It was ended early by the seller.
I had asked some questions about providing proof and pointed out the vhook purpose listed appeared incorrect and his reply:
He didnt work on the film.
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Do you know him? Or did you get more information from him on the back story of the trap?
The vhook was meant to go on the trap plate on the belt not as a guide for a string. There is a trap belt attachment with a male hook.
Look at it, the mechanics aren’t there for that. It’d slip right off a string.
He didn’t work on the film. If he did, it wasn’t with the trap.
I just woke up from a dream that lasted all night.
The dream was about this trap.
That I spent all this time doing research on it n that I found out it wasn’t the real deal, n then I drove out to see the trap in person n found out that it was a fake n that the guy had bought it off videoblob who had recasted it…
It was a crazy dream, n I just woke up thinking “wtf”.
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Yeah, the seller is clueless. Even if he did work on the film and there may have been some point durring filming that a trap was pulled along by a string for some reason, nothing on the trap was specifically designed for that purpose. Fans almost always know more about stuff than the people that worked on it, we care more than people that were just there for a paycheck.
Being a “fabucater” on a film does not mean you get close to the set to see how it is used. It’s even possible that this guy made off with this prop and is not entitled to own or sell it.
There was a few things like the v hook he told me about was just out right stupid and made no sense.
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It was sold. Who bought it
To be honest, that thing looks exactly like the crappy trap I got from the Ohio dude after we’d run 30 smoke bombs through it as a stunt trap shrug
I do think its real I just wanna know how he got it. Ill find out!
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He told me a cast member bought it from him for $8000, and it’s gone for good.
Ah, well.
Zed
:shock:
Something is fishy here.
+1
the trap could very well be for real, he’s just a total shit for brains, which makes it even more hard to confirm for a fact the trap is for real.
Hmmm…
I think it is real.
I was high bidder for a while there.
Probly VB bought it with all the dough he is raking in… I’m sure it’ll be next up…
Well it did look like it could have been the real deal. I had a few more interactions with him, and he was not very friendly (at least to me) and definitely didn’t like being questioned. He made more claims but didn’t back any of them up with any proof. As a collector I would find it hard to purchase an item for that kind of money without some kind of proof or back story to investigate. I hope if he did sell it, it went to someone that loves ghostbusters as much as the rest of us and will take care of it. It would have been cool if one of us got it and took more pictures or dissected it. You can never have too much reference material.