You'd think we'd have the sharks used in the filming of Jaws--collectively nicknamed "Bruce"--strung up at Universal Studios theme parks, yet you won't find any of the original props available for tourists to line up and comically stick their heads in the mouth for cameras. The notoriously burdensome shark models--three in total--were well-known to be destroyed shortly after production, but that didn't stop NPR's Cory Turner from going on his own personal hunt for the mechanical beasts, and you might be surprised by what he found. Unless you read the title I posted and deduced that he finds a secret, final shark no one knew about. Now if only we could find that extra Roy Scheider they built for production, we could finally get to work on a SeaQuest movie.
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