In that aspect I still have to respectfully disagree. I'd say they were more like the OG Cool grey XI release, I rememeber grown men running under the gate and fighting for a pair of shoes, first time I ever witnessed that kind of *******.
We are talking about the horrible prints and colorways that have been released lately! And the horrible prints and colorways they continue to develop! The low- top mold they are using also killed them as well as the absurd $250 price tag they now carry... I might be on my own as far as the price goes tho! When I paid $213 for Royals in 2011 that was the only shoe I would ever spend $200 dollars on due to the nostalgia... in that case $20 did not matter to me! $200 for Ones and $190 for Pros wasnt that much of a stretch!
The bastardization of foams... It's kind of a purist/elitist sentiment in my opinion. I think 90% of recent releases are terrible but I just don't buy them, then some people think Nike owes them certain colorways.
Thanks for the reply. I got ya. But to play devil's advocate , wasn't this inevitable? I say that because , is seems that lately all retro sneakers ( and modern also ) are coming out in crazy colorways. It just seems that the market has been trending that way for some time. Even JB has been going that route for some time. Although , i'm not sure if consumer demand is responsible or if the revenue generated by retro's has gone down. I'm no purist by any means , but honestly the colors don't really bother me that much. IDK , I guess I tend to gravitate towards the odd colors. Plus , catching them at the outlets doesn't hurt either. But I know how you feel. I used to be a huge AF1 purist years ago , but Nike just kept ( and still does today ) flooding the market with AF1's. After that I stopped buying them.
Inevitable or not it killed one of the greatest shoes ever made! A main thing that made them great was the simplicity of the shoe... All the outlet bound prints are ridiculous and the fact that they continue to go in that direction is depressing... plus if I paid $200 three years ago there is no way in hell I will pay $250 for awful "Premium" print foams! They throw a graphic on the shoe that gives them the medium to call them "Premium"??? No thanks!!! Foams Are Dead and there is nothing they can do to revive them!
@HollaHollygrove I see you from NOLA too , nice! But I feel ya. The only bad thing is , I don't see nike reversing this trend. The only way they can save the foam I think , is to put them back in the vault for a couple years. Let the demand build up again.
Off top 17th representative... But before 2011 Foams did not have multiple drops a year... 2007 saw multiple drops but they were good colorways that were slept on and after that one maybe two a year! Like someone posted earlier they have been bastardized! The multiple releases would probably be more accepted if the were without print and stuck to what made them great! Solid colorways... now some may say they have done all the color you could think of but I beg to differ...
which CWs is it that people want? seems the knicks cw is universally loved, i personally think they're ugly but i'm from TX
I get what you're saying, but at the same time "if its not broke then don't fix it"
which CWs is it that people want? seems the knicks cw is universally loved, i personally think they're ugly but i'm from TXbut my point is that's a new cw that will sell well so why would nike not continue on their "killing" path, as long as shoe venders are ordering the shoes nike's gonna milk it and everytime people start to wain, nike just drop something insane limited to drive the hype back up and bring the venders back around
The Cool Grey when they dropped.. I remember being a line but no fights.. It was NOTHING like the 2011 "Concords".. Them ***** had people ripping doors off the hinges hiding in the bathrooms hiding in the trees.. kids coulda gotten "Ammonia" and the "get money boyz" were out stuntin on the news.
say no to hype.. keep bring out crappy foams then just let us NikeId the foamposites.. **** would be like heaven...lol
didn't a lot of people sell their shooting stars though or was that just the penny posite part?
