How Does the Slime Blower Work? | The History and Physics of Ghostbusters Equipment

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Ghostbusters: Afterlife has finally come out, but what about the movie that preceded it? The Slimer Blower was the shiny new pack the boys in gray strapped to their packs, but how does it work? We go through previous script drafts, novelizations, comics, video games and more to dig up how it came to be. Then we explore the physics behind the behemoth blower.
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@ChannelingSpirits 2 жыл бұрын

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@grayjedioutcast3550 2 жыл бұрын

I do love that the slime blower got some love and use in the Ghostbusters videogame.

@jacksprofessionalproductio9403 2 жыл бұрын

I’m glad in-depth videos like this exist for ghostbusters, they just farther expand our ever growing knowledge of this awesome franchise! This video in particular really helps me because I’m putting together 2 Slime Blowers a fan made web series called Ghostbusters: Hell Fury.

@russellj.s.257 2 жыл бұрын

I love Ghostbusters Afterlife,it was an awesome love letter for us Ghost heads.

@t.c.v.t. 2 жыл бұрын

Do one on the ECTO 1 and ECTO 1A. Dont just do the first car ECTO 1A is my favorite but you definitely need to do a video on each car.

@jamesgameing36 2 жыл бұрын

Yes I agree I would like to understand how the sniffer and the rad dome work it's interesting how it's built

@t.c.v.t. 2 жыл бұрын

@@jamesgameing36 I want them to cover it all. All the specs and options of the 59 caddy which is the base of the Ecto. The lights and siren all the gear on the roof rack as well as in the back of the Ecto with the proton packs. Even down the modded stretcher to hold the gear. Everything.

@jamesgameing36 2 жыл бұрын

I think Dan akroyed who played stanz and also produced the film wanted to paint the car black but with purple lights but decided to not do that and I think he made the right choice on that

@t.c.v.t. 2 жыл бұрын

@@jamesgameing36 yes a original idea was black with purple strobes like a hearse but a black car is hard to film at night and it was a practical choice to go white. Just all the choices they made were practical and make his idea workable for technology at the time and budget. By the time they got done the film looked quite different then it was pitched but ending up giveing us all the things we love about the film.

@t.c.v.t. 2 жыл бұрын

@@jamesgameing36 from a early draft of ghostbusters when they got Harold working on it EXT. FIREHALL - NIGHT The garage door slides up and in a blaze of light and screeching tires, the ambulance squeals out and makes a right turn. The vehicle has been painted flat black and has been fitted with communication wafers and antennae. All the original lights have been replaced with purple and white strobes and the siren has been altered to emit a low, unearthly moaning. The purple and white strobe bars give the car a strange ultraviolet aura. It rounds the corner and heads up the West Side Highway.

@cincin0722 2 жыл бұрын

Can we talk about what Ray has in his hand when they're in the museum and he's scanning the painting of Vigo like what in the world is that thing?👀

@Dar512 2 жыл бұрын

I love your Ghostbusters videos, can you please do one on the ECTO-1 and ECTO-1A. Can you gut finally answer the question if its same car or two different ones.

@t.c.v.t. 2 жыл бұрын

I was just thinking this week are they are ever going to do a ECTO video?

@juliussmith109 2 жыл бұрын

“Beautiful!” Ray Stantz

@kylec.8350 2 жыл бұрын

Great stuff I'm obsessed with Ghostbusters, and have been since a 5 yr old kid.

@ListerDavid 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant in-depth look at the Slime Blower, I’ve wanted to build one to go with my Proton Pack for ages.

@ChannelingSpirits 2 жыл бұрын

I wish parts were more readily available. Never got an Ecto Charger Pack as a kid. Always wanted one or a Slime Blower.

@JoshuaEBSmith 2 жыл бұрын

@@ChannelingSpirits I actually built one myself a few years ago. They're not overly hard, just difficult and bulky to carry. With the rise of 3d printing, they're MUCH more doable.

@ArkadiosTheodulus 2 жыл бұрын

Very well researched, I'm impressed! I'm really surprised you showed that deleted scene from Ghostbusters 2 that I'd never seen before, gonna have to look for any others I've missed!

