Slime Blower

The Slime Blower is a Ghostbusting tool first introduced in 1989's Ghostbusters II. This piece of equipment is a metal tank strapped to the back of its user, with an attached sprayer used to project streams of the psychomagnetheric "mood slime" that has been positively charged in order to neutralize its negatively reinforced counterparts. Used only by Winston Zeddemore and Ray Stantz in Ghostbusters II, the slime blowers are used to spray positively-charged slime on the inside of the Statue of Liberty, Vigo the Carpathian, and later, Ray himself. Egon Spengler is briefly seen working on one.
A toy Slime Blower was released with the Kenner Real Ghostbusters toyline, known as the Ecto-Charger Pack. Unique to the Ghostbusters comics, the "Ecto-Splat" is a flamethrower-like device similar to the Slime Blower. It fires a hard jet of ectoplasm, which can damage or break up ghosts. As it fires it makes a noise spelled "zzax".
Theatrical Props
It is believed that only two slime blowers were built for Ghostbusters II. The slime blower props used in the film have disappeared and have never been displayed at Planet Hollywood or Universal Studios as several proton packs and ghost traps have. No one is sure of where they're being stored, or if they even exist anymore. It's possible that the slime blowers are simply locked away in a forgotten storage building, or were disassembled so their parts could be used on other props in other movies.
A new picture of the slime blower has been posted to Sony's official Ghostbusters website in conjunction with the promotion of the new Blu-ray disc. While not positively a "new" picture it is believed to be fairly recent which would mean at least one slime blower is still in existence in Sony's warehouse.
Ghostbusters: The Video Game
A Mark II version of the Slime Blower is featured in Ghostbusters: The Video Game. Known as the "Ectoplasm Distribution System" it is incorporated directly into the Proton Pack and is an important tool in the Ghostbusters arsenal used mainly to disperse negatively charged "Black Slime" and to free other Ghostbusters from becoming possessed by ghosts with such ability. It also featured a secondary function in the Realistic Version - called the Slime Tether - which enabled the player to fire a strand of slime, which would attach to two points and pull the attached objects together, solving many of the game's puzzles. In the Stylized Version, the Slime Tether is replaced with Slime Mines that, when fired, disperse a large amount of slime over a wider area.
It uses a strain of self-regenerating positively charged green (instead of pink) ectoplasm (which presumatively reduces the size of the blowers plasm tank), developed through Egon's and Ray's ectoplasm research and experiments.

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