Ghostbusters Ghost Trap and P.K.E. Meter by HasLab What to Know | Jeromy & Vinz

In this episode we talk about the Ghostbusters Ghost Trap and P.K.E. Meter by HasLab, when it will be released, how to get it, and what you get. Most importantly, will it be worth it.

Episode Transcript

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You were now listening to the podcastfor Geeks and the Stuff they Love,
where each week we'll talk about everythingfrom anime to movies, games and prop
collecting, but the people who createand love it. I'm Jeremy, I'm
Vince, I'm James, and Vinceis your geek. In case you don't
know, I mean, we talkedabout the fact that like James just got
recently, he got there. Heput in the purchase for the Iron Man

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helt, which I'm looking forward to, uh, but also has Labs has
now released stories releasing two now,right, they got all the funding now,
so it's sufficient. It's for metwo things, right, it's already
short. Yeah, yeah, andand so so at the same time,

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I knew if I was going totalk to somebody about it, if we
were going to talk about it,we want to bring in Vince on this
one, because I mean, youalready have has You have both the has
Lab wand and the has the packright, two ones in one pack,
oh man. Yeah. And yougot a good price too, yeah,
because because nobody cared about afterlife duringCOVID and and thes were all ready for

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stale. They're like fifty bucks orsomething. Yeah, so you have two.
Did you take one of them backto the original did you turn it
into the original one? Now youkept the tape and everything on it?
Uh, well, the I neveropened that one. It's just a spear
in case I really you want thatI have where I got. Wow,
that's pretty cool. But yeah,I mean, so what are the two

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things Vince tell us about. It'sit's a trap and it's the Piki meter.
Yeah, and I backed it ofcourse. Uh yeah, it's gonna
end. It's gonna end one daybefore my birthday, so it's myself given
present. Uh yeah, the year. Do you know when they'll ship for
next year? Like twenty thirty fouror even later, Uh, depending on

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what. Also, the ass labprotrams back took a while to to be
delivered. I've made basically just assumethat that you won't be aary from them
for a year or a half.Yeah, and then you get to some
cool stuff in the mail. Ohwow, but yeah, it's it's it's
great. I mean I've made wellcounting the artis I think I made two

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traps and I got two. Well, I destroyed one of them to make
it. Yeah a better Yeah,but uh yeah, I have multiple traps.
I have a picke meter from SpiritAlloween or Rubies, Yeah, that
I used for cons that are thatis great because it's just you know,
it's It's the thing with troup makingis if you make yourself where its printed,

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it does this robust as something that'sinjection molded and made for by by
toy standards so that kids can playwith it and it doesn't break as easily.
So I am happy to use mytoy p meter, which is not
that acurate compared to the actual polishingmachine, but it's still a great prop
to give to kids by your conventions. Did you do the U so on

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that PK meter? Uh? Theroom is one, the one that you
get it spread. Actually, Idon't know if you can still get it.
Oh yeah you can't. I sawit this last year bear hollowing,
but I can. There's a solderingtrick on it. Uh. You just
basically flip to the wires and itbecomes more screencurrect basically. Yeah, and

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you can you can manually the turnthe turn. Yeah, And there's also
just make it that way. That'sso weird. I think basically, I
think if you have a kid thatpresses a button, and the thing moves
on its own. It's more medicaland just having to press it in and
uh yeah, but this one,this one that's coming up, is going

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to fulfill everybody's dream. I guesssome people might nag about the fact that
it's gonna have some afterlife stuff inthere, like there's a light and it
doesn't days or moment, but that'sthat's the era that they're aiming for with
all this stuff anyways, right,I think it's the people from a set
that they are working on some idealizedin between prop that can be adapted to

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whatever movie you prefer or like.So so basically the the ghost trap,
uh so, uh yeah, Ihave to explain it because because that's my
my idea with my trap for example, as well, do you have like
a screen accurate There's nothing screen accurateabout a proper you will make in Ghostbusters
because there are like five traps usedthrough different scenes and different configurations. So

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if you're making one, you're notmaking the other ones in the movie.
The Dancer was the one that theystuck into the to the bc U story,
Yeah yeah, yeah, man.But the thing is, though you're
gonna what they what they are goingfor is like an idealized legacy prop that

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would you know, a piece peoplefrom all the movies. So they have
an eighty four mode they have butI don't know what on the other one
is like Ghosts two when that cameout eighty nine. Yeah, maybe,
and they have the after life modeand you can you can switch between them.
So they have like these these ironrods on the trap that they are

