I'll lay it on you straight, peeps.
Filmation blew it, big time, by not attempting to revive the Groovie Goolies and cross them over with the Ghostbusters.
Then again, considering the writers of the 1975 Ghost Busters decided that Dracula merited being dematerialized by something besides sunlight, consider this 1986 offering, "Shades of Dracula", an improvement, though not by much.
Oh, yeah, after demonstrating no interest in bringing back Larry Storch, one of the stars of Ghost Busters AND Groovie Goolies for even a cameo, should it be a surprise that this vampire is also a poseur?
I'm only looking at this for the first time, and there's no rating.
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Filmation did--sort of--pay homage to the Ghoulies in Ghostbusters: in one episode the models for Drak and Bella La Ghostly were re-used for that ep's guest characters named 'Victor' and 'Vampra'. But you're right as the night: not reviving the Groovie Ghoulies to lock horns and/or later team up with Jake, Eddie and Tracy was a HUGE missed opportunity for Filmation.
I'll have to look that particular ep up. That lack of detail in "Shades of Dracula", though, is one example of why this series lasted only one season.
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