(Some are still available on eBay now, five years later, although at this point you might turn green if you drink them. Shooting from the famed Hook and Ladder 8, which was used as the Ghostbusters Firehouse in all 3 films, Jay breaks down some rumored, leaked and confirmed to. Demand was so great that fans were supposedly paying $100 or more for 12-packs of the cans. Hi-C is bringing the drink back but in a very limited capacity. When Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters came out in 2016, Hi-C (which is owned by The Coca-Cola Company) released a new batch of Ecto Cooler timed to the movie. Hi-C continued selling Ecto Cooler into the early 2000s, before they finally rebranded the drink without the ghost and slime connotations as “Shoutin' Orange Tangergreen.” But any time Ghostbusters returns to the pop culture forefront, fans beg for Ecto Cooler to make a comeback too. The Ecto Cooler box featured The Real Ghostbusters character Slimer. Ghostbusters Day is less than three weeks away, and while we’re sure Columbia Pictures Ghost Corps will undoubtedly surprise fans with further news surrounding the upcoming Ghostbusters sequel, the fan community is also aiming to make this year’s event, celebrating the 39th anniversary of the franchise, one to remember. While an adult might find the notion of drinking a concoction derived from ghostly excretions disgusting, children literally gobbled it up, and the beverage outlasted The Real Ghostbusters by years. Hi-C is a fruit juice-flavored drink made by the Minute Maid division of The Coca-Cola. The packaging featured pictures of that notably green fruit the orange, along with a drawing of the animated Slimer from The Real Ghostbusters. Now, with Ghostbusters: Afterlife scheduled to hit theaters this November, fans have been speculating on if we’ll see another return of our beloved drink. That, of course, was Hi-C Ecto Cooler, which was first introduced to grocery store shelves in the late 1980s to promote The Real Ghostbusters animated series, along with the subsequent Ghostbusters II movie. For children of the 1980s, their memories of Ghostbustershave as much to do with Bull Murray and Dan Aykroyd in jumpsuits as a curious green beverage that contained 10 percent fruit juice and no preservatives whatsoever.
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