![]() ![]() ![]() (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. Hi-C discontinued Crazy Citrus Cooler, the rebooted name of Shoutin Orange Tangergreen, the rebooted name of Ecto-Cooler, in 2007 after an eighteen-year run. 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. 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. Yes, long before Ecto Cooler, there was Hi-C Citrus Cooler Drink. Hey, this brings back fond memories of the Hi-C Ecto Cooler from when Ghostbusters first came out in 1984 In case you needed confirmation of just how geriatric we are. 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. 12 thoughts to SPOTTED: Ghostbusters Ecto Thirst Quencher Tropical Flavor Soda. The packaging featured pictures of that notably green fruit the orange, along with a drawing of the animated Slimer from The Real Ghostbusters. ![]() Hi-C Ecto Cooler first debuted to promote the animated series The Real Ghostbusters in. 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. As Food & Wine reports, Ecto Cooler is back (again) after initially being discontinued in 2001. 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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