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Win Sideshow's awesome JAWS maquette here!!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. If I only ever gave one thing away on this site, this would be it. Anybody can tell I have a love of the film JAWS. I inject that film into almost every conversation and even took my handle from Robert Shaw's character (not from MALLRATS, as some believe). Low and behold the good folks at Sideshow have put out a beautiful maquette of Bruce the Shark from Steven Spielberg's masterpiece (okay, one of his masterpieces) JAWS.
Beauty, isn't it? While not quite 25 feet long or weighing 3 tons this piece still looks massive. Measuring 28" nose to tail, 16" wide and almost 15" from base to top of the dorsal fin, this is sure to be a huge eye-catcher. Plus it retails at nearly $300. Once again the good folks at Sideshow have allowed us here at AICN to give away one of these beautiful babies to one of you guys out there.
The one they're giving will have a black base, but otherwise just as it is in these pics.
I've been running lots of arts-centric contests recently and I toyed with asking you folks to paint or sculpt a scene from Jaws to win this guy, but in the end I decided that wasn't such a good idea. Too much work and I want to include a broader range of our readership who, like, me can't even draw a stick figure or create anything but a misshapen ball out of clay. So, I thought... WWQD... what would Quint do? Why, he'd want to compare scars, of course.
So, what I want from you are pictures of your own scars from any part of your body and a short (I mean under 150 words) story about where and how you got that scar. I want these pics emailed to aicnquint@yahoo.com with the subject line LET'S DRINK TO OUR LEGS. Don't forget to include your mailing address. I'd like the photos to be jpgs and under 150k. If you want to include multiple angles, go for it. And please keep these pics real. If I have any doubt of their validity I could chuck 'em, so don't try to fake me out!
I'm going to pick my favorite. The more insane the story or the more gnarly the scar the better chance that disfigured individual will have a purty giant shark to show off. Sideshow has some terms and conditions below. All that applies as does the fact that as judge of this contest my decision on the winner is final.
Please Note
Sideshow Collectibles is offering a limited edition prize for this contest that is not yet available in our warehouses. Please be aware that your prize will not be shipped to you at the close of the contest, but rather when the figure is available. The Jaws Maquette is estimated, but not guaranteed, to arrive in our warehouse in September 2006. Please allow 4-6 weeks after arrival into our warehouse for final delivery of the prize.
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All taxes are the responsibility of the winner. All prizes are non-transferable, with no cash redemptions and/or substitutions except at Sponsor's sole discretion. All international winners will be responsible for any duties, tariffs, taxes or import fees assessed to their prize. Further some countries outside of the U.S. do not have reliable mail services. In the event that a prize has been stolen or mishandled during shipment to an international destination, Sideshow may not be able to replace the specific item and will substitute a prize at its own discretion. If the winner prefers a specific quicker shipping method, they are responsible to notify us immediately and will also be responsible to cover the additional costs if any.
This contest runs from now until July 25th (11:59pm CST). Get your scars to me! Good luck!!!
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Beautiful work on that. Love the pink stains on the mouth.
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Sadly, the worst scars I have are from a crazed feline. Will still enjoy drinking to yer legs...
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Just like everything else from Sideshow, it's overpriced junk
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My worst scar is a Harrison Ford-esque scratch on my chin when I got into a tear-up with a kid from school (22 years ago..).
Next time, please make the criteria something like the following:
"To enter, you have to be just shy of 6ft tall, have a skinhead, a winning smile and devilish good looks, a Cary Grant-esque air and a panache of week beer. As well as answering to the name 'Equalizer' and living in Surrey, England."
Can I claim a free t-shirt? -
..a complete lack of a grasp of the English language!!
"and a panache of week beer"??
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Oh, I see how it is. I don't have any scars. I look both ways when I cross the street, cross my i's and dot my t's.
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The scar-comparing is a MUST for this give-away. I have a scar of the time I used a chisel for some wood-cutting and it ended up between my thumb & index-finger. Not nearly enough umph to win the shark, right?
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This thing is called JAWS, not "real shark." I'll always worship the ground Sideshow drips on, but this shark is no JAWS by a long shot. J.M. Prater
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If so, prepare for a picture of my ass!
