Because so many people love to ask questions, here’s a collection of oldies but goodies that may answer before you ask! Now off with you,…and on to the frequently asked questions…


1. The most asked question I get in e-mail after e-mail after e-mail is the classic,… ”Do you sell you packs/traps/parts?”

Ans.) A loud and resounding NO! First off, it is technically ILLEGAL boys and girls! There is nothing a studio loves more than to sit a guy at a desk and pay him a salary that’s more than any of ours to scan the internet for those sweet little gems known as copyright violations. Selling COMPLETED proton packs is infringing on a copyright that Sony owns.

The last thing I need in my life is some corporate nut buster looking to make a kill climbing up my rump with a flashlight and a team of legal gnomes.

Second,…I don’t have the time or the energy. To do these props takes a lot of time and expensive trial and error and most people are unwilling to pay for that. These props are all hand made. Go and ask some old school woodcrafter to make you a pine hutch and see the price they quote you. Same case here. There are VERY few people willing to pay for art of any kind.

On RARE, (and I DO mean RARE), occasions, I do have parts left over. I never technically do a “run” of parts but sometimes I do have leftovers. If that occasion DOES occur I will post the news on the site.


2. “ Where did you get your measurements for your props and are they accurate?”

Ans.) Several places. Trial and error over the years, scaling up from photographs, using measurements of found items known to be used on the pack to approximate measurements for the rest of the parts they are in relation to, comparing and contrasting, on occasion, with other building peers, and possibly having had my chubby little Hobbit-like hands on various screen used props over the years………a rumor I will neither confirm nor deny.

As far as accurate is concerned,…look man, I’ve witnessed countless arguments of people fighting over props changing from scene to scene. Are they this way? Are they that way? Are they both? The prop masters didn’t give a poot so why do you? My point is, they grabbed handfuls of resistors and parts and built about 16 proton packs and several other props over the course of two films and spanning six years. At SOME point, they used a black knob instead of a silver one. A red light instead of a white one. A blue label instead of a green label and they all change from scene to scene.

Your best bet is to pick whatever incarnation of a prop that runs yer flag up the pole, build that one and not worry about the “100% accurate” cuz there aint’ one for this set of props. If you like my plans, use em. If not, use Stefan’s, or Norm’s or your aunt Bernice’s. It’s all good! (except for your aunt Bernice’s). If you like some of one but not the other, pretend it’s a Chinese food buffet and take one from column “A” and one from column “B”. It’s all good. Just enjoy the act of building.

3. How much did your Ecto-1 cost and what’s it like to drive it?

Ans.) The Ecto cost more than an I-POD. Nuff’ said. Hurts me to think about it. Every time I try to tell myself I’m a “responsible adult” I remember that 21 foot behemoth I spent a year and a half restoring.

Driving it is both exhilarating and terrifying. It’s big, it’s tall and it actually goes like a bat outta hell. People have either two specific reactions. They either love it or they hate it. Most people cheer and beep and wave but some sneer, shake their heads and try to cut me off.

Those people are dicks.

They’re also wrong and angry people with no inner child.

Yay for us who get it and crap for crap to them!