Can one of you guys post a few pics of the backpack part, please?
Here ya go.
Looks like a pretty large sized backpack with the proton pack tacked on. It seems like it would be too unwieldy to use regularly.
if you decide to mod that one with a light/sound kit, be sure to take pictures for us of the process. Hopefully they made it pretty easy to remove the backpack without having to tear it up too badly.
I’ve been looking at turorials online. It should’nt be too hard to separate, but for now I’m keeping it as-is. That way I can take water & use it as storage for trick-or-treating with my kids.
Why would you guys go to the effort of buying the backpack version, with the intent to take it apart and remove the backpack, when the’s the regular Spirit version that already cuts to the chase?
At least in my case, for some reason they were charging about $10 less for shipping me the backpack vs the regular one. And with the additional 20% off backbacks the other day it was a no-brainer.
Got another email from Spencer’s this afternoon.
They now have (as far as I can tell) all of the Spirit Hallowe’en GB merchandise on the Spencer’s website too.
If anyone was wanting to get the proton-backpack (or other Spencer’s items like their GB-logo ‘dad hat’ and t-shirts) AND was planning to order a trap, etc. from Spirit, it might help on shipping to order them all from the one site.
Alex
I just received one of the Spencer’s backpacks.
Very easy to remove the backpack, 3 screws inside the backpack - all visible, no hunting under the fabric for these. And two on the outside (bottom left and right hand side of Cyclotron.
The fabric is on a piece of plywood, rather than the cardboard used in the other packs (at least the ones I have received):
just to be sure, is this the same shell they use for the prop? cuz if so, that means you could Alterntatively find the backpack and you’re paying double or potentially double what the prop is.
There’s one definite difference between this shell and the one used on the first release of the Packs (the cap head screws on the Ion Arm have been changed to look like cross heads), there may be more - as suggested by Spongeface’s revisions to his electronics package), but for most intents and purposes the shells, appear to be largely identical on the normal Pack and on the Backpack.
My interest would be to modify the pack with a spongeface light kit then put the backpack back on again. I’m not in the market for one myself. Mostly curious really
I have a SH pack made this year that had that change in the ion arm. Not just the Book bag version having that change.
So its a 1:1 mark up then. Even labor and material costs dont justify the 100% upsale.