When Mike Psiaki is involved, you know it’s gonna be a great set. Both my favorite sets (Saturn V, Blue Power Jet) he either designed or was one of the designers. He always comes up with cool functions or techniques, and the end product is guaranteed to be sleek.
I wish Lego would include parts to swap out and make a GB2 version of the Ecto as well. This seems to be the ULTIMATE version and i feel adding those, would be a nice touch
Who you gonna call? Well the nearest LEGO Store on launch day 20 times an hour to ask if they have one cause this one is about to drive off the shelves. Mass hysteria! Dogs and cats living together!
There isn’t much to change to make it 1984.. ignore the rust stickers, move the ladder, and put the gunner seat door on backwards if possible. The real mod challenge is making it into the Ecto 1A from Ghostbusters 2.
I have to agree with you there Andy, the Ecto-1A is packed with way more stuff compared to the original one. Props to the potential builder who would take on that task!
@@Eaglescout217 yup, but it wasn’t there in 1984. Lore wise we still don’t know if the Ecto 1 and 1A are separate cars... I’m hoping GB3 will explain but I’m guessing its just a lazy retcon
I have this set. Took me about 10hours too build. Positive: - The building techniques in this set are amazing! - the moving parts work very well - cool hinges for the doors - grill of the car is extremely detailed Negative: -Missed oportunity of adding something too keep the hood of the car open. - The only stickers that should have been added are the rust stickers... for the rest there shouldnt have been any stickers... A custom display with the figures would have been the icing on the cake. But all and all very happy with my purchase!! Hoping for a Delorean next 🤞
Same! I reserve the right to add them after I watch the movie if I fall in love with the "now" version this is based on. LOL I've already talked it over with myself.
Gorgeous, I'll definitely leave off the rust and mod it into the original design. I really hope they make a Delorean like this next! Or Korben Dallas Taxi
@@ritualentertainment yeah I've seen a few, but I'd love an official set with a leeloo and Korben minifigure, that's the missing thing from MOC's usually
3:28 That exact bag of marshmallows was also seen in the scene in Dana Barrett's kitchen counter when her eggs started breaking on the counter and cooking on its own. You can see the bag of marshmallows right beside it.
The instructions have the old Chilton Manual look.... which makes sense, considering the age of the Ecto-1... perhaps, in the movie, they use a Chilton Manual to repair the car. Adding another level to the attention of detail Lego put into this build.....
The front cover of the manual is heavily reminiscent of a Haynes Manual, which is a famous series of car maintenance books here in the UK, pre internet days they were the best way for an amateur mechanic to maintain their car.
Haha having Kirk “the 80s guy “ do this video is perfect! 👌 ( I’m also a 80s/ ghostbusters fan so I also think it looks cool and glad to see more details;)
I made my own echo 1 out of differ t color bricks and the pointy clear read pieces as the tail lights back in the 80s with whatever spare legos pieces I had. This is nice I’ll place it next to the 89 batmobile. 😜
Wow. What is interesting is that the gunner chair is from the animated cartoon and the new movie incorporates that. I'd leave off the rust and build her clean
@@allthehardtimes Yes I know. But if you watched "The Real Ghostbusters" animated show, they had the gunner seat. So, as I said, they (in the movie) are incorporating this as an homage to the TV show, and thus, the model has it too. Why don't people listen?
The original movie has the Stay-Puft marshmallows a couple times. The nineteen min thirteen secs into the movie, Dana pulls a bag of them out of her shopping bag. Then sixteen secs later there is a zoom closeup of them when the eggs are popping.
I bought it, finished building it and i left out the rust stickers. Looks so good! Better looking without the rust stickers imo. Less cheaper looking. The working features makes it so satisfying too! So big that it dwarfs my 1/18 Ecto-1!
Looks great, albeit expensive. Glad I passed on the Batwing because this is much more satisfying, they really got the curves and roof array details down. Looks like it is adapted for the Afterlife film but still the OG Ectomobile and not the one they used for the female-led film.
I’m so sad we didn’t get a single mini figure with this. The Batwing was the same price and that had three minifigs. And I’m pretty sure two of them are exclusive.
Well K.I.T.T. got denied in the last IDEAS review stage sadly 🙁. Although the A-Team van or General Lee would be cool to have in LEGO form, I doubt those will happen either.
Built bags 1 and 2 today and ask Siri to play the theme music to Ghostbusters.. man there's a ton of stuff we only heard clips of and really nostaglic. Bag 2 got me to popping in the functional gunner seat and I'm really excited to see how it turns out. Personally I added the rust stickers because it's really Ecto 1.1 and really needs to be all it could be :)
I still have to get myself the ucs millennium falcon and some other sets before they retire, but this is from a franchise I grew up to love almost as much as Star Wars and there’s no way I can pass it up.
Thanks for the review, Kirk! It's a must buy for me. P.S. You need a spot light or soft box to add more light to the presentation. Or was the darkness intentional?
just got this set in the beginning of January, the site was sold out for like 2 months. I have'nt had time to sit and build the whole thing so i am doing it one bag at a time as I get the opportunity. I am on bag 4 next and this thing already weighs a ton!
Ha just finished this great set this evening after getting it delivered this morning, it really is a fantastic model to build with some very clever building techniques and mechanisms, however I had to change two minor details not because they were wrong but because they annoyed the hell out of me. No 1- both wing mirrors had to be symmetrical! No 2- changed the two 2x1 clips at base of ladder to one 2x1 clip and added a 1x1 black brick to either side to fill the gap. Sorted! Great vid by the way.
Yeah I’ve seen that show too, it’s so cool! I actually remember seeing a toy at some point with a gunner seat, but it was on the car roof instead of popping out on the side.
Something i noticed on page 64, it shows a piece of lego that hasn't been added in the build process on past pages and its thrown me out trying to build it, have a look and see for yourself
the Haynes manuals it is based on a very recongisable sight here in the UK. doesn't look as good from the front as it does the sides. the front blue spotlights look way too close together, overall indicating how thin the car is compared to its length
