Annemarie is back with her latest custom, Locke from the TV show Lost.
Destination Vinylmation: Were you a fan of the Lost TV series?
Annemarie: I was (and still am) a HUGE fan of the series. It’s scary, actually. I’m a bit crazy about it.
DV: Why Locke? Was he your favorite character or just the most fun to design a custom based on?
AM: This was actually a custom order, so I didn’t choose the character. I was always more of a Jack fan. :-) But Locke lent himself well to the vinylmation form, he’s got the perfect round-shaped bald head for it.
DV: Tell us about some of the details on this figure.
AM: The figure was created for a fan, so I wanted to include as many details as I could on the figure. I knew I’d include the Smoke Monster (since SPOILER ALERT Locke eventually became the smoke monster) but I decided to take it a step further and design it in a way that would indicate sort of the “bad Locke” on the back. So I painted the countdown clock in the hatch on one of the ears, and the same clock on the back but in a more dire consequence (after the button fails to get pushed. Non Lost-fans, bear with me; I know you’re terribly confused already.) To make it more ominous, I made the Smoke Monster a bit bigger and closer to Locke, as if it’s part of him. Throw in a compass and Locke’s ever-important, trusty knife, and he was done!
Very cool, you should add the scar around his eye though.
It’s really great. The detail is fantastic. My ONLY gripe would be that he seems to be missing his most identifying feature – his right eye scar.
I love that Damon Lindelof retweeted something about this yesterday. I also love the vinylmation itself. Amazing.
The scar thing is a total epic fail on my part. It was in the original design, I must have just completely blanked and forgot to put it in. I will remedy this! Thanks, all!