In the summer of 2007, our family had just made a massive move from Florida to the beautiful Ozarks in Missouri. We were in a rental house waiting for the moving dust to settle and Mike (with no workshop available to him) sat down at the table with our 4 kids to teach them to sculpt. Everyone had a cute project they were working on, something no doubt dear to their hearts. A little birds nest with eggs, a fearsome snake, a ....?, ... and of course a Jaws shark.
As Mike neared the end of his project it became apparent that he would soon be out of clay before he was finished. Each kid decided that dad MUST complete his sculpt and therefore kindly, and selflessly, donated their clay. An amazing thing happened with that clay. With each little donation from each member of the Schultz family, a wonderful form took shape. It was to be the beginning of our family business that not one of us saw coming. Every Schultz was involved from the very beginning. 13 years later, the kids are grown and chasing their own dreams and it's just Mike and I keeping our American dream going. It's a lot to be thankful for. We are here all these years later - 7 films, 42 different shark products, sold out to the tune of over 7000 pieces cast and shipped world-wide - all from that humble start and those tiny hands sacrificing... that's sharkcityozark in a nutshell. Thank you Stef Schultz, Michael Jacob Schultz, Samuel Schultz, and Rachael Borman !! Hi EVERYONE, UPDATE TIME!☺First off, to illustrate a few points, here are some Happy Customer's photos thanks & credit to James Z. and William. So, let's REVISIT some Jaws Fan History: In 2012 we were hired to create and operate a Practical Mechanical Shark for the SyFy Channel film special "GhostShark". This was the worlds first 1:6 scale Bruce Shark.
We were kept busy the next years providing Practical FX for other films, as well as shipping MANY thousands of customized Bruce Shark collectibles worldwide. We finally found the time to release a collectors 1:6 Bruce Shark as we promised. That was LAST YEAR in 2019! And not just one, but THREE DIFFERENT 1:6 Fine-Scale Bruce Shark variants! 3 different 1:6 Bruce Sharks shipped with separately installed TAXIDERMY EYES. Just like our other ORIGINAL 5 DIFFERENT 3-foot-long Sharks, and the other 3 different 2-foot-long Epic Class Bruce Sharks that we've been selling. We have been at this for more than a decade, selling 48 Original Bruce, Sequel and Real Life Shark products totaling nearly 7400 pieces World-Wide☺! Our 1:6 Bruce Sharks are 53-inches long. Much LARGER and more MASSIVE than those that are now late to the party in copycatting our established Original works. Our ORIGINAL 1:6 Bruce Sharks are LARGER because they filmed Bruce larger than life! And getting MUCH MORE shark for less money is undeniably totally JAWSOME☺! "Bruce Shark", Definition - That brand name handed to us to use by its Creator Joe Alves back in 2009, as a personal favor from our fellow Industry friend.☺ My friends, these are hard earned bragging rights given us by the men of Jawsdom themselves, the real friends of Bruce. Men like Cal Acord, Marty Milner, and Greg Nicotero and many others. Ask around and fact check who we are and what we afford everyone☺. Last note, we are now officially over 5 times BUSIER than we were for Christmas 2019! If you want one then you surely better order one or at least put a down payment in on one, because they are FLYING out the doors like never before☺. We have NEVER seen so many orders as this now. Don't miss the boat. Nuff said☺Mike & Cathy Schultz SCO 10 years ago today we at Shark City Ozark took our first online order☺!
Of course Cathy & I have been around as freelance artists since the 90's providing sharks online, and dinosaur/fossil collectibles and dinosaur displays to museums and giftshops. Before us only SideShow Collectibles had attempted to provide collectors with Bruce Sharks in any real numbers. I think their small shark, which was mass produced and imported from Mexico was limited to something like 360 pieces, is that close to accurate? In this last decade plus, Cathy & I have had the honor to provide over 7000 customized pieces Globally, spanning OVER 46 Different and ORIGINAL Bruce, Sequel and Real Life Shark products. NOTHING like our ORIGINAL shark products, accessories, and display stands had EVER been provided to collectors before. And today finds us a little over 4 times more busy than we were just this last Christmas season a few short months ago. People are obviously home, bored, and shopping online like never before ☺! Another bragworthy Blessing of getting to make so many sharks every day, every week, month, and year all decade long has been our launch into the Practical FX Industry. We now have 7 film credits to our name and an 8th in early planning. All of which has made us fast friends with some of the greatest of the greats like Cal Acord, Marty Milner, Joe Alves, Greg Nicotero and a host of other FX artists, actors, actresses, singers, musicians, screenplay and novel authors, directors, camermen/women, stuntmen and stuntwomen; and the list goes on and on. Talk about how a little can go a long way! Cathy & I are very thankful to our Lord & Saviour for this business and for all of you good customers and fincredible online friends made along the way. Here's to another 10 years ☺! We are so thankful for those of you who have written in to make sure we are well, it means the world to us! Please stay safe and stay well guys! Hi Guys!
We are thankful for you many friends and customers who are writing to check in on us, we are just fine. Business as usual over here. We've been working from home making sharks for over a decade. We are still diligently working away on all currently paid in full orders. Many Life-Sized White Shark Busts and a few more 1:6 Master Bruce Sharks are ready to go out as early as Monday! As long as UPS and the USPS are still running we will keep shipping! :) If possible our goal is to be able to get more ahead on orders than usual so that we can get the 1:2 Scale Bruce Dorsal Fin and the all new 3 foot Open Sided Shark released. That and we are still working on all the moldings for the All New Life-Sized Attack White Shark head to boot! There is no shortage of things to accomplish around here, that's for sure! We are praying that you all stay healthy and safe! We will all get through this together friends!☺ As reported earlier in the year our previous Tow Shark's production mold suffered some damage. We decided instead of remolding off of the prototype's master pattern to instead release one of our never before seen prototypes as a completely NEW replacement product. A completely all new model. And an all new exciting pose, as well as all new different details, and finer-scale textures; this shark is historical Tow Sled Bruce Shark in EVERY way!
Now that we have had the chance to fill the void and replace the missing 3-foot long Tow Shark that we used to carry, we have again returned to filling orders and prepping our next advertised 2020 Shark Catalog releases. We have a few dozen sharks, and almost that many molds to complete this month. And we are in negotiations for some upcoming film-work as well once again. Are we looking at film credit #8? So far this week we have been able to work on the big 1/2 scale Bruce Dorsal Fin. We have opted for a clean and simply display method and are reworking it in between orders. Also, we are parting out the Life-Sized Attack White Shark Head prototype for molding. Molding her as soon as maybe next week if we can keep up the work pace! Also being worked on is the 3-foot long Open-Sided Bruce Shark. In fact, he has his very own shop space dedicated to all his many parts and molds! We are leaning towards releasing the 3-foot O.S.S [[Open-Sided Shark ]] first. That's all the info that we can release thus far on this. This brings the official total to 14 Entirely All New & Original Bruce, Sequel and Real Life Shark products added to our 2020 catalog in the last 11 months! Nobody's provided more sharks than we have, or as long as we've provided them all. More info later. Check out the photos and info on our Tow Shark's New Sales page here |
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