When the first “Ghostbusters” film debuted in June 1984, horror/sci-fi comedy seemed ready-made for merchandising. After all, the Ghostbusters wore cool tan jumpsuits and carried mini nuclear reactors on their backs—later called “proton packs”—which were attached to guns that threw off laser-like red and blue particle streams. The special effects were not unlike the light-saber battles in the massively popular space-opera trilogy, “Star...Continue Reading