[Prologic9]

Image searching 'mondo janine' did not produce the results I was hoping.

... Oh. I'm on the East Coast.

[Kingpin]

On Mondo's livestream just now, they answered my q and Janine will be in February. (1:02:49 mark)

That's good to know, a January release was still just a little too close to Christmas for comfort.

[Chicken, He Clucked]

We’ll probably get the first social media promo this week or next and it’ll go up end of Jan / early Feb, for the duration of Feb.

Curious how much the desk edition will be.

[mrmichaelt]

We’ll probably get the first social media promo this week or next and it’ll go up end of Jan / early Feb, for the duration of Feb.

Curious how much the desk edition will be.

They did say next week's stream will be promoting their Beavis & Butt-Head release and there have several livestreams in a row. So maybe at the earliest, a teaser image on social media next week then a livestream on the last week of January or first week of February.

[yourbigpalal83]

Hopefully we know soon when Janine will go up for pre order and how much...She's not coming with a ghost right...its just going to be her and the desk if i recall correctly? Its not like the other sets with the option for a 2 pack?

[Chicken, He Clucked]

The desk is the timed edition, I think.

[yourbigpalal83]

So realistically we are looking at maybe 150-200 tops with a desk? I dont see her being more then the guys with the two pack if her major feature is....a desk! Like im sure its a nice desk, but ITS STILL A DESK! I'll be honest here, i do wana get her for completion sakes, but id be far more excited if she was in uniform like in that one episode (the name escapes me) and im sure they can put out that version later on. I just dont see her being worth 240 with taxes and tarrifs for her to sit at a desk you know.

[Chicken, He Clucked]

Yeah I’m hoping the desk, chair and legs are like $30-50 addition to offset the expense of the figures generally.

[Kingpin]

Hopefully we know soon when Janine will go up for pre order and how much...She's not coming with a ghost right...

She won't have a big ghost, instead she'll be packaged with a couple of small ghosts that fit into the drawers of her desk.

[yourbigpalal83]

Hopefully we know soon when Janine will go up for pre order and how much...She's not coming with a ghost right...

She won't have a big ghost, instead she'll be packaged with a couple of small ghosts that fit into the drawers of her desk.

I diden't know about that. Thats cool...not every ghost needs to be bigger then the figure it comes with. But that being said...150-170 tops for this figure. She's not in uniform, she's not rocking a proton pack and ghost trap...(Granted she barely used them in the series and was mostly seen at her desk)...i just hope shes under the 200 dollar mark because...well i wont have that until march lol, and i dont think shes worth it (in terms of value with what comes with her) that price.

Thats my only nit pick. Chances are if Rays coming out may, she maybe will hit by the end of summer, or halloween!

[Prologic9]

Super important question;

Does anyone know where the bathroom is in the RGB firehouse?

[zeta otaku]

Second or third floor. Where ever the living area is. We know there's a full shower up there... though, this being 1980s NYC, animated or not, the alley is RIGHT THERE in emergencies.

[undead ghosthead]

I thought Janine was also coming with another version of Slimer too? Or were those just parts to add to the Slimer that comes with Peter that has him kissing her like in the RGB intro?

I have my single packed Winston enroute and should be delivered by Thursday this week.

[mrmichaelt]

Super important question;

Does anyone know where the bathroom is in the RGB firehouse?

Third floor.

By the 1997 era, in Extreme Ghostbusters, there is a second bathroom - one of the back rooms past the first floor office area. More of a powder room or half-bath, whatever the term is. I think it was "Ghostmakers".

I thought Janine was also coming with another version of Slimer too? Or were those just parts to add to the Slimer that comes with Peter that has him kissing her like in the RGB intro?

Yes, she comes with a complete kissing Slimer.
https://ghostbustersnews.com/2025/07/24 ... s-toyline/

[yourbigpalal83]

So what do you guys think the price of Janine will be...Hopefully 150-175 tops...I personally want her to add to the team, but i dont see 200 dollars worth of stuff here. No offense. My Egon and Peter figures are the best ghostbusters figures ive ever owned...well worth the price...BUT THEY DID COME WITH AN ENTIRE OTHER FIGURE and a ton of acessories and head and hand sculps. Janine here...she comes with a stand still desk and chair, a kissing slimer, and an alternate pair of legs...Im sure shes going to be a great figure...but not a 200 dollar price one.

[Prologic9]

Super important question;

Does anyone know where the bathroom is in the RGB firehouse?

Third floor.

By the 1997 era, in Extreme Ghostbusters, there is a second bathroom - one of the back rooms past the first floor office area. More of a powder room or half-bath, whatever the term is. I think it was "Ghostmakers".

