Things That Are Different Are Not The Same ...

Hey everyone, I must remind all our friends and customers of some VERY IMPORTANT FACTS that will $ave you MUCH money, & frustration IF followed. Ready?!

*JUNKYARD BRUCE IS NOT SCREEN USED BRUCE!
I repeat, JUNKYARD BRUCE IS NOT Screen Used Bruce!!!☺

->YES, they came from the same molds.
Buuut No, as we have often posted, and just as Greg Nicotero and Joe Alves have repeatedly explained at great length over the years;
"Once you take that flexible skin out of the mold and STRETCH it over a HEAVILY PADDED shape-frame THEN have it absorb many hundreds of gallons of water --WATERLOGGING and BLOATING and WEARING out of shape, then it is TOTALLY DIFFERENT!"
-Urethane is VERY hydroscopic and it has poor shape memory. Once it is stretched it returns to the original shape less and less with each stress...

Once again;
>> SAME MOLDS but TOTALLY Different Bruce Sharks!
Annnnd, as we have also written extensively about for many years, the Tow Sled Shark looks almost NOTHING like the Platform sharks [times 2].
And both of these sharks were NIGHT & DAY DIFFERENT from the 4th Bruce, the Studio Tank Shark.
We are talking overall girth and body shapes right down to BIG differences in mouths, teeth, gills and all fin shapes.
FRIENDS PLEASE, unless you have built and operated mechanical sharks like we have for films, you won't nail things right just following mix-ups of reference materials trying to guess which shark is which, at which point in filming with which padding being tested etc..☺.
* ANYONE modeling off of the Junkyard Bruce reference material 'might' come up with a nice Junk Yard Bruce, but it will not be close at all to any of the Screen Used Bruces'.
Anyone modeling a generic Bruce using reference material mash-ups from all the DIFFERENT BRUCE SHARKS will NOT get a Spot-on, historically Accurate or 'suit-accurate' screen used Bruce Shark that looks right from ALL ANGLES.
Everyone is welcome to disagree, but you would be wrong and be disagreeing with not only us with 11 Animatronic Sharks to our credit, but also with those who made and operated history's DIFFERENT Jaws Bruce Sharks.
These are simple facts and should therefore enlighten and not upset anybody☺. Be Happy for the neat info.
As we have done over the years, we have released HISTORICALLY SCALE ACCURATE Platform Bruce Sharks, Tow Sled Bruce Sharks, Well-worn end-scenes Bruce Sharks, Newer 'Shark-City' Bruce Sharks etc.
>> And we are about to release the Entirely ALL NEW 3 foot long Action/Attack Pose Bruce Shark a.k.a. the 4th Bruce, the Studio Tank Bruce.
This was actually the last real life Screen Used Bruce Shark ever taken from the original Jaws molds. Which was NOT anything like the rigid Junkyard-Bruce Display pulled from the same mold now being restored. Ask Joe or Greg yourself, we just talked at great length about this very thing this morning when he called.
So let's all get things straight & all be Happy Please.
We are the ones that kick-started this Fintastic Bruce Shark Collectible industry over a decade ago.
And Years AFTER SideShow sold their -made in Mexico- 250 run of [28 inch long] licensed Jaws Sharks for $280 + $80-ish shipping [2006].
Note that price for that size shark 13 years ago compared to our shark prices & sizes and others....☺ And our NEW PRICES are the lowest of all time☺...
We have not changed our practice since our beginning providing full-sized and miniature dinosaur displays for museums over 18 years ago. We do things museum quality correct & Hollywood Awesome!
We've worked Practical FX for 6 films.
Those heroes that built and operated history's Jaws Sharks are our family friends who have bent over backwards to help us get these sharks JAWSOME.
Joe Alves even handed us the product name "BRUCE SHARK" to personally use over a decade ago☺!
Aside from overseas Mass produced toys, NOBODY has even fractionally come close to providing what we have in quality or sheer quantity.
Over 6000 CUSTOMIZED SHARKS to Happy Customers globally this whole decade.
We have not changed aside from getting better and better at what we do, increasing our quality and accuracy exponentially, and DECREASING COSTS and build/shipping times☺.
Please ENJOY the following DIFFERENT Bruce Sharks for comparative illustration purposes.
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** Please know your Bruce Sharks and know your artists'.
ENJOY☺!