The second wave of Hasbro's 6-inch Ghostbusters Plasma Series was released in the Autumn of 2021 and was based entirely on the new 2021 Ghostbusters Afterlife movie. The wave featured three of the new characters and the three remaining Ghostbusters from their appearance late in the movie. The second wave, like the first, included a Build-a-Ghost with the Afterlife Sentinal Terror Dog included across the 6 releases.
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Trevor is packed in the same packaging as the first wave, and while most of the packaging remains as was in wave 1 and there is no direct reference to Afterlife, there are some artwork changes down the left-hand spine. While the first wave had illustrations of Rey, Egon, Peter, and Winston - this second wave has a montage of Lucky, Podcast, Pheobe, and Trevor. Round the back of the box we have a short background speel about Trevor - that gives very little away as expected - as well as the Build-a-Ghost checklist - Trevor comes with the Sentinel's right arm.
"Average teenage boy Trevor loves fast cars, reckless driving, cool adventures and, like, stuff."
Trevor arrives in the Ghostbusters jumpsuit as worn in the final scenes of the movie. Like the movie, the jumpsuit caries the GB logo on the right shoulder - but has no nameplate on the chest. The suit is sculpted so the suit is baggy and oversized, but some parts don't line up cleanly - most obvious around the thigh swivel. I assume parts will be shared across some of the other Teenage characters.
Trevor is appropriately scaled as a teenage boy - slightly under the usual 6-inch height of an adult character. The suit is cast in a beige plastic with painted details only on the elbow pads, the hose connector on the leg, and the black shirt he is wearing under the suit.
Trevor has the same issue as the original Ghostbuster figures in wave 1 in that the costume is too clean and needs weathering to bring out more of the detail.
The head sculpt is a decent - but not perfect - likeness to Finn Wolfhard. Photo-real deco is used to add realism to the facial features but it doesn't quite come off vs say some of the likenesses Marvel Legends are putting out. The hair for Trevor is not voluminous enough and is too light in colour. In a weird way, the look on the figure is perhaps closer to Finn in Stranger Things when he cosplayed as a Ghostbuster.
Trevor comes with a number of film-accurate accessories, starting with the map. This is printed onto a quite brittle feeling paper and then rolled up in the box. Trevor can hold it by sliding the edge into the pinched fingers on the hands. The printing and colour of the paper look the part, and the only issue will be one of longevity.
We then have a string of Mini-Pufts who make a number of appearances in the movie. This string of four Stay Pufts is taken from the final Ecto-1 scenes as they try and disrupt our heroes. The piece is cast in white with no paint apps. It has not the easiest to display as there is no obvious connection to the figure. I did think that a hole on Trevor's belt may allow the Stay Puft's slotted in here and then were posed as thought climbing the chest - but the two pieces do not connect, and I still don't know what the belt hole is for. In the end, I got Trevor to hold these as though being attacked.
The Proton Pack arrives as a separate piece in the box and is essentially the same one as used in Wave 1. The belt disconnects at one side allowing the pack to go over Trevor's head and arm and reconnect around his waist. The pack is very detailed, cast in black plastic, with painted detail on the wiring and across several silver components.
Unlike Wave 1, the Proton Thrower is separate in the box and connects to the base of the Proton Pack with a plug-in socket. For some reason, the piping that connects the Proton Thrower to the pack is much more rigid than the first wave and that makes posing more difficult as the piping doesn't behave naturally. When not in use, the Proton Emitter clips into the pack with a secure peg and socket. Like most of the Ghostbusters releases (Winston aside), there is no proton beam included in the set.
Trevor's articulation is only 14 points, with the biggest issue being the lack of any ankle rockers with the feet sculpted as part of the lower legs. This makes Trevor a little trickier to pose and stand. The arms really needed better elbow joints and butterfly joints at the shoulder to allow Trevor to hold and fire the Proton Stream. The range of motion only really allows a couple of awkward two-handed poses - and the lack of a chest joint doesn't help.
The GHostbusters line hasn't hit the heights of say Star Wars or Marvel Legends yet and Trevor feels like a backward step. Like the first releases, the likeness is not quite there on the head, and the costume is lacking paint detail. Trevor also then gets downgraded on articulation, and while the accessories make sense - still not including a Proton Stream is disappointing. These figures did seem to struggle when released ahead of the movie but are now starting to clear from shelves and online stores. There is unlikely to be a better Trevor figure in the near future, so if you want an Afterlife team this is a figure you should grab while it remains at retail, but be mindful this is not to the standard Hasbro applies to their other 6-inch licenses.
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