I meant to ask in the video, WHAT'S YOUR GRAIL? Is there one cool hobby item or thing you have wanted for years that maybe is in reach? What might it be? Share it here! And thanks for watching! 😁
For my collection, I've always wanted a perfect figure, model or other representation of the "Audrey II" from the 1986 film version of "Little Shop of Horrors" . I can't believe that no one has picked up that license for figures other than Funko pops, and they don't count! Come on Neca or Super7!! I want all four versions of the plant from the film!! "Feed Me Seymour!!"
Les, thank you so very much for sharing this wonderful story with everyone! We're touched that this kit means so much to you and we can't wait to see your work on it! Enjoy!🙂
Wow! Thanks, Laura! You guys have created something special here! And I for one will do my part to make mine the very best I can! I LOVE THIS THING! I think I'm gonna need some bigger brushes! ...er something! 🥰👍
That is friggin' AWESOME Les! I have about a 0.0001% understanding of how much this mean to you (which is still quite a bit) and I'm so glad you chose to share your initial impressions to opening this kit with the world. It certainly speaks volumes and I look forward to seeing your progress building/painting Bruce.
We are all so fortunate to be allowed to share in this honest and heartfelt reaction!!! Thank you for sharing your passions and stories with us. I love this video!! Congratulations on the ultimate addition to your collection!! Can't wait to see the rest!!
Hey man! It’s 4:22 in the morning as of right now and I just couldn’t help but to see what you thought of this Bruce model. I really enjoyed your “review” here on it, and may even consider buying one myself. I’m not only commenting to say I appreciate your video and your review, although I did really enjoy it. But i’m commenting to say that your words really moved me. I don’t remember the first time I watched Jaws unfortunately, but it had to of been when I was pretty dang young like a baby or something. I’ll try not to tell you my whole life story, but I was raised by my grandparents. My Grandfather to be specific, was the one Who first introduced me to Jaws at least, as early as I can remember watching it. And him and I just had this bond that I will never forget. We talked about Jurassic Park a lot and all of the little mistakes in the first film and also how great it was. We talked about the Titanic a lot, both the movie and the real events, more so the real events and i just remember studying every little thing about all of these things and more. I would just always ask him so many questions. I always begged to get Jurassic Park toys because they were always online but never in the stores until the newer movies started to come out. I always looked for Jaws related items as well but could never find anything. He eventually bought a Titanic model kit to paint and glue together, two to be specific. One of them was just a little wooden model to be glued together and painted while the other was a bigger complex model that needed much more haha. We had one of those train set tables too with an entire little town and trains running everywhere. I was obsessed with all of these things and more, and my grandfather was my best friend through it all! Nothing was more talked about though than Jaws. He would watch it with me every time I wanted to watch it and there was always something new to talk about involving it every time. New questions to ask every time. I would always find myself drawing it, making clay models out of the shark, acting like I was giving a boat tour from the Jaws ride in my room with my friends and so much more. I could probably hear any two seconds of the first film and say, yep that’s my favorite movie, that’s Jaws! I studied the movie so much now and I still am hooked to all of the things from my upbringing and Jaws is no exception! Unfortunately, my grandpa passed away in 2013. So that bigger Titanic model we were supposed to build together never got made, and I lost all of the pieces. I don’t watch Jaws as much anymore and get somewhat emotional when I do now. But I still do and always will find it to be a delightful and fun seafaring adventure between three men and a killer shark:) Jaws is my favorite film and probably always will be. I would also like to mention, I know there has been a small Jaws experience on the studio tour at Universal Studios Hollywood, and I love that and everything else Jaws related. But have you ever felt really close to something, really involved with something, really nostalgic about something, really attached to something, that you’ve never even actually even experienced before in reality? Well that’s how I feel about the Jaws attraction that used to reside in Universal Studios Orlando. I’ve always felt as though the Jaws ride itself doesn’t get enough love and appreciation/ attention in the Jaws community. when Universal announced that they were ripping the Amity/ Jaws area out of Universal to