Review: Ghostbusters Plasma Series Rooftop Showdown Exclusive Box Set of Ray Stantz, Egon Spengler, Peter Venkman, and Winston Zeddemore
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"Sub-creatures! Gozer the Gozerian, Gozer the Destructor, Volguus Zildrohar, the Traveller has come! Choose and perish!”
Hasbro’s Ghostbusters Plasma Series of 6-inch collector figures launched in 2020, releasing figures from the original 1984 movie in the first wave, supported by an SDCC exclusive pack of Louis Tully and a Terror Dog. In 2021, the four original Ghostbusters were repacked with updated ‘slimed’ decor for a glow-in-the-dark release, after which the line went on a hiatus. This self-imposed break came to an end when, in 2024, Hasbro announced a Plasma Series HasLab project to bring the iconic ECTO-1 to the 6-inch scale. This arrived in late 2025, bringing with it two more 84 movie figures of Slimer and the Library Ghost, and the first figures from Ghostbusters 2 with the full team and Louis Tully in his borrowed uniform.
To support the ECTO-1 release and to satisfy collectors who didn’t grab the original Ghostbusters team in 2020, Hasbro announced the release of a new exclusive 4-pack titled the ‘Rooftop Showdown’. This would revisit the Ghostbusters foursome again, putting them into a single box set. While originally scheduled for early January 2026, the set was delayed and arrived a couple of months later in early March.
The Rooftop Showdown packaging follows the principles laid down by the ECTO-1 set, bringing in-universe branding to the box. The outer sleeve for the set uses the Stay Puft logo on the front and both sides, with no direct reference to the contents until you get to the back of the box. The sleeve features burnt sections, through which the secondary packaging design can be viewed. The back of the box shows the four figures in a diorama setting on the rooftop of the Shandor building, under each of them sits their uniform name plate, and under this a short synopsis of the final battle on the rooftop against Gozer.
This outersleeve is held in place with four pieces of tape, and once cut, it slides off to reveal an inner box that uses the design of the rooftop temple to Gozer seen in the movie. The back of this box also features more details of the set, with the same group photo followed by individual profile shots and bios of each of the Ghostbusters team. The front of this inner box opens with two front flaps to reveal the set within. These doors are not secured with Velcro or similar, as seen on other lines. The final internal packaging uses the original Ghostbusters Plasma Series backing design and logos, while also set against artwork of the Gozerian gateway.
With the figures unpacked, we can see these are the same GB uniformed bodies that date back to 2020 and have been used on the previous three iterations of these figures. These are also shared across Egon, Winston, Ray, and Peter. The body is cast in beige and is inclusive of the zips, pockets, and pouches seen on the actual uniform. A grey elbow pad is in place across the elbow joint, while the boots and gloves are painted in black gloss.
Other details include the individual name plates for each of the team, these are coloured in black with the text in red to match the embroidered badges seen on screen. A Ghostbusters logo is applied as a decal to each figure's right shoulder. The belt is an individual section, added around the waist in black, with grey panels, and sculpted pouches and pockets - all of which are non-functional in terms of the walkie-talkie that sits in one, and the hook to the side of it, which will not hold or engage with any accessories.
Black flexible plastic pipework sits on the belt in a loop on the front left round to the left hip. There is also a yellow-hued transparent tube a little further down on the left thigh. This protrudes out of a hip socket and connects back into the belt at the rear.
While all the team do share the same base body, Peter Venkmen does feature a different set of lower legs to reflect his look from the movies. His trousers sit over his boots.
When you line up all of the Ghostbusters suits from 2020 to 2026 side by side we can see that the newer version is the best in terms of overall colouring with the original 2020 figures criticised for being too light. The 2026 version is the same tone as the 2021 ‘Slimed’ figures, just forgoing the slimed effect.
From right to left: 2026 Exclusive, 2020 Wave 1, 2021 Slimed, 2025 HasLab ECTO-1
The headsculpts are all new and are intended to be improved likenesses vs the original figures. Each head is cast in a flesh colour with painted hair and photo realistic facial printing to enhance the likeness. Ray has certainly improved on his original 2020 release, but neither the Rooftop Showdown or the HasLab GB2 figure nails the look for Dan Ackyroyd.
Egon’s original 2020 figure was fairly good, with the newer sculpt not necessarily improving upon it. This new head features larger glasses that sit lower down on the face, and he has been given a slightly angled nose. He is given a serious look compared to the 2025 HasLab GB2 release, which includes more character by giving Egon the smirk we see Harold Ramis employ.
Winston’s figure is a passing likeness to Ernie Hudson, but it still has not nailed the character, nor has it improved on any of the prior releases. The original Winston head was smiling, but this Rooftop Showdown release goes more serious in the overall expression, as do all the characters in the set.
Peter Venkman is a reasonable likeness to Bill Murray, but perhaps is a little bit on the large side in terms of his forehead. The shaping and proportions are better than the early releases, but the Rooftop release is perhaps not quite as good as the GB2 version from the ECTO-1 HasLab.
