![]() “Most things you could buy at a dollar store and it was made of mostly cardboard.”Īnother difficulty in replicating the pack is that it isn’t symmetrical. “Everything was unproportioned, but it was between pictures and blueprints at the time on message boards,” he said. ![]() Looking at his first Proton Pack makes him cringe. “My mom thought I was crazy, but at the same time, I thought she was impressed,” he said. The process was detailed meticulously in a heavy Ghostbusters binder Holmes filled with blueprints, guides and memories from his Ghostbusting over the past 20 years. As a senior in high school, he took on the challenge of building a replica ghostbusting suit from the ground up for Halloween. Holmes’ first deep dive as a hobbyist came from researching how to build authentic proton packs on the internet in the early web days of 2001. It was the start of a lifelong pursuit of Ghostbusting. Armed with the machinery, Holmes would go into neighbors’ houses to hunt for ghosts. Holmes’ parents got him his first proton pack in 1988. ![]() ![]() “He had this curious childlike heart and knew how all the machines worked,” recalled Holmes. Ray Stantz, played by Dan Akroyd, was his favorite character. “Growing up, my baby sitter was a 'Ghostbusters' VHS,” Holmes said. Lansing’s real-life ghostbuster is Ryan Holmes, an artist and teacher by day, a ghostbuster by night. He’s pacified the spirits of The Turner-Dodge House for a group of children, investigated the ghosts of Stober’s Bar late at night and even took to the streets for Silver Bells to hunt for the ghost of Christmas past. ![]()
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