Cool, man. Kyle Peterson is in the Western North Carolina Ghostbusters group (or his WNC), so you should send him a message. He’s a pretty cool guy and has his own costume and proton pack. Might have some fun if you guys turn out to be in the same neighborhood. I know his deviant art and I know he’s on myspace, but not sure past that. I can get back to you later if you ask me, but here’s his deviantart: http://lonelyimmortal.deviantart.com/
Kyle Peterson’s character and group should make appearances or be mentioned from time to time in my CNCGB comic and animated series.
I haven’t met Kyle yet, but it’d be awesome if all of us Ghostheads in NC got together sometime.
Hey, man, that’s awesome. I’m in the Triad (Winston Salem) myself. It’s been a long time since I’ve checked the message boards here. My team, the CNCGB, pretty much never did anything past join my group and buy flight suits, so I got discouraged and gave up the ghost for awhile. I have a flight suit, proton pack, and other props and I’m always looking to do more Ghostbusters related stuff. Would you like to join CNCGB or at least meet up sometime? You mentioned working on proton packs, and quite honestly I need to build a better one but don’t have the know-how or equipment. So, yeah, I’d love to work on pack builds too. As far as working in a group goes, it’d just be me for now. My friends/team more or less is iffy on the costume thing and mostly only lend their talents (brainstorming, writing, voice acting, camera work, etc) to the creation of our online web comic and any of the live action and animated fan films we do. And you’re always welcome to participate in that as well.
If you haven’t checked it out yet, you can see our comic and fan film work and photos of our equipment at http://cncgb.deviantart.com .
Hmm, 2005? Methinks someone has the link to my old defunct Yahoo/Geocities-based site. But the fact that I had to stop and think “geez, has it been THAT long since I posted something???” is a sign that I’m not really active at all these days. :-?
Huh, I’ve not spent a lot of time there but thought it was okay when I did. I’d love to go back to Wilmington one day. If I ever get into writing again, I was going to base one of my stories (the ol’ “possible apocalyptic future”) there.
I was somewhat recently in Raleigh too, briefly. Anyone else from here catch the Muse/U2 show at State?
I like it here in WNC pretty good. This winter is starting to SUCK, though - but I guess a lot of places can say that!
Hey man thanks for the responce. Your art work is phenominal man. I like the style of it quite alot. Kudos on that!
I actually only did the GB thing for Halloween but was really swept away by props building. Not to mention some of the completely awesome people on this forum and especially Garee and Bustinforjesus. Garee was probably my biggest inspirations as he made the packs feel achievable for the working man. Then I learned he’s in my home state too!
It was probably one of the single most dedicated things I have done in a long time that didn’t relate to my job. (Wait…does Homebrewing & World of Warcraft count?) It was nice to create by hand something from the movies that i would have killed for as a kid. Definately a blast from the past and Halloween night was awesome, I got so many cheers and comments from people. Sadly the the actual thrower is at about 40% completion and I have had no motivation to finish it. I tend to think this summer I will as its been to cold this winter to screw around much in the garage. If you do decide to get serious about making another pack let me know. I’d be happy to share some things with you that made my journey easier (and a lot of what made it hard!) I also think if I had the time and the money to make pack #2, I’d probably start with the thrower first and work my way to the pack.
Dang…the next thing I was gonna do was dress up for “Free Comic Book Day” at Mountain Empire Comics in Johnson City the first weekend of May…but I think I’m working then!
Fairly new around here, only been browsing for a few days… But, I happened across an Ecto-1 in Charlotte, and the guy directed me to here and to www.carolinaghostbusters.com.
Looks like they’re primarily around the Charlotte, Belmont and Gastonia area for any of us located near there. Doc Geressy is the name of the guy that heads up the group.
Nah man i can get to WS in about an hour. its straight up I-85 then to Hwy 52. I despratly want to build a pack but just don’t know how to get started. I’m willing to pay and build all the stuff, i would just like some in person tutorials…lol
I would love to meet up with all you guys sometime. we could meet in WS or halfway doesnt matter to me. Prolly shoot you a PM.
