- March 12th, 2023, 11:11 am#4979892
As I’ve been doing yet another deep dive into the packs (as I do every 5 years or so haha), I’m left wondering about the pack designations.
Going through The Ghostbusters Reference library made a lot of sense with “Spengler Pack”/“Stantz Pack”/etc. but coupling that with watching videos of “The Proton Pack is Not a Toy”, I’m scratching my head—exactly how/when was it decide that *this* pack is the Spengler pack…*this* is the Venkman, and so on, as it’s shown that different packs were used/exchanged between all 4 busters in the original (ie, “In this scene, Peter is wearing the Stantz pack; Stantz is wearing the Spengler…”).
I understand the designation for the Omni and Superhero pack, as they have distinct features unique to themselves, but why designate something specific to the character when they each wore different ones in different scenes? Is it they wore a certain pack the most in the original movie? Is it working things backwards from GBII when they had labels like “Ray” or “2” in the heroes/semi-heroes…?
Any insight is appreciated!
Forgive me if this has been explained.
Going through The Ghostbusters Reference library made a lot of sense with “Spengler Pack”/“Stantz Pack”/etc. but coupling that with watching videos of “The Proton Pack is Not a Toy”, I’m scratching my head—exactly how/when was it decide that *this* pack is the Spengler pack…*this* is the Venkman, and so on, as it’s shown that different packs were used/exchanged between all 4 busters in the original (ie, “In this scene, Peter is wearing the Stantz pack; Stantz is wearing the Spengler…”).
I understand the designation for the Omni and Superhero pack, as they have distinct features unique to themselves, but why designate something specific to the character when they each wore different ones in different scenes? Is it they wore a certain pack the most in the original movie? Is it working things backwards from GBII when they had labels like “Ray” or “2” in the heroes/semi-heroes…?
Any insight is appreciated!
Forgive me if this has been explained.
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