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The one window of opportunity of a blockbuster like Jaws is you can't copyright a Shark! Every rack toy maker (like Justen here) cranked out a Great White for years and made a ton of legitimate money as a result.


And there wasn't a thing Steven Spielberg could do about it.....

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[mazinz]

AWESOME!!!!! Hey Brian if he is yours, any chance of showing the underside? Curious what the eyes and teeh look like. I think I have a similar (or used the same mold) rubber shark

[Gorn Captain]

At the time of Jaws, rubber sharks were all over the place. I had several like this, to attack my GI Joes...

[Earth 2 Chris]

A shark that apparently lives in a swamp...!!!

Chris

[MIB41]

"This shawk... Swallow ya whole!"

[Gorn Captain]

A shark that apparently lives in a swamp...!!!

Chris

Swamp Shark!
I like it!

[Hedji]

GREAT artwork. It's a nice dupe of movie poster artist Bob Peak's Jaws artwork:

[mazinz]

GREAT artwork. It's a nice dupe of movie poster artist Bob Peak's Jaws artwork:

which was further crudely duped again for this 1970's HG toys "shark" puzzle

[raycastile]

Mazinz:

[palitoy]

AWESOME!!!!! Hey Brian if he is yours, any chance of showing the underside? Curious what the eyes and teeh look like. I think I have a similar (or used the same mold) rubber shark

He is not mine, I found him going through a drive and couldn't quite remember where the photo came from. I think Ray just solved that mystery.

[mazinz]

Mazinz:

He is not mine, I found him going through a drive and couldn't quite remember where the photo came from. I think Ray just solved that mystery.

Thank you both! I thought the design looked familiar. Either someone bought this for me on a vacation or I bought it on a vacation and this would be the very early 80's if not tail end of the 70's, but I have this rather (also crudely made) cool looking shark and going by the photos he seems to be a sort of battle damage version of the one above, or possibly a knock off using that mold

pics are here and taken a number of years ago which is why they look like sh$t

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[raycastile]

That looks like the same shark sculpt. I've seen the same shark packaged different ways.

[raycastile]

Please someone find me a carded Chemtoy Jaws.