Ways the Skelevator could malfunction.

[ilikefgb]

I was curious, how could the Skelevator malfunction when characters are going through the transformation sequence? I'd love to plan out some fanfics where characters have to deal with malfunctions for part of the story and I would appreciate hearing the ideas of anybody left here. I'm sad to see how quiet this place has gotten.

[smittenkitten]

Well, we've already witnessed a malfunction in the initial sequence right in the episode, "The Battle for Ghost Command". The Skelevator 'spit' them back out when they tried to start the process due to being possessed by toxic gas. In that case, they had to revert back to one of Tracy's portable methods to get into uniform. So, we know it's possible to have malfunctions. My guess is that dimension and all things within are run by some sort of force or spirits just as their office equipment and car is. So, if spirits are indeed running the dimensional space, it is possible they could have the occasional 'attitude' that the office equipment sometimes has. Ans-a-bone has attitude all the time, but we've also seen it in Shock Clock, Skelevision, Skelevator, and of course, the Ghost Buggy. If the dimensional spirits decide they don't want to help them, I'd say they have to revert to changing into uniform the 'normal' way--by physically changing. It probably takes longer and is more effort on their part, but it's a solution and still gets them to the end result--donning their ghosbusting uniforms.

On a side note, I wonder where they go after hitting that mattress at the end of the sequence? They get bounced into somewhere that lines them up to land into the Ghost Buggy, but the mattress is shooting them outward, not downward. Is there another mattress they smack into to realign downward so they can land in GB? I've always wondered about that little detail that we never see.

And yes, it has become rather quiet in here. I, like you, like to chat to get ideas for fanfics, etc. Well, I supposed we can help each other out and maybe our chattiness will entice others to participate?

[ilikefgb]

Dec 21, 2021 4:12:18 GMT -5 smittenkitten said:

Well, we've already witnessed a malfunction in the initial sequence right in the episode, "The Battle for Ghost Command". The Skelevator 'spit' them back out when they tried to start the process due to being possessed by toxic gas. In that case, they had to revert back to one of Tracy's portable methods to get into uniform. So, we know it's possible to have malfunctions. My guess is that dimension and all things within are run by some sort of force or spirits just as their office equipment and car is. So, if spirits are indeed running the dimensional space, it is possible they could have the occasional 'attitude' that the office equipment sometimes has. Ans-a-bone has attitude all the time, but we've also seen it in Shock Clock, Skelevision, Skelevator, and of course, the Ghost Buggy. If the dimensional spirits decide they don't want to help them, I'd say they have to revert to changing into uniform the 'normal' way--by physically changing. It probably takes longer and is more effort on their part, but it's a solution and still gets them to the end result--donning their ghosbusting uniforms.

On a side note, I wonder where they go after hitting that mattress at the end of the sequence? They get bounced into somewhere that lines them up to land into the Ghost Buggy, but the mattress is shooting them outward, not downward. Is there another mattress they smack into to realign downward so they can land in GB? I've always wondered about that little detail that we never see.

And yes, it has become rather quiet in here. I, like you, like to chat to get ideas for fanfics, etc. Well, I supposed we can help each other out and maybe our chattiness will entice others to participate?

That's right, I forgot about that one. Fortunately my ideas are nothing like that episode. Yeah that wa smy theory, that a spirit was running the Skelevator which wants to keep things running once the transformation sequence starts. My explanation for why Eddie gets kicked off of the web is that he stays too long on it after it takes his clothes, the next part of the procedure should be jumping off of it so that mechanical arms can catch him and lower him onto a chair on the conveyor belt like they do with Jake. I talked about that in this thread.

filmationghostbuster.proboards.com/thread/711/create-own-skelevator

Also discussed in that thread is a story idea proposed by my dear friend zacht who I miss very much which would go on to inspire this particular thread. Them not being able to access the Skelevator has been covered, but what if they were able to access it but something went wrong while they were inside of it? I've got some ideas for how the transformation sequence could go wrong, and would love to hear any ideas you had.

Good job noticing that. To me I always thought that it hurled them over the floor in front of the hole which led to Ghost Buggy and they set it up because it's more fun that way.

Who knows? I sure hope so. Please feel free to post anything and I'll try to talk about it with you at least a litle bit.