[..::Air Jordan Retro X White / Black – Light Steel Grey "Steel" 10/12/2013 - $170::..]

lol.  I can hear cats before I see em...

 

Not sure if you are serious dude. These are the initial Xs.
Like the taxi 12n concord 11 or black toe 13.

 

they should release um with the leather toe cap though

 

Why? Men's sizes never released with the toe cap. I only had the toe cap version cause I wore a size 7 in 94.

 

And dont forget the powder blue jumpman on the bottom
I think this might never happen because MJ disliked the toe cap. The steel greys were the only ones released with that because nike already massproduced them before MJ told tinker to remove it for the following colorways.
There are some dark shadow X samples though but those looked horrible because the upper were nubuck but the toe cap was black smooth leather XD.

 

Eh.....that's incorrect. Even MJ wore them with the toe cap in the charity game held in Chicago stadium when he was still in his first retirement.
And there are plenty of og steel grey around with the toe cap.

 

i dont really care about the jumpman on the bottom though... i like the toe cap... it made the x look better in my opinion....


without it the creasing on the toe make the shoe look like a sloppy elf sock after many wears

 

Can't wait for these!

Love the checkered lining.

 

Those were the pre-release pairs, and he put a stop to that. Some did make it to market, but the vast majority of men's sizes never had the toe cap, and subsequent colorways didn't get that treatment at all.

 

ALL pairs of the Steel Xs released with the toe cap. 

The change came after the full production run of the Steels had finished and before the Shadows (Samples of the Shadows have the cap, but no released pair.)

 

They look better with the toe cap IMO

 

source-http://d.hatena.ne.jp/stmr/

 

Was just about to post this lol but glad they kept the nba stats and stuff

 

JB would never get rid of it unless they were stupid.

 

Yea I don't see how they could fill that up with high school stuff anyway

 

Same thing I was thinking when people said there were rumors of these having something do to with him in Laney HS

 

Didn't someone say the jumpman was going to be yellow...not that it matters

 

The yellow Jumpman was only on the '05 samples  and was NEVER going to be on these as was stated about 500 times in this thread, but NT's reading comprehension skills are, well, ya know...

 

Wrong...What Firepower said is correct...The original Steel Grey X's only ever had the toe cap...Never had a plain toe for the original's...

Have to keep in mind that MJ never had any input on the design of the X's...Mike's retirement, combined with the abysmal sales figures for the initial "retro" run all indicated that the "Jordan" label was no longer going to be lucrative for Nike...Tinker was advised to let the line die and move on to other things...He designed the X simply as a tribute shoe...

Remember the original Steel Gray X's started hitting stores in November 94', a full 4 months before MJ even started playing Basketball again, and who knows how long before MJ started letting everybody know that he was coming back...The production run of the Steel Gray's were already finished and shipped to retailers by that point...They were able to stop the production run for the Shadow X's, which were the second color way to be released, and the toe cap was subsequently removed on this and all future color ways...

 

Smh back collecting so count me in.

 

On a side note that's the exact catalog picture that I purchased my UNC's from...Convinced my mom to drop the loot because they were on sale...

 

I don't disagree with any of that except that it wasn't the full production run. There were OG Steels that did not have the cap. But all of the GS Steels did have the cap.

 

I think it's because someone on this board kept saying it was going to be yellow, to go with the Laney V's and XI's

 

Yeah, it was that cam dude who has been wrong about 100 times on various restocks and releases, including that there are 2 XI models coming at Christmas, one of them being a Laney pair. None of the Laney predictions he made have come true.

 

Leather looks good, pebbled like the laney V's