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It's about time that we can post photos of that rat's nest of wires under the Clippard

OK, I extracted the photo from the Android app, it's actually a video.
Had to enhance the brightness a little. It does show more detail, but unfortunately there's too much shadow under the gearbox to know whether there's a second flip switch there (like the new one under the Ion Arm).

There is absolutely a breaker switch under the crank generator; you can actually see one on the gunner seat pack in a few of the photos that haven been floating around.

Not a fan of that mess of wires by the clippard

prodestrian wrote: ↑July 27th, 2021, 10:16 pm OK, I extracted the photo from the Android app, it's actually a video.
Had to enhance the brightness a little. It does show more detail, but unfortunately there's too much shadow under the gearbox to know whether there's a second flip switch there (like the new one under the Ion Arm).

Thanks for posting. Not the best photo but it 100% confirms a lot of the stuff we have seen on fan afterlife packs.

jonogunn wrote: ↑July 28th, 2021, 12:11 am Not a fan of that mess of wires by the clippard

Agreed. I’m all for updates and making the packs look like they’ve been held together with whatever was available, but that just seems like they added stuff for the sake of adding stuff. Looks like there are several more connecting to the booster tube as well.

JWils23 wrote: ↑July 28th, 2021, 7:13 pm

jonogunn wrote: ↑July 28th, 2021, 12:11 am Not a fan of that mess of wires by the clippard

Agreed. I’m all for updates and making the packs look like they’ve been held together with whatever was available, but that just seems like they added stuff for the sake of adding stuff. Looks like there are several more connecting to the booster tube as well.

I think it looks awesome. Maybe the underlying circuitry is broken and Egon didn't have the money to fully fix the pack so he patched it up by rerouting it externally.

Each to their own.
For me, personally it's just a bit too busy.
I'm really not into all the silver weathering on the shell and bumper either.
And don't get me started on the Dixie cup bracket or after market Alice gear

Having said that , this is just one pack and from what we've seen a lot of things point to this being a pack which is designed for a specific purpose which may well not share all of it's additions and design choices with the other packs in the movie.

Spot on Red, to each their own. I like a lot of the other little modifications done to the pack. I think it fits in with trying to keep a 30+ year old nuclear accelerator up and running with no budget. Maybe we’ve just become proton pack purists

It’s just that one cobbling of wires that gets me for whatever reason. Maybe they’ll explain it, maybe they won’t and maybe it’ll grow on me. I’m definitely excited to see more pictures of this pack and any of the other packs they use in the movie and if they’ve been modified.

I have a feeling we may see a pack taken apart in this movie, or the inside of the cyclotron. Adam Savage once hinted how he'd have loved to see the inside. Maybe he got his wish.

djsparky wrote:I have a feeling we may see a pack taken apart in this movie, or the inside of the cyclotron. Adam Savage once hinted how he'd have loved to see the inside. Maybe he got his wish.

That's what I was thinking. I have a hunch Jason asked him to come up with the design of the inside of the cyclotron and that's why he's so giddy about "things he can't disclose yet". When asked in a livestream if he was involved with Afterlife he said with the biggest smile "I can't confirm or deny that" .I heard rumors we may see such a scene and after a proton pack with the cyclotron cover missing accidently was spotted in the background of one of his youtube workshop videos, it's easy to put 2 and 2 together.

Edit: This was the pack that was spotted in an Adam Savage workshop video on youtube:

Well, we do know the Puft's are going to destroy a pack.

Not really from the trailers, but with the Hasbro action figure toy line released I wonder if we'll see some sort of attachment for the thrower barrel in the movie. I initially just brushed off the toy thrower attachment as maybe something cool they added for the kids toys and not necessarily going to be in the movie, but it seems to be there on the action figure packs that Hasbro has now shown previews of.

From the hasbro description: "The primary blaster, complete with sound and light effects, comes with two attachments – the Blast ‘n Trap and the Plasma Stream"

What do you guys think? Maybe we'll see some new pack tech like in the video games?

That’s an interesting find. I just thought those figurines had poorly designed looking wand tips but you might be on to something

It looks to me like the throwers have been sculpted with the clear tubes fully extended... But have been painted as if they were recessed.

That's how they are on the original plasma figures also...

The light inside the Cyclotron is mounted to a motor and spin. The animation on the official app is correct ^^
It can be seen in Adam Savage's new video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TdeBrw2g_M

Wow, that video is a gold mine.

A few screenshots from the video:




Notice the little spikes on the far end of each wing, for the taser mode:

Looks like a grill was added to the end of pke meter:

God that pack is GORGEOUS.

I bet that the grill part at the top of the PKE is a window for a flash bulb that strobes when you tase a ghost.

What I wouldn't give to have been a fly on the wall during the production of all of this.
Cannot wait to see more.

Adam Savage posted a quick behind the scenes of Afterflife.

posting.php?mode=post&f=108#

Show's some neat stuff briefly from inside the Hero Pack, like the cyclotron seems to be lit by a revolving light instead of 4 separate ones.

https://imgur.com/a/NpV3177

a link to the screenshot of the inside of the hero pack in the video.

Topics merged.

A freaking revolving light?!?! That kind of mechanic is so much easier than programming IC's! -grumbles-

Lowberg wrote: ↑July 30th, 2021, 12:15 pm Not really from the trailers, but with the Hasbro action figure toy line released I wonder if we'll see some sort of attachment for the thrower barrel in the movie. I initially just brushed off the toy thrower attachment as maybe something cool they added for the kids toys and not necessarily going to be in the movie, but it seems to be there on the action figure packs that Hasbro has now shown previews of.

From the hasbro description: "The primary blaster, complete with sound and light effects, comes with two attachments – the Blast ‘n Trap and the Plasma Stream"

What do you guys think? Maybe we'll see some new pack tech like in the video games?

Does the toy PKE come with the tazer function? If so, this might be a good indication.

joezlo wrote: ↑August 4th, 2021, 10:55 am A freaking revolving light?!?! That kind of mechanic is so much easier than programming IC's! -grumbles-

The downsides of course are the motor would eventually need replacing, is less power efficient, and would make noise compared to the silent circuit kit.

Word I've seen repeated is that the rotating light was replaced part-way through production because it was noisy and unreliable.

joezlo wrote: ↑August 4th, 2021, 10:57 am Does the toy PKE come with the tazer function? If so, this might be a good indication.

It does: that's what the function where the arms stick straight up represents.

That makes much more sense, I mean, I appreciate the original idea to create more motion, but unless there was an insert shot of that rotation starting or something, it would be mostly lost.

So, I don't love the aesthetic of the pack mods; but that's really not what's bothering me. It's the one fear I had early on which what we've seen has confirmed: relatively small, young kids wearing and shooting the packs. They're supposed to be REALLY heavy, and handle like a fire hose. If it had been Wolfhard's character or one of his peers, it wouldn't have bugged me quite so much - he's apparently about 5'8", and around 130lbs (featherweight; but kinda starting to get there) - but Grace is only about 5' even, and evidently hasn't even broken 100lbs. Firing from that gunner's seat was one thing; but discharging something with that kind of heft and kick from a standing position? I'm pretty sure that should knock somebody that small right on their ass.