A question often overheard, "Just Make it like the Bruce in the film!" Sure, which one?
Greg Nicotero told us he suffered the same issue during his Junkyard Bruce restoration. Because there is just no 'one' Bruce shark. He literally was different in every single scene.
To briefly bring up to speed everyone on the topic, there is no single Bruce Shark. Period.
The hard resin casting known as the Restored Junkyard Bruce has little in common with a well-worn, water-logged, stretched out and over-padded location used shark. In the same way a hard resin casting does not look the same as a soft mask stretched over different people's head shapes.
As Greg often explains, so much of the restore was missing that Joe Alves helped them recreate Bruce as how he was intended to look for filming, not how he actually looked during filming- with bloated sagging skin, tears and repairs, overly or underpadded etc..
Further, the original Bruce Shark was 4 very different sharks not 3.
There was one Tow Shark, and 2 Platform Sharks, and then later, the 4th Bruce was cobbled together pieces with what survived location filming to make the Hooper cage attack - or Studio Tank Bruce. That is 2+1+1=4, not 3.
"Bruce" was all very different looking and different moving sharks.
All having the same rubberized skin stretched over their very different frames.
The Platform sharks were slender, the Tow Shark was very hefty looking with a protruding upper lip, and the Studio Tank Bruce was very different from that lot altogether.
The photo included with this blog piece give clarity to this specific difference in the two sharks. We will post other differences as we have time.