[Zack]

Toy News International has the full story on new Toys R Us exclusive Ghostbusters 2 minimates, including many characters that have been in popular demand. We have GB2 Egon(the last one in the group to come out) and Titanic Captain ghost, Courtroom Egon and Ray will each respectively come with a Scoleri Brother, Tony and Nunzio. Vigo the Carpathian and World of the Psychic Peter Venkman with a hairless cat!

Thanks to Mjollnir for the heads up.

[Zack]

Until AJ or someone knowing how to add photos for articles to the site, here's a link to the full size pic, resized for the front page article. Looks like it says a few weeks for these? Go check out the full report from the ToyNewsi.com link above


photo from ToyNewsi.com

[RayGBuster]

i love these

[Zack]

definitely an all around awesome assortment this time! They hit the nail on the head. Off to hunt in a couple weeks again I guess. I'm still on the lookout for the Hotwheels Ecto.

Maybe after this, Subway Egon, Ray, Winston, maybe a Slime Blower Winston and Ray or GB2 khaki Peter/Egon? Also we need an Oscar and GB2 Dana

[JayTigran]

The Scoleri Bros look bad-azz!!! So does Vigo, and the courtroom Ray & Egon look spot on too...

aaaaah!!! I can't wait!!!!!

*giggles like a school girl*

[Nerdy NotionZ]

Scoleri Bros and Egon are gonna be must buys!


Anyone notice that the court room Egon is missing a belt from his pack.?

[Michael Scott]

Peter looks like Ray Liotta

[Kingpin]

Wow, those are amazing.

Rather strange thinking about how Captain E.J. Smith, commander of the world's most famous shipwreck has now been immortalized as a Minimate.

[Doctor Venkman]

Absolutely buying these... AJ will you have these soon? If so, I'll be ordering them from you.

[JayTigran]

Absolutely buying these... AJ will you have these soon? If so, I'll be ordering them from you.

I'm not speaking for AJ, but these aren't DiamondSelect issued, they are Toys R Us exclusives which (as far as I know) AJ does not get

Wow, those are amazing.

Rather strange thinking about how Captain E.J. Smith, commander of the world's most famous shipwreck has now been immortalized as a Minimate.

A GHOST minimate even

[jwm260]

Look very cool. Hopefully I'll be lucky enough to snag these through toysrus.com like I did the first 2 waves.

[BradRedfield]

I really want to get all of these so here's hoping they'll be shipped out in larger quantities than the first two waves.

EDIT: Wait a minute, does Courtroom Egon have a new bigger hairpiece? Was his hair bigger in that scene or something?

[JayTigran]

EDIT: Wait a minute, does Courtroom Egon have a new bigger hairpiece? Was his hair bigger in that scene or something?

Yes it does, and I'm not sure if he did or no in the movie itself, but the smirk made me laugh out loud (my coworkers think I'm nutz now)

[Zack]

I always thought his hair looked to be a little taller in GB2 anyway..

[BradRedfield]

I'm glad they went with the laughing bit of the Courtroom Scene, all the other versions of the guys are either stoic, grim or serious. Adds a bit of variety, y'know?

I do wonder though, that might be a new hairpiece that they're going to use for future Egon mates. It does make him resemble Ramis a bit more now.

[Zack]

totally... I love switching the faces all in and out too. Or changing their hair for the fun of it too

[BassAttack]

YEEES! Awsome!

[JayTigran]

totally... I love switching the faces all in and out too. Or changing their hair for the fun of it too

I've done that a few times when taking pictures of the mates for Photoshop purposes to get the right look lol

Most noticably I used Slimed Venkman's face with regular venkman with Gozer zapping them all...

hehe, I can't wait, these look awesome and complete a few variants now (GB2 uniforms & CourtRoom), now we need a Winston & Ray without Proton packs (to go with LabCoat Egon & World of the Psychic Peter)

[featofstrength]

These will be easy to find ...sigh...damn TRU...

[BradRedfield]

So, what are they gonna do after this? We got most of the characters we wanted.

They could always do Slime-Thrower Winston and Ray (with GB2 patch Peter and Egon), Janosz and regular Dana but what else?

[therookie]

they shouldnt be too bad now that they see the huge response for these i have to imagine they are going to carry a fair amnt of them, they look awesome. I kinda wish they had like a figure case or storage with the minimates gb logo on there that would be very cool.

[Zack]

I definitely say they can still do hardhat subway versions of Egon Winston and Ray.

It'd be a stretch but if they wanted to, I'd buy Oscar, Janosz, Hardemayer, the Mayor, the Judge...although those seem pretty unlikely they'd go that obscure.

[| alkaline |]

Finally the Scoleri Brothers ! Hey quick question. There was an article saying that some of the characters from the first 2 waves were being repacked. Does anyone know how you can tell the repacks from the originals? Are they marked differently?

[Zack]

I think the packaging looks exactly the same. I saw them a day or two ago. The end cap on the peg says GHOSTBUSTERS BEST OF, I think. None of the others stayed on the shelves long enough. The variants should be able to be seen through the package, at least I could make out the food in Slimer's stomach.

[| alkaline |]

I think the packaging looks exactly the same. I saw them a day or two ago. The end cap on the peg says GHOSTBUSTERS BEST OF, I think. None of the others stayed on the shelves long enough. The variants should be able to be seen through the package, at least I could make out the food in Slimer's stomach.

Oh OK thanks! I also read that these sets should now have the "Toys R US Exclusive" Silver stamp on the box. Can anyone who bought or seen them confirm this? If this is the case spotting them should be easy. Also Louis's uniform now says "Spengler" like it should of so look for that.

[Zack]

That I didn't notice if they corrected that. I wondered before why only some of them had the stamp lol

[| alkaline |]

That I didn't notice if they corrected that. I wondered before why only some of them had the stamp lol

Wll now they can stamp them and create a " Best of" release haha...ooOOooo marketing you

[hawaiiangb]

id much rather have that maid with the cart that gets toasted when they are going after slimer...instead of the ship captain.

[Chace]

Im not a fan of the minimates at all, never bought a single one. But if they make "scared subway Winston", I'll buy as many as I can find.

[RedVirtue]

*DROOL* These are fantastic!