Love to work on a pack sometime, man. Don’t know when though, my schedule has been pretty insane lately - well, on the week ends. Week days are still all too empty.
Well it’s cool to see that there are some ghostheads in the Raleigh area, I was starting to think I was all alone. I actually just moved to Chapel Hill from Upstate NY a few months ago taking a position as a Store Manager for Radio Shack in Durham.
It’s sad that I have been a part of GBFans for years and never thought to check out if there were fellow brothers and sisters in my home state with the same interest.
Currently I am living in Elon, NC, though as a United Methodist pastor that can change quite a bit. I’ve been a fan since birth and remember beggin’ my parents for the first pack Norm made from Home Depot parts only to be turned down. As of a couple of years ago I came into possession of a proton pack in need of refurbishing and have been slowly fixing it up. To the casual observer or after a quick glance it looks perfect, but I need to replace an unevenly cut motherboard and want to add some more metal parts to make it sparkle. Not to mention I want some lights. Also, I’m awaiting one of Ghostguy’s wonderful RGB PKE’s. Other than collecting anything Ghostbusters and playing video games religiously, I collect spores, molds, and fungus.
That’s the long and short of my propping history (if I leave out the part where I made an absolutely terrible looking pack on my own), and I am currently connected to two other propping Ghostheads, one in the Charlotte area and another in Greenville, NC. The most recent thing we did together was dress up at Best Buy for the release of Ghostbusters on Bluray and the videogame. We got 'em for free since we were sorta kinda hired. I believe I also ran into the CNC Ghostbusters at the Heroes Convention last year. Sadly I couldn’t make it out there. This is getting long, so I’m going to fizzle out for now. I’ll post more later! Nice to meet you guys!
Thanks for the welcome. Just out of curiosity have any of you considered doing a meet up somewhere to get to know each other and find ways to connect for events such as Heroes Con where we can show off our GB suits and props?
First of all: Awesome that you’re a Christian/pastor but can still openly be nerdy with Ghostbusters fever! I went to Bible college and stuff but sometimes some more legalistic brothers and sisters (in Christ) make you feel like being a Ghosthead is dirty or something, so always cool to find someone who takes advantage of some Christian liberty.
Second: Awesome! You met us at Heroes Con 2009 I take it? I don’t think I dressed up in 2010… But, yeah, I was there with team members Gray and Phil - but they chose to only wear black GB t-shirts and khaki pants or etc. We met up with two or three other people in flight suits though and took photos for a minute.
Third: I would love to amass an army of NC Ghostheads and talk props and especially do something creative like prop building, make a fan movie or animation (I am an animator), a comic book (I am a self-published comic artist), or etc… but I have to admit that the old passion to bust has died down in the past year or so. It’s just that … the rest of my team never shared the same amount of passion that I do. They loved the GB fan-webcomic we made and religiously played the GBTVG until the red ring of death came, but simply didn’t go all the way when it came to costumes and film making. We started making a film but my actors refused to return for filming and … it just didn’t work out. We still talk about finishing it sometimes and it’s been almost three years. So that’s kind of a downer and the obsessive fan Otaku love for Ghostbusters (I feel dirty for using the word “otaku”) has fizzled. Right now I’m just hoping to get a job and end this past year of unemployment. But e-mail me at [email protected] (I don’t check here often) if you want to chat. I dunno, maybe we could all get together in the future. But without money in my wallet and gas in my car I can’t make it out of Winston Salem. Let me know if any of you are hiring managers or can get me hooked up, because the economy sucks and jobs are hard to get right now.
Fourth: I just wanted to end on a positive note. I have a girl now and Jesus is working in my life a lot in the past year, so who needs obsessive fandom to fill my lonely heart? lol
Seriously, I love the Ghostbusters. Just afraid no one nearby will share my geeky passion for the cosplaying aspect like before. It’s not as fun to go it alone and I got sick of prop building without knowing what I was doing (Know what it’s like to almost lose your finger to a 7-foot saw machine screwed into a cement floor? Trust me, you don’t want to find out).
That depends on where in NC she’s moved to (heads up to the other franchises that aren’t in my area of the Triad). Also, you’d be surprised how difficult it is to find someone on Facebook by going just on a name.