replace it with something else, I had got the news over the phone from a relative who had been living in Florida at the time. The news shook young me down to my core and I just ran and hid under a table in my Grandparents bedroom crying for a while haha. I used to give Jaws ride tours in my room to my friends and even made a Jaws ride book alongside my titanic book that I had made. I found them a few years later and tried to sell them at a yard sale and a lady actually bought them! However I found one of the books again I believe later on which means she either forgot one or both of them. I wish i still had those books now. I honestly probably cherish the ride and the former Amity area of that park just as much as the movie itself if i’m being honest! The history of the USO Jaws attraction and the many stories surrounding it like the movie itself and community around the ride itself too and more are what make it so interesting and unique/ exciting! I never got to experience the ride for myself so when it was removed it felt like a part of me was being removed too, even at that age. To this day I feel the same way, so I have been working on a new project. You may know of this popular video game called Fortnite. Now the game has been out and very popular for a couple of years now and it started out as a “save the world from zombies” sort of game, and then was later more known as a “battle royal” game by most people. However, a creative mode has been released into the game where players can create whatever they please with only a few exceptions. Family friendly, and no copyrighted property. Creative mode has gotten more popular nowadays and has gotten more advanced as well. So with Fortnite/ creative or “UEFN” being as popular as it is and with the possibilities within the engine, I am attempting to digitally recreate the former Jaws attraction as well as the Amity area of Universal as accurately as I possibly can. I even went as far as recreating the hanging Jaws statue photo op in front of the ride, as well as all of the ride animatronic sharks out of clay and 3D scanning them with my phone into my computer for the project since i’m not yet experienced enough to make 3D models in blender haha. I see this as a huge opportunity to bring Jaws to a new generation and younger audience all together all while allowing the ride to live on once again hopefully this time for good. I can’t do this of course without Universal’s permission and I have tried contacting the park which just ended up with them sending me a link to a site where I guess you go to ask to use Universal properties. I have tried to contact Universal a couple of times now over the course of year or so now to no avail. But hopefully soon I can figure something out! I have high hopes and I think it is important to keep those high hopes! But yeah man, i’m sorry to ramble on and on. I need to stop typing now or i’ll never stop, I could be typing all day haha. I just want you to know that you ARE a GREAT content creator on this platform, and I really appreciate your love for this wonderful film and community and your story was so touching and inspiring! I don’t believe i’ve heard anyone as passionate as you about this ol shark tale:) So thank you so much for the video! Thank you for your time! And thank you for being Jawsome! I’m really looking forward to the completion of your Bruce! It is looking amazing as of your most recent video! Much love and take care, Thank You!♥️🦈
Wow. I am speechless. I mean....(trying to think what to say to this amazing comment...)...first off, thank you for saying I am a great content maker. I am just a regular guy, with no ambitions of being a big content creator, but I just want to share what I love, and love to do, with others that might feel the same. And sometimes share cool figures and how to improve on them! lol! I have had a wild and varied life. I have done things that my little boy self would have never believed I would be free to do (like hold the original 1933 King Kong!) I have learned a lot of hard lessons. I have made some mighty mistakes. Mighty. I won't rehash all that, but know, that I really do care about the stuff I am interested in, and I do love sharing it. There is WAY too much cynicism in this world today, and I am trying to add to the fun part, the joy of life. Meeting the joy of my life, my beloved wife Bonnie is a top, top one! Therefore, I do not complain, or show my anger at stuff, (not anymore at any rate! lol!) there are way too many that do that for me and others here on TH-cam. They are free to voice their opinions, and I even enjoy some of them. But, I am about JOY. There is way too little of it left today. I find joy in remembering my experience of Jaws. The phone calls to Robert Mattey. The trip to L.A. in 2006 and seeing where the sharks were actually made, and the fiberglass casting, then in a junkyard, baking in the sun, unappreciated, and now, in a major museum being remembered and beloved by thousands all over again! Bruce