“The Cake Pan Part” and “The Film Canister Part”… what was life like before we could look at a section of a proton pack and not identify it as the cyclotron and the Clippard valves?
We’ve come a long way from the days that Norm Gagnon and a band of few scratch built proton packs out of things that you could find lying around your house and at the Dollar Store. Everything has a name now. Everything has been accurately researched and precisely documented right down to the finest of details. The passion and determination is so rabid to a point that some fan prop Proton Packs are more screen-accurate than the ones that currently reside in Sony’s archives.
Why do I bring this up? Especially considering that if it weren’t for the kindness and generosity of Sean Bishop, Brian Fear, AJ Quick, and several others – I still wouldn’t know a damn thing about propping (so why should I be talking about it as if I’m some authority)? Well, funny that you should ask…
We all owe these prop masters a tremendous amount of thanks.
Let me explain. Every fan who is most likely reading this article, regardless if you are a prop builder or not, has benefitted from the hours, research, and money spent by the prop building community.
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[The Private Sector is a weekly syndicated column written by Troy Benjamin presented every Wednesday on GB Fans, Ghostbusters.net, and Proton Charging as an op-ed look at the goings on in the world of the Ghostbusters franchise.]
