Real Ghostbusters Coming to DVD -- Completely!

[Jelly Bean]

does any body remember a version of the Ghostbusters called "The Extreme ghostbusters"? It had diffrent characters but I believe one of the orginal ghostbusters from the first series was in. I remember watching it when I was a little kid.

[Jon]

Originally Posted by Jelly Bean

does any body remember a version of the Ghostbusters called "The Extreme ghostbusters"? It had diffrent characters but I believe one of the orginal ghostbusters from the first series was in. I remember watching it when I was a little kid.

Yes, it was basically a follow-up series. Airing in the 90s, the show has 40 episodes.

The RGB characters that returned in main roles were Egon, Janine and Slimer. While Peter, Winston and Ray appeared in a 2-Parter near the end.

[gobo]

Weren't they regulars in the following eps as well?

[Jon]

Originally Posted by gobo

Weren't they regulars in the following eps as well?

In Extreme Ghostbusters Peter, Ray and Winston were just in the 2-Parter. And there were only 2 episodes aired after the 2-Parter anyway (but they weren't in them).

[DrSpengler]

"The Sphinx" and "Witchy Woman", which were aired after the "Back in the Saddle" 2-parter were actually aired out of order. The official production list shows that "Back in the Saddle" was the intended series/season finale. Which makes sense, since it's so ****ing epic.

[Drtooth]

I just hope if they release the entire series, they don't package it like this

Shudder shudder shudder.... Way to turn a disk set into a nice collection of colorful beverage coasters.

[Sage Ninja]

Originally Posted by Jelly Bean

does any body remember a version of the Ghostbusters called "The Extreme ghostbusters"? It had diffrent characters but I believe one of the orginal ghostbusters from the first series was in. I remember watching it when I was a little kid.

i enjoyed Extreme ghostbusters. It was in a sence darker and more ballsey in content and story telling than even the Real ghost busters where on occassion. It was a good follow-up series and I actually got attached to the new characters. It fit in perfectly as a revival of the franchise with diffrent characters and didn't seemed to forced. My only minor gripe was the whole forced air of "lets have the main characters be so blatantly diverse sterotypes" aprouch that was prominent in the 90's. They had a goth girl with a brain, a guy in a wheel who was Mr. Athalete, a cultured black guy with asperations of being a Ivy league memeber, and a slacker smart-ass hyspanic who was the tocken screw-up of the group. They where more than just their sterotypes and had depth and layers but all these diffrent catogories was a bit patranizing none the less. Regardless i still loved Extreme Ghost busters and wish they had more than one season to the series.

One thing that i'm really hoping that could be realeased with the the box set is the songs that used to play in RGB. It was one of the things that i rrally enjoyed about the series was the cool 80's songs that would play in the back ground in some scenes. And these wheren't silly cartoon songs but songs that sounded like some actual artist was doing them and actually put some effert into the lyrics. I would really like to get a CD of they songs because they where pretty good. I especially liked the song of the bansee sung in the episode Banshee bake a cheery pie?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7Vi64KxMMU

song at 3:34

[Drtooth]

Extreme Ghostbusters is a series that has a bum rap. I really wish they had a different name, like Ghostbusters: the New Gerneration or something like that. Extreme was a buzzword that kids who didn't do sports (not even mainstream ones, let alone extreme) liked to see on their corn syrup and fructose fruit flavored drinks and their extreme sour corn syrup rolls.

There was nothing Extreme about the series. They even had Slimer back to his initial, not talking camera mugging form. Almost out of the movie. In fact, in a lot of ways, this show was better than the last Slimer-centric seasons of the Real GB.

[NameGoesHere1066]

I can't wait to these hit the stores. I adored the the Real ghostbusters back in the day. My favorite Ghostbuster was Peter Venkman. For all of you hard core RGB fans which Janine did you like better? Janine from seasons one through two where she a cute but kinda of geeky looking with the nasaly new york accent voice or Janine from three through seven where they changed her looks and softened her personality to be all mother like?

[Jon]

^ Well, still don't know when/if they'll do a retail release of Real Ghostbusters Seasons. This Complete Series Set is going to be from Time Life.

[Drtooth]

In the meantime, as far as Ghostbusters go:

Check this out

[CudleyCowlick]

Originally Posted by Drtooth

In the meantime, as far as Ghostbusters go:

Check this out

Woo-hoo!!!!! More stuff I feel compelled to buy with money I need for things like clothing, food & shelter!

Who needs all of that when you can surround yourself with toys that bring back fond childhood memories?

[Drtooth]

Yeah! I remember when Neca had the license to the Ghostbusters movie, but for some reason couldn't get the agreement of all the actors, hense we never got the Ghostbusters themselves.

So either one of 2 things...

Mediacom has more money, or they were able to get by on a "they have no noses, so therefore we have a loophole" technicality.

[Jon]

More news for this release--

http://tvshowsondvd.com/news/Real-Gh...onfirmed/10021


Main aspects of the news are the possibility of 27 or 28 Discs to the Set (the initial news saying 26); and *Andy Mangels* brought on to the project.

[gobo]

Any approximates for the release date yet? Admittedly, I'm more stoked about The Real Ghostbusters DVDs than the game (which I'm sure will be a great success). But, it's safe to assume the two will be released within a couple weeks of each other.

[tone-master21]

Time life wants are help in selecting the box art for the complete series release.



Here are the links where to vote:

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Rea...k-Voting/10110

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/rgb/index.cfm

[DrSpengler]

I voted for the Firehouse box. That one is just too cool.

[Jon]

I haven't voted yet, but TV Shows has another update on the Set (having: release date, contents, and price for it)--

http://tvshowsondvd.com/news/Real-Gh...-Details/10112

[Drtooth]

Originally Posted by DrSpengler

I voted for the Firehouse box. That one is just too cool.

Agreed. And it really fits in with other complete series DVD sets that look like houses and objects from the series (sort of like the Full House complete series shaped like the house).

And 180 bucks isn't cheap, but it's hardly as bad as I thought it would be. I was thinking 300+ dollars. And the special features sound amazing. I'm really going to try to get this one.

[Drtooth]

Press release Confirming the number of disks and special features.