Ask Adam Savage: "Do You Own a Screen-Used Prop from Ghostbusters?" 

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In my experience, the key to finding lost objects is to replace them. Buy new, and the old one is guaranteed to instantly turn up.

This is the only time I haven't seen Adam able to run off screen and immediately get the box he needed

Best joke in Ghostbusters: "Listen! You smell something?"

Hey Adam, you used the term "cyclotron" which is cool! I'm one of the original Ghostheads that started the DIY Proton Pack drawings and building, naming of the components (cyclotron) and research of the actual parts that were utilized in the original props for the GB community back in the early 90s. I was known as "Paranorman". I coined the term "Ghostheads" btw back in 1996. "Hey, man, let me tell you something. I love you." - Dr. Raymond “Ray” Stantz

11 month later you made a stunning pack that thrilled Jason Reitman and the cast. you are awesome Adam !!

It’s funny that you mentioned getting pizza with the Ecto-1. Because when I was a kid, there was a pizza restaurant that I lived near, the owner of which also had made a replica of it... and for a number of years, he used it to deliver pizza! Sadly, though the restaurant still exists, the owner no longer uses his Ecto-1 for this. As the maintenance got to expensive.

Some sort of way of incorporating Nixie tubes would be a cool way to light up the back.

Holy cow. I was 7, and I remember being in an Oversold theater with people sitting on the floor in the aisles to see that movie, and also cracking up at that line. So many good parts in that movie. Just this Thanksgiving I acted like I was going to yank the tablecloth off with dishes on it and said, "The flowers are still standing..." I dressed as a Ghostbuster that fall for Halloween. My mom drew the logos and my last name on iron-on patches. Her and my dad made me a proton pack with painted cardboard box, a vacuum hose and some other bits pieces. The kids in school loved it. The older people who gave out the candy as I trick or treated thought I was a cable guy, a phone company guy, or the PSE&G guy. Good times!

"Til dickless over here...." LOL! My friends and I still laugh at that line!

I can’t wait to watch Adam build his proton pack. Having built 2 myself it would be fascinating to see how he goes about it. Keep on Bustin’

I'd be happy with something small from the movie. The Ecto-1 should suffice.

What was also hilarious was Lenny slapping his buddy Mike after showing so much reverence when he entered the room.

I remember going to opening night in a local theater in 1984. And yes: the crowd reaction was exactly the way Adam describes it. (84 was an amazing year for movies besides Ghostbusters. Indiana Jones 2, Beverly Hills Cop, Karate Kid, Gremlins, Police Academy, Footloose, Star Trek 3, Top Secret, The last Starfighter, Buckaroo Banzai...I spent sooo much money of my allowance on movie tickets)

I’d be happy with the toaster.

"Well that's what I heard!"

My favorite quote... "That's a big Twinkie"

Tell us more about the back to the future delorean your building.

Please do a full build video (or series) on the proton pack? lol

Great video! As to the 'cyclotron' lights on the Proton Pack, I've always wanted them to just pulsate brighter and dimmer while it is in rest mode and glow brightly when the Thrower is 'fired.' As to having an experience with the pack, I built a couple of them several years ago, and I put a small vibrating motor in the pack for when it was running, and a more powerful vibrating motor in the thrower to make it shake when fired. Ghostbusters is one of my top five favorite films of all time.

I get good bumps at the last part you can tell Adam loves Ghostbusters and he really respects the fan base. Thank you sir!

I can't wait to see your reimagined OG proton pack!

Florescent Yarn Strands, coming out of the nozzle, blown by a quiet high volume fan, to replicate the Zap energy rays...

I dont know if you have a podcast or where the content would be. Maybe I can just watch all the vids here. But I love hearing your favorite prop items from movies and if you would like to own them. When you geeked out on ur fav vehicles it was great seei g and hearing that love and passion in your voice. As a beginner builder and wish I had found my way into the prop Industry its always been enjoyable hearing from you vet's what you love and enjoy.

The world definitely needs more fun, entertaining, quirky films like GB,

Many years ago, back before the internet, when people didn't really have much reference on things like the proton pack, I saw a costume piece that someone had kitbashed for wearing at a sci-fi convention that had an interesting take on the cyclotron. Instead of a blinky light pattern, the lenses were clear, and inside, under red lighting, was a large rotating disc covered in reflective bits that spun like a record player, so that as it spun, and looking in through the lenses, you weren't entirely sure what you were looking at. You just got this felling of something swirling at great speed inside that glittered and shone with red light. Might be a good place to start thinking about your own "something else."

