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The New Ghostbusters Timeline
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Veedramon
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Joined: Feb 03, 2003
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 Posted: May 27, 2003 8:54 PM
As a Certified Historian of Things That Never Were (thanks to Edgar Governo
Historian of Things That Never Were) I wish to unviel my latest project, a little sister to the now-semifamous Ghostbusters Omnibus Timeline
The New Ghostbusters Timeline
This timeline is a work in progress that has barely started. As you might have already guessed, it is centered around the new Ghostbusters comic book to be released by 88MPH Studios.
Thusly, starting out, it's a load of pure conjecture--based off lore established by RGB, XGB, and even the GBI role playing game, but it considers Year One as 2003, and thus dates affecting the biographies of the Ghostbusters themselves are advanced twenty years
(Example: In the Omnibus, Egon's conjectural birthdate is November 21, 1957. In the New Timeline, it's November 21, 1977)
It presents a distilled essence of Ghostbuster history. Unless it's actually mentioned in GB1, it is NOT canon yet. Even the Ghostbusters' histories have been simplified--only the non-supernatural backstory has been conjectured (in other words, as cool as the Boogeyman is, he's not in there until/unless 88MPH "reestablishes" him)
I offer it as a reference to Red and company in the hopes that they will consider it as their comic launches, to minimize unintentional contradiction with what has come before.
And of course I offer it to all Ghostheads as a resource for the great new series to come.
  
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--Dr. Fritz V. Baugh, Mad Scientist and Official Historian of Ghostbusters: West Coast Division
Also known as GBCentral's Doc Fritz
Visit The Digibusters Ectozone, home of the Ghostbusters Omnibus Timeline!!!!! and the New Ghostbusters Timeline!. The Ectozone is a member of the GB Community Board
Also visit The Ghostbusters Fact List!
And read one of my Fan Fictions Pretty Please?
Egon and Janine Forever!!!
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venkmanfan49
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Joined: Jul 25, 2002
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Posted: May 27, 2003 9:22 PM
Wow. Good Job. That's very very good...geez.
Matt
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FHGB: The Movie Part 1
Ghostbusters: The Website: New Message Board
Foothills Ghostbusters
They murdered my family. They thought they murdered me. My actions are not vengeance. No, not vengeance...Punishment
The Punisher 2004
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E Graves
Ghosthead
Joined: Apr 21, 2003
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Posted: May 27, 2003 9:48 PM
*appropriately impressed whistle*
Where do you find the time to do all of these wonderful wonderful things?
*Scans Veedramon with a PKE meter* I'm getting readings of at least a Class VII here, boys...
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"Why do I say things like that? I always get in trouble..."
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Veedramon
Ghosthead
Joined: Feb 03, 2003
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Posted: May 27, 2003 9:52 PM
Well, I have a forty hour a week job, but besides that no life.
Actually, the new timeline was relatively simple: I just hacked away almost everything from the aforementioned Omnibus Timeline. (That was the product of almost five years of off-and-on work)
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--Dr. Fritz V. Baugh, Mad Scientist and Official Historian of Ghostbusters: West Coast Division
Also known as GBCentral's Doc Fritz
Visit The Digibusters Ectozone, home of the Ghostbusters Omnibus Timeline!!!!! and the New Ghostbusters Timeline!. The Ectozone is a member of the GB Community Board
Also visit The Ghostbusters Fact List!
And read one of my Fan Fictions Pretty Please?
Egon and Janine Forever!!!
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missjanine
Ghosthead
Joined: Nov 12, 2001
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Posted: May 27, 2003 10:38 PM
*bows down in humble supplication again* This is incredible! Like I said once before, fresh start for the guys.
btw- congrats on having the timeline on Edgar's site. I knew it belonged there.
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"If you want to destroy me, Janine, I won't try to stop you. But, remember this- I love you." -Egon, "Janine, You've Changed"
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Ludicris
Ghosthead
Joined: Oct 12, 2002
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Posted: May 27, 2003 11:15 PM
Again, another document that should be saved on every ghosthead's computer. Its AWESOME!!!!! to say the least. Veedramon, I once again bow down to you. Great job man.
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please, no applause.
Ghostbusters: West Coast Division
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Doc Ryedale
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Joined: Nov 02, 2002
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Posted: May 28, 2003 1:09 AM
*Hands Fritz a pack Dr. Peter Venkman Peanut Butter Cups*
That's wonderful, Fritz! You've done really GREAT! I hope 88mph Studios will use it. They'd be insane not to.  
And the Omnibus Timeline is right at home on Edgar's website. Now even more people can learn when/how/what/where/who/why things happened in The Real Ghostbusters' Universe. BRILLIANT!
This reminds Me of how the Ghostbusters Fact List that's going to be sent to 88mph Studios should be. Like what Fritz said before, everything that happened after GB1 is not cannon yet. Which means that the Facts about the events/episodes/issues after GB1 won't be mentioned in the Fact List that's sent to 88mph Studios. What will be mentioned in the Fact List being sent, will be:
1.) Information about how the Equipment/Technology and the Ghost Classification System work.
2.) Background/History of the Ghostbusters, themselves, prior to GB1, such as Biographical Information, Hobbies, Skills, Talents, Knowledge, Childhood, Relatives, Relatives' names, Genealogy/Ancestry, etc.
All of the things contained in that Fact List were learned from the Movies, Ghostbusters International, RGB, EGB, and various other websites with info. NO, this does not mean that events that took place after GB1 are included. It just means that the facts that we learned are the backgrounds of the Characters, which took place before GB1, but we didn't find out about them unitil after GB1. So in other words, those facts are still cannon.