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either red or gray and you canswitch between like ghost Buses one, ghost
Busses two with the effects, andthere are also some other things that that
basically have like all the opposites ofall the movies and the different modes.
It sounds there as well. Sothe backpack, like the protos pack,
has a has a switch that turnsit into eighty four mode or afterlive mode,

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and then the cycle thrope moves differently. It sounds are a bit differently,
are very different. So yeah,they try to appeal to we like
all the fans from all all generations, so they make it a sort of
idealized sorry yeah, yeah, yeah, And and and what I see they
have they do the diligence on that. So for me, I bought so

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many upgrades and I've threely printed somestuff that I'm it's looking like a ship
of theseus. Now that most likelyI could just build a new protom pack
with all the cool stuff in it. I leave my ad lab alone.
But the way I see it islike I spend significant money because it's like
five hundred and six hundred bucks forthe for the protom pack. I am
my own character in my own littlecosplay group, So this is my personal

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backpack. It will be as acquidas possible to the movies that I can
make. If it's like the fittingis not the exact model fitting, or
if the if the lights are notthe exact collar, or if something is
a bit off, or just forpractical reasons, like some some things that

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I've been fitting today are like theseye little led lenscaps for the ghost traps.
Those are Lito whatever number lens capsthat are out of Stockholm TV fans
and are possible to find nowadays.Do I really want to spend fifty bucks
on a lanscap or do I threedrink one or by some from someone else
and it's good enough as well,you know, right? And and that's

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that's the thing that I like aboutghost Buster is people are very open and
welcoming to their to your own interpretation. Uh. So with what they do
with assleb is to make sure thatyou can make it your own or you
can make it as close to theto the movie you like as possible.
And that's that's what they really likeabout the half lab back back about the

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ones, uh but also the communitythey are making like non destructive months to
the ass lap backward to the onewhere you don't have to cut off stuff.
You can just glit over. Soif you want to have a handle
like the original Ghostbusters, you justclit over a new handle and you don't
destroy the one. You can youcan revert it that same thing for for

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the new movie coming out, FrozenEmpire. You can upgrade your one to
the Frozen Empire one with just someclip on parts that you can buy or
three D print can have it looksimilar, but maybe maybe not as accurate
if you using the real parts.But you're not destroying anything of value there.
You just had answering it, andthe asked, he really knows their
stuff by doing that. So theyhinted at the fact that legally we cannot

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tell you to put a smoke machinein your track, right, but practically
there is a gravice in your trapthat is to accommodate a smoke gid.
So did you see Adam said Imadgereviewing. Yeah, yeah, the one
he got. I didn't watch itall the way through, so it didn't
come with the smoke. He hadto put something into there. He puts

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something in there. But they basicallysaid that the designers kind of went out
episode so Illegally, they cannot tellpeople to put a smoke sheet in a
Tildre's boy because of all the allthe stuff that's happening there. But they
did say during the live TV fansthe live stream whatever they did say,
like, legally you cannot say,but there is a hollowed out shape that

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is equivalent of the size of ageneric off the shelf or Etsy smoke it
that most people use for their help. Then yeah, most likely yes,
But so so they accommodates for that, and they really make it sure that
there's modible and then and yeah,the same thing with the ass lap back.
Like the backpack, there are someswitches there that are not usable,

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but you can just plug in anactual off shelf switch and have it wired
up to something, and now nowthat the button that doesn't work has a
function, and they accommodated for thatalso on on like the wiring and everything
inside the reframe of the pack thatyou can add speakers to it. There's

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enough space for all the extra stuffthat you want to put in there.
So they get their mind and theylearn a lot of stuff from the ass
lab back, so they are utilizingthat also for the PTE meter and for
the ahead for the morning. Thepeople will nod and they they're more than
accommodating your part. Did you what'sthe name of the like? I bought

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my smoke filter from them along.Uh yeah, yeah, so so that's
out where you are, right,Yeah, they come from the next week.
Why don't you go visit them?Uh maybe? Uh, I was
just do busy doing other stuff,but yeah, if they're up to it.

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I think they moved. But theyused to be basically in the city
next after me, basically in thecity I was born. They emailed me
not too long ago about another kidthat they had released, and they would
asked me if if I was interestedin I had something with it? You
do, yeah, yeah, soif it's the new one, yeah,

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because it was it's did some coolstuff like it could so it would blow
the smoke up and then it wouldreverse pull it in. Oh really,
I didn't see that. Oh yeah, it looks like it looks like was
a pulp guys like yeah, sumcomes up and then and then it's for
your trap and then it goes likethat goes yeah like that, and because

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it is a fan to go thisway, and then it spins it,
I guess in the opposite direction andpulls it back in, like, oh
that looks pretty. But I don'tknow what I would put it in.
And it's not cheap. No,but but but I have an art defeated
may be able to use it.Oh yeah, yeah yeah, and I
could see it. It's cool.I want to people will have X one

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C though. Oh really, okayyou said the pictures the result right here
for people are not not seeing things. I have a three D printed program.
Is the bed in that twenty five? Twenty five? Oh that's not
bad? Okay? Oh wait,and it's so heat it's so accurate.

