Ghostbusters Costumes

This is my proton pack. Nick and I made three of them. The best guide to do so is here, although I wired mine with a series LED array rather than the recommended incandescents, which has drastically improved my battery life. We agree with most of the default recommendations from the GBFans site, though. We wear standard military issue jumpsuits obtainable online or from most army/navy surplus shops (such as Galaxy here in nyc).

These are great costumes that got us lots of cred for years at top costume contests in nyc and boston. When we walked into the costume contest at Kresge (@MIT) a few years back, the whole auditorium went up in applause — to them we were almost as good as the real thing. People constantly shout things from “who ya gonna call????” to “duh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh” [ed note: to the tune of the GB theme song] to “what’d you do with the black guy???” Down-right hilarious, I’m telling you.

Anyway, these are not-too-hard and very fun to build and will serve you for the rest of your life whenever you don’t have time to put together something new, or when your friends are lazy and want to borrow your great costumes. As of 3 years ago I’ve formally retired mine in favor of newer costumes, but I thought I’d post it here anyway.