I'll drink to your LEGO - LEGO JAWS to become a reality
This was not a brick building accident! It's official that a JAWS LEGO set - complete with great white shark, Orca and mini-Quint, Brody and Hooper - is set to finally surface thanks to LEGO Ideas.
The fin-tastic prototype has made fans of the classic shark film jaws drop after the results for 2022’s third LEGO Ideas Review were announced, confirming JAWS will become an official LEGO set.
That means that the set – made up of some 1,860 pieces - is now formally in the design process, after it was selected from 35 sets that all gained 10,000 supporters, for that you get the Orca, its crew and the whole damn shark in the iconic mini-bricks.
It really has been a miracle of LEGO evolution and has only been made possible thanks to Fan Designer Jonny Campbell (aka Diving Faces), from Northern Ireland.
The LEGO blog said: “Jonny has managed to capture so many of the details that make the movie so iconic. It all perfectly captures the thrilling and suspenseful atmosphere of the classic blockbuster movie. It's no wonder that this project gathered so much attention and support on LEGO Ideas.”
What was initially a fan-made set by Campbell will now become a bonafide LEGO set where we can be like JAWS production designer legend Joe Alves and make like we are on Martha's Vineyard circa 1974 and build our very own Bruce the shark and Orca from scratch.
Campbell is a self-confessed JAWS fan and counts the Steven Spielberg shark film as his favourite film of all time, which inspired what will surely become most people's LEGO set of all time!
Dean Newman, Head of Content for The Daily Jaws, the world’s number one JAWS fan-site, said: “His design and attention to detail is simply amazing, to paraphrase Matt Hooper, those proportions are correct and no doubt we are all going to need to a bigger shelf so it can take pride of place as a part of our JAWS collections.”
And as we swim towards the 50th anniversary of the release of JAWS on the big screen in the summer of 1975 in the US (the UK had to wait until Boxing Day 1975), arguably it has never been a more exciting time to be a fan of the shark film that started it all.
Jonny – who has been a huge LEGO fan since he was a very young age - explained to the LEGO Ideas blog in a 10K Club Interview how he was able to create such an amazing rendition of Quint’s boat, the Orca, in such loving detail.
He said: “I re-watched JAWS several times, pausing at various stages, to get as many angles of the boat and as much detail as possible. I also looked at loads of pictures of JAWS the animatronic shark to try and capture him as closely as possible too (even including his hinged jaw).”
Campbell took a few days to build the model digitally, then a day or so to put it together, which we think is not a bad record for this vicinity. And the finished piece? As Quint would say, “Incredible.”
No word on when LEGO JAWS will set sail into Amity Hardware and all other good stores, but we’ll be poised like Chief Brody on the beach waiting for that LEGO dorsal fin to break the surface.
Words by Dean Newman
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