Heads Up Ghost Busters! The Hasbro Ghost Gun!
This thing was before GhostBusters and was Grrrreeaat! My friend had it! I loved it so much! But….. sometimes it was very difficult talking your parents into buying it when you were playing with your friends all the time anyway…..DARN! I always wanted my own! The ghostly writing on the box alone was worth buying it! I remember it was a super cool gun and you could shoot ghosts that were projected onto the walls! How much better could it get than this?
This was a really fun one! I was/am a sucker for glow-in-the-dark toys but this gun took it one step further and actually projected glowing ghosts! You would head for the darkest room in the house, turn out the lights and fire up the Ghost Gun! Soon you were blasting the un-living hell out of un-living things.
The gun, which looks like it was based on a WWII German machine gun (too cool!), was hella hella awesome. It was a major ghost projector. You would insert strips of ghosts on film and they would be projected on the walls where you could blast their protoplasmic bums into oblivion! I frequently played with the gun as a gun, blasting imaginary enemies within earshot and the undead.
Alas, the poor ghost gun has sadly met it’s maker these days, which is why ghosts are running rampant…… Who ya gonna call?
(Ed Note: This article was written and submitted well before the untimely passing of Harold Ramis, but we here are the Resurrection of Zombie 7 Podcast and it’s related entities would like to take the time to recognize Ramis as the comic genius that he was! Perhaps he is cracking up entities in the Afterlife as we speak!)
