06/12/2026
Shop update from the unintentional sauna at Dirt Farmer Industries:
We’re still moving through the queue, still feeding the printers, still packing boxes, and as a major milestone— we’re only about 40 kits away from hitting 500 sold.
That number is hard to wrap my head around— all this support for a little shop in Person County, North Carolina absolutely blows my mind.
Side note: one of the best parts of filling orders is the drive to the post office on our rural backroads. Every shipping run gives me a few minutes of farm fields, trees, and breathing room before it’s back to the workbench. The “Dirt Farmer” don’t actually farm, but I love being surrounded by folks who do, in a place this beautiful.
Back to HasBrackets. It started with a simple question: how do I solve the fact that Hasbro isn’t shipping these packs the way they should, without spending hours bending metal brackets by hand?
I tried metal first, but the cost for me to bend them in-house would have pushed the kit higher than I was comfortable asking my brothers and sisters in the Here’s the cleaned-up version:
Shop update from the unintentional sauna at Dirt Farmer Industries:
We’re still moving through the queue, still feeding the printers, still packing boxes, and as a major milestone— we’re only about 40 kits away from hitting 500 sold.
That number is hard to wrap my head around— all this support for a little shop in Person County, North Carolina absolutely blows my mind.
Side note: one of the best parts of filling orders is the drive to the post office on our rural backroads. Every shipping run gives me a few minutes of farm fields, trees, and breathing room before it’s back to the workbench. The “Dirt Farmer” don’t actually farm, but I love being surrounded by folks who do, in a place this beautiful.
Back to HasBrackets. It started with a simple question: how do I solve the fact that Hasbro isn’t shipping these packs the way they should, without spending hours bending metal brackets by hand?
I tried metal first, but the cost for me to bend them in-house would have pushed the kit higher than I was comfortable asking my brothers and sisters in the Ghostbusters community to pay.
Making them in-house matters— it’s a core philosophy of Dirt Farmer Industries that we design and make what we sell. If our name is on it, I want to understand it, stand behind it, and be able to support it when a customer runs into an issue.
(The exception is merch, because I don’t have the patience for sewing. The shirts, patches, and other DFI merch help our visibility — which means more than you know.)
So I went deep into the rabbit hole and started engineering the bracket system that I wanted to use. One that I could make here in the shop, support properly, and keep within reach for more builders.
For our normie followers: HasBrackets is our mounting solution for attaching the newly released Hasbro Ghostbusters proton packs to ALICE frames— old-school military external-frame backpack frames. It gets the pack off the toy straps and onto a real frame, closer to the way it looked in the film.
We’re still making small revisions, learning the weird differences among frames, designing variants, and thinking through modular parts that complement HasBrackets.
The past few weeks have been a wringer: printer downtime, hardware delays, piles of filament, late nights, customer messages, packing slips, and very hot machines.
With print beds running at 212°F, the shop has turned into an oven. Production is moving. I’m getting slow roasted.
Azrael has complained to management, who agree with his concerns, but regret to inform him that the show must go on. Cats and printers living together— mass hysteria.
We are truly humbled by y’all’s support, and we’re proud of this community of builders who have come together by sharing dimensions and frame specs and, more importantly— their kick ass proton pack builds! We love seeing them and hearing your stories, whether you’re a charity franchise member or just a lifelong fan getting to live out a childhood dream.
That’s what gives us fuel, because who WOULDN’T want a particle accelerator strapped to their back?!
To everyone waiting on an order: thank you. Seriously. We’re printing, packing, sweating, and shipping as fast as we can without letting the work get sloppy.
The best way to help us keep momentum right now is to let us stay focused on printing, packing, and shipping unless there’s something urgent or incorrect with your order.
Back to the hotbox called “the shop.”
