One last post regarding a recent adventure I went on with this pack. Since I sold my old GB1 Ray Stantz pack to finish this pack, I no longer owned a GB1 pack with any signatures on it. Well, just my luck, Dan Aykroyd was coming to a Liquor store within an hour and a half of my home on November 15th, so I decided to get this sucker signed.
So here's the story of how that day went. . . November 15th was also the last day at my previous job prior to me moving to a new job a week later. Because it was my last day and I was a program director, I couldn't just not show up; I wanted to make sure I left on good terms. With that stated, I stayed until roughly 2pm then drove my ass an hour and a half to the signing event. Upon arriving, there was already a line of 400+ people waiting for the 4pm event. I grabbed my pack and made my way to the end of the line. As I walked, a staff member of the Liquor store supporting the event stopped me and asked if I had an arm band for the event. I said, "no, but I am interested in learning how to get one." He told me you have to buy a bottle of Crystal Head first then they would give you an arm band. The issue was, the liquor store had already sold out of all 1000 bottles. He told me if I went to one of the other state owned liquor stores in the area and purchased a bottle and returned with the bottle and the receipt, they would give me an arm band and let me participate.
Welp, this began my next hour of hell. I spent an hour driving to 3 other liquors in the area, all of which were sold out. At the last one, the manager looked in their computer system and told me that they were sold out of Crystal Head Vodka across the county and I wasn't going to be getting one. At this point, I was defeated and planned to head home. But of course I had to complain on social media first. After doing so, I get a message from my only friend on my facebook friends list that I still have from High School. He noted that he and his wife were there and they purchased 2 bottles of vodka but only wanted 1 thing signed and my pack could be the second item. I offered to pay them for one of their bottles of vodka as a thank you, but they declined, stating that the only reason they were there in the first place was because of me posting about it weeks in advance. Lucky for me, I didn't even want a signed bottle of vodka anyway; just my pack signed. So I returned to the event, found them in line, then proceeded to wait 2 and a half hours to get my pack signed by Danny Aykroyd. What a pain in the ass. But it all worked out.
Anyway, here are some pics.
Also, I may or may not have low key dressed slightly like Luis Tully in the deleted scene from GB2.
Of course he signed right where my speaker holes were on the motherboard. Whatever, now it's signed. While waiting in line, I realized that there probably won't be many more opportunities to get my stuff signed as Dan and the rest of the cast are getting up there in age. Even though it was stressful, I am glad I went out there and figured out how to get this signed.