@BlackTungsten 2 жыл бұрын

"It's always the quiet ones"

@justan324 2 жыл бұрын

was alittle sad you didnt include a part that talked about the slime blower mark 2, the one in the video game that is intergraded into the proton pack

@ChannelingSpirits 2 жыл бұрын

Our next Equipment video is covering all the Video Game Proton Pack upgrades. We thought about it, but we are saving for the next one!

@NotThatGuy_YepThatGuy 2 жыл бұрын

Thats was honestly the entire reason i was anticipating this episode. The basic Slime blower from GB2 is so basic it barely needs explanation.

@joshbrown8806 2 жыл бұрын

Finally!!! I’ve been waiting for this one!

@ChannelingSpirits 2 жыл бұрын

It's Slime Time!

@Stimor 2 жыл бұрын

i like the perfectly cut scream at the start

@gamer_guts9836 2 жыл бұрын

Wow someone did their reaserch. Well done!

@demolitionman7510 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! We need more love for the slime blower. I think the video game did an excellent job integrating it with the Mk2 PDS upgrade.

@videocommenter235 2 жыл бұрын

I like these videos were you establish a plausible science for the franchise technobabble.

@GhostbustersExpert 2 жыл бұрын

This great, I love the break down of this equipment

@Tanymsun 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve heard about the rice experiment. Always wanted to try it myself.

@_Matsimus_ 2 жыл бұрын

THE MOST UNDERRATED CHANNEL ON KZfaq!! Ever!! ❤️❤️❤️👍

@ChannelingSpirits 2 жыл бұрын

You're the best! Hopefully more people will discover us soon.

@MaroonKing03 2 жыл бұрын

Love the ending lol "Don't put that in there" Editor ignores Heidi 😆

@publicentity 2 жыл бұрын

Great Job

@InsidetheBoothTV 2 жыл бұрын

great job!! Love the GB

@Demolitiondude 2 жыл бұрын

Depends on the experiment. Mythbusters had the best one, which also proved that metal is the best.

@Dargonhuman 2 жыл бұрын

I wish they'd followed up on that one and remembered to check the batteries on the watering system to get a more definitive conclusion.

@Gadgetman1989 2 жыл бұрын

I've seen Afterlife, great movie, even dives into the proton pack and construction

@helmsly2010 2 жыл бұрын

great video! Genuinely fascinating

@Bacillus4 2 жыл бұрын

Very cool, you ever think about doing a series on the 2001 film "13 Ghosts"? The ghosts work on slightly different rules than the ghosts in "Ghostbusters", but I think it's right up your alley!

@meganp1360 2 жыл бұрын

Can You Do A Video About The Parts Of The Ecto-1A From Ghostbusters 2

@orange_turtle3412 2 ай бұрын

I really wish nintendo would make actual lore for how luigis mansion works. With that game’s ghosts being susceptible to the movement of air and weak to light, id love to see how stuff like the poltergust actually works to capture and contain them. It’l never happen, its the mario universe after all, but I really wish it did.

@bradpeterson7957 2 жыл бұрын

That was fantastic! I really enjoyed it! 👍👍

@Drenov 2 жыл бұрын

The big central tank is clearly the slime as it's lower pressure and the output is at the bottom. The 2 smaller side tanks are high pressure gas as they are heavier duty and the output is at the top.

@mikeyfrederick1232 2 жыл бұрын

Just gotta say you deserve so more credit mam..the videos are always interesting, educational and indepth..let's just say I'm a fan of your work lol..sending you positive energies from VA!

@ChannelingSpirits 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, truly. We need all the positive energies we can get tonight, it's a rough day for Ghostheads everywhere.

@TheHeroExodus 2 жыл бұрын

Id like to see slime come back, it was an interesting change from regular ghostbusting. Though I dunno for the next movie. Next should have original content, maybe the one after?

@tremorsfan 2 жыл бұрын

I always called it the frosting gun.

