This thread is great! Very helpful and informative. I’m getting ready for a more accurate pack build and this cleared up all my questions on GB1 vs GB2 packs. Thanks everybody!
cant wait to get my pack on this level!
This image has been around forever, and I’m still puzzled about why the hole next to the slo-blo isn’t flat, but it “dimples”, like a gromet on a padded surface..
Bit too much force used to fit the thread into the rear instrument bar?
It seems like they used a rivnut, but instead of drilling an exact size hole, they used a punch to widen the opening for the rivnut. It’s just weird that it’s the only thrower with that defect.. If that really is a rivnut, I’d believe that they also used them on the bottom for the 6 plate screws…
If the super hero was the prototype I’d make sense that it’d have some details different from the"mass produced" other packs. It depends on the sequence of construction though.
This might be common knowledge to those of you that have been around for years, but the other day a friend asked me how many packs were ever made in total, and I realised I had no idea. How many of each type of pack are there, and is their whereabouts still accounted for (Volguus excepted)?
Good question, I’d like to know too.
Easy way to start would be to know i.e. How many hero packs there were on GB1 and where they are now.
There were five Hero packs built for GB1, and their current whereabouts are as follows:
Venkman Hero: Sony Prop Archives
Stantz Hero: Private Collection in UK
Spengler Hero: Private Collection
Zeddemore Hero: Unknown
Super Hero: Sony Prop Archives
At least four Semi-Hero packs were built for GB2:
Venkman Semi-Hero: Missing
Stantz Semi-Hero: Sony Lobby
Spengler Semi-Hero: Sony Prop Archives
Zeddemore Semi-Hero: Sony Prop Archives
Nice! Do we know which scenes used the super hero pack?
Also, what was different in the superhero vs the venkman? Just the moving bargraph or more?
This thread deserves to be updated and a response tendered.
The Super Hero Proton Pack was used primarily during the roof top sequence, and I have not been able to identify its use during any other sequence in the first film. The close up shot of the “Heat em’ Up” sequence, worn by Venkman when firing down at Stay Puft, worn by Winston briefly, and again work by Venkman briefly.
Differences in Ghostbusters of the Super Hero Wand:
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Orange Top Hat Light instead of Milky White
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Different Envelope Decal under the top right flip switch
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Blacked Out Knobs
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Unpainted Rear Cylinder (I believe the rear cylinder was not attached to the wand during the close up shot of the wand)
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No decals on top knob
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Nycoil Banjos on Wand Tip
Differences in Ghostbusters of the Super Hero Pack:
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Reversed Bumper, with blue bumper label set into recessed portion of bumper on right side
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Blue hose from Ion Arm to PPD goes over the ribbon cable
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Vac Tube hose runs over the HGA lines, and then under the HGA lines when terminating on the proton pack.
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Duel Stacked mounting bolts on bottom of cyclotron
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left side of pack is mounted at the power cell, and not near the Ion Arm
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Ghostbusters II style clippard Hex fitting on Ion Arm
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P-Clamp set upside down on Booster Frame
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Tight Twist on Ribbon cable (similar to Omni Pack)
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No cylcotron ring dimples
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No half moon and block spacers between ALICE frame and mobo
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ALICE frame had rivets at the 10:00 & 2:00 positions on the frame and into the mobo
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Power Cell lights mounted to the shell, not the mobo
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No foam tube pad on top of ALICE frame
Some additional information on the specifics of the shells can be found here: The definitive history and lineage of the stunt pack shell
As this thread reveals the hero packs changed only as much as was necessary for GB2, even retaining their original elbows and ion arm square fitting.
The courtroom scene in GB2 is a shoulder strap continuity nightmare. It looks like one hero pack LC1 straps received custom extra padding but another, not.
Did the original LC1 frame/strap setup stay on the hero packs for GB2?
The LC-1 frames stayed on the Hero’s but the belts and kidney pads were changed out for LC-2 versions and the straps were padded later in production.
I appreciate that, thank you for the clarification. It looked like all of the V webbing was extra padded by the end when they arrive to the slime shelled museum and I questioned what else stayed behind.
Hard to believe two hero packs are now in private hands. Really great to find specific answers to questions here with some amazing reference. But now I have to give up on replicating a specific pack.
Has it ever been worked out what the light lens is on the superhero thrower in front of the orange hat light? I used to think the thrower had an orange and white hat light but the lens in that pic looks transparent and is obviously smaller than the hat light behind it.
I wonder why the orange hat light was only partially exposed as well, it’s barely poking through the aluminium vs the other hat lights on the wand which are fully shown.
That little light in front of the hat light is an arcolectric light, the shop sells them here. Pack: Arcolectric Clear Neon Indicator - Pack Parts - GBFans.com Shop
That hat lights like many things differ from pack to pack. The top hat light on the Venkman pack is also sunken like the super hero. But the top hat lights on the Sony lobby pack and the Spengler pack are both fully exposed.
Bought one for my wand build, though probably be disassembling it and using the lens only as it seems to need a lot of voltage.
That’s what I’ve done with mine, it means I don’t have to replace the whole unit should the electrical component burn out.
Got my arcolectric light in the post today, much smaller than i would have thought.