Talk:Extreme Ghostbusters

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Remove the word "but" from the first line of the first paragraph. --Happylobster 18:42, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Character/Vehicle/background designs

'Everything familiar to the previous series needed to be retooled design-wise as the character likenesses were owned by Columbia Pictures Television.'

Um, that doesn't make sense. If the designs were part of Columbia it's likely they would've been allowed in the development in the show. It's more likely they were omly able to get few of the designs from DiC... it makes more sense, woulf you agree?

[edit] External Links

Recnetly, an issue came up concerning the external links. Apparantly, the following pages weren't considered reliable sources mostly as they're pretty much fan sites. The links involved were:

Spook Central: The home of a lot of in depth information and behind the scenes photographs of both films. Material which can't be found elsewhere. I'd consider this site worth keeping within the external links as it provides behind the scenes material not available to a site kept in such high regard such as IMDb.

GBProps: I suppose the worth of this one is up for debate... however it (and the not mentioned www.gbpropject.com) provide information for replicating the props from the movie, and for where to find reference material. An item surely to come in handy with people with Halloween approaching.

Ghostbusters.net: Sadly part of it's draw... the online episodes has thus since been removed. But it was never about drawing traffic to the site. Ghostbusters.net is one of the oldest fan forums around, one of the main fan forums around which... under rhe rulw "Links to be used occasionally: 3. On articles about topics with many fansites, including a link to one major fansite may be appropriate, marking the link as such."

This effectively justifies the inclusion of at least one major fansite.

Proton Charging: A manjor GB news outlet which has helped to break down the recent rumours where people believed Ghostbusters 3 was being made. The site also contains interviews with people involved with the films, cartoons and other materials which are not a part of the Wiki article.

Ghostbusters HQ: Similar to Ghostbusters.net in regard, it is a major fan site which contains a number of interviews and media for the cartoons and films.


I can understand the reasoning to keep the external links clean and controlled, and to vet some of the entries which get put in as some are only out there for the visitor numbers.

If you feel the links should once again be removed, please consult this section and add to the discussion before removing them again.Kingpin1055 22:22, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Removed, per WP:EL and WP:SPAM - fan sites are NOT reliable sources nor are they appropriate external links. Collectonian (talk) 19:30, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Uncited criticism

As part of a general clean-up effort, I've removed the uncited criticism section and placed it here in case proper citations can be found and it can be restored to main page. The original text is below. Annie D 00:54, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Some Ghostbusters fans often criticize the show for its new graphic style and also for abruptly replacing the original Ghostbusters with a new team. Other detractors of Extreme Ghostbusters have criticized the show for "pushing political correctness" due to how diverse the new team members (a black person, a latino person, a female, and a disabled person) were. It was also heavily criticized for being somewhat graphic and "too dark" for a show aimed at a young audience.

No citation for that? I remember thinking the tokenism was a little ham-fisted when watching the show. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.156.70.57 (talk) 21:47, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:ExtremeGhostbusters.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 20:26, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Production section

Everything familiar to the previous series needed to be retooled design-wise as the character likenesses were owned by Columbia Pictures Television. That meant a new Ecto-1, different looks for Egon, Slimer, Janine and the Firehouse, along with all-new background layouts consistent through Sony cartoons at the time.

This whole production section doesn't make sense. According the Columbia Pictures Television article , the company became a Sony company in 1989. As a result, Sony would have owned the copyrighted characters of this show and should have had no problem in re-using the character designs. --Jtalledo (talk) 01:00, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure where this was, but it doesn't seem to be based on any sort of fact. I do like the comment currently in the article, that the show changed character designs to demonstrate passage of time. Hewinsj (talk) 14:56, 28 March 2008 (UTC)