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Mini Bio. Thom Enriquez is known for Dinosaur (2000), Hercules (1997) and Ghostbusters (1984).
Thom Enriquez is known as an Story, Storyboard, Layout, Art Direction, Producer, Animation Director, Production Design, Head of Story, and Production Illustrator. Some of his work includes The Lion King, Mulan, The Little Mermaid, Brother Bear, Dinosaur, Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears, and Back to Neverland.
Oct 28, 2015 · James Whitbrook. Published October 28, 2015. Comments ( 43) Ghostbusters is a series jam-packed with iconic designs an amazing creatures. Those designs had to start somewhere of course, and that...
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The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man (also known as Mr. Stay Puft, Stay Puft, Tubby Soft Squeeze, Mr. Sweetness) was the final antagonist of the Ghostbusters in the first film. He was the chosen Destructor Form of Gozer, when Ray let the idea of a company logo "just pop in there".
Primary Canon HistorySecondary Canon HistoryTertiary Canon HistoryGhostbusters (1984) Trivia
•The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man was inspired by three fictional characters: the Pillsbury Doughboy, the Michelin Man, and the Angelus Puft Marshmallow Man. •Dan Aykroyd likens Stay Puft to a brand symbol, like the Michelin Man or Pillsbury Doughboy, manipulated by Gozer. •In the scene in Ghostbusters when Dana Barrett comes home from the grocer, one of the things in her bags are Stay Puft Marshmallows. •It helped set up subliminal awareness of the character along with the billboard by the Firehouse. •The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man was originally an intermediate form of Gozer. •The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man originally rose up by the Statue of Liberty. •The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man was originally a throw away character in the midway point and didn't become the final encounter until the July 6, 1983 draft. •In all drafts but the final, Stay Puft was conjured up by Winston instead of Ray. •In the concept phase, an alternative to the Stay Puft Marshmallow created by Thom Enriquez was a monster that was based on Ray's pet lizard from his childhood. •The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man was once 300 feet tall. In the August 5, 1983 draft, on page 131, Peter bemoans they are going to be killed by a 300 foot marshmallow man. It changes to a hundred feet in the September 30, 1983 draft, on page 131. •Originally, Stay Puft was going to be larger. During production, one faction of the production unit wanted him to be 100 feet tall and another wanted him to be 125 feet tall. Ivan Reitman stepped in and declared Stay Puft would be 112.5 feet tall, while his height in the novelization of the movie is given at 100 feet. •Linda Frobos, a sculptor for the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, recommended Bill Bryan to build the suits and wear them for filming. •The Stay Puft suit was made from pliable foam and it had a fiberglass skull with cable-actuated mechanisms for facial movement. •The first Stay Puft suit was completely made of a soft foam but Bill Bryan discovered a glaring problem during filming. When he walked toward the camera, his legs squeezed the foam together and made it look like a vagina. •As the team brainstormed how to fix the suit, Jon Berg was brought in as a consultant. He recommended making a fiberglass body. Bryan was against that out of concern for his safety and started looking at different foams. They eventually adopted a foam with a L200 internal structure. •The suits were about 6 to 6 and a half feet tall. Since Bryan was 5 feet 8 inches tall, he came up to Stay Puft's mouth. •Three different heads were made for different expressions needed during filming. •3 hero suits were made and 18 suits were made for when Stay Puft burned, costing $20,000 to $35,000 each. 17 were burned during filming. •The suits were about 6 to 6 and a half feet tall. Since Bill Bryan was 5 feet 8 inches tall, he came up to Stay Puft's mouth. •Stay Puft's scenes were filmed in two days. •Stay Puft was filmed at 72 frames a second. Bill Bryan's stride looked like Mickey Mouse's double bounce walk and came off silly. Bryan had to slow down. •Entertainment Effects Group made a miniature set of a part of Central Park West and the adjacent park. Stay Puft's facial expressions were cable controlled and manipulated by four puppeteers under the elevated set. The footage was shot a three times normal speed to enhance Stay Puft's sense of mass. •The puppeteer team was pushed under the stage on a dolly truck as Bill Bryan walked the miniature set in the costume. They observed him on a monitor as they manned the controls. •Stay Puft's walking and climbing scenes and the destruction of the Temple of Gozer with some of the apartment was filmed at Boss with just three and a half weeks before the theatrical release. •For the shot of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man's entrance passing behind buildings, Bill Bryan wore just the head so the cameraman could get both the building and Stay Puft in focus. •There was a planned scene that was storyboarded of Stay Puft stepping on a police car. The Boss Film crew joked about adding a bit where the crushed car was embedded in the bottom of his foot. The scene was