![]() (Some are still available on eBay now, five years later, although at this point you might turn green if you drink them. Demand was so great that fans were supposedly paying $100 or more for 12-packs of the cans. 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. ![]() 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. The packaging featured pictures of that notably green fruit the orange, along with a drawing of the animated Slimer from The Real Ghostbusters. The newest version will be sold in a 10-pack of 6-ounce juice boxes and a 12-pack of 11. ![]() 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. Ecto Cooler will be available in two forms in this plane of existence. 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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