Installing Bruce the Shark | Academy Museum

Behind the scenes footage of Bruce the Shark being installed at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Face Bruce on Wilshire & Fairfax at the Academy Museum.
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[@tiagomazzotti9640]

Jaw fans will highly appreciate this masterpiece.

[@diegofavaratozfilms962]

Jaws you mean

[@crocketgsxr6]

Made from the original mold for the Mechanical Jaws props to hang at universal studios theme park, then sent to a junk yard and saved by the own who hung it there for decades, then given to Greg Nicotero who refurbished it and finally gave it to the Museum. Bruce Has a true riches to rags to riches story.

[@auggdogrules]

we're going to need a bigger museum...

[@sirentrap5621]

…thats a 20 footer…

[@AngryMutGuy]

@@sirentrap5621 25...3 tons of him

[@JoshuaModerwell]

I wish the Jaws ride was still operational at Universal Studios Florida to this day with the animatronic shark rebuilt to look like that instead of having it replaced by The Wizarding World of Harry Potter - Diagon Alley/London.

[@malibustacy3606]

In 1975 Time magazine had a one page article about the movie Jaws and the mechanical sharks used in the film were a large part of that, mostly to complain about the continuous mechanical difficulty they had with them. There were 3 of them, and they ran on compressed air, one of them turned right, one of them turned left and I don't recall what the third one did, one thing was for sure though, they were a mechanical nightmare continuously breaking down.

[@chrisquinlan6527]

When I first saw this guy hanging in a junkyard in an E! True Hollywood Story special, I kind of had fantasies about sneaking this guy home and keeping him. lol Having this important movie prop be restored and put in a place that will care for it and keep it in good shape is good enough for me. :)

[@privateeye6942]

Although it's an impressive restoration i think it would have been much better to match the colour of the shark in the film together with blood on teeth etc. Create a photo shoot opportunity for guests. I don't think it looks good suspended in the air like that but I'm sure it was very costly to install. It's movie fans who are going to want to go and see it so they'd all much prefer a photo opportunity with the shark coming out the water onto the side of the Orka? The shark looks too clean and pretty colours now.

[@robbillington1982]

Yeah his teeth are yellow and the gums aren’t red enough

[@lrose1046]

yeah i agree...it personally looks dull to me.

[@TheJurassicSquadYT]

Like the Delorean Time Machine,Bruce Has A Better Home

[@nevg21]

Awesome! Love it!

[@linuskarlsson9449]

When do you open and does the museum have anything more from the Jaws movie?? 🤗💕🎥💯

[@academymuseum]

You'll just have to see on September 30, 2021!

[@monsterleather9621]

❤❤❤

[@fay-amieaspen6046]

Static radio sound " The Shark Is In The Museum " (repeat).

[@nicholasdickens2801]

Wow!

[@rudyboucher2071]

RIP Robert Shaw. He would have loved this.

[@sirentrap5621]

roy scheider and Richard dreyfuss would too rip to them too

[@AngryMutGuy]

@@sirentrap5621 Richard Dreyfus is still alive.

[@Isabeau8394]

OMG! ITS BRUCE... RUN FOR THE HILLS.. LOL.. 😂

[@sspdirect02]

Rightfully put where it belong.

[@Jetstream830]

Yay

[@tomtalker2000]

Can you imagine if their are actual White Sharks this big swimming around. Scary thought folks.

[@fay-amieaspen6046]

There are

[@roquefortfiles]

The yellowed teeth are a mistake. White sharks have ultra white teeth.

[@JoshuaModerwell]

Thank God there aren't any great white sharks like that roaming the ocean.

[@Vor_Tex_Sun]

Well who knows..

[@JoshuaModerwell]

@@Vor_Tex_Sun If there even was such a creature, I'd be absolutely terrified to go back into the ocean.

[@robert-brydson-1]

it's a replica

[@michaeljordan6008]

Doesn’t look like the shark from Jaws. The Jaws are “off.” It might be the color too.

[@chrisquinlan6527]

Yup. It's from the original mold that the real movie props were made from, though. Those props no longer exist, and this is the closest we will get. It was also touched up and redone by Greg Nicotero, who gave it a brand new paint job and such, so it might look slightly different than how it originally did.

[@simonmasson3925]

@@chrisquinlan6527 why do they always do that? We want it to look the way it did in the film.