@CthulhusDream 2 жыл бұрын

saw it opening weekend, and really missed the slime blowers =/

@Sea-Bass 2 жыл бұрын

I love these videos, I would like to see one just about the uniform. It looks like a flight suite but I still have no idea what the yellow hose that goes from the pant leg to their belt does.

@brainlock72 2 жыл бұрын

It’s a catheter. 😉😱

@ashtray4344 2 жыл бұрын

Hey, are you planing on take a look into the game equipment?, You know, the ecto tug, super slammer, meson colider the DMG and their version of the slime blower?.

@ChannelingSpirits 2 жыл бұрын

We are doing the video game proton pack upgrades for our next equipment video

@ashtray4344 2 жыл бұрын

@@ChannelingSpirits cool!

@RoosterMontgomery 2 жыл бұрын

For years I thought the grey tank was the slime reservoir and the green tanks were the air pressurizers. The movie also heavily implies that the mood slime was positively charged before it was loaded into the slime blowers and not by the mechanics of the device itself. I think this video's breakdown is based on what's in the Ectomobile Manual and not what's depicted in the film proper.

@ChannelingSpirits 2 жыл бұрын

The decision to have the gray tank as the oxygen tank was based on how original three tank flamethrowers worked (which is also what Stephen Dane based his design on). The slime is loaded positively charged but (and as we said in the video) if a flux is detected, hydrons can be injected to stabilize its charge. Lastly, I came up with all of the mechanics and physics of the equipment in 2015 and I published it to GBFans as a GB Manual. The Ectomobile Manual lifted my work without credit in 2017.

@WinAtLottery 2 жыл бұрын

581 Liters of slime in the side tanks? That would make the pack weigh 1,278 lbs just from the slime alone. That’s a heavy pack!!

@danielslink 2 жыл бұрын

Hearing this, I wonder what the shock blast and stasis stream along with Meson collider and the Overload pulse made of. And how they work. Negative charge slime and I wonder what positive charged slime does to a person. Just curious.

@voltinator 2 жыл бұрын

Wow. You really should do the theory behind crossing the streams and why it is so bad!

@ashtray4344 2 жыл бұрын

I think they actually explain the thing in the movies, let me check

@DPLEET 2 жыл бұрын

Any idea what the active range would be on one of these? And how wide of a cone it can project?

@kimjong-il8068 2 жыл бұрын

I imagine it isn't very far, but that is a good question there was very little use of them.

@Deon82 2 жыл бұрын

Can you make a video on the Ecto-1 roof rack parts?

@MainlineMini-productions Жыл бұрын

Them “the physics of ghostbusters” Me “PhysicsBusters”

@ibanezleftyclub 2 жыл бұрын

Now we just need Adam Savage to build one.

@BellowDGaming 2 жыл бұрын

I'm more interested on the rice experiment tbh.

@geoffreymccullough5670 2 жыл бұрын

Say that’s amazing you did. I was wondering if do the ghostbusters proton pack video game.

@LPTV84 2 жыл бұрын

Ngl. I wish the Slime Blower would have been used in the new film. Imagine if Lucky puts on the Blower and used leftover the positive mood slime to give Gozer a big blow to its negative energy during the finale?

@MariaLopez-ti4oo 2 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure mood slime can last that long or the slime blowers still work

@Ironcabbit 2 жыл бұрын

What I’m wondering is if the positively-charged slime could oust an advanced possession like Deadite possession.

@williamswonderland3636 2 жыл бұрын

What is it like in a ghost trap 🪤 and does it hurt when they get shot with the Lazer and what happens if a human gets shot

@nicholastosoni707 2 жыл бұрын

To answer your questions in reverse order: 1) Kentucky Fried Human 2) I imagine it stings a little, but my head-canon is that the 'Busters are the most fun that many ghosts have had in a while. Like, when the ghost acts up and the person calls in a medium or someone, they go "Ugh, this lot," and pretend to be defeated for a year or so just because the medium is so _dull._ Suddenly along come the Ghostbusters, with these crazy gadgets. Now it's running around, dodging power streams, and actually getting to put up a fair fight. And it's exhilarating.

