Not bad, but could be much more accurate. I like the lasers. A friend and I built proton packs in 1984 that are much more accurate, based on photos we took at a special effects exhibition at a Scottsdale museum.

These days there's such a wealth of reference images available that there's no reason you can't build an almost perfect pack.

I build about 6 of these a year for collectors. In my opinion, this is a very lazy build. Not accurate at all, and it doesn't take that much work to make the pack like it should be. I resent 1/2 assed stuff like this getting so much accolades.

Hello all,

Thanks for blogging my 'ible, I'm very grateful for all the attention this has gotten! It was a fun costume and I've had a blast wearing it and talking to people about it on the internet.

To folks like Neon, I'd like to point out that in my instructable I give proper credit both to the ghostbusters communities out there with all of the great plans and photos, as well as to other people who do more movie accurate props. My goal was never to have a perfect down the millimeter replica, but rather to build a fun prop for Halloween, and do it "On the Cheap." I would like to ask Neon, how much do you spend on each of your props? I guarantee it is WAY more than I spent on this. Mine is almost entirely built from stuff I already had in my shop, or that I found in the recycle bin.

Finally, I'd just like to tell you, if you think you can do it better than me (and I'm sure you can, if you're selling these to collectors), then show us! Show all of us, publish an instructable! It's the world's biggest show and tell, and we love new people with new ways of doing things.

Oh and by the way, I don't mind being called half assed. I don't know how many times I thought "Oh, that's close enough" while I was building this. However, I do resent being called lazy. A lot of hard work and ingenuity went into building this out of cast off scraps with no real hope of financial return. I would have loved to build this out of some of the materials the pros use, I just don't have that kind of money floating around.

Thanks,
depotdevoid