By way of an UPDATE we have the following exciting NEWS and solution that we are offering:
We are writing to update all outstanding orders for our 1/6 Bruce shark Bust with an incredible offer! As you know the sales have been so incredible on the 1/6 Bruce Busts that we responded to the great amount of pressure early last month to not yet close the sales edition of the busts as planned. Also, since then Cathy consolidated for me all of the customer feedback and I have been working on a highly updated Bruce Bust to pick up where the initial Bruce Bust leaves off. The reason for this is that we very much passed our goals for the Bruce Bust early last month-- prompting us to close the run -- YET the sales have been increasing at an astounding rate! So, what we have done is to remaster the bust based on the massive amount of customer-feedback then release the updated bust allowing us to retire the first edition. This limits the first run and also allows more people to get in on the action-bust as well. Now the updated version is the same basic shark proper at first glance. It is the same pose and same basic silhouette. However what I have done is greatly increase the detail resolution adding many new screen accurate features. MANY many..I have also improved the tongue and mouth detail mesh. In addition, many customers expressed they had no previous knowledge that the location used Bruce Shark skin’s often twisted on their frames and bloated from water damage at various stages of shooting causing many features to not mirror correctly from one side to the other. The real Bruce sharks often had the eyes, nostrils and mouth corners ever so slightly misaligned with their opposite side due to this. Our first edition Bruce of course mirrored this extreme accuracy. However; as a wise friend told me once, if you have to explain a feature then the intent was not communicated as best it could in the model. So for the updated version I have remodeled the head to have the left to right balance-of-features indicative of a brand new Bruce Shark skin yet to suffer those water damages and repairs. Thus the ‘slight misaligned features have been corrected to a newer shark whose left features more properly mirror their right side. A newer Bruce skin as opposed to one at the end of a rough day's shoot. Both still 100% historical Bruce, and now both different enough and limited in numbers enough to increase in value more rapidly over time for their collector's☺. Also I have greatly increased the resolution of detail and increased the depth of many of the wounds and skin repairs while also spending an entire day just re-modeling in the scale-grit [under magnification] of the actual sand-grit used in the painting of the original Bruce Shark skins over 40 years ago! Never before has there been a 1/6 scale Bruce shark Bust with this much detail per square inch, even greater than the mechanical shark that we built and operated for SyFy’s film GhostShark back in 2012! So, with all this information in hand I have been writing current paid in full customers presenting the option to upgrade to this newer and more detailed Bruce shark Bust for FREE. No additional charge or shipping or anything of the sort. ☺ I just thought to myself that if I were awaiting my Bruce Shark Bust then I would want the newest and most detailed one available. Of course whatever customization's previously chosen also apply to the newer shark orders. * This of course in no way hinders or detracts from the 1/6 Scale All New Closed-Mouth-Pose Bruce Shark Bust about to release or any of the other sequel shark busts that we are releasing quite soon. We just wanted to share our most unique solution to the problem of limiting run numbers while also providing for an ever greater collector audience. CHEER'S, and have an Incredible day!☺ Mike Shark City Ozark
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If you are a Jaws fan then ‘Jaws 2 The Making of the Hollywood Sequel! is for YOU! Michael Smith and Louis Pisano have outdone themselves in providing all fans with an EXCELLENT making of book. This is a Jaws 2 book that provided me with at least 90% all new Shark photos and refreshingly accurate information! We are so happy with this new book; it really delivers on my highest hopes for it! PS: Sorry for the Shark-Workshop garb, this is the first-best chance we had to take a well lit photo all week! Hi Friends!
Quicky Update here. Finished all paid-in-Full & Due-in-September orders both private and vendor and now working on October due orders. We are working 7 days a week to get everyone their New Customized sharks WAAayy before they are even close to due, because we hate to wait too☺ -HA! I wanted to announce that we will be releasing info, some photos and or promo-artwork for our upcoming NEW RELEASES. As you know from previous posts these include the: * ALL New Life Sized Great White Shark Bust, * The All New 25 inch Ultimate Revenge Bruce Shark, * The All New 1/6 ScarFace Bruce Shark Bust, * The All New 1/6 Big Mamma Bruce 3D Bust, * The All New 1/6 Revenge Bruce Bust, * 2 All New scales of Scuba Tanks! * An All New accurized/Updated 1/8 Yellow Barrel! * The All New ½ Scale Bruce Shark Dorsal Fin [life sized for a real-world White Shark!], ** And the ALL NEW 2016 - 3 foot Bruce Shark RESIN KIT!!☺ Plus a few VERY intense and special SURPRISES!!☺ More details as we are able to provide them. Keep an eye out here for more info quite soon. * HAppy WEekEnd! * Mike ☺ You know, several times each week we get PM's asking us if we are going to release a particular shark and when. Almost always when we take the minute to look back at the sender’s Social Media we find a hastily & recently created account that comes from nowhere and goes nowhere.
These are "those snoopy types" looking to capitalize on our hard work by beating us to marketing something. And it is why the big name companies don’t release information too soon, until they are ready to roll with their products. However, our edge is that we have the most Excellent Sharks and a Most Excellent and Well Established Name among the collector and Shark communities. So even though this may be a big mistake I will post SOME of our upcoming Shark Releases. These are products that we have prototypes for that are either finished and molded and ready to roll or nearly ready, for when we have a chances to add them to our online-catalog. Our release dates are flexible to accommodate our filling orders and Private Commission bookings. Which are the financial backbone of our trade. SOME of our upcoming releases, to the best of our ability to plan for the future are as follows. Subject to change at will. Based of course on picking up further Private Commission work and of course more Film and Toy Design work. Should anyone try to beat us to releasing what we post here then we will simply plow them under with our well established Superior Accuracy, unbeatable High Quality & First-Rate-Service. And also beat their prices. As follows: * All New 1/6 scale Battle Bruce Bust in an All New Action Pose with High-Gore and Scuba Tank!! * All New 1/6 scale End Scenes ScarFace Brucette Bust * All New 1/6 scale End Scenes 3D Bruce Enraged Big Mamma Bust * All New 1/6 scale End Scenes Revenge Bruce Bust ** All New 3 Foot long Platform Shark in End Scenes Condition and sporting the Most Requested Features EVER; details to be released at a later date with its own Special News Release. *All New 25 inch Reel Life Mako Shark in an All New Action Pose *All New 37 Inch Reel Life Great White Shark in Action Pose *** All New Ultra-Realistic LIFE-SIZED Great White Shark Action Bust in Full-Attack Pose * 1/12 Scale - 25 inch Ultimate Revenge Shark ** We also have Contracts and/or Private Commissions pending for either a 1/3 or a ½ scale; as well as a Full Scale Bruce Shark Bust and are seeking community feedback as to which they would desire first and collect most and features and poses they are most wanting. These are "SOME" of the now 41 Prototypes that we have just sitting around in storage collecting dust all decade waiting to be released. With our new system of Limited Run Pre-Order and rapid delivery which worked so well for the last 1/6 Bruce Bust we now have freed the time to devote to molding, castings, finishing and photo-shooting these NEW Sharks to add to our Online Catalog. And not all our New Releases are Sharks by the way. More information as we feel it safe to share. Thank you friends for making us what we are and keeping us #1 All Decade☺! After a great amount of private consultation and feedback with many friends, customers and other friendly business owners we are announcing that we will be changing the way we do business, and what we offer, and how we offer things and so forth!☺
We have a great deal to consider and think-out to make things work together like a well oiled machine, But we do want our online friends and customers to know that Shark City Ozark just went to the next level, ONCE AGAIN! More details to be released over the next few days and weeks. It was good before and now it's gonna get 100 times BETTER!☺ We are considering Ending the run on our current 3-Foot-long "Bruce The Shark" as we did for our
25-inch Mako Shark a few weeks ago. This should be plenty of heads up notice for those that still wish to order one before we end the edition. It well surpassed all of our goals for the run back in December and we feel it is time to move on from this original design of ours. Due to our extremely heavy order load I reluctantly report today that we are only running on time instead of our normal of running well ahead of schedule. Try as we might our build times still remain between 30 and 60 days depending on the shark and complexity of order. It simply takes us time to make everything from scratch. All vendor orders are also of course running on time as well. But we are working extra hours to try and knock this down where we can as we prefer to surprise customers with earlier delivery when possible. I know that I hate to wait myself. Even though having an actual SPFX Artist custom build you something in a working FX shop is the uniqueness we offer, waiting is still not the funnest thing. So we are working to reduce wait times. Other business; My dear friend Chuck has been gone for a few years now but one of the things he gave me has really been on my mind this year. He was the artist that made and sold those really nice sets of Bruce Shark teeth years ago. His last month of life we had some seriously good talks and in one of the last ones he told me that he had sent me out a large giftbox and told me to do whatever I wanted with it. His hope was that it would help me to provide for my family. We got it delivered just before he passed but he was in no condition to thank like I wanted to. He was a great guy and my cherished friend. Although I have kept these precious momentous to myself since then I am now considering filling Chuck's wish. I have plans of releasing a set of 7 Bruce Shark teeth in memory of Chuck. The set that he mailed me was far superior to any other teeth I had ever collected previously. I also have a few different teeth of my own to add to the collection including a Bruce 3 and original Bruce 4 tooth. With this post I am seeking interest level from the community for whether my family should invest into cleaning these up, arranging them, molding them and offering them for sale? Let me know what you think. For me obtaining The Bruce Shark Teeth directly from the exact same stone molds used in Jaws and Jaws 2 were the Rosetta Stone to helping me measure accurately to produce our first Bruce Shark replicas. They are pure treasure in my eyes and the Crown Jewels in my collection. Do you feel the same and would you like to own your own if produced afford-ably? Thank you all again for your friendships, your encouragements, for sticking up for us and for sharing our incredible shark builds!☺ Mike SCO After searching our storage building I have rediscovered our SCO original 2007-2009 1/8 scale Scuba Tank! Unfortunately the mold is far too brittle to yield a viable copy. The prototype is also in need of extensive upgrading and repair before investing in the remolding.
We stopped offering it years ago as when we did offer it then people demanded the yellow barrels, so I made and started releasing those. Then the scuba tank demand faded. When I have some spare time in the coming weeks I will put the New and Improved Scuba Tank [in scale with our 3-foot sharks and barrels] back on our sales site and make it available for everyone. My best estimate looking at our very full build and ship schedule is perhaps 3 to 5 weeks for the investment in restoration and remolding. It is always fun to see something Fresh and original! **The only Copy-Catting that we do is copying History's Incredible Film Sharks! No other artists, products, animals or even dolphins were harmed in the re-offering of this Incredible NEWly upgraded Bruce Shark accessory! Be nice if that ethic spread around some, huh?☺ Well, back to the SharkShop today! Cathy & I really thank you all for the oodles of prayer, kind words and well wishing over the last week on our various personal walls. Thank you all very much for your encouragements. It REALLY helps! You are all VERY kind. Cathy is doing much better from her cardiac episode that honestly was my fault. Being brought on by the stress of my latest heart surgery Friday. Not to mention its failure to correct anything once again. Another kind of heart surgery is the latest best guess they have for me this time which will be scheduled soon. It is good that I am so strong and healthy regardless of the physical discomfort. I just have to man up a bit more is all. And thank goodness we have maintained a lead of several weeks on our coming due orders for all this! In other NEWS: Thursday I asked my friend Greg Nicotero who is not on any social media whatsoever [so who's behind those pages anyway?] about the Beller/UK copycatter's shark and those odd comments they posted. Greg told me that he was sent a FREE COPY of their shark and as a courtesy return-complimented with a photo of himself and it. That's what he does for all fan-gifts as a courtesy. He simply does not endorse their product as they appear to me to be posting. We appreciate that Greg is a long time paying customer of our work since 2011. We earned that. And he owns through purchase his appreciation and inclusion of several of our shark products in his main office, and in many of his video and magazine interviews as well. Why anyone tries to mimic that, or our products really amazes me? In other NEWS: The return of our 25 inch Ultimate Bruce Sharks has met with tremendous approval and a huge increase in order volume. We are VERY pleased with this. Since we are receiving so many repeat questions here they are briefly with matching brief answers: 1.The Ultimate Sharks will begin shipping in the Fall just as we have advertised, in order of order # and paid in full status. A more specific date to be listed when we know for sure. 2. The 25 inch Ultimate Revenge Bruce and the 1/6 ScarFace Brucette Bust will be released in the Fall as well. 3. We still have plans of also releasing the FULL SCALE Great White Shark Headmount in FULL ATTACK pose, soon. When we know for sure we'll post it. It is STUNNING!☺ 4. Yes, everything we make can be customized as far as paint and gore. There are some limitations, but simply please communicate with us what you want, even to matching photos and screengrabs and I am sure we can accommodate almost everyone. 5. Yes, the 1/6 Bruce Busts will be a complete set with one shark from each film. 6. No we cannot release a full schedule of all our planned products as that would open us up to being ripped off even more than we already have been. 7. Yes, we are still considering making a Bruce shark available for a kit-build but are still fearful of being recast and run out of business by unscrupulous types that do wrong and then are so shocked when we defend ourselves from being abused by them. Some people, right? So no kits for the foreseeable future. Just another freedom squelched by bad people I guess. Other than that this UPDATE got LOT's longer than it is FUN to read so we’ll be merciful and end it right here. Thank you again my friends for your kindness[es], encouragements and friendships! Mike SCO I may just find the time to mold the first of the 2 different All New Upgraded 25 inch Ultimate Bruce Sharks this coming week friends!
I know I have put this off awhile too. But the reason has been a good one. We've just been too busy filling orders to even want to add another log to the fire. And honestly, we've already released more NEW products in the last 8 months then in the previous 2 years together! Original, never been done before products to be more specific. Anyway, we are forced to RE-Release our UPGRADED one-inch to one-foot scale sharks to keep a void from being filled elsewhere. But we cannot work any harder or faster then we currently do so these will be released as Pre-Order sharks once again as we did with the Tow Sled Sharks and these All New 1/6 Busts earlier in 2015. The Pre-Order method for the Busts really took a lot of pressure off of us. Just like the Big-Name producers this Pre-Order method will give us some breathing room between the flood of new orders and then filling the orders. In fact I think we may just do Pre-Orders from now on. Because I can't create ANYTHING when all I am doing is filling orders 6-7 days a week. So there needs to be found a balance between supplying demand and being allowed to be a creative artist too. There must needs be balance in life. We are also looking at reducing the number of sharks that we make from now on. There are only so many days in the week and so many sharks we can provide so we are looking at a system of a set number of products or a limiting of runs from now on. We don't have all the answers but we are researching options. There you have it, a small update with some new info. More to follow later in the week when we can. Thank you friends! By way of an UPDATE I wanted to address the White elephant in the room. And that regards the overdue nature of the Release for Pre-Order of our All New 25 inch Upgraded Ultimate Bruce Collector's Set Sharks.
So where are they? To be honest they are partially overdue because I was down sick for 3 weeks in April. That's a long time. It threw off our schedule pretty hard. And they are also partially overdue because I got a wild hair you know where to add in even more detail to the first 3 Ultimate Bruce Sharks. Indeed the detail resolution is simply STUNNING! Then they are also overdue because I could not decided which Ultimate Bruce Shark Prototype to release so I posted that we would be releasing for Pre-Order TWO VERY Different Ultimate Bruce 1 Sharks! YEP!! And lastly they are overdue simply because since April we have been flooded with new orders. And by flooded I mean to post that our order volume has quintupled! Actually almost 22% more than quintupled. It has been crazy double-time, and then some! We are still in happy-shock. The reasons given us for many of these sudden orders has been most replying that they are showing support for our family business over Beller's odd UK copycatter drama.Thank you again for all of you and your kind encouragements during this latest hassle of theirs. I guess no press is bad press apparently? Let the chips continue to fall where they may we say☺. Now, this is sensitive but needs to be spoken to, I think. But, a bunch of others have admitted that their reason for suddenly buying our sharks was that they had put off getting one of our sharks for years, but are now motivated honestly because of my slip in health back in April and my impending heart surgery. Which by the way has been moved to next month. To be clear it is not open-heart surgery. I am not dying nor am I in a wheelchair! I don't know who would start such rumors aside from that odd Diva that lives to shovel rumors behind the scenes stirring up folks. I am not in deteriorating health my friends. Nor do I have any cancer. And I do not need any transplants either. I am quite strong for a man my age☺. What I have is a set of conditions where my heart beats out of rhythm around 180 to 200+ beats per minute. Normal men my age should have 65 to 85bpm. Further proof that I am simply not normal... Ahem..☺ But my type is not the deadly type, it just exhausts me. A quality of life issue only. Kinda imagine trying to go through your day with a heart-rate higher than someone running a marathon! But it is not all the time thankfully. And I am still working 7 days a week and 8 to 10 hours a day. So there's further proof how healthy I really am, right? There you have it. I hate to be so personal, but that's the best way to squash the latest rumors. We sure wish they'd leave us alone so we can just make excellent sharks for people with excellent taste. Some people, Eeesh! Regardless friends, we have the most Awesome and the most-collected Bruce Sharks in history. And the All New Ultimate Bruce Collector's Set Sharks ready to mold but we've just been buried filling orders this month. I'll take wondrous problems like this everyday of the year HooooRAH! OK, so now what? I am trying to get ahead on 27 pending orders and hope to mold the first New Variation of the All New Upgraded Ultimate Bruce Shark in-between them. So my goal is to have the All New Collector's Set Sharks up for Pre-Order within the next few weeks at most. Here's to hoping I am early or at least on time with this New Goal. Thank you friends, Mike |
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