I thought Janine was also coming with another version of Slimer too? Or were those just parts to add to the Slimer that comes with Peter that has him kissing her like in the RGB intro?

Yes, she comes with a complete kissing Slimer.
https://ghostbustersnews.com/2025/07/24 ... s-toyline/

Ooo that is excellent, thank you. I didn't even think to check EGB for reference.

It must be the door behind the firepole, to the right of the bedroom doors. Boogeyman comes out of there in Boogeyman 2 so I was calling it a closet but I knew they might have cheated.

[mrmichaelt]

It must be the door behind the firepole, to the right of the bedroom doors. Boogeyman comes out of there in Boogeyman 2 so I was calling it a closet but I knew they might have cheated.

Yeah, I believe so, the bathroom is its own room. There's either 3 or 4 rooms on the third floor, bathroom, sleeping quarters, and lab. I know in at least 1 episode, at the end of "Something's Going Around" they showed them waiting in line while Janine takes a super long shower on purpose because they trashed her apartment yet again. If you step out into the hall, it's right of the sleeping quarters doorway.

[yourbigpalal83]

Ghostbusters the video game for the most part had a wonderful layout of the firehouse that made sense...SANS THE MIDDLE FLOOR. The firehouse layout in frozen empire was just confusing to me...it was hard to tell what was where. Granted, the firehouse would have obviously had to have changed multiple times over 40 years...but i was just confused beyond the classic ground floor and the basement with the containment unit. The upper two floors, AND NOW AN ATTIC was just like....wow so it really has 4 floors?

I never took the cartoons layout serious because the containment unit went from this little entry port on the wall next to some sirens and pipes...TO THIS MASSIVE ALMOST WAREHOUSE SIZE thing in the basement. Even as a kid that bothered me (then again ive had OCD my entire life i just dident know what it was until my late 20s). I clearly remember thinking...did they have to dig out all this space to make the bigger basement? Then again, i always noticed little things like this...like the t-rex paddock in Jurassic Park, and the Clift Edge in the lost world....like where the hell did these drop off points come from out of nowhere...i got a weird sense of spacial awareness.

I remember distinctly the lab and the entertainment setup in the cartoon series. The episode where they turned slimer into a bunch of little ones, they had the lab right behind the tv setup if i recall correctly.

I love though how in Ghostbusters the video game...the layout for the bathrooms and showers is right behind the Sleeping quarters on the right side. Made total sense. Im still a bit confused by the decore in Ghostbusters 2 though...the room where they had the slime in the jars, the computer, and working on the slime blower always confused me, where was that located...and the pool table...im assuming its in that overall layout by the the kitchen and arcade where they were eating chinese food in the first film!

Someones got to do a definitive firehouse layout at some point...that be cool to walk around all the various configurations of the firehouse in 3d or even in VR and see how it changed from 84 to 2024! If they can model most of the Enterprise D and make deckards apartment in Blade runner with fine detail, the firehouse should be simple by comparison!

[Kingpin]

It must be the door behind the firepole, to the right of the bedroom doors. Boogeyman comes out of there in Boogeyman 2 so I was calling it a closet but I knew they might have cheated.

The bathroom on the third floor is accessed via the hall between Egon's Lab and the dormitory, the one that has the spiral staircase leading to the second floor.

The single door near the firepole in the dormitory is the closet where Boogieman busted back into our reality in The Boogieman is Back.

Im still a bit confused by the decore in Ghostbusters 2 though...the room where they had the slime in the jars, the computer, and working on the slime blower always confused me, where was that located...

You could interpret that to either be on GBII's version of the third floor, or the back portion of the second floor... It's ambigous enough that you can put it where you feel it best fits (The real reason for the lab and the adjoining bathroom/darkroom's nebulous location in the Firehouse is likely because they were a scratch-built set, due either because of the pyrotechnics sequence in the dark room, it appearing to be one of the reshoot scenes not in the original script... So they might not've had access to Fire Station №23 at that point, or both).

The pool table area is roughly where Egon's workbenches in the first film were located.

As for a definitive firehouse layout... Heh, that's been my pet project of the past 20 years.

[mrmichaelt]

in Ghostbusters 2 though...the room where they had the slime in the jars, the computer, and working on the slime blower always confused me, where was that located...and the pool table...im assuming its in that overall layout by the the kitchen and arcade where they were eating chinese food in the first film!

