Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2016/08/26/tobins-spirit-guide.html
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Wrong Spirits. Heading back to the lounge.
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I’m boycotting it, on account of them gender swapping all the ghosts! Plus I’m being unbelievably insufferable on Facebook and Twitter, so no change there.
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Can we send this back in time to my teenaged self who, even though he knew Ghostbusters was fiction still searched in vain for Tobin’s Spirit Guide?
When I learned Dan Aykroyd was influenced by his own family’s history with ghosts and spiritualism I assumed it was a real book. This would have saved me a lot of condescending snickers from librarians.
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I go with what @wisconsinplatt said… wrong kind of spirits.
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I’ve had my own copy of Tobin’s Spirit Guide since 1991.
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Ghostbusters by West End Games, the only RPG I could play with my Grandparents.
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I called the phone number more times than I rightfully should have.
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Wait, Tobins’ spirit guy BY Ray Stanz and Egon Spengler?
Did somebody not understand that was supposed to be an old book that they were using as a reference and not a book they wrote?
Isn’t this a bit like releasing a Necronomicon by Dexter Ward?
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Right! Or at least could have made it “updated additions by Stanz and Spengler”
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Are there entries from The Real Ghostbusters cartoon? Like Samhain or the Boogeyman?
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Yeah. I thought this was super cool but that kind of spoils it.
So close!
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According to a review I read: films, toon, comics and video game all got sourced.
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Last I read (which was several months ago), he was working on a new album. Can’t wait. ISAM (the album and the tour) was incredible, even by his standards.
Yeah, and there’s a picture of the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man in the upper left of the cover. Someone really didn’t understand how “in-universe artifacts” work.
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He had the Dark Jovian EP last year, which was nice by normal standards but nowhere near the brilliance of ISAM. I think he’s got it in him to get up there again though.
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I’m ready to believe you!
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For a minute I thought it was some sort of joke on the lost spirit of the Tobin Tax.
