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Hi Everyone!
We wanted to take a minute and talk about some of our plans and ideas for 2015. We are always looking for ways to make the best sharks & collectibles possible, all while maximizing value and saving our customers money! Cathy and I have been strategizing for months now and I think we've come up with some great new ideas and products for 2015, and we’d love to share them with you: Firstly, we have retooled the master prototypes, increased detail levels and streamlined the casting process involved in making all the 25” Ultimate Bruce Collector’s set sharks. We've listened to you and we’re thrilled to announce that all of the shark’s fins are molded onto the body instead of as separate detachable pieces. This alone improves overall quality, lessens our labor/expenses and saves you all money too! You won’t believe your eyes when you see the New Ultimate Bruce & Sequel Shark Line. Yes, the Revenge Bruce is slated for release in mid-2015! Also we are looking at making smaller limited edition runs of each Shark product this year. As most of our kids have moved out and now work and live on their own, the three of us remaining Schultz's are looking at ways to maximize the most out of our work weeks. After all, we three can only make so many sharks per week! Our goal is to once again start selling the Ultimate Bruce Collector's Set Sharks within the next two to four weeks time. The New prototypes must still be assembled, painted and have their days before the camera to be ready for posting online to sell. And as you know we are still keeping our heads above water maintaining the nonstop stream of orders already made as well as finishing other New Shark products for release in Q2 & Q3.☺ Going forward, we are also planning to sell display stands separately for the 25-inch Ultimate shark line. These newly designed Ultimate Bruce Sharks rest perfectly on their bellies balanced by their fins & body pose. Each piece displays beautifully right out of the molds, and eliminating the need for a stand will help us keep prices down as expenses continue to rise throughout the fiscal year. For those wishing to display their shark on a stand, we will still offer several to choose from to purchase separately. Currently, the majority of our transactions are conducted through PayPal. Everyone loves the convenience and confidence we feel shopping with PayPal, and of course we will still be offering PayPal as one of our payment methods. However, steadily rising PayPal fees greatly increase costs for both us and you the customer. Therefore, if our Continental U.S. customers pay by check, cashier’s check or money order then we will pass this savings directly to our U.S. customers in the lower 48 states! This can be well up to $30 or more depending on the items ordered! Something fans have been asking about for years, and we’re happy to make this happen! No wonder these time-tested methods have been used since the 1880's to purchase by mail! So stay tuned to SharkCityOzark.com in 2015 for all of the exciting details! We will be offering new and upgraded sharks at more affordable prices than ever before. We are so excited to show everyone what we’ve been working on, 2015 will be the best year yet for Shark fans!
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Here's a quick double whammy set of generic answers that we are using for the most common questions that we are answering all day long.
Hang on, here weee gooooo! 1). Why don't you repose the mouth, head,eyes∞, or add a water base-barrel-scuba tank, victim, chum marker, bird, seal, swim-fin, dog, fish, Quint, surfboard, turtle, Chrissy, boat, Spielberg, debris etc ∞ to the All New Bruce Bust? > Answer < A Water base doubles the labor, expenses and final price of the product. Clear resins are approximately $128 per gallon and add almost 4 hours production time to EACH head in this Very large scale. Our goal is to keep things as affordable as they are impressive. This bust is quite unprecedented as-is. >Extra Answer< **The more people want then the more things cost and then the more people might complain about said cost as well as why it didn't also come with X & Y + Z accessories with a BOGO coupon for only $1.99 If we didn't add it then it would have cost either you or us too much * Those who appreciate what we are offering will be very happy fans indeed 2). Please tell me the price/size/photos/shipping info of 'X' shark that you have not released for sale yet? > Answer < We have released and do release ALL information, photos and prices the very second that we can. If we have not advertised the photos yet then they are not taken yet. We are releasing photos and information as fast as we can get things done. We are close to providing more information on the Ultimate Bruce Collector's Set Sharks most likely within the next 2 weeks or less. We are also currently hampered by working on a flood of orders and by severe winter weather, but we are making progress everyday. ***** Please keep checking our SCO Products page and we also update or Facebook when we have releases. We care and we are trying but we are only 3 people filling orders and working to release almost a dozen >-Never been done in 40 years before-< Shark products at insane new prices and levels of perfection Box dayyyy!!!!! Steve LOVES his ALL New 25-inch Ultimate Bruce 3D Big Mama Enraged Attack Pose Shark! Since everyone wanted her with her mouth posed opened a hair wider we redesigned the