The original Bruce from Jaws has been found!

[LOU]

LOL! Sounds good MIB! Thanks, glad you like the collection. Mine pales in comparison to most peoples' though...you be amazed! In fact, that website where you got that pic is my good friend's site and one of the guys with a MASSIVE Jaws collection! Yana and I look forward to meeting you next Summer!
By the way, the McFarlane Jaws set is quite a collectible...it's goes for some SERIOUS $$$ now! I'd hardly call it "paltry" buddy!

[MIB41]

AMAZING NEWS! Well Lou, I WILL be there next summer. COUNT ON meeting me and having long chats. It will be a blast!!! This is the same pic I have in my collection (from Jaws movies archives). BTW, your collection is OUTSTANDING! The best item I have in my paltry offering is the movie maniacs Orca and Jaws which you have in your shot above. When that came out, I just fell in LOVE with that piece. It's a center attraction in my collector room. I also love the Mego customs you have (like in your avatar). Those are amazing!

[LOU]

MIB, JAWSFEST'10 has been posponed until next Summer because Universal wants to now throw the bash themselves. Initially they just gave their blessing to a private promoter to go ahead with a smaller JawsFest, which was to be this Summer...right around now in fact LOL! I'm here typing to you, not on Martha's Vineyard, so you dodged a bullet buddy! It's better this way because not having a smaller JAWSFEST this year means a GIANT one again next year...just like in 2005!

[LOU]

I was surrounded by some of this stuff in that trailer Tom!
LOL! You have me going through all my Jaws pics now. This one is from my dear friend's site...he is, hands-down, the biggest JAWS collector in the world.

JAWScollector.com

He's also our Island Tour Guide in our second and third films...this was taken for his site...

[MIB41]

WOW! What a great shot! Your so right Lou. Bruce IV looks very good in that pic, but nothing worth mentioning in the movie itself. That is sad. I look forward to the day when TSISW hits either a local theater here in Louisville or on the shelves in DVD form. Probably one of the biggest features I have looked forward to seeing in many years. If I wasn't cramped for time this summer I would be up there to experience the Fest, but my son, who is a Marine, is coming home from Afghanistan for his first leave before he goes back one last time. Hopefully there will be another one next year because I WILL make that one. I so look forward to it Lou. You just have no idea. Oh I have shot of THAT pic (probably from your site). I love it!!

[LOU]

Oh and if you like that footage of the raft attack in TSISW trailer...check this pic out!

[LOU]

YEs TSISW is now touring the U.S., in fact it's going to be playing on Martha's Vineyard this summer. Check the site for details.

Now, as far as BRUCE IV, that is the nickname of the shark in Jaws The Revenge, the same toothless shark I am standing with. He looks nothing like Bruce from Jaws because he was made by a completely different crew. No one involved with Jaws The Revenge was involved with 1 and 2 save for Lorraine Gary obviously, Lee Fierro (Alex's mom in JAWS), and Mrs Taft from Jaws and Jaws 2....well, and Martha's Vineyard was used again as Amity for the opening segments of JTR. Genius Bob Mattey created the first Bruce. A guy named Henry Millar created the fourth. Brucette, the shark in Jaws 2 was made from the Bruce mold (Bruce was already starting to rot by 1977) again by Mattey and Roy Arbogast.

Bruce IV didn't actually look too bad, but the way Jospeh Sargent shot it Jaws The Revenge was totally and pathetically ineffective. They just didn't shoot the shark right so it looked lots worse than it needed to...
it looks pretty good here in this rare behind-the-scenes shot from my pal's Jaws The Revenge site...


Jaws The Revenge is an awful, awful movie though, so I don't think they cared enough to shoot it right...so all it's flaws were on display instead. FLAWS THE REVENGE! LOL!

[MIB41]

Yep. I saw them interviewing you while you were sitting down. Looked like you were surrounded by a bunch of Jaws merchandise. I remember when this was discussed last year. Oh how I have waited to see this film! I think when I last asked, you said it was touring somewhere overseas? This has got to be an incredible film. I hope it makes it to DVD. I saw some of that raw footage of Jaws coming down on the Kitner boy. THAT would have been TOO traumatic for 70's audiences. I was traumatized as it was! It's still hard to believe after ALL of those horror stories from Spielberg and company about the mechanical shark, that no one thought to save it after the film broke out into a massive hit. It almost seems more logical to think about that before thinking about a sequel. Can you imagine the money they could have made by keeping it in a body of water and asking the public to pay to see it swimming about like it was alive? Oh my God! They would have made a fortune!