ultimately discarded. •The Boss Film crew sneaked themselves into the deleted car crushing scene. They took Polaroid photographs of themselves and placed Linda Frobos on the crosswalk and everyone else inside the car that is crushed by Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. •To get a perfectly smashed car, the toy car was heated with a heat gun first. •After seeing initial footage of Stay Puft in motion, Ivan Reitman was nervous if it could be pulled off. The effects crew assured him it would work and it wasn't the finished suit. •The sound for Stay Puft's march to Central Park West was created from Richard Beggs wetting his thumbs and pushing them against a chair tautly covered in leather in his studio then he used a pitch shifter to change the speed into a range he thought was right for the weight and mass of him. •After Stay Puft's march down the street was filmed, it was screened to the Boss crew. Richard Edlund called it a great shot but announced they could afford to shoot it one more time and asked if anyone could come up with a reason why they should. Peter Gerard suggested added a burst fire hydrant using silica sand. A second take was filmed. •In-between takes, Bill Bryan would reach into the suit's stomach where he kept a small library and read a book in the costume. •The shot of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man leaning back and looking up was difficult for multiple reasons. Leaning back cut off the flow of fresh air into the suit, exposed the suit at the neck, and Bill Bryan would lose balance and fall over. Bryan waved the arms to get fresh air in and the crew used hair dyers without the heat element to blow fresh air in. Extra material was placed at the neck from the inside. Linda Frobos went on her hands and knees and Bryan sat on her then looked up for the shot. •For the shot of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man roaring and reaching up before the Ghostbusters blast him, two or three half-body puppets with three foot long arms was made and used for filming with a forced perspective. •In the August 5, 1983 draft, Egon tells them to go full stream with strogon pulse then cross their streams onto Stay Puft but it fails. Like in the movie, he is only ignited and angered. •When Stay Puft is fired on by the Ghostbusters, his red tie is missing. During filming of the part when the Ghostbusters fire on Stay Puft, Diane Allen Williams handed the sailor bib and tie off to someone on the effects team who was outfitting them with the pyrotechnic gear. She wanted to make sure they would use a lint roller and cleaning supplies on the tie but they insisted they were in charge. After some back and forth, she left to complete other duties at the main office down the street. She later returned to puppeteer but didn't think to inquire about the tie. •The first pyro stuntman kept falling in the sequences when Stay Puft was on fire. Tony Cecere was hired to replace him. Cecere was against using supplied air and argued with Thaine Morris, mechanical effects supervisor, about it for 10 minutes. Morris insisted he use supplied air because the foam on the costume was toxic. Bill Couch Jr. also did certain stunt scenes. •The crew's concern Stay Puft might come across as too silly were dashed in the movie's first screening. The audience loved him. •For the scenes of Stay Puft on fire, a stuntman wore a special fire-retardant suit that was rigged with pyrotechnics. •During Tony Cecere's second take, the glue on the inside of the Stay Puft head started to burn and caught fire. The fire burned through the foam, the head split open, and all that was left was the pink fiberglass skull. •Harold Ramis spent a lot of time trying to rationalize the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. He concluded mankind's biggest fear of the unknown would be proven to be insubstantial as marshmallow. •There was an unscripted addition to the aftermath of Stay Puft's destruction. His hat was to fall down onto the street. A giant aluminum-reinforced sailor's hat, 18 feet in diameter, was lowered by a giant crane. For time purposes the gag was cut from the final version of the movie. •The gag was reused in the Ghostbusters: The Video Game, at the end of Stay Puft's defeat, with the in-game graphics. •Jason Reitman kept some foam of the shaving cream dumped on William Atherton for years in his bedroom.
Ghostbusters II Trivia
•In the Ghostbusters II August 5, 1988 draft, Ray alludes to the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. •In the Ghostbusters II August 5, 1988 draft, page 83 (and September 29, 1988 draft on page 85), Peter alluded to the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. •In the September 29, 1988 draft, on page 15, Egon and Ray try to recruit Peter after The World of the Psychic tapes its latest episode. He vehemently refuses to help, citing they bubbled up a 100 foot marshmallow man and blew off the top 3 floors of a very big apartment building. •Stay Puft made a cameo in the Ghostbusters II video game on a billboard advertising Stay Puft Marshmallows in the Statue of Liberty level.
Ghostbusters: Afterlife Trivia
•When Phoebe Spengler watches the Ghostbusters commercial, one of the side ads has a thumbnail of a poodle dressed as the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. •On the drive to Summerville to find Muncher, Podcast alludes to the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.
