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<\/a>Well, I suddenly find myself wishing that I\u2019d posted this review a little sooner. Having only recently come back into the Ghostbusters line as a collector, the news of Club Ecto-1 being cancelled was a rather hard blow. Still, the line\u2019s not dead and that means the reviews will continue too… <\/p>\nI picked up Egon about a month ago (he was the August Ghostbusters offering), but I’ve been so swamped with other toys that I hadn’t had a chance to even open him up. Well, I wanted to add a “The Sub is Dead” graphic to Tuesday’s crappy news<\/a>, so I popped him open real quick and… well, that more or less moved him to the front of the review line. It happens.<\/p>\n Ready to Believe You Egon, or simply Lab Coat Egon if you prefer, spawns from the Ghostbusters commercial featured in the first film. The commercial has ended up as good fodder for both Mattel and Art Asylum, as it’s another instance (besides the regular uniforms) of when the guys donned matching uniforms (except Winston, who hadn’t been hired yet). <\/p>\n RTBY Egon is a study in how to slowly build a figure with parts from other figure’s. I dropped the Ghostbusters line in early 2010 (only to play catch up this summer), so I don’t have reviews of Walter Peck and RTBY Ray to link too (yet), but those two figures are essential to building Egon here. Walter Peck first provided the arms, pants, and shoes to RTBY Ray who then added a new torso and the lab coat to get the look (mostly) right. Take that mix, pop on an Egon head and glue a scientific calculator over the pocket protector and\u2026 viola! Ready to Believe You Egon is ready for sale.<\/p>\n I’m not complaining, because it does work for the most part. I’m not the biggest fan of the Egon head sculpt, but this figure looks more like Harold Ramis to me than the one I bought from SDCC 2008 (even though it’s the same). Yeah, the jacket should be buttoned up (and with the lack of an ab crunch, there’s no reason for it not to be), but that’s a minor point. I’m glad the calculator is there, but I don’t know if I should be amazed\/happy or simply satisfied. Ghostbusters is a confusing line to collect. (The sub getting cancelled might just be weighing on me…)<\/em><\/p>\n The paint work is sold on the figure, but most of the pieces are molded in the appropriate colors and decos have been kept to a minimum. The paint on the head is good and the calculator is painted sharply. There are more differences from RTBY Ray in paint than there was in sculpt – the tie has been changed to blue, the buttons are white (they were wrong on Ray) and Egon has a silver belt buckle to Ray’s gold. I’m not sure if that last part is movie accurate or just to spice things up. It works either way. <\/p>\n The articulation for this line is broken down into two standard sets – the uniforms and the non-uniforms. Egon here sports the standard non-uniform articulation: a ball-jointed head & shoulders, swivels at the biceps, wrists, waist, and thighs, hinges at the elbows and knees, rocker ankles, and the 4H hips. Everything works fine and I had no stuck joints to report. It’s funny because I’ve got a few other reviews in various stages of completion, and articulation is a crucial part of some of them, but Egon’s articulation doesn’t seem to matter all that much. I’m not saying Ghostbusters should be stactions (or even have one joint less), but I just don’t see myself utilizing the articulation like I do for DCUC or MOTUC. Continue to Page 2…<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Since RTBY Egon is a low investment figure, he does include something that is sadly all too rare in the line – a proper ghost! In this case, it’s the Library Ghost from the beginning of the first film. Like Nunzio Scoleri, she’s a little undersized, but she’s easily the best ghost yet. Slimer holds a special place in my heart of course, but the cool detail work on the Librarian is hard to deny – and that face sculpt is downright creepy. Paintwise, she’s molded clear and painted in varying degrees for a cool fading effect at the edges. The Library Ghost includes three swivel joints at the head and shoulders as well as the standard… uh, stand. <\/p>\n There was a bit of a kerfuffle over Egon’s accessory. If you’re a sharp-eyed Ghostbusters fan, then you know that Egon had a stethoscope in the commercial while the PKE Meter was off and hanging out of Venkman’s pocket. I can’t find the link at the moment, but Toy Guru noted that they’d taken a stab at the stethoscope and the results were less than stellar. 1\/12th scale stethoscopes do exist though, so I might seek one out if I get ambitious (I don’t really mind that he doesn’t have a stethoscope, but I gotta mention it). <\/p>\n What Egon did include was three PKE Meters, two of which are new sculpts. Each represents the PKE Meter in various states of activity – off, on, and… really on? Wings partially extended and fully extended basically. They’re all nice pieces with sharp decos and I did laugh when I saw the “off” meter didn’t have any paint on the screen. The only problem I have with the Meters is that Egon can’t hold them all that well. I’m not sure what Peck’s hands were designed for, but it wasn’t holding PKE Meters. They’ll balance in there, but it’s not the same fit we’re used to with the wands. It’s not a deal-breaker, but in a line that needs to be done so cheaply, you’d think they would’ve skipped having two different sets of hands. <\/p>\n Overall, this figure isn’t going to set the world on fire. Heck, the whole line appears to be operating a shade or two above the minimum amount of interest possible – the price is high, the part reuse is heavy, and even my inner child has a hard time going “wow! a guy in a lab coat!” even if it is Egon Spengler. <\/p>\n That said, if you’re buying the line, there’s some fun to be had with this figure. It’s mostly a 4H sculpt, it looks good on the shelf, and he’s from the one subset of Ghostbusters that we know Mattel will finish (though, I oddly want a plainclothes Winston to hang out with ’em). If you’re buying the line for the ghosts, as some are, the Library Ghost is a great addition to the little roster. If you’re still buying the line to give the accessories to your main guys, as some are, then three PKE Meters in various states ain’t bad (where’s that figure with three proton streams?). Basically, if you’re buying Ghostbusters Classics, then you’re going to pop this figure onto your shelf and be satisfied – if you’re thinking about getting into the line? Well, don’t start with this one… okay? <\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.itsalltrue.net\/reviews\/gbimages\/2011\/rte01.JPG?w=640\")
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