2020 was so, so bad - but Afterlife getting delayed until next year was like an actual physical blow to my heart. Cannot wait to finally see it after all this time - and I'm desperately hoping there will be a Tested set visit video!!!

OH! For the4 red lights on the cyclotron - How about a single strip of red LEDs that spin behind (under) the cover, pivot on the shock mount column but only one side is lit up so the pattern is a single "window" shows the sweeping lights at a time. It would look like a sweeping / accelerating glowing mechanism!

I think Adam will be able to find that box again in the future (unless he threw it out xD). I bought a pop vinyl at least 6 years ago that meant a lot to me, but my family moved around so often that it got lost in a moving box somewhere. When we resettled I looked through all of the moving boxes we had left in the basement, but didn't find the figure. Really recently we somehow found it again, along with a few other random but memorable items I'd bought that were in the same box.

It's a nuclear accelerator (Unlicensed) so I assume the circular part is the accelerator portion. I'd use the same four circle setup, but have the on switch power a ring of LEDs that light in sequence in a circle, speeding up and getting brighter until the entire ring is lit and the four light dots are, instead of glowing yellow, just pulsing or glowing white. Shows the accelerator powering up and is somewhat interesting.

For proton pack lighting, what I thing of it using neopixels. Say, a cluster at each or the original locations then 1 or two that are in between each of those but hidden so you can't tell they are their when they are off. That way you can create the original look if you want it or you can create some really cool multi-hued spiraling / throbbing effects too. Since all the lights are individually addressable RGB, there is really no end to how you could make it look.

Adam, we also own a "Box" in our shop. All missing items like your knee and elbow pads, tools, etc. when they go A.W.O.L. are always in "The Box". It'll be a glorious day when I find "The Box" again!

I just love the way you think, I am the same way . great job Adam. thanks for being you.

All the wall stuff from the Containment Unit (the lights, trap dock and pipes) on my wall ready to go

For the LED pattern: use meteor/dripping/falling rain LED strips, arranged in a star shape. That would resemble what I imagine the cyclotron...function...to look like.

I would definitely want the Ecto 1 as well. You could probably fit it out as a mobile makers unit.

To Adam on your Proton Pack.... Might I suggest that the first time a pack is turned on it sounds like it has a low level slight vibration to the pack. From a tactile sense maybe yours should just have a slight vibration to it.

you're telling me you build a time machine...Out of a DeLorean?!?

I think that it is safe to say that anytime you want to dress up for any video you are filming, we are more than happy to let you. first, because we are watching it after it has already been shot and edited so any argument we have is kinda moot. second, we like seeing you make and dress up in your various costumes so believe me when I say keep up the good work. third, you have a track record of being (mostly) safe in your work environment so that's on you. (disclaimer: I don't actually have permission to speak for anyone else in this or any comment section. The views and statements made here are my own and are expressly for entertainment purposes only.)

The lighting for the back of the proton pack. I think it'd be neat if it were just a red-orange glow, like you'd see from the inside of a kiln or volcano---just something to give the illusion of intense heat. Maybe even with some caging, like the kind they put over light bulbs or deep-sea helmets.

Damn it Adam! Now I'm more hyped for the after life!!!!!!!!!

So Adam, world you ever consider doing a build of the arm mounted mini protonpacks I designed for the comic book story Tainted Love? There's been a couple made that I've seen but I bet yours would be the definitive best ;)

Happy Christmas Adam!

my very first replica build was a proton pack. made it out of 1/8 inch thick styrene plastic, pvc pipes, and cast resin parts. the thing definitely has some weight to it.

That misplacing a box trick happened to me with a star wars blaster I was building and I know it would have been one of my best builds yet.. it burns a hole in my brain most days 😂

If Adam wants to do a proton pack he should build the video game version. They are just badass.

Interesting choice. But for some reason, the first thing came to my mind is that I would want a bank of the card catalog from the library scene. It would be cool to have and a useful thing to store supplies in.

I've heard that the Marx Brothers used to set up stage shows of their movie scripts and have assistants time the laughter so they knew how long of a pause to leave in the film version so the next joke wouldn't get buried in the previous laughter. And leaving pauses for audience reactions are often done since then as well. That's just the earliest attempts I've stumbled over. And great horror filmmakers likewise have many times drawn out the punchline of jumpscares so that it hits just when the audience open their eyes again. As films are increasingly becoming made for home consumption, I do fear that that kind of commitment to the stage show experience is becoming a lost art. Like how editors used to be trained to know how eyes worked so that they knew where people are looking when they cut to the next shot. I really hope 2020 doesn't kill of the cinema experience.