•Stay Puft Marshmallows
•Stay Puft Marshmallow Man (Mascot)
•Stay Puft Marshmallow Man/Sega
•Stay Puft Marshmallow Man/Animated
•Stay Puft Ghost Balloon
•Megascream
Primary Canon Appearances
•Ghostbusters •Chapter 27: Stay Puft Man •Chapter 28: Crossing Streams •Ghostbusters II •Chapter 01: Start •Alluded to by Winston. •Ghostbusters: Afterlife •Chapter 09 •Alluded to by Podcast. Expanded Universe •Ghostbusters •(Deleted Scene): E.P.A.
Secondary Canon Appearances
•Ghostbusters: The Video Game •Welcome to the Hotel Sedgewick •Panic in Times Square •IDW Comics •"Displaced Aggression Issue 4" •Stay Puft appears briefly when Koza'Rai recalls his son's death in a reenactment from the first film when the team crossed the streams. •"Ghostbusters: Infestation #1" •"Ghostbusters: Infestation #2" •Volume One •Issue #1 •Issue #4 •Issue #11 •Peter mentions the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man on page 19 •Volume Two •Issue #11 •On page six of Ghostbusters Volume 2 Issue #11, Kylie Griffin asks about the first appearance of Gozer and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. •Issue #17 •Gozer takes on the form of •Issue #19 •Volume Three •Ghostbusters International #8 •Alluded to by Winston on page 18 •Ghostbusters 101 •Issue #3 •Issue #4 •Mentioned on page 24 in Megatraps section •Issue #5 •Mentioned by the Mayor on page 1. •Issue #6 •Transformers/Ghostbusters •Issue #4 •Mentioned by Winston Zeddemore on page 11. •Ghostbusters Year One •Issue #1 •Mentioned in Rebecca Morales' biography on Dramatis Personae page. •Issue #4 •Mentioned by Winston Zeddemore on page 2. •Mentioned by Rebecca Morales on page 6. •Insight Editions •Tobin's Spirit Guide •Section IV: Gods and Major Demons •Mentioned on Page 71. •Section V: Gozer •Mentioned on Page 81. •Mentioned on Page 84. •Page 90-91
Tertiary Canon Appearances
•IDW Comics •Ghostbusters: Deviations •Cryptozoic Entertainment •Ghostbusters: The Board Game •Ghostbusters: The Computer Game (David Crane)
1.Thaine Morris (2019). Cleanin' Up The Town: Remembering Ghostbusters (2019) (Blu-Ray ts. 1:49:41-1:49:48). Bueno Productions. 2.Greene, James, Jr., (2022). A Convenient Parallel Dimension: How Ghostbusters Slimed Us Forever, p. 46. Lyons Press, Essex, CT USA, ISBN 9781493048243. 3.Egon Spengler (2009). Ghostbusters: The Video Game (Realistic Version)- Panic in Times Square Level "After Stay Puft Marshmallow Man punches a hole on the 34th floor of the Gamble Architecture building, and Rookie, Ray Stantz, Peter Venkman, and Illyssa Selwyn run to the roof." (2009) (PC/PS3/Xbox 360). Atari. 4.Ray Stantz (2009). Ghostbusters: The Video Game (Realistic Version)- Panic in Times Square Level "After Rookie and Ray Stantz save Illyssa Selwyn inside the Gamble Architecture building, and talks in the hallway with Peter Venkman." (2009) (PC/PS3/Xbox 360). Atari. 5.Peter Venkman (2009). Ghostbusters: The Video Game (Realistic Version)- Panic in Times Square Level "During the boss battle at the end of the level after Egon Spengler says the Super Slammer Trap is being repositioned." (2009) (PC/PS3/Xbox 360). Atari. 6.IDW Forums 1/23/12
7.Erik Burnham confirms - IDW Forums 1/23/12
8.Britt (2011). IDW Comics- "Ghostbusters: Infestation Issue #2" (2011) (Comic p.5). Britt says: A power those Zombies are meant to weaken."
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11.Ghostbusters Issue #4, PCOC Pages
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Thom Enriquez. Credits (text only) Hide Show Art department (37 credits) 2010 Megamind (storyboard artist) 2010 How to Train Your Dragon (additional story artist)
Oct 26, 2015 · Thom Enriquez’s Mr. Stay Puft concepts (via ‘Ghostbusters: The Ultimate Visual History’) Indeed, from star and co-writer Dan Aykroyd’s sci-fi-tinged original treatment and the casting process...
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