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Published: 2009-07-11 03:04:48 +0000 UTC; Views: 879; Favourites: 18; Downloads: 19
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Inspired by the original ZuteFly Game footage that came out a few years ago (which started the rumors of the GB game), I designed a "portable proton cannon"Basically this pack is just an angry beast of a pack and thrower.
In reality, it would probably be in the reject pile of the R&D department at GB HQ. But it's still a cool idea.
If you can't tell by the tiny doodle oddly placed in between the big pack design and the thrower design, the blaster is too big to be holstered. It would be held up by the user and be supported by a big sling strap that the user would wear.
The pack having such a need for more power would rely heavily on a cooling system to keep from blowing up and even has an extra rod added to the cyclotron.
the end reasoning behind the whole design is "bigger parts, more power!"
Also, the blaster design was also inspired by the movie "Aliens" as well as the ZuteFly game.
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Wow, yeah. I designed one of these two for the Hutchins' character in my comics, also based off of the original Zootfly guns. Mine however does not have a pack. It is a huge bazooka-style gun (I might name it Proton Bazooka instead) that has the cyclotron and what not actually built into the gun. The gun has a strap that slings over the user's shoulder. As you can imagine it is a completely heavy and unwieldy beast that would make more sense in a comic than real life. I actually put one together with PVC pipes at Home Depot to see if I could build something, but the PVC pipes cost a total of about 75 bucks and I quickly returned them to their shelves! It produces a stream far too large to wrangle a normal sized ghost, but anything like Staypuft would be the key target, making a charred, goey hole through that white puffy sailor.
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yeah my design has high grade ghosts in mind as well. And as cool as it is, a "real life" prototype would not make it past being a prototype, just too big. Although I am hoping that I can use my R&D designs on some fanfic I'll eventually write.
I actually designed a thrower that had a built in cyclotron, but I didn't like any of the versions I made enough to consider them scan worthy. I might have to just think of another way to accelerate the protons.
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Yeah, I agree, too heavy and what not. Have you seen the dirt devil trap pack in the webcomic Ghostbusters Apocalypse? That's a comic I'm going to jokingly reference some day in my own comic as being a possible future. The Dirt Devil appears as early as page three, but be warned that A) this comic was ugly when it first started getting made (it gets a lot better!) and B) it's fore mature people. But not too mature, just some language really.
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yeah I was reading that, interesting concept, having the whole thing run as a military style sweeping operation. Do we ever see the original team? Been reading it and haven't seen any references so far.
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No, it seems to be the somewhat distant future. Probably about 50 years or less from 1984, but I don't know. Maybe even further out, but I'm not sure. It has that kind of dirty futuristic-yet-still-close-to-modern world feeling that you'd come to expect from something created in the 1990's. Well, that's the vibe I was getting, anyway. I always thought that the originals were probably dead or at least heroes lost to the Ghost Zone or missing. If you check out the map of the US on their smack jeeves you'll find out that New York is the most heavily destroyed among areas of the ghost invasion. Everything is lost up there now and there are no ECU human outposts still existing anywhere around New York. My guess is that that's where it all started. Probably an explosion with the original boy's ECU helped fuel the invasion. Then again, the boys - at least Egon or Ray, or whoever was on the time who knew the tech - would have had to survive in order to pass it on and mass produce it among survivors. The story has to take place long after the initial invasion because they have everything built and put together by this point and it seems common place that the world is like this. At least the US. I want to know what happened everywhere else too. I was going to have a joking reference to this in a time traveling story for my comic.
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