Jaws design maquette for the attraction at Universal Studios Orlando. ...

Description

Jaws design maquette for the attraction at Universal Studios Orlando. (ca. 1990 - 2012) Due to the great popularity of the Jaws attraction at Universal Studios tours in Hollywood, California the Orlando, Florida park followed suit with their own Jaws attraction. This is a design maquette, studio-created and used for reference in the design and construction of the Orlando attraction. Consisting of a 24 x 8 in. resin casting of a great white shark model, polyfoam-filled and painted in realistic sharkskin grays and white with red mouth and white rows of teeth. The ill-fated show lasted until 2012 and was plagued all throughout its run with an animatronic shark that malfunctioned daily. Exhibiting signs of cracking from age and some broken teeth. Comes on a tan wooden dowel and 18 x 7.5 oval wooden base. In overall, vintage fair to good condition.

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