Ghostbusters (franchise)

Ghostbusters is an American supernatural horror-comedy franchise which primarily consists of a film series, although television series and adaptations into mediums such as video games have also been created as part of the larger franchise.

The series usually surrounds a team of Ghostbusters functioning from Ghostbusters H.Q., New York City, and their investigations, encounters, and capture of various ghosts, such as Slimer. Members of the team originally primarily consisted of Peter Venkman, Raymond Stantz, Egon Spengler, and Winston Zeddermore, although the 2016 adaptation replaced this team with a female cast, consisting instead of Abby Yates, Erin Gilbert, Jillian Holtzmann, and Patty Tolan.

The series began with the original film of the same name, which was released on 8 June 1984. This was followed up with a sequel on 16 June 1989, as well as a further sequel in 2021, with another planned for released in December 2023. An adaptation featuring an all-female cast was released in 2016, and television adaptations were created in the form of a 1986 - 1991 series and a shorter-lived series in 1997.

Crossovers
Ghostbusters was one of the multiple franchises to be represented alongside the Doctor Who universe in the mass-crossover toys-to-life video game, LEGO Dimensions. The Ghostbusters content was featured in the game from the beginning, as with the Doctor Who content, although the fun packs, level packs, etc. allowing the player to control characters from the series were added partway through year 1. The content relating to the 2016 version of the franchise was added in a story pack on 27 September 2016.

This addition to the game allowed players to control the franchise's ten playable characters - Peter Venkman, Raymond Stantz, Egon Spengler, Winston Zedderman, Slimer, Stay Puft, Abby Yates, Erin Gilbert, Jillian Holtzmann, and Patty Tolan - and have them play through the A Dalektable Adventure and Dalek Extermination of Earth levels, and explore the Who-themed adventure world, as well as operate K9 and interact with the Doctor's TARDIS. In turn, this allowed the player to play as the Doctor or the Cyberman during the The Phantom Zone, Ghostbusters!, Paranormal Beginnings, Ghostbusting!, The Mercado Building, Breaking the Barrier, The Battle for Times Square, and The Final Showdown stories, and explore the Ghostbusters adventure world, and battle in the Connection Dimension battle arena, as well as using the related vehicles and objects - Ecto-1, Ghost Trap, the Slime Shooter, and Terror Dog - in any world.

Peter Venkman and the Doctor have lines to one another when paired up. When paired with the Doctor, Peter Venkman remarks "You didn't use to look like this.". On the contrary, when paired with Peter Venkman, the Twelfth Doctor says "Who ya gonna call? Judging by the state of your uniform I'd suggest a dry cleaner.". In promotional material for the game, the Ghostbusters content was advertised in the promotional videos Endless Awesome, Doctor, Doctor, Doctor, and New Adventures Await!. In Endless Awesome, Peter Venkman and Raymond Stantz appear along with the Ecto-1, as well as Slimer. The gameplay footage shown in the trailer features Venkman with Egon Spengler in the Ecto-1, capturing a ghost in New York City, as well as Ninjago 's Kai riding Scooby-Doo vehicles in New York City while The Lord of the Rings ' Gandalf is present.

A more significant crossover occurs in Doctor, Doctor, Doctor, where 3 doctors - Back to the Future 's Doc Brown, Ghostbusters ' Peter Venkman, and, naturally, Doctor Who 's Twelfth Doctor - each attempt to get past each other in the Brick Boulevard, attempting to allow one another past to resolve this. The short ends with the three crashing their vehicles into each other, and ending up in a large mess. Instead focusing on the 2016 adaptations' then-upcoming inclusion in the game, the E3 trailer New Adventures Await! begins with the DC Multiverse's Batman, The Lord of the Rings ' Gandalf, and The LEGO Movie 's Wyldstyle landing in New York City near Ghostbusters H.Q., where Abby Yates, Erin Gilbert, Jillian Holtzmann, and Patty Tolan are attempting to capture Slimer, who escapes, only to be caught by the Wizarding World 's Harry Potter. Batman, Gandalf, and Wyldstyle then leave through a portal, moving to another part of the trailer. Abby Yates returns on her own at the end, running into battle in Adventure Time 's Land of Ooo alongside most other characters shown in the trailer, before winding up in a mosh pit with the rest of the battle's participants, including the Twelfth Doctor.

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