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The Real Ghostbusters Screaming Heroes: Egon Spengler

January 1, 2012

The Real Ghostbusters Screaming Heroes Egon Spengler

To kick off the New Year I thought I’d look at a vintage golden oldie from the hugely popular 1980s Kenner action figure line The Real Ghostbusters. First launched in 1986 as a tie-in product for the animated cartoon TV series of the same name, the series ran until 1991 when the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles won over fickle hearts and a younger generation, knocking Dr. Peter Venkman, Dr. Ray Stantz, Winston Zeddemore, and Dr. Egon Spengler from toy store shelves.

Kenner really raised the bar with these 5 inch figures, creating some of their most inventive toys ever – they may have only had 5 or 6 points of articulation, but every sub-series in the Real Ghostbusters line had an original interactive gimmick.

Egon Spengler lets rip a scream!

Egon Spengler spins and screams!

Our Egon Spengler here is from the 1989 Screaming Heroes line (date stamped 1988), in which our fearless paranormal expert actually makes a screaming sound if you attach the packaged ghost accessory to a slot on his back and wind him up by twisting his waist. Sadly this was a loose flea market find so my Egon doesn’t have his original Squid Squeal Ghost, so I can’t test if that mechanism still works, but luckily he still spins around and around a full 360 degrees at the waist if you wind him up and a lever is released on his tummy – check out the video top right!

This figure was also packaged with two further accessories – a Mini-Harpoon weapon, as well as a great looking PKE Meter – now that would a great find! Missing accessories aside, this is nevertheless, a great addition to the Real Ghostbusters collection.

Collect them all…you KNOW you want to!

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Filed Under: The Real Ghostbusters Tagged With: Egon Spengler, Kenner, The Real Ghostbusters

Comments

  1. actionfig says

    January 2, 2012 at 2:53 pm

    Cool color scheme on this one.I want to pick some of these up at some point but in their original uniforms.Nice find though!

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