Each of the figures features 19 points of articulation, exactly the same as the other releases on the same body. This includes pegged double-joint knee joints as well as thigh swivel, hip joint and ankle rockers. This makes all of the figures stable once positioned, although Peter is slightly more difficult with his ankle rockers slipped under the hem of his trousers and not quite as extensive in their movement compared to the other three, who tuck their uniform into their boots.
There is a ball joint waist and a dual-jointed neck, although the lower part of the neck has limited movement. The arms feature ball jointed and butterfly shoulders, allowing for the arms to swing in and out as well as moving up and down. With this and the double-joint pinned elbows, there is plenty of arm range for use with the included accessories.
These accessories are all re-cycled from the first wave in 2020, starting with the ECTO-goggles that we see Ray use in the movie. These include a green flexible loop strap, from which projects the two lenses in black, with one side extended and the extended lens picked out in silver. The issue in the Rooftop Set is that Ray’s head profile has changed and the hair and head are larger, making the goggles a much tighter fit and more difficult to engage. Once in place they do hold against his eyes, but the sit on the forehead with the goggles raised is not as easy to achieve.
We then have the Ghosttrap, which is created as the main box only, and with no piping or the foot trigger. This is black with silver side panels that also feature black and red detailing. The doors on the top of the trap include the yellow and black hatching, and from just behind these doors is the handle, which projects up and backwards for the figures to hold. There is no obvious function for having the Ghosttrap hung on the Ghostbusters belts.
The final small accessory piece is the PKE meter, which can be belt slung by way of a small peg on the device that just about slots into a tiny socket on the belt. The PKE itself is simplisticly cast in black with no real definition of design and a painted green screen.
As well as these supporting accessories, each Ghostbuster also gets a Proton Pack with a Proton Stream Thrower. These are again exactly the same as all the other releases and have the main backpack cast in black with painted components in silver, red, and blue, as well as a ribbon cable picked out in beige. The pack then sits into a green frame that includes the shoulder straps. One side unclips to allow it to fit over the figure, with a single peg that slots into a socket on each Ghostbuster's back. Once engaged, the strap reconnects at one side, leaving the pack secure in place.
The Particle Thrower arrives as an individual piece that includes the Thrower itself and the flexible black pipe. The pipe ends in a ball joint that slots into a socket on the base of the main pack, allowing it to retain some movement once plugged. The Thrower is black cast plastic with some silver parts on the main body and at the end of the barrel.
The Thrower can be slung by way of a shaped socket on one side that connects to the right-hand side of the backpack. This is much more secure than the earlier releases, where the fit hasn’t always been secure.
The Thrower can then be manoeuvred into the Ghostbuster's hand, ready for firing, with two gripped sections that correspond to the hands. The right sits at the base of the Thrower with the pipework coming back out of the hand and round to the pack. The left hand is then intended to grip the second shaped grip halfway up the Thrower, although this is trickier to engage as the hand grip doesn’t quite wrap around the barrel.
These Throwers feel very soft this time around and do tend to warp in the grip of the figures rather than being solid enough to hold their shape. This worsens when the Proton Stream effects are added. These streams, also reused, are a blue translucent tube at one end that opens up into lightning type effects. Plugged into this internally is the central beam in translucent orange that is a wavy finish sitting inside the arcing lightning effects. The other side of the tube then sits onto the THrower barrel to simulate firing.
With the Proton Stream in place, the dynamics of the figure change and wider stances are needed to hold them in place, or an aftermarket stand. The weight of the Proton Stream does start to pull down on the weapon, with the look overtime sagging or warping the barrel, which is a shame.
Assembled together, the set does do what is says on the tin in that you can setup and display the four Ghostbusters as seen on the Rooftop Showdown from Ghostbusters. For a wider display, you will still need to track down the 2020 wave one Gozer, and as yet, there is no Hasbro corresponding Stay Puft, although the older NECA figure or Diamond money boxes will make a good stand-in.
The set improves on the original figures in terms of the uniform colouring and across most of the figures with an improved likeness. Everything else is recycled, and it might have been nice to see the set stray into some diorama pieces like the pillars or the Terror Dog statues for more of a world-building element. The set costs £105 here in the UK, which is a fiver more than you’d pay for four single 6-inch releases. That extra is pretty much seen in the packaging, which is nice, but not overly practical for display. It may have been nicer to follow suit with the Louis Tully exclusive and have the box in portrait and the figures posed within, ready to cross the streams.
This one is very much one for those who need the original Ghostbusters for ECTO-1 and is perhaps the last ‘hurrah’ for the Plasma Series, unless Hasbro decide to go all in for a Ghostbusters 2 wave with the updated beige uniform, Janine Melnitz, Janosz, and a build-a-figure of Vigo the Carpathian (hint, hint).
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