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Here is another tempting teaser of our fincredible ALL NEW Ultimate Revenge Bruce Shark prototype. 1/12 scale at just about 25 inches long. This is the shark that completes the Full Set of Film & Sequel sharks in our Shark City Ozark Original 1/12 Ultimate scale. There is still a smidgen of clean-up and detail to be added to this prototype before I commit it to a hefty production mold. Oh, and just wait until ya'll see the new Display Stand....☺ *REVENGE is a Shark Best Served by SharkCityOzark >>More details to be shared soon 
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We wish to release at this time that we are ENDING the production runs on both of our best selling 3-foot Bruce Sharks at the end of this month, as well as our current 1/6 Bruce Bust - March 2016. This includes both the Tow Sled and the Platform Bruce Shark. All three Sharks have well exceeded their sale's goals and I wish to retire them before their molds lose definition. We will be releasing several other 1/8 scale [3-foot sharks] to replace them later including an Updated Cal Acord Tow Sled Shark and of course another Platform Bruce Shark. Another 1/6 Bruce Bust variation will be released later along with the All New 1/6 Brucette ScarFace Shark Bust☺. 2016 is going to be the best year yet for SCO Sharks! For now, here is another tempting teaser of our fincredible ALL NEW Ultimate Revenge Bruce Shark prototype. 1/12 scale at just about 25 inches long. This is the shark that completes the Full Set of Film & Sequel sharks in our Shark City Ozark Original 1/12 Ultimate scale. >> More details to be shared soon!  In gearing up to our All NEW Release of our final Bruce Shark Replica in the SCO 1/12 Scale, Ultimate Bruce Shark Collector's Set, - The Revenge Bruce - Well, I just wanted to post a few more commonly found photos from the internet of the various sharks used in that last film. Remember now, The Revenge Bruce was actually a heavily modified ride shark in appearance. It really looked like this...☺*(See photos below) So, I wish to share some extra photos of the various sharks used to sell it onscreen. Please note the stark differences between some of these sharks in appearance, paint, wounds and scars, water-logging, gore, and teeth arrangements [and counts] etc... Also note the extreme differences in the rigid Tow shark previously posted with these flexible sharks whose fins are many times thicker than all other Bruce Sharks- ever. Very thick fins! Note the extremes in skin textures as well. From various rough grits, to bare foam to water-bloated foam to dried and cracking foam rubber☺. What I am trying to do is put fresh images in everyone's minds before we release so that it is very apparent that we nailed all the details both major and minor.☺ OK then, we are close to wrapping a photoshoot - maybe this week☺ Enjoy! ☺ 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!☺  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!☺  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....!
We are well on the way to meeting our goal of BEGINNING to ship out ALL Pre-Order Sharks starting at the end of next week or the week after.
Our intentions are to start shipping >IN ORDER< of both [order #] & Paid in Full Status. This includes the All New Bruce Busts as well as the 3 All New Updated End Scenes High Damaged [HD] Ultimate Bruce sharks including the All New ScarFace Brucette, as well as the All New Enraged Big Mamma 3D Bruce.☺ We understand that this is A FULL MONTH EARLIER than the late Q4 shipping dates that we guesstimated when we went live for Pre-Order. I trust we'll be forgiven this "Achievement Unlocked"☺. Will we be able to ship everyone's shark starting next week? Not a chance, even if there were 12 of us. But we are about to give the local Post Office quite a wake up call starting in the next 6-10 days or so. Thank you for your patience my friends, even though we have once again DELIVERED EARLIER than forecast, 2 to 3 month is still a long time to wait for a Pre-Order if you are like me. Because I despise waiting☺. To stem the flood of PM's asking if your shark is the first to ship please understand that we will contact EVERYONE when it is your turn and when your shark is ready to ship. I am sure you all understand that we wish to focus primarily on working on getting the sharks finished, packaged and shipped as opposed to office work. <<< ****** IN THE MEANTIME ***** >>> Please enjoy a SMALL TASTE of what is coming starting in Q1 of 2016: - The Life-Size Great White Shark Bust in Full Attack Pose - The FINCREDIBLE ½ Scale Bruce Shark Dorsal Fin - AND to start off our ALL NEW LINE of RESIN KITS --- THE ALL NEW 3-Foot-Long TOW-SLED BRUCE SHARK INCLUDING TOW STRUCTURE RESIN KIT!!! ENJOY* 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 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☺! 
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