Just when you thought it was safe...

[LOU]

DUM-DUM, DUM-DUM, DUM DUM DUM DUM DUM...
Here's a new addition to my Mego/Jaws collection that has been 4 years in the making. Some of you may have seen my custom made Jaws figures before, albeit in poorer quality pics. I never upgraded the pics because I wanted to wait until my "Bruce" that goes with them had a matching box made as well. Well, Mike Rogers (MEGO73), who made the figures' cards also started work on this box for my Mego-scaled shark (my wife Yana and I searched high and low for a toy-like shark that would be in scale with the Mego figures. No easy task as most toy sharks we found were way too small until we stumbled upon a pool toy shark that was about the right size.) Sadly, it's not the best Bruce likeness in any way but this is not a big deal because that's the "style" that Mego would have done in the 70's; it more than likely would have been a generic shark back then anyway (probably just the GWS from the Aquaman set) had Mego made one because that's just how they did things manufacturing-wise. So Mike Rogers and I began this process years ago and for whatever reason, the project was delayed by either me or him or both of us. We still get a laugh out of that!
Well, Yana and I have produced two Jaws Fan Films shot on Martha's Vineyard where Jaws was filmed. We are currently in production on our third film due out Fall 2010. The films are called "Lou & Yana's JawsFest'05" and "Lou & Yana's JawsFest 2: The Return To Amity". More info can be found about them at MySpace.com - LOU & YANAS JAWS FEST FILMS - 33 - Male - Amity Island, Massachusetts - www.myspace.com/jawsfestdvds
There's trailers available for viewing there as well. Anyway, we plan to shoot a segment for our next sequel "Lou & Yana's JawsFest 3: The Invasion Of JawsFest'10" which features me taking people on a "tour" of my Jaws collection and I wanted this boxed shark to be featured in the shoot as well. We plan to shoot the segment within a month or so so Mike and I had to finally put our noses to the grindstone to get this project done at last. So yesterday I came home to an enormous box and when I opened it, my Mego Action Shark that goes with my existing figures had arrived! So I took some pics to share with you all.
Mike did a FINtastic job on this! Very high quality work!!! As I said, this matching shark box was a long time coming and wasn't an easy task for Mike to complete and involved a lot of trial-and-error. In any event, we both were thrilled with the results! Take a look at how the entire set looks together...it looks like something Mego would have made in 1975-76...in fact, Mike even went so far as to use the same logo Mego used in 1975 as they later changed their logo as you all well know. So even that is accurate. Anyway, here's some nice pics of the set...

The full Mego Jaws set...


The Mego Brody, Quint, and Hooper...


The Mego Action Shark...


Figure close-ups...


The matching back sides of the packaging...


So a HUGE thanks goes out to Mike Rogers, Mego73 here on the Mego Museum!
Also, I want to mention the credits again for the figures as well:

Roy Schieder head sculpt-AUSTIN HOUGH/REPROHEADS.COM
Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss head sculpts-DAVE McCORMICK
Heads painted by DAVE McCORMICK

So my thanks to you all for sharing your talent with me and making this set possible! You all should be proud of your amazing abilities!
Best,
LOU

[blastphemey]

AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!
those are absolutly killer!

[BlackKnight]

I really like the Figures.
I watch the Movie about atleast once a Week...
Kuddo's Bud,.. Kuddo's

[vulcan2074]

Those are some seriously Wicked cool figures. I Love the way they look. Great Job
Sammy

[mego73]

Those JAWS cards were the first custom thing I ever did. I wanted to make my own JAWS figures someday (but I still haven't, LOL!) and made what I thought would be a Mego authentic front using the Macfarlane Orca diorama.

That's as far as I went until Lou contacted me and actually wanted cards so then I made up the back. Soon after, he told me about the shark and did my first mockup of a box. But I didn't have a real concept of the size of it and I asked him to send me the shark.

When I did, I saw that it was so big, all my normal ways of stretching my (then) 8.5X11 size printing capability to make larger boxes (splicing along designed borders in the art)was just not going to work.

I wanted to avoid outside printing if possible (expensive and often the colors are different then you expect because it's a different system then yours) and so me and Lou batting ideas back and forth.

I came up with a back carded tray package where I would make the back card, make a tray that I would place Bruce diagonally (so I could make the card a bit shorter than the shark).

I would paint the tray a color and make a number of stickers to put it on front and attack the card to the back of the tray.

This was the visualization:



And that is what I was about to go ahead with until I got the large format printer. Even though I had larger printing capability, there were still problems which had to be solved.

But finally they got solved and Bruce got a home after staying with me for about four years.

I want you all to notice the in joke I had. In the pictures of the shark (except for the back of the card) the shark about to attack the Mego logo.

[thunderbolt]

Love this project. The character liknesses are dead on. And really love the term "action shark" So, is the Orca being made to complete this set?

[toys2cool]

That looks awesome Lou

[The Bat]

SWEET!! Love the whole Bunch!!

[Kal-El]

What the ! That's carzy, great job all

[deadpool]

very cool set great looking customs thanks for sharing

[SUP-Ronin]

That's a sweet set. Outstanding packages really bring it together. The characters look spot on. Exactly what I think the line would have looked like if Mego had done it. Well maybe a certain different shark, but this one is cool. Great job. My favorite customs this month, so far.

[mikeoz]

Fantastic work! I really like that it's a complete set.

[PNGwynne]

Superb--great likenesses & packaging!

[LOU]

Thanks my friends! As Mike said, this has been a loooooooooong time in the making! I love Jaws and I love Mego so you can imagine my dual joy with these! Well worth the wait for sure. The figures, as some of you know, I've had for some time, I just updated the heads of Scheider and Shaw. The shark is what Mike and I were waiting for. We both just kept getting side-tracked and 4 years passed like a blur...we often laughed about that during the process.
But I am glad you all like the set and no, there are no plans for the Orca although that would be way cool!
I'll also be posting some other older custom figure sets I have made because I don't think I posted them here on the new board...just the old one that we left behind a couple years back. These include 8 inch customs from The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman, Halloween, and the TV/Movie Super Heroes. Look for them soon!

Thanks again guys! And remember...stay out of the water!

[BlackKnight]

whats the Recipe for Cheif ?