Be still, our sweating wallets: Lego has announced a 1,497-piece Jaws Lego set, which includes everything you need to recreate the film’s third act.
To celebrate the open Amityville beaches on this, the 4th July, Lego has announced a 1,497-piece Jaws set. It is, as you’ve probably gathered, based on Steven Spielberg’s 1975 classic, and contains everything you need to recreate its third act. In other words, you’ll be able to build the Orca boat and the three heroes that set off in it – so you’ll get minifigs based on Chief Brody (Roy Scheider), Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) and Quint (Robert Shaw).
Most importantly, you’ll be able to build a Great White shark (which you can call Bruce if you like), and there are even a few yellow barrels among the accessories included with the set. Released in August (on the 3rd for Lego Insiders members; on the 6th for everyone else), Lego Jaws will retail for £129.99, or $149.99. You’re gonna need a bigger shelf.
The set was originally designed by fan Johnny Campbell and came to life via Lego’s Ideas portal, in which just about anyone can design and submit their own concepts. He’s previously come up with other set concepts based on Close Encounters Of The Third Kind and another Roy Scheider flick, 1983’s Blue Thunder (his helicopter looks genuinely cool).
Given that the image of Robert Shaw being bitten in half on the deck of a sinking Orca is still emblazoned on our minds, we can’t help wondering whether Lego ought to greenlight more sets based on traumatic film scenes. A diorama of Artax the horse from The Neverending Story sinking in a swamp perhaps? Or how about that bit in Superman III where Vera gets turned into a cyborg?
In case you’ve forgotten about Jaws, Lego has handily made a 90-second digested version of it using bricks and minifigures. It’s called Jaws In A Jiffy, and contains surprisingly little in the way of gore or severed limbs. You can see it below:
