This post is to pave the way for the RELEASE of our All NEW Shark City Ozark 1/12 scale, 25-inch long Ultimate Revenge Bruce Shark!! Available for Pre-Order very soon. I have 3 goals for this Press-release: 1. To educate my fellow Shark fans about the different Revenge Bruce sharks. 2. To Illustrate my decisions for including and excluding certain features not common between the different Shark Hero props. 3. To properly dedicate this shark as dearly special to our family. As to point #1: It needs to be recognized that The Revenge Bruce Shark's all shared most of the same characteristics. BUT the different sharks were different. Different is not the same. All sharks were once again from the same shared molds, but all built for different needs with visibly different features between them. Teeth did get knocked out [as can be seen in the film], skin and paint needed touch-ups. Repairs were attempted often. AND very importantly, their foam skins were made to absorb water PURPOSELY this time around so they distorted >monstrously<. None of the Revenge sharks were the same at the end of the film as they were at the beginning. My personal opinion is that they looked better the more they water-distorted. But, that's just me. Thankfully our goal once again was historically-accurate-re-creation. Commonly known as Scale-Modeling. A final product that is "Suit-Accurate", and faithful to the real thing. An example I once posted on the original Jaws Board forums a decade ago was this illustration: The difference between a toy F-16 Fighter Jet and a scale model F-16 fighter jet is that the scale model will ->measurably<- be precisely what the real thing is from all angles. Right down to the panel lines and rivets. Measured and not eyeballed for a "look". The Toy F-16 jet can also be recognized loosely as a jet. But that's as close as the similarities extend. They are just different end products. I made my kids many toys during their childhood years, but I have made over 4 thousand collectors' globally the world's best scale-accurate model film sharks all decade long. We do take pride in our created works, just like everybody else. Likewise for point #2: This Ultimate Revenge Bruce Shark is based upon the sharks used most in filming. We believe that this was the best approach to this subject's unique needs. Looking and measuring correctly from a distance, AND right down to details. So, SCO's All New Ultimate Revenge Bruce Shark is based historically on ALL of the Revenge Bruce sharks collectively. ESPECIALLY the shark that I spent time inside of down in Florida and still have a ton of reference photos and mementos of. Now for goal #3: I wish to properly dedicate this Ultimate Revenge Bruce Shark to the fond memory of my very good friend Mark Riddlebarger. We miss him very much, and his influence is very much in this shark. Long story short, Mark was my best Highschool friend. I later married his little sister, Cathy. Mark went to the premiere of "Jaws the Revenge" with me, and he didn't judge me over what it really was. We liked the shark and we both had lots of fun watching. Mark was with Cathy and I on our very first date, which was to Universal Studios Orlando! And it was he who was my look-out so that I could wedge mostly inside this shark for much study and many-many-many photos. And, it was Mark who got that tooth for me when I couldn't bring myself to yank it out for myself. I still have it in my display case. So, I wish to publicly dedicate this SCO Ultimate Revenge Bruce Shark to his memory. Working on this shark brought back to me so many years worth of fond memories. It was a pleasure to re-create. Much here is due to him and those many good times hanging out 25 years ago. Thank you Mark for the good times and the many great memories; and thank you for the screen-used Revenge tooth. We will be releasing product information and photos very soon. The following are what I feel to be key photos that illustrate the differences between the different Revenge Bruce Sharks and also many of them were inspirational to us while creating our replica. Enjoy!☺
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A FUN little note to share, our All New 1/12 scale Ultimate Revenge Bruce Shark prototype is getting his finishing touches and is on schedule for a Q1 release just as we promised last year. Since every News Release should have a FUN photo, and since we are not yet ready to reveal the completed Pre-Order Revenge Bruce photo; well here instead is an AWESOME photo of the man himself Joe Alves having FUN with our All New 1/12 scale Enraged Big Mamma 3D Bruce Shark. This again was taken at the French screening of Jaws 3D to commemorate the anniversary late 2015 set up by Romain Neophyte known perhaps best by his first rate fansite, http://www.jaws-3d.com/ Our great thanks to Romain and Joe for LOVING our Sharks so much!☺ As a teenager I was a cook at a local seafood restaurant back in Florida.