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$300? That's ridiculous
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We'll put "Jaws" on the bottom and the suckers will eat it right up...for $300 a pop.
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hmm, the gash on my hand where i got it caught in a tractor's fan blade at age 5 is hard to see these days. same thing where i lopped off a hunk of my thumb chopping potatoes in the boy scouts. maybe the scars on my knee where i learned that post surgical stiches just can't compete with rough sex. no, i think i know which one i'll use. jeez, i'm a damn walking accident and its about time someone gave me a model shark for my trouble.
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Wish I had a good scar.
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I got a nice little scar on the back of my head where Mike James kicked me while wearing football cleats. That son of a bitch.
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Three throwing stars converged at just the right time and just the right place thrown by three different people and culminated in a set of scars on my face that branded the perfect scar for this contest. Sadly, it was just a Halloween costume, so I don't think it would qualify for an entry in this contest. Then there was this time I had a hand coming out of my face. oh, the stories I could tell...
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Does it grant wishes or something? I bought one of these when I was a kid at a Cracker Barrel gift shop for 99 cents. It's made of rubber and squeaks when you squeeze it, but it's the same damn thing.
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although smaller.
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i just did it so wish me luck
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You know I get the feeling this is a bad idea for a contest because you know some idiots gonna want to win so bad he's gonna go out and keep putting cuts into his body till he dies from bleeding to death. LONG LIVE POORLY THOUGHT OUT CONTEST.
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I'll submit my before and after photos. What a piece of sh!t
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Just askin'
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Jul 06, 2006 11:58:29 AM CDT
Meh... I love weta stuff. Own some. This is don't look
by silentbobafett2
right! It looks unterrifying and qoute plain and simply. the stand is all wrong. The McFarlane one with the baot and jaws eating Quint (the real one!) was the best Jaws model. WHich, of course, I own! :-)
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This is gonna be one gross contest if quint is gonna post pics of the gnarliest. i don't have any, but hey good luck to those who do. Now I wonder How many will self inflict their wounds just to win this thing, or post pics from around the web. Really you can get some of the gruesomest scars from just about anywhere on the net.
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I imagine a lot of appendicitis operation scars will be photographed.
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this one looks kind of like that.
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Is "maquette" French for "looks like shit"?
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And that someone is going to sue AICN.
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the person who wins this thing better have a gnarly scar from a shark attack. otherwise this whole hoopla is lame
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what's the name of that young chick surfer who had her arm bitten off by a shark? i wonder if she reads AICN, she'd be the runaway winner...
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Jul 06, 2006 2:16:09 PM CDT
Gonna strap some sirloins to my legs and goto the beach
by george newman
I'll win that statue for sure!!!
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I did this while working on a friends house. Pierced the split-calf gloves I was wearing. Went to an Urgi-Care and jokingly asked if they had a claw-hammer to remove it. They turned me away, so I ended up going to an emergency room where the doc told me it was cheaper if he didn't use anesthetic. I told him to go for it, and he pulled it out with a pair of pliers and wrapped my hand in iodine. But you can't even see the scars. He told me I got the "Gutsy of the Year Award."
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i picked a fight with a lawnmower and lost...i'm walking around with 7.5 toes now. don't you worry, i've already sent my scar pictures in to Quint...
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Thats right...Harry is hoping some little girls and boys take there shirts and pants off showing their scars and flat chests..and Harry is going to get off on it. The showing of the scars is just a aliby... Harry was just looking for a way to get child porn on his computer..and not get busted by the law..Claiming its for a "CONTEST". Harry knows that little kids will do anything to get this shark toy. He knows they will get naked infront of the camera for him. This whole thing is sick. I cant believe he is going to get away with this.
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The mouth is too small.
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Sideshow partnered with Weta to release Weta's LoTR line, but Weta Collectibles is a diffrent company than Sideshow. But I think the shark looks awesome. A lot of times these things don't look as good in pictures as they do sitting on your desktop, but even in the pics, that shark looks pretty cool. I love the water base.
