhere from 3 to 5 examples of the toy as working “painted models”. The next phase was first shot and then “Engineering Pilot”. In short, if the toy actually made it to retail shelves it would’ve been further along than “painted model” stage. The schedule sheet I have only mentions “painted model” and says nothing about an “inside sample”. Until someone can offer better insight on this toy, I will not concede that it ever made it to store shelves 
It wouldn’t really surprise me if a few first shots made it out of the factory, if in fact it made it to that stage of production. As for the painted model used for photography - we can all dream can’t we??? 
~Josh
Wow, quite interesting. Kenner much like other toy makers (Matty being one of them) tend to reuse molds because its cost effective. It didn’t surprise me, nor should it surprise anyone else here that they basically painted over the previous toy prototype to make the Ecto Copter. The line at any rate was at a end at that point anyways. All the ideas other than the Egon lab were rehashes at best.
The one thing that always surprised me was when they got to the Slime Heroes line which saw the purple proton packs, that they are still designed after the pilot and not the series itself. But I guess Kenner didn’t know or it was seen as a not important detail. :sigh:
Hi! I hope this message finds everyone well.
The Egon’s lab recently came across my radar (again).
I have a few question for the community.
does anyone know about anyone that has made or can make a replica of the original lab mock-up, seen here:https://www.pinterest.com/pin/137078382383854529/
i see that bobby made his own lab: My personal hand-made Egon lab playset - Other Props - GBFans.com
I want to connect these threads to see if there is anyone that can help more of us get actual physical copies of either or both versions of the lab.
thank you all!
I’m definitely no expert on this, but if you haven’t already seen it Ghostbusters Gear has released 3D printable files for his own interpretation of the Egon’s Lab playset, as part of his giant Firehouse playset.
Files available here:
https://www.patreon.com/ghostbustersgear
More photos and videos here: https://www.instagram.com/p/C-Be7tHO66n/
