For all of those joining me for the first time, welcome to the Return of the 31 Days of Monsters Halloween countdown here at Branded in the 80s! I had a blast last year, so again I’m counting down 31 of my favorite monsters from the Real Ghostbusters cartoon. All of these monsters come straight from my vintage animation cel collection, and my wife and I tried our best to put them in a not-so-scary to really-freaking-creepy kind of order with the creepiest falling on All Hallows Eve.
I was super excited to score today’s monsters. This is actually not one, but a whole mess of cels and production drawings from a short scene in one of my all time favorite episodes, #6, the Boogieman Cometh!
First of all, I love getting my hands on a series of overlapping cels that make up the majority of the on-screen image as it feels so much more like a scene from a cartoon. But also, with this one in particular I got a nice shot of the entire group squaring off against some crazy monsters. I wanted to share two scenes from this segment, so above we have the guys as they’ve just landed on what they thought was a big bed, and then the one below where they realize this bed is comprised of a crap ton of freaky red snakes!
Also, I thought these cels were kind of interesting because the Asian crew that worked on them slipped in a bit more of their local cartoon flair by utilizing the odd code-like blue facial coloring that’s supposed to show extreme fright (or embarrassment.) You typically don’t see these anime aspects filter into the American shows, even though they were usually animated overseas at this time. I really dig it…
You can also see from the sketches that these were thought out and planned…
We’re also getting down to the wire here, with only five more cels left in the countdown. I wonder if I managed to get a hold of some other monsters from this episode? Guess everyone will just have to come back tomorrow for another Real Ghostbusters monster animation cel as I count down towards one of my favorite on Halloween day!
Also, if you feel inclined, I would love everyone to spread the word about the Return of the 31 Days of Monsters countdown, so hit up those social networks and tell a friend (my twitter handle is smurfwreck, and I’m on the Facebook as well.) If you’d like to read more Halloween-y goodness, you can also click on the Halloween Archive link to the left (the banner with King Kong), as well as heading on over to the Countdown to Halloween to check out lists of a bunch of other sites participating in this year’s Halloween blogging event…