Through all the thousands of pounds of 'gator tail I cooked back then I never thought I'd later in life be called on to provide 10+ feet of dismembered alligator tail! Here for SyFy's Cajun RedNeck Gators [2012] is my "tale". If I remember it correctly this was one of those desperate Friday or Saturday night emails from the producer's office needing this 10+ feet of flexible dismembered alligator's tail on set the next week by Wednesday or Thursday or something like that. Whatever the particulars, I know it was something like 5 days from contract to completion. We were able to fabricate the model, mold it, run the copy and have it painted, shipped and on set one day early☺. Man, what a pressure cooker those days were. Especially since I was still in the process of finishing the GhostShark animatronic which it & us were due in Louisiana on set the very next week for filming it! This was I believe just the next month after I returned from Jawsfest 2012. Those were some SERIOUSLY Fun times!☺ Still feeling nostalgic for the first few films that we provided FX for.
This article was actually published just before we got the call for the 3rd SyFy film. Little did we know back then the adventures that "The Bearing Sea Beast" had in store for us only weeks later☺. Check out this article from Plume-de-Pan back in Sept 2013. (Click picture below) So many people have written us this week newly discovering this article that we thought we should re-post the link☺.
This is from the Jaws 3D Anniversary Screening Event in France a few months back set up by Romain Neophyte of Jaws3D.com. Featured are those Fincredible press photos of Joe Alves and our then Newly released Ultimate Big Mamma Bruce 3D Shark Replica. Our gratitude to Romain and Joe for their love of Jaws and for loving our sharks☺! AHhhhhh, sooo many NEW Shark City Ozark Sharks coming out in 2016...
More than twice what we provided in 2015☺! Here's a look back to help look forward to what's coming next! I am feeling nostalgic today for our HUGE 1/6 scale Mechanical Bruce Shark that we had the high honor of building and operating on location for the SyFy Channel's 2012 Original Film GhostShark.
My wife Cathy and I are among the privileged few in all history to get to create, build and operate an Animatronic Shark for a movie☺! My youngest daughter Rachael Schultz, actually got to appear as a double in a few scenes too! Fond memories. GhostShark was our intro into providing Practical Film FX. What a pressure cooker time that was for us back then. We actually were contracted to build all the giant Gator props and body parts for SyFy's RedNeck Gators during the final weeks of finishing the GhostShark! Then without even a breather we were again thrust right into developing and building SyFy's 11-foot long Bearing SeaBeast and chestburster babies! Fond memories. I still have all the molds. Perhaps I'll build another mechanical shark again one day soon☺ .... Here is an answer to a frequently asked question I thought might make a great little post today:
Question, "Are your sharks durable?" Answer = Thankfully we do NOT make our sharks from cheap brittle polystone like most other collectible producers. I make our sharks out of several different pure resins. These different resin's properties work together to produce what we feel is the strongest possible shark. Unless soaked in liquid nitrogen my sharks will bend and distort long before breaking. In fact we are always experimenting with materials and methods to improve every display we produce. With this said my sharks are not toys. My sharks are the top-shelf of shark collectibles and I make them to outlive me and my customers. And they will last many decades if displayed properly and protected. My wife and I like to go antique shopping and one of the core things I keep in mind producing these sharks is that I hope they will be passed down to the next generation and make their rounds among collectors for ages to come. However nothing lasts forever. They can be damaged by direct sunlight, being placed near heat sources, children, pets, chemicals, liquid damage and they can be scratched through careless handling like any collectible, car, airplane, tank, house etc everything. We do not recommend our sharks for or to be played with by children. Not something you can boast about with Polystones and other plastics that brittle, shrink and crack after only months or a few years time...☺ Excellent response so far to the posts but we still have 3 sharks that want desperately to be shipped to their new homes today. That would answer our extra-early promised delivery date with 100% Pre-Christmas homes for all Pre-Order Sharks.... >BOOM!< Another promise exceeded by SharkCityOzark☺! Now it is time to focus on releasing the 2016 shark products such as the ...
a FEW other SURPRISES....! UPDATE!
Hey everyone, we still have over a dozen HD Ultimate Sharks boxed and ready to ship out pending contact with their new owners. PLEASE check your emails and SPAM folders for contact. We worked very hard to get everyone their Pre-Order AND Pre-Christmas Ultimate sharks extra-extra early and they want to be in their new homes asap. Also ALL December's and January's - 3 foot sharks are in final stages and to be boxed and shipped this week >> SURPRISE! << |
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