#throwbacktoythursday: 10K by Patrick Chow
(Above artwork by Elphonso Lam)
"10K" was created by Patrick Chow from Hong Kong and are essentially a group of killers from different corners of the world. And while there are no "back stories", these smartly dressed assassins are differentiated by their geometric-shaped heads, and some body forms. Shown below are 10K in color, on display @ dimension 07 in Hong Kong circa 2007 (More pics HERE).
Copyrighted by Patrick's "Creative Place" circa 2004 (a decade ago!), they actually started "toylife" as 1/6-scaled clothed figures, but as Patrick mentioned in my 2007 Q&A with him; "I did want to produce it commercially then but felt the costume wasn't as perfect as I had wanted it to be, so the idea was cancelled"
A series of 4 x marquette figures - made of hi-cast resin - were instead produced and made available for sale in Toycon 2003.
The character featured today is recognized as "PAN", and for this week's #throwbacktoythursday, here's a few snaps of the character piece, which may have been forgotten with the tide of time … More images posted HERE in my dedicated Facebook album :)
Signed by Patrick, so I'm good :)
The figure is assembled by various parts via attachment thru peg and holes,
with joint-areas evenly matched.
Love the dynamic poses of the figure. The figure is not deliberately distorted,
just the angle of my camera lens make it seem so ;p
"Even though in the past few years there were quite a number of successful original characters created here in Hong Kong, most of them are cute cartoon characters. When you look at Japan, it is a land that can have cute cartoon characters such as "Hello Kitty" and "Pokemon", but at the same time they also have "macho" characters such as "Fist of The North Star" and "Masked Rider" in the market. Why can't Hong Kong learn from it? The success of the "Infernal Affairs" movie series and its characters clearly showed that the Hong Kong audience are waiting for "macho" and "stylish" original characters. We certainly hope that "10K" can be the first publicly embraced "stylish" original characters." -mentioned Patrick Chow, circa 2007.