master to save 2 hours "reposing" work on every single copy. We ended up seriously lucking out when Romain Neophyte was gifted ALL NEW EXCELLENT Reference materials of the Bruce 3D Studio Prop and shared them with us during the refit. Every scale square inch of our master was refit to match those INCREDIBLE NEW materials. Keep an eye on Roamain's Jaws 3D fansite for those photos and so MUCH MORE at the end of the month. The 25-inch Ultimate Bruce Shark is currently being refit and will be re-released along with the fully redesigned Ultimate Brucette shark in the next several weeks. All of the sharks in the 1/12 scale 25-inch long Ultimate Bruce Shark Collector's Set are being refit with all fins molded on and increased levels of details and other upgrades. And they will be more affordable than EVER! While the rest of the collector world faces inflation and is paying $799 for 24-inch Polystone Godzilla statues from the big name companies we at SCO have found major ways to make our sharks better, more detailed, out of far superior materials! And now we've found ways to make them even more affordable than before! We are also just about to re-release the all NEW re-designed and upgraded 1/6 scale desktop Action Bruce Bust shark sets. At least one bust for every film shark, and more... It all takes time and major investment but we're doing it and right at the release point. ** The first NEW Bust is next, maybe even within the next week or two! A Huge THANK YOU to Steve and to Romain and to John Putch! ** The Clear Acrylic Display Stand Shown in the Photos above is Not Included **I reprint this private letter as it answers some common questions that we have been getting the last few weeks as we redesign our sale's site and release our all new 2015 Shark collectibles:
**************************************** Hi Colin, Thank you for the very kind letter. I am between things and will answer as fully as I can. And Eric is a great friend, any friend of his is a friend of mine too. We are currently reworking all the 25-inch Ultimate Sharks. They will be available in the coming weeks as we get them done, molded, and assorted tasks completed such as paint-masks, photo-shoots, figuring out correct rpms etc.. They will be slightly more affordable, detail levels greatly increased, all fins molded on and a few other cool changes. They will be numbered and limited edition runs although we have not settled on all details due to another "floating" start date on a film pre-production yet to be nailed down. We replace molds as we fill orders when I feel they are getting long in the tooth. I like the last shark collectible owner to have the same crisp detail as the first since this is what our photos advertise, and how I feel business should be done. It’s what we want so this is what we try to provide. Our sharks are not brittle Polystone [a.k.a. "floor sweepings"] but we roto-cast each on our own homemade equipment out of pure-undiluted resins. Very high quality and very expensive, but worth every penny. We use many resin types in many layers; more so with the larger sharks getting metal or wood spines also depending on their needs. They are also backed by an extremely high density resin foam as well. As we learn of new materials and techniques we implement them. Our goal is for our sharks to be inherited or at least to end up in antique stores. We made them well back in 2009 when we started this shark thing, but today’s sharks are much thicker, heavier and made in many more layers with vastly improved resins. Yes, we can certainly place you on a contact list. In fact I would like to post this letter on our Facebook and Sales site Blog as it answers many questions that have been common these last few weeks. I am thinking that we need to perhaps mass email all our current contacts as we release our 2015 sharks in the coming weeks. We are reminding that although we are working hard to list all our 2015 sharks for order or at least Pre-order that we are facing a floating start date on a film unless it is pushed back yet again. As we have done in the past for the SyFy channel FX work, when it becomes too much we’ll turn off the ‘Buy Now’ buttons on the sales site for whatever time is needed to fulfill the film’s needs while filling all current due orders as we have done in the past. I wish the film-world was run by those that planned further ahead so that we could know for sure if and when this may be needed this year. But all that order sharks get their sharks. Our first 25 inch Ultimate Bruce to be re-released perhaps even next week will be the All New Revised Ultimate Bruce 3D Enraged Big Mamma Attack pose shark. We released her months back but everyone wanted the mouth posed open-wider so instead of continuing to spend hours extra on every single shark I remodeled the prototype to have all the correct facial expressions of the final scenes Big Mamma in her most severe attack pose. Romain Neophyte of the Jaws 3D fansite will be revealing his #1 Custom Edition with Joe Alves at the End of Feb at his Jaws and Jaws 3 Special Screening in France. This became a much longer letter than intended but I think answers your questions and should make for a good shark update to FB and our site. Thank you for writing us. Contact us as needed and we will contact anyone else that wants a heads up in the email of our upcoming releases too. I look forward to building your shark and it’s great to meet a new shark friend! Mike SCO |
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