New Ghostbusters movie in OG movie universe Jason Reitman directing 2020

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Originally Posted by Wildcat

I have not read the idw comics.

I don’t think you would need to register that kind of license plate. Wasn’t just the name? Like a novelty plate. I never thought about it.

You have to register that kind of license plate, yes. Or any kind of license plate. You want to make a custom one, you have to apply, the city can say "No," etc.. The question is, why would they go and re-register a NEW plate for the same car, if it was the same car?

The car is still working at the beginning at the birthday party. It makes no sense to spend money on an entirely separate, but identical car just because they were rehired as ghostbusters shortly after.

This has to be the same car. If they reveal there’s 2 separate ones that’s gonna be hilarious. I guess you could say 1A was wrecked so they went back to Ecto-1 but from their own personal standpoint it makes no sense to buy 2.

Your points are sound. But here we are with Ghostbusters: Afterlife, in which we know the Ecto-1 is completely untouched for 30 years in a barn somewhere. Between that, there being 0 story reason for them to hypothetically stripping down all (not even most, all) of the upgrades from the 1A post-GB2 (especially with there being no ghosts anymore), the license plate thing, and the GB2 did happen thing (the trailer's alluding that GB2 DID happen)... the only possible explanation that makes everything work is that there was two cars.

Who knows. Maybe the Ecto-1 had something wrong with it. Or maybe Egon pulled it aside/mothballed it and made it his pet project while the "main" car was replaced with a fresh model (Ecto-1A) for their reopening in GB2.