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George Lucas scarred my childhood... he didn't quite "rape"it. I saw him unzipping and ran for the window BUT he DID manage to swipe me with his "lazer-sword" and almost used his throat pouch thing to suck me into a vortex created by his lawyers. Unfortunately i'm not sure it's enough to win the fish-on-a-stick. :o(
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whats that sticking out its ass?
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Seriously.
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I think we're going to need a bigger bank account. with disposable income literally shooting out my ass in a gyser of blood, shit, and cash, before I consider paying that much goddamned money for a hunk of plastic mass produced in some starving backwater.
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Yeah that sure as hell is not Bruce. So I think the got a picture of Jaws 3D trapped in Sea World Orlando..And they are coping the Jaws from the scene when Jaws breaks the glass and floods the contol room. A 3D effect so amazing..it is still being talked about today.
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Not that fag that just got an account and changed one letter in the name. Anyway, my wife, family and friends all make fun of me becuase I make it a point to watch Jaws at least once a week. It is, in my opinion, the greatest movie ever made. And I too, talk about it quite a bit. My wife bought this for me for my birthday (2 months ago) and I'm not expected to get it, according to sideshow, until around November..... I can't wait. I am having a shelf put up in my office special just for Bruce.. Wow, I just realized what a total geek I am......
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HOW ABOUT IT?!?! I'm so sick of these companies putting this stuff out. Especially the limited edition 'weapons replicas'. Like a lightsaber handle, a Star Trek phaser, Han Solo's blaster, or an Uruk Hai sword, whatever the hell it may be. They sell this shit for inordinate amounts of money and somebody must be buying it, cause they never stop putting it out. When we were kids, you could get this stuff as actual toys. It wasn't pussified either. I remember having a replica M16 from the 'Rambo Pack' and the thing looked a tad too real, even for back then. And I know it didn't cost more than 30 or 40 bucks. Probably a lot less then that, actually. Today, it'd be a miniature Rambo machine gun and machete on a little miniature stand made out of blow dried porcelain metallic alloys that are powder coated with nature's blackest liquified gorilla fur, or some made up shit about the composition of the materials, and then they'd stick it in a cheap plastic case and sell it for 300 bucks. It's a fucking joke. Am I buying a Reggie Jackson signed baseball, circa 1976? The only things I do like are those marvel statues cause they really have weight to them and they limit them enough so that they gain in value. I bought a few of them a few years ago and I'm looking on ebay and they're now going for like 5 times as much. Not a bad investment. Anyway, I also like the McFarlane stuff cause there's a fair amount of detail and it's not outrageously priced. They're nice enough that if you have like a beach themed room or something, you can throw THEIR Jaws piece in there as a little knick-knack or conversation piece and it's costing you a lot less than 300 bucks. Looks better too. Or if you have a home theater, throw a glass case on the wall and fill it with the movie maniacs figures. This sideshow stuff is just bullshit. That's all I'm saying...
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but when they're right, they're right. The maquette is underwhelming. They couldn't have comissioned a more active pose?
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... But that looks like something straight out of "The 40 Year Old Virgin." Except not as cool.
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garbage on display in your house then you're an idiot. This is trash. Might as well decorate your house like an 80's captain D's.
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Unfortunately my only scar is a paper cut...(gained when I was attacked by a crazed illustrator wielding a picture of a knife)
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Maybe the elderly could use it to store their dentures overnight?
What about a sex toy for the Masochistic?
Or even a novelty cigar cutter?
Even a gadget for crimping the edges of your pastry?
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it's a toy shark.
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...Is that I bet all the fucktards who are ripping this, already own it. It's called "deflection". Most of the wasted DNA on this site do it all the time by bashing queers, bringing to light you ALL smoke the cock and live in your parent's basements. I bet you are posting from Mom's computer that she uses for email and watching toilet bowl vidcams. Just. Fucking Die already.
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The above message is also called "deflection", by the way.
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....it's called "diffusion".
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But if i can get it for free just for sharing my tale of how to get 8 stitches on spring break, then why the heck not
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watch the movie again. he looks as ridiculously gaysome as the maquette. deep blue sea is where it's at. DEEPEST BLUEST WHUT WHUT cool j.
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what if I just go on some gore sight or some medical site...and lift a picture from there and use it....would the AICN crew know the difference if it is me or not? There is an idea.
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