Ghostbusters Prop Archive
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URL: http://www.gbprops.com/HistoryThe Ghostbusters Prop Archive started out as a part of Slime Square, and was originally titled "The Slime Square Prop Site". The site first opened under the name "Ghostbusters Prop Archive" on October 1st in 2000. The original Slime Square Prop Site was started in a tradition similar to Eraser99's Ghostbusters Prop Site in 1998, where users would email in photographs of their own custom made props. The site's main draw was the 75 reference photographs of a Ghostbusters Hero Proton Pack taken at Planet Hollywood at the Mall of America in Bloomington Minnesota. The photographs were taken with a Sony Mavica digital camera at 1024x768 resolution and were stored on 4 floppy disks holding about 21 photos each. The less than a megapixel photographs were viewed and downloaded hundreds of times in 2000, and would become the basis to start a revolution in Ghostbusters prop making. Towards the end of 2000, a German Ghosthead named Stefan Otto (Bug Stomper