@dragondude9637 2 жыл бұрын

Getting shot by the proton stream? Egon from Real Ghostbusters says it best : "Our individual atoms go on separate vacations."

@williamswonderland3636 2 жыл бұрын

@@dragondude9637 oh

@williamswonderland3636 2 жыл бұрын

@@nicholastosoni707 lol

@GRHrivnak Жыл бұрын

I'm thinking if a person is struck by lightning, which is negatively charged, it is absorbed into the body and travels into the ground. A proton stream would simply travel through a person and due to the wavy nature of the beam it would cut them to pieces, probably cauterizing the wounds like a lightsaber.

@SerpentNight 2 жыл бұрын

I wonder where the air pressure came from in the upgraded slimethrower in the video game.

@nicholastosoni707 2 жыл бұрын

One of the upgrades described "a low-level proton stream," fed into the nozzle, as "multiplying the force and pressure of the slime." Unless that's an air-tank and compressor attached to the pack itself...

@jeyfromnowhere 2 жыл бұрын

So is the slime self-reproducing? Those two tanks seem like they would be depleted rather quickly.

@Rezzanine 2 жыл бұрын

Good question. In the video game's modified packs, the slime was self-replicating. Not sure if any official explanation has been given for the film though.

@dreddpiratebromando5953 2 жыл бұрын

if everything is made of atoms can be entangled, it could be possible for anything to have consciousness even the entire universe.the rice experiment could be the Pasteur to the next great germ theory.

@westleymerriweather6268 2 жыл бұрын

Words have a vibration, people are like... what 75% water? So when we are praised or complimented we get happy and uplifted. But when we are talked down upon we get angry or upset, that's why the water turned black. I learned this years ago.

@derekkinman7492 Жыл бұрын

Does the slime blower work on exterminating and busting ghosts just like Winston zeddmore did on the ghost of vigo?

@esrevinu. 2 жыл бұрын

lol holy shit

@tyronleung5276 2 жыл бұрын

When need a tobins spirit guide ghost video Playlist going in depth with every ghost ghoul or demon the ghostbusters faced and captured

@kquinn9910 2 жыл бұрын

Hey on your next video if possible a shout out to The Michigan Ghostbusters Coalition?.

@lityfity4197 Жыл бұрын

bruh yeah

@Disambiguation144 2 жыл бұрын

Why did the uncredited guy who played "Egon" die in Ghostbusters Afterlife. 😎👋 #Gematria

@KRiSTUBE723 2 жыл бұрын

Well , using the theory of the proton pack video i made a sonthing very danger , like a proton blaster but without carbon 14

@crispy1228 2 жыл бұрын

Can you remake egons history

@ChannelingSpirits 2 жыл бұрын

All the histories will be redone, once Afterlife is released on video so I can include clips.

@gold333 2 жыл бұрын

How do those two cylinders contain almost 600L of slime? They look like they could contain at most 20 litres of any liquid.

@kimjong-il8068 2 жыл бұрын

Well, judging by the slime, I always figured the slime blower sort of whipped it, comparing the slime the river and the jars, with the slime that sprayed, the spray was opaque and light in shade.

@ghostface1529 2 жыл бұрын

I mean the science is logical about moods affecting environments if you are in an environment that contains a lot of anger and toxicity you are going to be just as angry because of the environment while having a peaceful calm and happy environment makes you happy and calm heck it’s common in the workplace if your workplace environment is highly toxic emotionally and has lots of anger you will be agitated and mad and less productive while workplaces that have happy and calm environments have fairly happy and peaceful workers and high productivity rates so the science is there supporting egon’s initial theory that he claims when we first see him but obviously it doesn’t involve ectoplasm or ghosts in the real world

@olliesmith2890 2 жыл бұрын

Just don't sleep with the slime ok ''you're not sleeping with it are you Ray''.

@dryve4427 2 жыл бұрын

You know what would be a cool video? How does the ecto 1 work. Like there's a bunch of stuff on the top of the car, there's a control panel or something inside of the car. Since afterlife came out you could put the cockpit in there too.