When it comes to the horror genre, it’s hard to find a nightmare as memorable asJaws. The 1975Steven Spielbergdirected classic is celebrating its 50th anniversary next year. Ahead of the bite-worthy festivities, The Lego Groupunveiled their latestLegoset based on the film last year. Now, theJawsset has a sun-soaked late summer release date.
The official 1,497-piece set will be released on July 17, 2025. Designed byJohnny Campbell, the scene this set depicts is of The Orca, the main boat of the film, getting attacked by the massive great white shark in the iconic final act ofJaws. Fans will be making the boat itself, the title monster, and the watery diorama display base that connects the scene together. The set also comes with three mini-figures. These would be Chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider),Matt Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss), and Quint (Robert Shaw). The set will swim to shore for $159.99 USD.This past week was the perfect time to reveal the date too, as the American 4th of July holiday is whenJawstakes place. The greedy mayor just couldn’t close the beach in fear of losing all his tourists.
What’s ‘Jaws’ About?
Jawstakes the classic monster movie set up which was established by the early universal horror films and applied it to a giant blockbuster.The film follows the residents of Amityville Island after a string ofshark killingsstart washing ashore. Chief Brody wants to close the beach down for public safety, but as mentioned before, there’s too much money to lose for the mayor to want to take such action. He wants to keep the beach open and have a normal tourist-filled4th of July weekend. However, that only makes the situation more dire, causing Brody to take matters into his own hands to stop this monstrous great white shark once and for all.
Whether it’s Spielberg’s signature direction, the amazing acting orJohn Williams’ brilliant scorethat haunts the horror genre to this day,Jawsremains the ultimate genre blockbuster. It literally coined the summer word two years before moviegoers would travel to a galaxy far far away for the first time and a decade and half beforeBatmanwould commercially capitalize on that kind of film.Jawswould spawn three sequelsfrom 1978 to 1987, but alongside an endless sea ofmerchandise, nothing could ever top the terrifying magic of that sharp masterpiece.It was the film that made people scared of going in the waterand was one of the first horror stories of its kind that reminded us that the genre isn’t restricted to scaring us in the dark. Sometimes the most horrifying things happen in broad daylight.
Jawsis currently available to stream onPeacock.It also can be rented on all major VOD platforms. Before you watch the perfect summer monster movie, you can read Collider’s review ofJawshere. The LEGO set can be previewed above.