I sure do hope 88mph Studios will use those Facts and the New Ghostbusters Timeline. It will provide perfect Characterization and prevent unintentional contridiction with the events that took place before GB1.
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"We're on a mission from God!"
"Hey, do you believe in God? Well I do. Praise the Lord and pass the Particle Throwers! I love Jesus' style. . . "
"Back off, man, I'ma Genealogist!"
They don’t just call them The Real Ghostbusters for no reason! Take a look at Take Two, Citizen Ghost, The Ghostbusters Omnibus Timeline, THE GHOSTBUSTERS FACT LIST, and RGB Truly Canon with the Movies?, and you’ll see why!
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Sinister
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Joined: Jul 05, 2002
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Posted: May 28, 2003 8:29 AM
Now THIS I like!
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The resident scribe for GHOSTBUSTERS UK
GB DOOMSdAY, a crossover event unlike any other!
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Kingpin
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Joined: Aug 17, 2001
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Posted: May 28, 2003 8:40 AM
Wow, great list Fritz
Hands Fritz a Golden copy of the History of Ghostbusters
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"We have the tools, we have the talent"
The sun never sets on the British Empire...because God can't trust us in the dark! evil grin
Nightsquad gets chatting
Egon and Janine forever! Everything else is wrong
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Veedramon
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Joined: Feb 03, 2003
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Posted: May 28, 2003 10:54 PM
Kingpin, Matthew, and everyone else, thank you both as always for your encouragement and support.
Sinister, it's always a treat on those occassions where we agree on something. We come at things from different angles sometimes, but as a geometry teacher would say, two non-parallel lines will inevitably intersect. (I'm not sure that makes much sense either...I'm tired and about to go to bed...)
I just fixed a few spelling and transfer errors (including one pesky one I thought I'd already fixed  )...good grief, I had the year in the right spot but Winston's birth year still said "1953"...oopsie.
Definitely looking forward to this fall...and having more stuff to add to this!
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--Dr. Fritz V. Baugh, Mad Scientist and Official Historian of Ghostbusters: West Coast Division
Also known as GBCentral's Doc Fritz
Visit The Digibusters Ectozone, home of the Ghostbusters Omnibus Timeline!!!!! and the New Ghostbusters Timeline!. The Ectozone is a member of the GB Community Board
Also visit The Ghostbusters Fact List!
And read one of my Fan Fictions Pretty Please?
Egon and Janine Forever!!!
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Sinister
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Joined: Jul 05, 2002
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Posted: May 29, 2003 6:13 PM
Yes indeed it is Mon! I'm sorry if I have seemed a little none supportive with your omnibus timeline. It's just a little hard for me to look at the very thing that got me into Ghostbusters. Don't get me wrong, I love RGB too, but I always looked to OGB for facts.... you know. And when I see it referred to as fiction, and RGB fact... well, you get the idea. But I'm glad we;re sorted.
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The resident scribe for GHOSTBUSTERS UK
GB DOOMSdAY, a crossover event unlike any other!
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GhostBusterJohn
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Joined: Mar 29, 2003
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Posted: May 29, 2003 8:44 PM
It is a good tome line but the age of the actors of the first movies should be taken into account. By my calculations the characters should be in their 30's maybe even 40's.
Dan ackroyd born 1952
Bill Murray born 1950
Ernie Hudson born 1945
Harold Ramis born 1944
I do not think the new comic book should focus on "The Real Ghostbusters" cartoon even though it is great. I hope i don't sound rude but the comic should follow the movie. Don't get me wrongyour time line is great but I want a comic that follows the movie. One extra note, if you watch the commentary on the DVD Harold Ramis said that the character of Winston had a number of PhD's and was ver over qualified for the job as a ghostbuster. It would have been difficult to get more than one PhD and go to vietnam because it take s a while to get just one.
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Orko Is King
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Joined: Jan 21, 2003
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Posted: May 29, 2003 9:01 PM
Hot damn! Nice aritcle!
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I hate the yellow hose. It looks stupid.
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E Graves
Ghosthead
Joined: Apr 21, 2003
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Posted: May 29, 2003 11:03 PM
Let's see... Mr. Fritz Baugh, alias Veedramon, has been registered for about... four months.
In that amount of time, he has posted 253 replies to topics. He has written the exceedingly impressive Ghostbusters Omnibus Timeline, which somehow manages to fit all of the radically different Ghostbusters shows, comics, and movies into one seamless universe. Every last detail from every last product. He has now created a new timeline for the new comic universe, and has just posted the first part of his fourth fanfiction(all of which are very good).
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I don't think you're human.
*Watches at Veedramon suspiciously*
Graves is keeping her eye on you, mister...
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"Why do I say things like that? I always get in trouble..."
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born2bustheads
Ghosthead
Joined: Jun 28, 2002
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Posted: May 29, 2003 11:53 PM
awesome dude but only one problem, louis would have to have been born in 1978.
hold on to your hats ghostheads cuz this is where i shine.
if louis is born in 1978 he is 18 in 1996, he is 22 in 2000 when he finishes his schooling and becomes an accountant, in 2003 at the age of 25 he celebrates his third year as an accountant on floor 22 of his appartment building.
HOLLA IF YA HEAR THAT!!!!!!!!!
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this goes out to all my freaks at Ghostbusters.net...born2bustheads is your hook up HOLLA IF YA HEAR ME!
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missjanine
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Joined: Nov 12, 2001
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Posted: May 30, 2003 8:17 AM
Mr. Baugh said on his site that he'd been working on the timeline for quite a few years, if I'm not mistaken. Something like that TAKES a while.
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"If you want to destroy me, Janine, I won't try to stop you. But, remember this- I love you." -Egon, "Janine, You've Changed"
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