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FORMER FREETOOLS OPORCA ARCHIVE
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Amitian feedback
johny 10:13PM 10-22-00
Monstermouth website. Cool.
melisagr 6:23AM 10-22-00
Orca where are you!
Steven
Date: 10/13/00 9:19:37 AM Email: N/A
How could you be sick of Universal, I love that company and JAWS, I've waited a long time for the release on DVD and all the sites report that its coming out this year, so I dont mind waiting and see what happens. I've already waited about 2 years so waiting another 3 months or so is nothing, time will fly by. As for JAWS rotting on the back lot, do you even know for a fact that the sharks are gone? Many people will say yes, the left to right and the right to left shark have rotted away, but did they, do you have proof??? And what about the Sea Sled? It was hanging up there at Universal Studios but then they took it down. So where did it go??? or what about the orca? No body out there seems to know... Maybe, just maybe, Universal is preparing something that will make every JAWS fan in the world go nuts about. Perhaps they want to show us a celebration we will never forget. Well, I guess we'll just have to WAIT and find out.
Chet
Date: 113/14/00 10:29:52 AM Email: N/A
According to the " Edith Blake" book Orca was painted seasick green piped with stale-blood red. A guy named Peter Eldridge a boat builder and son of an architect and did it his way. It was also spray painted with dirt to simulate a real weathered look!!!! Correction on the above, Orca and Orca II were painted by Ward Wilton Original Seasick green with red piping. Pete Eldridge redesigned it because Joe Alves didn't know anything about boats at the time.
David
Date: 11/14/00 11:31:07 AM Email: N/A
The Orca is Orange and black, trust me i spent a month making a model of it!!
Chet
Date: 11/14/00 3:05:28 PM Email: N/A
If you want it authentic looking spend another month changing it back to it's original colors ! Where the hell did you get orange and black from ? Although it sounds a lot nicer colorwise.
Michael Roddy
Hi,
My name is Michael Roddy and I work for Universal Studios Florida. I have
seen both ORCAs in my travels. The Orca Two is owned by Lyn Murphy on a
beach on Martha's Vineyard. It is almost destroyed. The other Orca was on
the backlot of Universal Hollywood, but was never maintained. It sank in the
early nineties and when they tried to pull it from the lagoon it was so
rotten that it literally fell apart. There are still pieces on the lagoon
bottom. The rest was thrown out onto the backlot. It is now just pieces of
wood planking. I would love to help your cause. I am a huge JAWS fan. I would
love an Operation Orca shirt. I am size xxl. I have some pieces of both
Orcas as well as pieces of Bruce and the original buoy. My frined owns it.
Please e-mail me. I think we could become fast friends.
Look forward to hearing from you.
-Michael
"Here's to Swimmin' with bow-legged women"
Peter, Nielsen
Greetings from a danish Orca fan.
Subject: MY ORCA TOY
reply:
"The Board"
Mon, 19 Feb 2001
Hi There...
Thank god, at last someone would make a site about this historic vessel.
I'm a major Jaws fan, and have been this since I saw the movie at the age of
six.
Since then I have seen it countless times. I have just about anything about
the
movie in my posession - all the jaws logs - the soundtrack, laserdisk,
anything
with that great fish. Robert Shaw is my favorite as Quint...
Here's a couple of things I've done to show you how much I love this movie.
Me and a Robert Shaw picture..
Me and my 16 foot replica of Bruce the Shark....
Kindest regards
Peter, Nielsen
Denmark, Europe
Don Stanbury
Sun, 15 Apr 2001 19:03:16 -0700
From: ORCA FAN
To: oporca
Subject: MY ORCA TOY
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 19:03:16 -0700
HI MY NAME IS MATT AND MY BEST FILM IS JAWS. CANYOU FIND OUT HOW TO BY THE TOY SHIP ORCA AND THE TOY SHARK.
PLEASE EMAIL ME
THANKS
MATT
'look for updated info on the site in the next couple
of months...welcome aboard and keep that chum line
goin...'
fred
From: "Lise Tindall & Wayne Simpson
<>
Reply-To: "Lise Tindall & Wayne Simpson"
To: "Fred Stine"
Subject: Re: Save the Orca!
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 18:41:58 -0400
Thanks Fred!
I actually saw the Orca at Universal Studios in 1980 during a family trip to
California. Yes...there was the spray of water and the big rubber shark,
gnashing its teeth at the tram car which had suddenly tilted towards the
waiting monster....but even at the age of 13, I was more intrigued by the
flash of the Orca as we were whisked by. The idle warrior appeared intact,
except for the cheap "stage set" dock that appeared to be constructed by a
designer who had never been to Martha's Vineyard...let alone seen the movie.
A great deal of time has passed, and I am now a teacher in Ottawa....but
above my desk is a three foot plush "pillow" Great White that hangs over
me...remarkably life-like, and my collection of Jaws memories continues to
grow, as every year students present me with yet another copy of Jaws, and
often books on the real deal.
I am glad that someone has taken up the challenge to stir up the murky
bottom, and as for the shirt....I'm a large...but wait until I can help out
financially.
Could share a lifetime of Jaws stories....keep up the hunt...and remember:
...it took three barrels to bring him up.
Wayne Simpson
Ottawa, Ontario
Fred's Reply
-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Stine
To: Lise Tindall & Wayne Simpson <>
Date: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 2:19 AM
Subject: Re: Save the Orca!
hello friend,
Many thanks for yer contribution,
you make an excellent and persuasive arguement fraught
with the same emotion that drove me to create this site.
thanks again,
Fred
From:
To: Fred
Subject: Orca sign-in
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 04:06:31 EDT
I feel the Orca should be put in a museum right near the shark at Universal
Studios. It had just as much a meaning as did Jaws himself. History should be
beside history.
From: "StevenCindy Sirois
"
From:
To: Fred
Subject: Orca
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 15:48:55 EDT
My name is Jennifer Bronstein and I would very much to see the Orca found and
put back on display although not necessarily at Universal. I think the boat
has had such a profound influence on society's downright paranoia of the
great white. How many people swimming in the ocean can start swimming toward
a buoy without fear setting in ala Chrissie. Instead, rescue the Orca, fix
the old girl up and create an exhibition space for her at the Smithsonian
alongside Archie Bunker's chair and all the other entertainment memorabilia
that has/had changed our lifetime and how we live it.
From: Alex
To: Fred
Hi it's Alex-sorry i haven't spoken in a while; i've
been to busy! Something for the 'point light station'
thing- Why sould the Orca go to the smithstonian? It
should be returned to Universal where people will know
what it is and appreciate it. Does anyone know where
Universal got the duplicate Orca for the Jaws ride in
Florida? Just interested!! If they get it restored it
would be very nice if universal refitted the cabin and
let you inside! Fred- any luck with that model? Please
reply! THANX
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