Ghostbusters Costume

I love the original Ghostbusters. Like Back to the Future, the far-fetched equipment had that garage-built look to it, and the characters were unlikely heroes. So, for Halloween 2000 I created a Ghostbusters costume.

I was on a tight schedule and budget, so I went against my normal obsessive tendencies and avoided trying to build exact replicas. For example, my Proton Pack is 2/3 scale and varies in detail from the “real thing.”

The designs are based on the movie and schematics gathered from several fan web sites, including eraser99′s Ghostbuster Prop Page, Ghostbusters Central, Ghostbusters Online, and The Prop Vortex. Unfortunately several of these sites have been lost to the passage of time.

The costume won first prize in my office’s Halloween costume contest. For some added fun, I mounted portable speakers inside the Proton Pack. So on Halloween night as my family went door-to-door in our neighborhood we listened to the music from Ghostbusters. If you’ve never added a musical component to your Halloween costume, I highly recommend it.

Materials used to create each piece of the costume are listed on each of the photo pages.

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