As you know by now this sweet movie prop "Uncle Al" was used in the movie
"Ace Ventura - When Nature Calls"
 Jim Carrey went over the waterfall on that wooden raft and when he came
up out of the water he sees and grabs this alligator by the tail and pulls
him into the water and you can see in the short video below.


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I am not sure where exactly Uncle went right after filming but here is what I have found out about where he has been...
Star Wares, a well known prop dealer in California, had him for awhile and sold him to someone where he ended up in a museum in Texas. He spent several years hanging in the museum and then was sold to prop dealer Bruce Hubbard of Minnesota. Bruce uncrated him enough to get a few pictures of him to post on his website and left him in storage for several years.
Bruce and I are good friends and I wanted Uncle so we worked out a deal and I had him shipped. Uncle Al was now free... no hanging from a ceiling... no staying in a wooden crate.... free to take up a huge space in our garage!!!

After I had him for a year or so, I received and email and then a phone call from a producer from The Discovery Channel. They were doing a new show called Pop Nation which was kinda something like the Antique Road Show. They were going to go to 6 cities across the country and shoot their shows. They had found my site Hollywood Prop Collector and found Uncle Al. They thought her would be awesome to have on their show. They said he would be the main attraction for their whole show! They as us to call them when we were close to them so they could have a camera crew outside to film us pulling up to the show. So, we were originally supposed to meet them at the Maryland show and couldn't get a trailer so we made their second show in Austin, Texas! You can pics and videos from that trip below.

The studio paid $30,000.00 to have this custom made!
It is almost 17' long, about 4 ' wide and about 3' tall!

The body starts off being made of a square tubing aluminum frame. It is the wrapped with several layers of 1" thick soft cushion foam. The tail is made of solid soft cushion foam and head is molded from soft cushion foam too. The outer layer of foam has all the details cut into it then the outer layer was covered in latex and painted. We were told the eyes were made of ping pong balls! I am not sure what the teeth were made of but they seem to be made from a solid hard plastic.
Inside the end of a tail they installed a 1/2" round steel rod which is what Jim Carrey grabbed a hold of to pull Uncle Al into the water with.

Please click the different links below to see more about Uncle Al.