The dog suit John Candy wore would do me

#Adamsavage Hey Adam ! you talked about how you like your proton pack to have feel and weight of the " real deal" and i can so relate to that I enjoy Cosplay and the one and only suit that i have is fallout related armor and i have a combat vest with aluminiumn sholderguard and bunch of punched metal sheets over as armor, my knee pads have aluminium covers and i use them while airsofting for that sweet sweet ware and tear, whole set with gasmasks and other gear it weigs around 20 kilos, i have done cons with it and i like it, its more authentic to me to go for real materials as for say foam and other such things, i made rocket pack from old high voltage connector parts they use on trains and single one weighs around 2 kilos they are solid metal with the female part acting as the caseing being about 500grams its made from aluminium and its spring tentioned to hold on to the connector, and I love it how it feels and looks like you would pop it in to a rocket launcher.

All I want is more ghostbusters content it's my favourite film by far

thank you for continuing to spread the message of safe social interactions.

For my pack, I would want to feel movement of the pack when it powers up. Something spinning up and feel the hum though the body.

If I was making a Proton Pack, I would obsess over the charging whine. I'd put a real charging circuit in there. probably with like a 1.7 Farad automotive capacitor, just to get that sound right. I definitely grok everything he said about making it feel substantial, though.

Yes that was a very memorable jab I remember it well I was 16 as well back then.

One of my earliest memories is seeing Ghostbusters in the cinema and the librarian ghost scaring the crap out of me, to be fair, I was 4 years old!!

Remember to add speakers somewhere onto the proton pack or the wand itself so when you light it up, your audience can hear it over the OOOHs and AAAHs haha

Thank you Adam:-)

Rabid Prototypes easily makes the best proton pack electronics kit. I've got it in mine. I'd love to see if Adam could do everything the RP kit does but also change the sequence of the lights. I also think the lighting sequence is boring, so to be different, I have my lights going in the opposite direction like Venkman's is during the hotel scene.

Adam, I think the light pattern simply needs a longer fade between each blink (think Nightrider bar), instead of just on-off.

You can go full metal parts for a proton pack, but it will be super heavy. I made one out of styrene and it's "light" enough to con with, but heavy enough to feel substantial if you make an aluminium motherboard.

One of my favorite movie cars is more about looks than performance... The Bandit Trans Am

Welcome to Ghostbuster's Skunkworks. Go see the Workshop manager Adam, he's over there up to his elbows in Ecto1

Thanks for the pick me up Adam👍

He has a little cameo in Ghostbusters Afterlife wearing a Proton Pack he made, so now he has a "screen-used" prop

Hey Adam! Make the lights sweep. It should cycle and make it look like there is an arm in there moving the protons around.

I thought you'd say the containment unit. Imagine the possibilities of fleshing that out, with the anti-chamber and the interior which we've only seen in the cartoon. I'd love to be a part of something like that.

Hi Adam, i don't own any Ghostbusters props although i had the chance to create new props for the upcoming Ghostbusters part 4, i wish i could describe what i made but can't until after it's out, it was a lot of fun i have to say making them.

As far as favorite "regular" movie cars I'd have to think of that ridiculous yellow with tiger stripe interior 1963 Cadillac convertible from Scarface, along with that steely silverish grey 1980 Porsche 928 he bought to impress Elvira.

I just watched a mini documentary on Ghostbusters last night. I didn't know a brewing rift at ILM, allowed for the split, that created the new special effects company who created all the effects for Ghostbusters!

Add a sound device to make the start up sound and a gyroscope to give it a feel when you try to move it in some planes.

Maybe a slow pulse for the cylcotron?

From the title. This vid doesn't need to pass the 5 second mark. But I think we're all glad that it does.

Favorite Movie of all time

Can’t wait till the next live build.

Hold up... Since when does Adams camera setup have any depth of field? 🙀 Is this still an iPhone or have we stepped up in the world to a lense attachment? 🙃 Looking good regardless.

Adam should check out the "Phoenix" proton pack made by Twilight F/X on RU-vid...he built in a fully functional venting sequence like the video game...also can't wait for some progress vids from Adams pack!

