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The  Ectomobile , or Ecto-1 is a 1959  Cadillac Miller-Meteor  limo-style endloader  combination car  (ambulance conversion) used in the 1984 film  Ghostbusters  and other Ghostbusters fiction. The original vehicle design was the creation of Steven Dane, credited as a Hardware Consultant in the credits.  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097428/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostbusters_(franchise)#Transportation ------------------------------- Ghostbusters is a 1984 American supernatural comedy film directed and produced by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis . The film stars Bill Murray , Aykroyd and Ramis as eccentric parapsychologists who start a ghost-catching business in New York City. Sigourney Weaver and Rick Moranis co-star as a client and her neighbor, and Ernie Hudson as the Ghostbusters' first recruit. Aykroyd conceived the film as a project for himself and fellow Saturday Night Live alumnu...

Dewey, played by Erik Per Sullivan (all 151 episodes), is portrayed as being quieter and more inclined to the arts than his brothers. He soon finds he is a musical prodigy, and as the series goes on he becomes more caring and thoughtful especially in regards to his younger brother Jamie, whom he decides not to bully like he was by Malcolm and Reese. Lois remarks at one point that unlike Malcolm, who would have to work hard to achieve success, Dewey would have success handed to him. Dewey joins the Buseys, a class for the emotionally disturbed, by mistake and ends up becoming their unofficial teacher. He ended up caring for his fellow students so much that, when the mistake was uncovered, he feigned severe emotional problems so he could remain. In the final few seasons, Dewey becomes increasingly bitter towards his parents due to them overlooking him throughout his childhood and neglecting his interests. Because of this, he forces them to give Jamie the childhood he never had. In the ...

Leeloominaï Lekatariba Lamina-Tchaï Ekbat De Sebat (A.K.A " Leeloo ") is one of the Supreme Beings of the Universe. She was sent to Earth in corporeal form to become the Fifth Element, the final piece of a powerful weapon to destroy the Great Evil. http://fifth-element.wikia.com/wiki/Leeloo --------------------------------- The Fifth Element  (French: Le Cinquième Élément) is a 1997 English-language French  science-fiction   action film  directed and co-written by  Luc Besson . It stars  Bruce Willis ,  Gary Oldman  and  Milla Jovovich . Primarily set in the  23rd century , the film's central plot involves the survival of planet  Earth , which becomes the responsibility of Korben Dallas (Willis), a taxicab driver and former  special forces  major, after a young woman (Jovovich) falls into his cab. Dallas joins forces with her to recover four mystical stones essential for the defence of Earth against an impendi...

The  Hylian Crest  is one of the two stylised successors of the  Goddess Crest  used within the same land during the  Era of the Goddess Hylia , the other being the  Wingcrest  used to represent the  Royal Family of Hyrule . It is a common depiction of an  archaic bird , usually beneath the  Triforce . It can be seen on the  Hylian Shield  and in buildings such as  Hyrule Castle  and  Temple of Time . This crest is mostly used to represent  Hyrule  and the  Hylian  race as a whole. The depiction of a winged figure below the Triforce first appears in  A Link to the Past , where the design of Link's  shield  features an avian design below the Triforce. Another avian figure guards the doorway of the  Sanctuary  as well. A similar winged figure can also be seen on the  Hero's Shield  in  The Wind Waker . The familiar red avian crest first appear...

Calcifer is a Fire Demon in a magical contract with Wizard Howl . He was originally a falling star, whom Howl was able to catch before he fell to earth and extinguished. He is a very powerful creature himself, with a great deal of magical ability, though cannot move beyond the confines of the hearth in which Howl keeps him without the wizard's help. He appears as a teardrop-shaped flame, blue in the books and orange-red in the movie, colored differently in different places in such a way as to make a face. He has tiny licks of flame that serve as arms. Calcifer is Howl's resident fire demon. As the result of a mysterious bargain with Howl some years ago he agrees to heat and power the castle. Although he is bound to the hearth, he has a great amount of magic. He promises to use his magic to break the curse on Sophie, providing she breaks the contract between him and Howl. Howl describes Calcifer as "his weakest point", because Calcifer wouldn't give awa...

In slang, old school (or old skool) can refer to anything that is from an earlier era or anything that may be considered old-fashioned . The term is commonly used to suggest a high regard for something that has been shown to have lasting value or quality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_school ------------------------------ A  subscription box  is a recurring, physical delivery of  niche products  packaged as an experience and designed to offer  additional value  on top of the actual  retail  products contained in a box. Subscription boxes are a  marketing strategy  and a method of product  distribution . Subscription boxes are used by subscription based ecommerce businesses, referred to as "subcom" for short, which follow a  subscription business model . They target a wide range of customers and cater to a variety of specific needs and interests. The subscription box industry is nascent, so there exists minimal...

Ryuk is a fictional character in the manga series Death Note , created by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata . He is a bored Shinigami that drops a Death Note, a notebook that allows you to kill anyone simply by knowing their name and face, into the human world in order to have fun. It is picked up by Light Yagami , an intelligent young man who uses it in an attempt to create and rule a utopia cleansed of evil, with him at the helm as a "god". In the anime adaptation, Ryuk is voiced by Nakamura Shidō in Japanese and by Brian Drummond in the English version. Both actors reprise their roles for voicing the computer-generated version of the character in the live-action films, with Jun Fukushima voicing the CG version in the live-action television drama. In the musical, Ryuk was portrayed by Kōtarō Yoshida . Willem Dafoe provided the voice acting and facial motion capture in the American live-action film adaptation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryuk_(Death_Note)...

DC Comics , Inc. is an  American   comic book  publisher. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of  Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. , a division of  Time Warner . DC Comics is one of the largest and oldest American comic book companies, and produces material featuring numerous well-known heroic  characters  including  Superman ,  Batman ,  Wonder Woman ,  Green Lantern ,  The Flash ,  Aquaman ,  Hawkman ,  Hawkgirl ,  Green Arrow ,  Martian Manhunter ,  Cyborg ,  Static ,  Zatanna , and  Shazam . Most of their material takes place in the  fictional   DC Universe , which also features teams such as the  Justice League , the  Justice Society of America , the  Suicide Squad , and the  Teen Titans , and well-known villains such as  the Joker ,  Lex Luthor ,  Darkseid ,  Catwoman ,  Ra's al Ghul ,  Deathstr...