Talk:Stay Puft Marshmallow Man

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  • Not really worthy of its own article. --Cheese Sandwich 16:10, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
I disagree. Unlike a paper encyclopedia, there's no fundamental limit on the number of articles that it can contain.
Atlant 00:01, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
I think it should be merged with the Ghost Busters page because the Stay-Puff Marshmallow Man was a fictional advertisement character created for the movie. Captainhero

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[edit] How tall?

The article used to say the marshmallow man was 200 feet tall; an anonymous editor just changed it to 112 feet, 6 inches.

Does anyone know for sure, or better yet, have a citation?

Atlant 14:08, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

The 15th Anniversary Edition Ghostbusters DVD has interviews with the production crew. During this interview, Mark Stetson (the model shop supervisor for the film) categorically states that the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man is exactly one hundered and Twelve and a half feet tall.

-Edward (Just a random contributor) 3 July 2006 172.214.161.98

[edit] Stay Puft vs. Stay-Puft

I know it's a small detail, but as far as I can tell, the name should not contain a hyphen. Look at the hat: STAY PUFT. I've edited the content but am not intuitively able to edit the title (am too lazy to try to figure out how to do it).

Someone may also want to check the closed-captioning or subtitles on the movie. In any case, if it turns out that it should be just "Stay Puft...", use the "move" feature to move the ARTICLE page (and not just this 'talk' page) to its new title. A REDIRECT page will automagically be created at the old title, but you should also look to see what links to the (now) REDIRECT page as you'll want to catch and fix the dreaded "double redirects".
Atlant 14:57, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Real Stay Puft

I know SP was used as a marketing gimmick for real marshmallows at some point. It would be neat if someone could find a photo and some info about this. --68.41.122.213 14:17, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Kingpin1055 That might just be confusion being drawn from the Pillsbury Dough Boy... I've never come across any mention of Stay Puft being used by a company to market their own marshmallows... although I think a brand of RGB sweets (Maybe even marshmallows) featured him

yes, he was used in the 50's and 60's for the stay puft marshmallow company( I dont think they're in buisness now)

[edit] Clio's birthday

I've recreated this article over the redirect. There's already quite a lot of referenced material and besides, as a birthday gift (see User talk:Clio the Muse) I'm going to try to push it to GA, which means it should get bigger... and better. --Dweller 08:43, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

At the moment too much of the text assumes familiarity with the Ghostbusters film for it to be satisfactory as a good article. When was Ghostbusters released, who is Ray Stanz, what is a Proton Pack, or a Containment Grid? The section on The Real Ghostbusters mentions a character called Peter, but who is Peter? The article says that "his image has been found in a microscopic etching on a 1988 Mac computer chip", but what does this mean? Was the image the result of a natural process, or was it drawn? "A moderate amount of merchandise has focused around the character and has become an icon for the Ghostbusters film" is a very poor sentence. The article states that each suit cost $50,000, whereas the IMDB lists the cost as $20,000. And so forth. -Ashley Pomeroy 15:57, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks - useful. At the moment, this is still a chunk of text hacked out of a main article, so it's kack. Feel free to improve it! Your comments are useful, thanks. --Dweller 16:11, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] wrong picture

the action figure in the "Kenner's Marshmallow Man action figure" picture isnt the action figure made by kenner its the one made by Columbia Pictures and its obvious because that one is made out of plastic. the one made by kenner is made out of polyester. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pauldonald86 (talk • contribs) 14:09, 17 May 2008 (UTC)