That hero Proton Pack was not lightweight, it was basically as heavy as gear a firefighter needs to carry.

I'm late to the party on this one but perhaps a plasma ball effect on the Proton Pack instead of the lighting sequence?

The wand would have to have gyroscopes (resisting motion). Like a thumping vibration in your hands with each revolution of the cyclotron, that resists motion. Increasing exponentially in hertz when fired. Then going back to the base level (power output selected). Obviously there would need to be a similar device in the pack. Few people apart from Dane knew that the circular decals on the right of the proton wand bar graph are actually meant to display the chosen power output from empty circle (everything on but activate not hit so the cyclotron not activated), then going from quarter circle to full circle: full stream, like the Hasbro and Matty wands illustrate. (with a few negligible errors). So few people have figured out what the propmakers of these GB props envisioned, while it is so obvious from the markings. That includes the knobs on the front of the ghost traps. They all have a logical function. (check the muon trap nrads post on GBfans.com) The blinky light in the cyclotron would make sense if they are designating the correct function of all 4 magnetic coil quadrants in both the D's (hollow semicircular electrodes) in the cyclotron. But they would have to blink counterclockwise (the direction of the exit port, or the hose). In some scenes in GB1 this is correct as it is in GBA. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclotron

Get Bill Murray on a virtual "Talking Room" call!!! It would be SO GREAT!!!

And now to make you a little bit jealous Adam, even though I liked the film very much, I've only seen Ghost Busters twice (in 1985 on the same day) and in a few minutes, I'm going to see it again after 35 years. 'Real wrath of God type stuff!'

@AdamSavagesTested You should go DARK with your Ghost Buster. Kind of a jaded Ghost Buster, that powers his equipment and weapons with ghosts and extra terrestrials. Soo.. Your proton pack would glow red and have demon souls trapped in it, and every time it is used it slowly dies and screams. You can make a hologram in a cylinder!

Question for Adam: When the Mythbusters team made the two idols that would deliver an electric current, which hurt more? The physical pain of 8,000 volts coursing through your body, or the emotional pain of your friends and colleagues pushed you to try it unknowingly.

I used to work at 6 Flags in Gurnee Illinois and they had a replica Michael Keaton Batmobile for the Batman ride there. He drove it off property one time to get Burger King.

I might have some original nycoil tubing and maybe some legris elbows left over from my build. Let me know if you need anything.

Adam Savage in morse code using the lights would be cool.

Haptic feedback to run the sound files on a proton pack?

hi adam ! any problems with the Delorean build ? i subscribed for it,and i'm hopelessly waiting for delivery

Put a heavy motor in the cyclotron, so it hums and has a gyroscopic feel to it, that would get you the tactile experience, and the lead batteries would give you the weight :D

I can see where Adam is coming from when he says he wants to 'feel' that it is a proton pack. The way I look at it is this, you can purchase a close replica of a WW2 flame thrower and can use it when cosplaying with friends or your in a WW2 re-enactment group but to the person that's using it, it does not 'feel' like the real thing. When you go to military historical places that have the real thing and you strap it on, you know it's the 'real thing' and not a very good copy. This is what I believe Adam is wanting to achieve with his proton pack. He's wants to make it feel as 'real' as possible as though Ghostbusting is a real and full time job and that he's just been hired as a ghostbuster and is given a the tools of the trade, a proton pack. It needs to feel right (weight), it needs to look right and sound right.

I have a screen-used costume from Iron Man. I loaned a flight suit to a coworker who was an extra. I loaned it on condition that he wear my name patch, but the costume department wouldn't allow it. Should have had him get it autographed. I did get a few pics of the cars and private jet while on set though.

Give me a few years to get my tool stash built up after I graduate welding school. I’d be happy to build you an ecto 1! There’s a guy in my home town that has a perfect replica. He drives it around all summer long.

Thanks for the awesomeness!

I think you should combine something like a tesla coil with an infinity mirror for the proton pack. If you can pull it off, it would be WAY cooler than the blinking light sequence.

My two favorite vehicles in film are, like yours the BTF DeLorean and John Milner's piss yellow Deuce Coupe.

Awesome stuff as always.

Ecto-1 as a Uber would be epic.

Within the Foam Flinging community(Nerf), people have made blasters called Proton Packs. Will Adam use that functionality for his build?

Hey, Adam, do the 2016 Ghostbusters movie proton packs have a more interesting cyclotron feature you could use on yours? I haven't seen the movie, so I don't know what they look like.