the shark was the big thing for me when I was 14 years old, and Jaws has always been very special to me. This model project, which I am almost finished with, has been one of the most special times of my life. It is not a shark I bought from someone else, finished and good to go. Those are GREAT for those who cannot make their own. I have wanted to sculpt him myself, but am not sure I could. It took a special model, this one, sculpted in 3D by David Stann, which I found BY CHANCE one afternoon recently. It took this model to break the code for me. I snagged it, and now, I can make him my own. At last! it may not be perfect...nothing ever is. But I am SO happy with this one! This token of JOY for my favorite movie, crafted at last! And I appreciate your very kind words! I love your story. I never had a living grandfather to share anything with. Both of mine died way before I was born. Grandfathers are sort of a mythical being to me. Your's is and was a treasure it seems to me, and that he shared JAWS with you...well...you had something I never did, or ever will. Relish that great time! Don't let it get you down that he passed. He knows! He is watching! I even have an old Titanic model I have never built! 350 scale, big ole thing, nearly three feet long. It may be the same one! If you want it, it's your's! I would be happy to send it to you, with the promise that you would build it for you and your grandfather! Dedicate it to him! Make it a finished thing! Don't be afraid! It took me nearly 50 years to get my version of a Bruce! 50! And there were plenty of Bruce figures and sculpts out there believe me! You can finish the Titanic, AND, get David Stann's Bruce shark and have a ball making him your own! I am not paid to push the Stannarts shark. I am not a commercial. I do not represent him at all. But, he is an excellent artist, and if you want an available, affordable and very accurate representation of THE shark, then this is the kit! So, think about it, and make the move! Well, now I have gone on. Let me finish with this.... I love JAWS. It will probably always be my favorite movie, and I love that ugly old, misbehavin' shark! He is my favorite movie effect/prop/thing out there, and always will be! And this has been a labor of love. It's funny how much more you get out of life with LOVE as a core of the process. Happy, sappy, love. Thank you for being yourself, and sharing. May you and your's be blessed! Les 😁
@@LesWalker2023 Man.. Thank you for replying to my comment! I’d say i’m jealous you got to experience all of that, but i’m honestly just really happy for ya man! A lot of people feel as though achieving happiness is just impossible or too hard, but it’s really not!! You just need to appreciate all of the little things and know that you can always be happy and find joy in every little thing you just can’t keep that one way mindset that i myself have been stuck in for a while even still sometimes but it’s not impossible to break out if that! And again, thank you for commenting back and thank you for the video/ videos themselves and your stories, very inspiring! Never stop having that joyful mindset! Thank you man, for everything! And honestly i’d feel bad taking that Titanic off your hands lol. I honestly wouldn’t mind you making a little mini series building it up!
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I meant to ask in the video, WHAT'S YOUR GRAIL? Is there one cool hobby item or thing you have wanted for years that maybe is in reach? What might it be? Share it here! And thanks for watching! 😁
For my collection, I've always wanted a perfect figure, model or other representation of the "Audrey II" from the 1986 film version of "Little Shop of Horrors" . I can't believe that no one has picked up that license for figures other than Funko pops, and they don't count! Come on Neca or Super7!! I want all four versions of the plant from the film!! "Feed Me Seymour!!"
Les, thank you so very much for sharing this wonderful story with everyone! We're touched that this kit means so much to you and we can't wait to see your work on it! Enjoy!🙂
Wow! Thanks, Laura! You guys have created something special here! And I for one will do my part to make mine the very best I can! I LOVE THIS THING! I think I'm gonna need some bigger brushes! ...er something! 🥰👍
That is friggin' AWESOME Les! I have about a 0.0001% understanding of how much this mean to you (which is still quite a bit) and I'm so glad you chose to share your initial impressions to opening this kit with the world. It certainly speaks volumes and I look forward to seeing your progress building/painting Bruce.
If you know, you know!!
Thanks Bill. I am quite honored by your comment! This one goes too far back! lol!
We are all so fortunate to be allowed to share in this honest and heartfelt reaction!!! Thank you for sharing your passions and stories with us. I love this video!!
Congratulations on the ultimate addition to your collection!! Can't wait to see the rest!!
Thanks, Brother!
Hey man! It’s 4:22 in the morning as of right now and I just couldn’t help but to see what you thought of this Bruce model. I really enjoyed your “review” here on it, and may even consider buying one myself. I’m not only commenting to say I appreciate your video and your review, although I did really enjoy it. But i’m commenting to say that your words really moved me. I don’t remember the first time I watched Jaws unfortunately, but it had to of been when I was pretty dang young like a baby or something. I’ll try not to tell you my whole life story, but I was raised by my grandparents. My Grandfather to be specific, was the one Who first introduced me to Jaws at least, as early as I can remember watching it. And him and I just had this bond that I will never forget. We talked about Jurassic Park a lot and all of the little mistakes in the first film and also how great it was. We talked about the Titanic a lot, both the movie and the real events, more so the real events and i just remember studying every little thing about all of these things and more. I would just always ask him so many questions. I always begged to get Jurassic Park toys because they were always online but never in the stores until the newer movies started to come out. I always looked for Jaws related items as well but could never find anything. He eventually bought a Titanic model kit to paint and glue together, two to be specific. One of them was just a little wooden model to be glued together and painted while the other was a bigger complex model that needed much more haha. We had one of those train set tables too with an entire little town and trains running everywhere. I was obsessed with all of these things and more, and my grandfather was my best friend through it all! Nothing was more talked about though than Jaws. He would watch it with me every time I wanted to watch it and there was always something new to talk about involving it every time. New questions to ask every time. I would always find myself drawing it, making clay models out of the shark, acting like I was giving a boat tour from the Jaws ride in my room with my friends and so much more. I could probably hear any two seconds of the first film and say, yep that’s my favorite movie, that’s Jaws! I studied the movie so much now and I still am hooked to all of the things from my upbringing and Jaws is no exception! Unfortunately, my grandpa passed away in 2013. So that bigger Titanic model we were supposed to build together never got made, and I lost all of the pieces. I don’t watch Jaws as much anymore and get somewhat emotional when I do now. But I still do and always will find it to be a delightful and fun seafaring adventure between three men and a killer shark:) Jaws is my favorite film and probably always will be. I would also like to mention, I know there has been a small Jaws experience on the studio tour at Universal Studios Hollywood, and I love that and everything else Jaws related. But have you ever felt really close to something, really involved with something, really nostalgic about something, really attached to something, that you’ve never even actually even experienced before in reality? Well that’s how I feel about the Jaws attraction that used to reside in Universal Studios Orlando. I’ve always felt as though the Jaws ride itself doesn’t get enough love and appreciation/ attention in the Jaws community. when Universal announced that they were ripping the Amity/ Jaws area out of Universal to replace it with something else, I had got the news over the phone from a relative who had been living in Florida at the time. The news shook young me down to my core and I just ran and hid under a table in my Grandparents bedroom crying for a while haha. I used to give Jaws ride tours in my room to my friends and even made a Jaws ride book alongside my titanic book that I had made. I found them a few years later and tried to sell them at a yard sale and a lady actually bought them! However I found one of the books again I believe later on which means she either forgot one or both of them. I wish i still had those books now. I honestly probably cherish the ride and the former Amity area of that park just as much as the movie itself if i’m being honest! The history of the USO Jaws attraction and the many stories surrounding it like the movie itself and community around the ride itself too and more are what make it so interesting and unique/ exciting! I never got to experience the ride for myself so when it was removed it felt like a part of me was being removed too, even at that age. To this day I feel the same way, so I have been working on a new project. You may know of this popular video game called Fortnite. Now the game has been out and very popular for a couple of years now and it started out as a “save the world from zombies” sort of game, and then was later more known as a “battle royal” game by most people. However, a creative mode has been released into the game where players can create whatever they please with only a few exceptions. Family friendly, and no copyrighted property. Creative mode has gotten more popular nowadays and has gotten more advanced as well. So with Fortnite/ creative or “UEFN” being as popular as it is and with the possibilities within the engine, I am attempting to digitally recreate the former Jaws attraction as well as the Amity area of Universal as accurately as I possibly can. I even went as far as recreating the hanging Jaws statue photo op in front of the ride, as well as all of the ride animatronic sharks out of clay and 3D scanning them with my phone into my computer for the project since i’m not yet experienced enough to make 3D models in blender haha. I see this as a huge opportunity to bring Jaws to a new generation and younger audience all together all while allowing the ride to live on once again hopefully this time for good. I can’t do this of course without Universal’s permission and I have tried contacting the park which just ended up with them sending me a link to a site where I guess you go to ask to use Universal properties. I have tried to contact Universal a couple of times now over the course of year or so now to no avail. But hopefully soon I can figure something out! I have high hopes and I think it is important to keep those high hopes! But yeah man, i’m sorry to ramble on and on. I need to stop typing now or i’ll never stop, I could be typing all day haha. I just want you to know that you ARE a GREAT content creator on this platform, and I really appreciate your love for this wonderful film and community and your story was so touching and inspiring! I don’t believe i’ve heard anyone as passionate as you about this ol shark tale:) So thank you so much for the video! Thank you for your time! And thank you for being Jawsome! I’m really looking forward to the completion of your Bruce! It is looking amazing as of your most recent video! Much love and take care, Thank You!♥️🦈
Wow. I am speechless. I mean....(trying to think what to say to this amazing comment...)...first off, thank you for saying I am a great content maker. I am just a regular guy, with no ambitions of being a big content creator, but I just want to share what I love, and love to do, with others that might feel the same. And sometimes share cool figures and how to improve on them! lol!