Now the pic of you with Bruce IV... is it your opinion that it is a dead replica of the original Bruce? I ask because in the pic, it looks pretty close, but in Jaws IV that shark, in my opinion, doesn't look ANYTHING like the original. It has those chessy upper gums coming down and, well, it just looks silly. If that is the same shark your posing with, then the producers, really went out of their way to screw it up. It looks better in that shot, then it did the whole movie!

[LOU]

Excellent gents! Happy to find some Jaws fans here after all!
Since you like Jaws so much...check this trailer out! It's for THE SHARK IS STILL WORKING! If you look closely and know what I look like...you just might catch a glimpse of me!

This explains the impact of JAWS on the world in only 3 1/2 minutes and far, far better than I ever could...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9FlJC5sgE4

[MIB41]

That is awesome Lou. Thanks for the hook up. I just ordered both DVDs! To answer your question, I have heard about you guys through your own postings in this forum and the links you have attached. Speaking of Great Whites, I was up until 11 last night watching this new show on the National Geographic channel called "Expedition: Great Whites". If you don't already know about it, I would encourage you to tune in. Amazing footage! Here's the link...

Expedition Great White | National Geographic Channel

[Bruce Banner]

Awesome.
Jaws is one of my all time favourite movies. A classic in every sense.

[LOU]

Hey MIB!

Thanks for your kind words! Your JAWS story is very similar to many Jaws fans'. The movie changed history and has trascended being a film and has become a pop culture phenomenon. No film has left a bigger legacy on modern cinema! So you are certainly not alone! There's millions of Jaws fans around the world! Just today someone from Venezuela posted on our fan page! LOL! So the film has affected the lives of millions of people.
So how do you know so much about us?
I don't really find too much time to post Jaws stuff here and the threads I do start sink like a stone to page two in only a couple hours.
As far as our movies, they're actually free, you only pay shipping and handling.
They can be had through our Fan Page on Facebook here, just click on "ARCHIVE" and you'll see instructions to order.

Thanks for your comments! We haven't met Spielberg but we have added a TON of autographs to our page! If you are on Facebook, please join our page!

Click here to go to "LOU & YANA'S JAWSFEST FILMS" Fan Page!

[MIB41]

Lou, me and childhood friend of mine have been life long fans of Jaws since we first got scared out of our pants in '75. I literally wouldn't take a bath for like two days (seriously). It just freaked me out. BUT it also turned me into a rabid Jaws fan from that point forward. To this day I have never seen anyone who has as much cool and UNIQUE Jaws artifacts as you and your wife. Just incredible stuff!!! I think they should make a DVD just on you guys alone. I would buy it! If Steven Spielberg hasn't met you and your wife, he should. My buddy is in Chicago now and we're talking about going to one of these Jaws-fest very soon. Really looks incredible. I just wanted to say THANK YOU for sharing so much of your love for the movie. Fans like you are what keep this movie alive and well. I can't wait to see all of this unearthed footage that no one has ever seen. I would especially like to see actual footage from that one creepy shot of Jaws coming out of the water to bite down on the Kitner boy. Makes my skin crawl just to look at the still. Has got to be incredible to see as raw footage. BTW, how can I purchase all of the Jawsfest DVD's? I would love to have them. I went out to your Myspace site, but I didn't see any link to actually buy them.

[Meule]

LOL! That's a rubber one KW. They used both plastic and rubber depending on the scene. Quint's death, which is what this tooth was for, were rubber.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y66/Jimmyjawz/maximmag.jpg

Some other cool pics...

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y66/Jimmyjawz/LG2.jpg

http://i670.photobucket.com/albums/vv63/vaporloc_2009/shark.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7J_WGI7Jyg...ws+Pic+029.jpg

Very cool behind the scene pics, thanks for that

[Meule]

Yes Thomas, we've been disgusted with the fact that Bruce and the Orca boat were just left to rot. A shame that such a famous prop from the most influential film in history was not preserved. The Orca was at least part of the JAWS ride in California until it rotted and a replica was built to replace it. Bruce, however, was just left to rot in the backlot. I suspect the problem is that the Jaws movies ALWAYS went way, way, way over budget and over-schedule so when the films wrap, the crew just took off. In fact, one of the sharks from Jaws 2 was just left behind in Florida once filming commenced...we believe the head is in a film museum in Italy today.
As far as Bruce IV, that's the only shark I've ever seen in person...here's what he looked like back in 2001...

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-7/793421/JTRSHARK.jpg

Also, there's yet another 2-hour Jaws documentary coming on BIO Channel in a couple weeks...here's an ad I uploaded to You Tube...I'm sure they will talk about what happened to Bruce during the show...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDT-B-T2-MA

He looks in pretty bad shape there, and that was 2001. Wondr what he looks like now