JAWS: The Ride: The Junky Gift Shop Souvenir

In the early 1990s, my parents took my sister and I to Florida for an extended vacation that included a visit to both Disney World and Universal Studios Orlando (I think we hit Sea World, too).* Then, as now, my favorite movie was JAWS and I was obsessed with great white sharks in general.

While I must admit my favorite ride was, of course, Star Tours, I still got a rush out of the JAWS ride (now sadly decommissioned). Of course, I came out of the experience and headed straight to the store looking for anything even remotely toy-like related to it. This is something I still do today, of course (it doesn’t always work; I have yet to find toys at Pearl Jam concerts or dentist offices).

In the case of the JAWS ride, all I found was this thing:

You'll find this picture in the dictionary under "gewgaw (cf: knick-knack, bauble, tchotchke)."

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