This has been a hilarious experience! The Mind 001 popped up on my feed a few weeks ago. "Yet another Nike gimmick", I thought and didn't think about them again.
Couple of days ago I'm in a Nike store and I see one on display, okay fine let me try them on... "We're out of stock, there's another color way coming on Thursday." Made a mental note to stop by and satisfy my curiosity.
This morning, I'm walking past the Nike store at 5AM on the way to the gym... there's a line of about 20 people. I think, "There's no ******* way..." I go up to one of the people in the line, they didn't speak English and didn't really know what they were standing line for. I look up and down the line and these don't look like sneaker heads. Yup, this is for the Mind 001 I'm 100%.
They've been paid off Craigs List to hold some scalpers place.
Out of curiosity I check Nike.com and see there's a 7AM drop. For ****s and giggles I hit up Nike.com and land the 002 to try them on. Because, fine, you got me Nike... now I'm curious. No surprise, no luck on the 001 queue.
On the way back at 9:30AM there's about 100 people in the line outside the same Nike store.
At 11AM I'm walking past yet and hear a USPS guy tell the 20-30 NEW people in the line that there's only size 5 and 6 women's left and watched the line evaporate in a split second lol
What's hilarious is that Nike is going to flood the market with 100 different color ways over the next year.