This may be our first look at the new Ghostbusters villains
Toy manufacturers have become much more cautious about spoilers in recent years. Action figure lines tying into major Hollywood properties go into production quite early in the filmmaking process—probably in order to avoid a situation similar to the run on Star Wars toys during Christmas of 1977—but studios certainly don’t want spoilers leaking out either. (Sometimes things can go too far in the other direction: The Force Awakens line cautiously implied that girls are icky by sparsely including Rey in its first wave of figures, leading to rumors that John Boyega was the new Jedi.) However, in the internet age, even those that don’t subscribe to ToyFare are aware of all the latest action figure news. The public has already glimpsed the heroes of Paul Feig’s new Ghostbusters film, and at the 2016 New York Toy Fair, the new villains were revealed.