Last night was our two screenings of the original “Ghostbusters” at MadCap Theaters in Tempe, AZ. MadCap is a local community non-profit theater dedicated to concerts and showcasing rare and classic films. It took alot of planning and help from sponsors to get the screenings together and heavily promoted. As mentioned above, the sponsors were able to get some great raffle items. By going through some contacts we've made with several charities, we were able to get ahold of Sony directly and recieved permission to use their promotional 28ft Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man balloon at the screening and we will be able to use him again at our Toy Drive on December 5th. Our toy drive and the raffles at the screening will benefit the families of the local Children's Cancer Network and will help give them a great holiday season.

The big chore of the evening was setting up Stay-Puft. It took all of us to get him out of his case, spread out, zipped up, blowed up, and tied down. The Ecto-AZ was parked next to Puft. We set our raffle booth up inside to display the auction and raffle items. The soundtrack was played in the lobby as well and inside the theater we showed a slideshow of movie facts and behind the scenes pictures. Before the film started they showed the trailer and then the music video. During the music video we tossed out Stay-Puft Marshmallow bags and Twinkies and got the audience to sing along. After the video we handed out the raffle items.

The theater had a record turnout for a screening and made almost $2000 in donations. Our raffle items raised $300 and the Real Ghostbusters toy lot fetched $100 in the silent auction. We found out it's going to be a child's Christmas present. He was there at the screening in full Kenner toy gear. We had several kids come in costume as well as several local fans. It was a great night and we had an awesome response from the attendees. Alot of the parents were recalling the first time they saw the film and making a mess with their Kenner slime. We're already planning our next screening with the theater and can't wait for it.

The calm before the storm



Slide show





Puft wrangling











Triumphant!



The Ecto-AZ arrives



Booth







RGB Toy Lot



New donation box











Outside Display









With the fans













Jeff with Taikoubou from the boards







Theater Raffles







Fleeing townspeople



This looks extraordinarily bad







We had to call in some back-up









Luckily we got him

Here's one I forgot to post:

Another future prop builder pic I forgot to add:

Very good Photos and it is a very nice movie

Construction Games

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Very good Photos and it is a very nice movie

Construction Games

SPAM.

GTFO.

Anyways, another really touching event. Was this the most successful of all the charity drives you've done?

Certainly the most successful screening we've done. Our average at most charity events is around $300.