![]() Building all the doohickeys and thingamabobs on the roof was a lot of fun on the original vehicle and it’s fun on this one too. ![]() The rear door can also open, but because of the space taken up by the construction used to support the roof, there’s little room inside. Even with the roof removed, it doesn’t really flex. Despite these doors and the space required for the minifigs, the base of the car feels rock-solid, thanks to the use of strategically placed brackets. There’s room for two figures side-by-side in both the front and rear seats, again, unlike the Ideas set. Unlike the older model, the front doors on this one can opened. There is a neatly printed “New York ECTO-1” license plate under the huge radiator grille. The front of the car looks very good, with a clever combination of headlight bricks used to model the actual headlights (!) and the indicator lights underneath. This is preferable over stickers, but unfortunately the prints don’t all line up properly, making the lines a bit wavy. The red stripes and the chrome trim on the sides are printed onto the elements, as are the Ghostbusters logos on the doors. Essentially the same construction was chosen for this new one, even though the real car is far more slab-sided. The 59 Cadillac had rounded and smooth sides, recreated using curved elements. At a first glance, this would seem like an ideal car to render in LEGO, but there are a few things a bit off about the model. The car for the new film is also more than 30 years old: a very boxy-looking eighties Cadillac hearse. When the original Ghostbusters movie was shot, the 1959 car they used was more than 30 years old. I don’t think it contains an awful lot of new parts, other than several new black 1×1 round tiles and a grand total of 8 white 2×2 wedge plates, but there is plenty of other useful stuff such as grey and white brackets and brown jumper plates, for instance.īeing a fan of movie cars, I had seen pictures of the new ECTO-1 before building this. Like the ECTO-1 booklet, this one does have short descriptions of the characters, which, given that they are new and largely unknown, is handy.īesides the booklet, the box contains four numbered bags of parts, with a few smaller bags with small parts inside them, and a small sticker sheet. The instruction booklet also has a normal cover instead of the slightly stiffer cover used for the LEGO Ideas ECTO-1 set, which suggests that the new set is not so much aimed at collectors. Unlike the box for the LEGO Ideas ECTO-1 set that I reviewed two years ago, this set has a regular box. The goodie bag I received during my recent trip to Billund contained an early release copy of this set, which gives me the opportunity to review it. The set was announced in February, is due for release in the Summer, and will retail in the US for $59.99. ![]() And this is not a movie review site, of course, but there is at least one interesting thing that has already come out of this movie so far: a brand-new LEGO set, 75828 Ghostbusters ECTO 1 & 2. Of course I’ll have to withhold judgement on whether the movie is any good until after it hits the discount DVD bin. ![]() The first trailer quickly became the most disliked movie trailer on YouTube and the second trailer strikes me as particularly unfunny too. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.The long-awaited third Ghostbusters movie is due to première in about five weeks. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. ![]() We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]()
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