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Yeah yeah, I in my threeD printed really bookcase? You you translate
that to answers for me? Uhno, ten ten inches? I guess
ten inches all this time bad.Yeah, that's pretty good. Yeah,
but I think it's actually that exactlyjust two five yeah yeah yeah, and

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it's it's it's a great tool forpretty a lot of stuff recently, a
lot of ghost stuff. Yeah,but yeah it's great. But with the
asslab stuff. Yeah, I meanif you have to means to it,
because it's an expensive buy. Imean it's three four hundred bucks depending where
you are for just just two things. But they we reached all the goals,

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so you're getting a trapped holster,you're getting a picky meter holster.
It's all. It's all made acostplay a mind thankfully. Yeah. And
it's also coming a little crate likethe like the pack. I know,
maybe they showed up like a publicancage with haslab on it for really yeah,

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but I think someone who made thatbecause the actual as that boxes we
got wasn't the tool kit. Itwas just cardboard always. Yeah, I
have a Pelican case that fits tothe Prono pack now, which is exorbatantly
expensive, but yeah, I gota good deal of it. Yeah.
Wow, so now you can getit on the train to go to your

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well. It's it's huge, it'sAlan sixteen to fifty. Oh wow,
and that's that's huge. And Iactually had it on the train and I
could sit on it and it justbe a couch for me at the station.
That big. Yeah, But it'sit's one to proof. It's like
normally like five six hundred bucks.And so what's some guys selling it for

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like one seventy And it fits aProno pack. It fits the Trono one.
Yeah, so it's able to fityour other stuff in there too.
And again maybe I do want touse some phone though, I have to
get some fun to burn it down. Yeah, because if I go to
Collins like abroad like in algia orsomething that I want to protect my stuff

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if it's gonna be like at astand, if it's going to be at
a stand promoting those busters. Sohere's a big question, Vince, are
you gonna make a video on allthis stuff? You're gonna show us all
your stuff and make sure your modSo are you gonna you're gonna post it
on your yeah side. I'm waitingfor a pretty pretty big kids from chap
Star and uh I was watching theFacebook group and they were like, yeah,

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every every like four hundred kids havebeen sent except one, and I'm
like, yeah, the guy hasbeen mealed and I'm like, okay,
cool, but check my email.Hey Vince, you're a chat and ship
yet like what happened? And Ihave like because I already like when the
Kids became final, Before the Kidsbecame final, there was a forum post

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on GV fans that would say,hey, you can follow along and you
can buy the stuff and do ityourself. And then later on they made
like a circuit board and they madeall kid out of it, so well,
I have I have these kinds ofthings I already have, so I
don't want to buy them twice,like like some uh soundboards and some wires
and I had to add to Loomalready for the for the os So my

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Cus order, but the wires thatthey had to provide with the connectors and
everything got lost in customers or something. Uh, we're not made that often,
so they don't have the guy fromEurope didn't have on stock. So
waiting for that. Once that's done, I think all the most that I'm
gonna do will will be filmed andwill be made available would be gnat.

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I am looking forward to seeing that. Wait, say your channel it's a
massive damage, massive DMG. Ohyou've been a massive DMG channel. Okay,
it might be, he asked someother one. I'm not sure.
Well, we'll update. I thoughtyou had a you were doing it ghostbusters.
Uh, so many have so manychannels to reserve for all the stuff.

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I want to do something that.Yeah, I think I met my
limit at Google saying you can't anymore channels. Oh really, wow,
I mean know that was a possibility. Yeah, I did either. I
tried. That's a cheat it.Yeah. Well, when that happens,
you're gonna give us the link andwe will post it and then everyone's gonna

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check it out and stuff. Butin the meantime, if you guys have
ordered these, I am curious.I'm curious how many people out there are
gonna be getting these, because Imean, it kind of is a it's
kind of like the pack was.It's almost it's first come, first serve,
you know, support it or don't, and and then and or you
try and get it later from somebodythat bought one for like five times the
price. It's it's your two choices. So so yeah, pretty exciting.

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I'm excited to see it and seey all dressed up, ready to go
and meeting more famous people all dressedup as a ghostbuster. So yeah,
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