I have had a wild and varied life. I have done things that my little boy self would have never believed I would be free to do (like hold the original 1933 King Kong!) I have learned a lot of hard lessons. I have made some mighty mistakes. Mighty. I won't rehash all that, but know, that I really do care about the stuff I am interested in, and I do love sharing it. There is WAY too much cynicism in this world today, and I am trying to add to the fun part, the joy of life. Meeting the joy of my life, my beloved wife Bonnie is a top, top one!
Therefore, I do not complain, or show my anger at stuff, (not anymore at any rate! lol!) there are way too many that do that for me and others here on TH-cam. They are free to voice their opinions, and I even enjoy some of them. But, I am about JOY. There is way too little of it left today.
I find joy in remembering my experience of Jaws. The phone calls to Robert Mattey. The trip to L.A. in 2006 and seeing where the sharks were actually made, and the fiberglass casting, then in a junkyard, baking in the sun, unappreciated, and now, in a major museum being remembered and beloved by thousands all over again! Bruce the shark was the big thing for me when I was 14 years old, and Jaws has always been very special to me.
This model project, which I am almost finished with, has been one of the most special times of my life. It is not a shark I bought from someone else, finished and good to go. Those are GREAT for those who cannot make their own. I have wanted to sculpt him myself, but am not sure I could. It took a special model, this one, sculpted in 3D by David Stann, which I found BY CHANCE one afternoon recently. It took this model to break the code for me. I snagged it, and now, I can make him my own. At last!
it may not be perfect...nothing ever is. But I am SO happy with this one! This token of JOY for my favorite movie, crafted at last! And I appreciate your very kind words! I love your story. I never had a living grandfather to share anything with. Both of mine died way before I was born. Grandfathers are sort of a mythical being to me. Your's is and was a treasure it seems to me, and that he shared JAWS with you...well...you had something I never did, or ever will. Relish that great time! Don't let it get you down that he passed. He knows! He is watching!
I even have an old Titanic model I have never built! 350 scale, big ole thing, nearly three feet long. It may be the same one! If you want it, it's your's! I would be happy to send it to you, with the promise that you would build it for you and your grandfather! Dedicate it to him! Make it a finished thing! Don't be afraid! It took me nearly 50 years to get my version of a Bruce! 50! And there were plenty of Bruce figures and sculpts out there believe me! You can finish the Titanic, AND, get David Stann's Bruce shark and have a ball making him your own!
I am not paid to push the Stannarts shark. I am not a commercial. I do not represent him at all. But, he is an excellent artist, and if you want an available, affordable and very accurate representation of THE shark, then this is the kit! So, think about it, and make the move!
Well, now I have gone on.
Let me finish with this....
I love JAWS. It will probably always be my favorite movie, and I love that ugly old, misbehavin' shark! He is my favorite movie effect/prop/thing out there, and always will be!
And this has been a labor of love. It's funny how much more you get out of life with LOVE as a core of the process.
Happy, sappy, love.
Thank you for being yourself, and sharing. May you and your's be blessed!
Les 😁
@@LesWalker2023 Man.. Thank you for replying to my comment! I’d say i’m jealous you got to experience all of that, but i’m honestly just really happy for ya man! A lot of people feel as though achieving happiness is just impossible or too hard, but it’s really not!! You just need to appreciate all of the little things and know that you can always be happy and find joy in every little thing you just can’t keep that one way mindset that i myself have been stuck in for a while even still sometimes but it’s not impossible to break out if that! And again, thank you for commenting back and thank you for the video/ videos themselves and your stories, very inspiring! Never stop having that joyful mindset! Thank you man, for everything! And honestly i’d feel bad taking that Titanic off your hands lol. I honestly wouldn’t mind you making a little mini series building it up!
Absolutely awesome!!!!
Thanks, bro! Just wait! This will be the paint job of my life! I cannot wait! Going through reference pics now!
CONGRATS!!!! GLAD YOU FINALLY GOT IT!!!!
I get your emotion. Wonderful! :)
Thanks. I pretty much put my heart into this one!
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