I received my new 2025 Fun.com / HalloweenCostumes.com pack yesterday.
My initial impressions match almost every video review I have seen.
I love it! It looks great!
It is light! It can’t weigh more than 10 pounds. I will weigh it.
My heavily modified 2023 Fun.com pack must weigh AT LEAST 35 pounds.
Wearing the 2025 pack will be no problem at Cons.
To be sure, this pack has some issues. Issues that I will soon remedy.
I like this pack so much that I cancelled my Haslab 1984 pre-order.
There are already lots of people starting to make parts and kits for these packs.
I am pretty excited to see what becomes available.
I just saw a video from Right Coast Props on an electronics / sound kit for these packs.
I think that’s the route I am gonna go. It has everything I want, including smoke.
Here are some pics of the new 2025 pack and of my heavily modified 2023 Fun.com / Halloweencostumes.com pack.
New 2025 Fun pack on the left…Modified 2023 Fun pack on the right.
Note how much bigger those 2023 packs are. The 2023 pack is pretty massive.
I will post up more info and photos as I go along.
Thanks for looking!
Stewart
New parts are on the way:
- Original Raytheon Crank Knob. PN MS91528-3S2B. I can’t believe that I was able to find an original.
(The crank knob was a set of two. The other knob, which I won’t be using is PN MS91528-4S2B)
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Original Dale PH-25 resistor without the circle.
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Reproduction GB2/Afterlife ribbon cable.
Here are the Crank Knobs:
I tried two other types / brands of stands.
Due to the lack of adjustment on the leg spread there were problems.
I was having trouble with the stand supports interfering with the wand hoses at the base.
They didn’t fit right on the ALICE frames and they were not stable.
These stands are great!
Got 'em today!
Bought them from GBHQPartsDepot
I just ordered a bunch of parts.
From Charlesworth Dynamics I bought his:
-Ribbon Cable Clamp
-Powercell lens kit
-Proton pack tubing
(It’s interesting that my pack did not come with a ribbon cable clamp, yet all the pics show one. I was curious about it, so I contacted Fun.com asking them if the pack is supposed to come with the clamp. Apparently it is. They were more than helpful and gave me a partial refund. I told them not to worry about a refund, but they insisted. That will pay for the new clamp! Fun.com and HalloweenCostumes.com have excellent customer service.)
From Tacobelli I bought his:
-Booster Frame Ladder Upgrade
-PPD Upgrade
-Ion Arm Upgrade
I had already purchased Tacobelli’s Wand Track V-Hook Upgrade print files.
I bought the print files because he didn’t have any physical ones in his Etsy store at the time.
I will post up pics of all of this when I receive them.
I cannot wait!
