Make the Cutest Mini-Puft S'mores with JustJENN

The official Ghostbusters social media and YouTube channel released an awesome do-it-yourself recipe to create s’mores at home themed after the Mini-Pufts seen in Ghostbusters: Afterlife. All that you need are a few easy supplies, a steady hand, the desire to roast something super cute, and you’re good to go.

A few notable things about this easy to do craft that you can involve the whole family in creating: the recipe is created and crafted in the video by the amazing JustJENN, who has created several other awesome Ghostbusters-themed crafts. Definitely check out her website and social media for more! Secondly, she was kind enough to give me a call to help her film these fun videos, so it’s yours truly behind the camera filming for her.

And thirdly, for film score aficionados like myself, it’s been confirmed that this is the first listen that we’ve been treated to of Rob Simonsen’s new score for Ghostbusters: Afterlife. This theme, seemingly for the Mini-Puft characters combines a lot of the things that I love from 80’s film scores: obviously the original influences of Elmer Bernstein’s original Ghostbusters score is the foundation for it all, but there are also creepy and mischievous allusions to Jerry Goldsmith’s Gremlins score in there, plus a little fun whimsical ticking clock sounds that are reminiscent of Alan Silvestri’s Back to the Future score.

Give the video a watch (and a listen) below, and make sure to send us photos of your own creations from home!

The Mini-Puft Invasion Has Begun

We all woke up to a changed world yesterday.

Early on Wednesday morning, Jason Reitman and the official Ghostbusters social media channels surprised us all with a film clip from the upcoming Ghostbusters: Afterlife. The clip, featuring Paul Rudd’s character “Mr. Grooberson” wandering the dessert aisles at Wal-Mart when he hears a scream and goes to investigate. But what he finds ends up being a lot cuter and/or malicious than he may have been expecting.

The short and fun clip is a great example of what’s in store, as nostalgia bones are tickled while the lines between comedy and horror are straddled much like the original Ghostbusters film did. And it’s safe to say that the chaos in that Wal-Mart store is probably just beginning. The clip is also abridged for marketing purposes with several cuts that make it apparent it falls into a larger sequence to be revealed when we’re seeing the film for the first time on the big screen this November.

And the clip is well-timed to start the engine revving of the merchandise powerhouse to come with the film’s release. This morning, Hasbro unveiled what is probably just the tip of the iceberg on their upcoming Afterlife (and Mini-Puft) related merchandise: a blind bag set of Mini-Pufts in various poses.

The bags will be available this Fall, just in time for the holiday season. Here is all the information fit to print from Hasbro:

GHOSTBUSTERS MINI-PUFT SURPRISE 

(Ages 4 and Up / Approx. Retail Price: $5.39 / Available: Fall 2021)

Choose the smallest, most collectible method of your destruction with the GHOSTBUSTERS Mini-Pufts Surprise figures from Hasbro. Detailed to look like characters from the 2021 Ghostbusters: Afterlife film, each series of 1.5-inch Mini-Puft figures is inspired by the original Stay Puft Marshmallow Man but comes equipped with new mischievous personalities from the movie. Kids and collectors alike can open the Stay Puft Marshmallow can and dig into the goopy marshmallow-like compound to see which Mini-Puft figure is inside. 

With multiple blind waves and six unique figures per wave for the GHOSTBUSTERS Mini-Pufts Surprise figures, boys and girls can collect them all! Available at most major retailers nationwide.GHOSTBUSTERS MINI-PUFT SURPRISE

(Ages 4 and Up / Approx. Retail Price: $5.39 / Available: Fall 2021)

Choose the smallest, most collectible method of your destruction with the GHOSTBUSTERS Mini-Pufts Surprise figures from Hasbro. Detailed to look like characters from the 2021 Ghostbusters: Afterlife film, each series of 1.5-inch Mini-Puft figures is inspired by the original Stay Puft Marshmallow Man but comes equipped with new mischievous personalities from the movie. Kids and collectors alike can open the Stay Puft Marshmallow can and dig into the goopy marshmallow-like compound to see which Mini-Puft figure is inside.

With multiple blind waves and six unique figures per wave for the GHOSTBUSTERS Mini-Pufts Surprise figures, boys and girls can collect them all! Available at most major retailers nationwide.