- June 2nd, 2016, 4:11 pm#4866044
With the recent number of trailers, TV spots, and production photos, we've gotten a pretty decent concept of the new Ghost Trap. I read that the design was based on an industrial-grade rat trap, which seems like a natural fit given the exterminator aspect of ghostbusting.
Schematic
Official Website Photo
In this photo the trap has what appears to be a length of 3/4" split loom ruuning alongth the length of the main tube. There appear to be 97 notches in the loom, which suggests a length of 13.375" for the main trap housing.
The light is green...
...and turns red upon incarceration of the ghost.
The trap is worn underneath the bend of the motherboard with breakaway or velcro straps for easy access. Wearing the trap on the pack is not only practical, but seems to be yet another homage to The Real Ghostbusters.
In addition to having a traditional foot pedal and cord, the trap seems to be able to be remotely controlled from the device on Holtzmann's arm.
This photo, from some sort of basketball promo (not sure of the relation between the two) offers some very useful information regarding the dimensions of the trap. First of all, having the pack, which we have pretty solid measurements of at this point, on the same vertical plane as the trap can give us a rough idea of the dimensions.
We know that the pack is roughly 20" long x 12.5" wide, with a 29" thrower (20" from the gun box to the barrel tip), and a Cryogen Reservoir plus Power Cell bar of 12" x 5.75". Doing some crude measurements in Photoshop, it looks like the trap is about 20" from the handle to the rear project box, which might be about 2" thick, giving us a total length of just under 22". Given the previous measurement of 13.375" for the main tube, 2" for the project box, at least 1.5" for the handle (16.5" total), that leaves about 5.125" for the space between the main tube and rear project box (which doesn't seem right).
The diameter of the main tube, based on the toolbox lid, seems to match fairly close, suggesting an outer diameter of 5.75" - 6". Again, these are all just crude dimensions made by extrapolating measurements of known objects.
Thoughts?
Schematic
Official Website Photo
In this photo the trap has what appears to be a length of 3/4" split loom ruuning alongth the length of the main tube. There appear to be 97 notches in the loom, which suggests a length of 13.375" for the main trap housing.
The light is green...
...and turns red upon incarceration of the ghost.
The trap is worn underneath the bend of the motherboard with breakaway or velcro straps for easy access. Wearing the trap on the pack is not only practical, but seems to be yet another homage to The Real Ghostbusters.
In addition to having a traditional foot pedal and cord, the trap seems to be able to be remotely controlled from the device on Holtzmann's arm.
This photo, from some sort of basketball promo (not sure of the relation between the two) offers some very useful information regarding the dimensions of the trap. First of all, having the pack, which we have pretty solid measurements of at this point, on the same vertical plane as the trap can give us a rough idea of the dimensions.
We know that the pack is roughly 20" long x 12.5" wide, with a 29" thrower (20" from the gun box to the barrel tip), and a Cryogen Reservoir plus Power Cell bar of 12" x 5.75". Doing some crude measurements in Photoshop, it looks like the trap is about 20" from the handle to the rear project box, which might be about 2" thick, giving us a total length of just under 22". Given the previous measurement of 13.375" for the main tube, 2" for the project box, at least 1.5" for the handle (16.5" total), that leaves about 5.125" for the space between the main tube and rear project box (which doesn't seem right).
The diameter of the main tube, based on the toolbox lid, seems to match fairly close, suggesting an outer diameter of 5.75" - 6". Again, these are all just crude dimensions made by extrapolating measurements of known objects.
Thoughts?