According to Luke Whitelock, the room where they had the slime jars, computer, and slime blower was on the second floor at the 'back of the Firehouse'. Maybe that used to be the sleeping quarters seen in GB1 but then where did they sleep OR did they commute to the Firehouse from their apartments OR just sleep up on the third floor (bonus fact, the dark room in GB2 is Phoebe's bedroom in FE) between calls? Shrug.

[Prologic9]

Well this is why it's nice to focus on the RGB firehouse because they had to work it out to make the show. I've found they're very strict to the layout here, backgrounds might have wonky proportions and scale but the layout is always consistent.

I'm guessing this drawing was done fairly early on and so details like the bathroom and TV area haven't been included yet.

If anyone is interested, I stumbled upon the very simple scale immediately. In 1:12 scale this would be 4 feet long, 3 feet high, and 20 inches wide.

[mrmichaelt]

Well this is why it's nice to focus on the RGB firehouse because they had to work it out to make the show. I've found they're very strict to the layout here, backgrounds might have wonky proportions and scale but the layout is always consistent.

I'm guessing this drawing was done fairly early on and so details like the bathroom and TV area haven't been included yet.

If anyone is interested, I stumbled upon the very simple scale immediately. In 1:12 scale this would be 4 feet long, 3 feet high, and 20 inches wide.

Yeah, it's also in the RGB Visual History book. I don't know off the top of my head but he is mentioned in the book, one person on the production team kept track of scenes in the Firehouse to make sure it was consistent and correct.

edit: page 60 and 62. Correction, Brad Rader helped supervise the freelance storyboarders so there were no mistakes with the Firehouse scenes.

[Prologic9]

Well I personally never once realized that the 2nd floor was a split level while watching the show, but it be. I guess that means the Kenner playset was actually accurate the whole time.

The production model for the movie had a split level design too, I wonder if they based it on that?

[Kingpin]

I think it would qualify more as a "void floor" or "floor void" than it being split-level. The void itself wasn't always depicted (or if it was, it wasn't always clearly... Citizen Ghost probably shows it the most clearly of any episode in the show).

I strongly suspect you're right, and that the foam core model did influence the cartoon Firehouse's design.

[yourbigpalal83]

See...this stuff is awesome to me, and WHY IT NEEDS TO BE IN A MODERN DAY PLAYSET... This stuff adds to the lore and tangability of Ghostbusters...which always felt as real as it could given its core nature (capturing ghosts). The Proton packs and traps and gear FEEL REAL...like real world equiptment. The firehouse makes sense because its something that would be used by a new startup company and re purposed. The figures, espically the mondo ones, bring all this stuff to life because for 40 years we only saw the team, the firehouse, the ghosts, the gear in 2d hand drawn cells made in a rush to meet a deadline. What mondo's doing is turning 2D designs into 3D ones and thats fantastic to a guy like me that we live in a world now, where for the right price, you can do that. It harks back to our childhood. Remember, the entire purpose of The Real Ghostbusters, He-man, Ninja turtles, Transformers, Thundercats, etc..was to entertain AND SELL TOYS even if the stuff in the show never made it to a toyline (Its so weird that The Real Ghostbusters toy line outside of the basic original line of figures, is so different then what was shown in the show, its unique in that way. The ghost toys we got, were never in the show, and visa versa). But now 40 years later...we can do that at much higher detail and quality levels, (for a higher cost of course) and see our favorite show in a new 3d real world light. Dont get me wrong, the Kenner figures were great for their time, and our kid selfs at the time, but today, these are works of art to me. Id love a full animated firehouse. Id love a full animated ecto 1... the set feels incomplete without these things.

[Prologic9]

Here's Winston with Batman and Beetlejuice;

[mrmichaelt]

Looks great, Prologic9!

Building a Firehouse at the quality and detail Mondo would may still be seen as too risky and expensive. We may only see things you'd see in playset than a whole playset like having 'special' platforms like Savage Land Rogue or giving releases a single piece of furniture like Beavis & Butt-Head or the upcoming Janine set. But Mondo has said sales are really great for RGB and this is an anniversary year. Who knows.

[Prologic9]

I think a realistic playset idea they could try would be a stand alone Ecto-Containment unit. It would pose well in any corner for a sort of instant diorama. It's iconic to the show. It has plenty of toyetic potential with it's various doors/lights/levers.

They could even do something like make the back open for toy storage and we could put our accessory ghosts in there.

[910dohead]

I received my Winston/Sandman shipping notification today. I'm in So Cal, so they're starting to go out around here.

[Chicken, He Clucked]

Containment unit with Ecto Suit Egon, a Slimer variant or smaller ghost seems like it would be a banker.