any help on this 12 figure please?

[scoth70]

hi all ive looked on the forum and cant see much about this figure...
just the photo in gallery and hes in a box.....

hes a cool looking guy i guess ..is there much desire for him? what price does he hold?....

any help would be great... heres his picture link thumbnail

[Meule]

That's Jaws from the James Bond line
Moonraker Gallery: Mego Museum

[palitoy]

He's a Euro exclusive, not sure of his exact price but he's a good one. Also he's complete.

[megocrazy]

Very cool piece, not seen a lot. Someone should shrink that head and do a Mr. Larson custom.
"I'm gonna get you Shooter!!!!!"

One thing ya gotta say about Adam Sandler, he takes care of those he was close to before he got big, and there were a ton of big guys he could have gotten to do that role and he stayed with a classic actor rather than some wrestler or NFL player.

[scoth70]

yes ..i know that heads so big lol..... so hes a euro exclusive.... thats a little more i know about him ..... but whats he worth?.. is he more desired by the bond fan? rather than mego collector? ... lol gotta love those braces

[cjefferys]

Nice, he isn't easy to find. Definitely desirable to both Bond collectors and folks who collect 12" Megos (like me!).

He looks pretty clean (other than the greying head which is mostly unavoidable with these) and complete (except I have no idea for sure if those are his correct boots or not). I could see a nice loose one going for around $100 perhaps?

[scoth70]

Nice, he isn't easy to find. Definitely desirable to both Bond collectors and folks who collect 12" Megos (like me!).

He looks pretty clean (other than the greying head which is mostly unavoidable with these) and complete (except I have no idea for sure if those are his correct boots or not). I could see a nice loose one going for around $100 perhaps?

yes ive looked him over and hes in very good shape no broken bones has all his magnet jaw no rips or holes....his boots came with him as also id no idea if there his for sure as ive never seen a loose pic of him... he stands a proud man though

[rche]

The Jaws figure is just a plain old bit of toy genius. The whiz kids at Mego are looking at what they can do with the Bond license and sifting through the production stills for Moonraker and then the guy who is fiddling about sticking a mag Batman to the metal desk suddenly says, "oh.... I have an idea."

awesome

[Mikey]

I think a lot of times the magnet in the teeth is missing.

Having that is a big bonus.

I would say on a good day it might sell for over $100.00

[Trappy Trek Freak]

If I had a chance to buy it I would he is a very awesome figure.

[SlipperyLilSuckers]

Most of the ones I have seen have the dreaded Gray curse...that's a very nice specimen indeed.

[scoth70]

the trouble is with me...theres certain megos and figures i am interested in and others im not...i have passed hands with a few megos i dont really want ..but like this jaws figure...id never had thought about buying him...but as a bargain hunter i was lucky to get hold of this one...i must say hes got me in that shall i keep him or let him go situation...i think for now im holding on to him hes really a cool looking dude in the flesh..lol or should i say rubber and plastic.... and yes from the odd pictures ive seen hes got a pretty decent face ..not totally zombied..he does still have some flesh tone to him... its funny when you stand him on the floor and look at him from behind in his braces it does look like real little man

[PoorMansJB]

I spent years looking for Jaws before I finally found one (pre-eBay) at a toy show.

Because he was nude and I had no reference for his clothes other than the movie (Moonraker), I made him the outfit below based on that:



Thanks to a screw-up, I had to remake the shirt and so for fun put the "bad" one in a Gilbert (they had made Bond figures in the '60s) style tray. (Richard Kiel, who played Jaws, has since autographed the back.)

And thanks to eBay, I have in the meantime gotten a MIB Jaws so I can tell you those are not the original boots on yours; can't tell from the photo if they're even the same type, but they should be brown regardless. Also, as the figure is so often found loose, lots of people see the bare magnet and will say he's missing his teeth. Thanks to that, I had a stainless steel band machined for mine. Turns out, though, that there was never anything covering the magnet.

In real life Jaws is just over 7' tall. And yet, while MEGO gave the figure an oversize torso and arms, they actually used smaller than standard legs, I'm guessing to make sure that all the packaging in the line could be the same height. At any rate, I swapped-out the legs on mine so that he's a little taller at 13" than 007.

[bondtoddbond]

Your custom outfit is crazy awesome. The toothpaste? Hilarious! What a great idea making him taller, mine is original, so I never looked that close to even think about the body being shorter.

[scoth70]

that looks fantastic