Originally Posted by DwyaneWadeOG
Hey All,
I stopped collecting shoes around 2008 and am curious if any good SBs dropped since then.
During my time on here I owned a fair amount of what I thought were pretty dope shoes (Jedis, Unkles, all the hemps, seacrystals, tweeds, homers etc).
Have any SBs come out that rival the 2005-2008 period of SB releases?
Excuse me if this is a dumb question.
It's all up to your personal preference, but
imo not really, there haven't been too many with a story, but there have been plenty of gimmicks. And only a few have become anything and even those select few aren't
that sought after or desired by collectors certainly to the level of 02-05 Dunks....the majority of Dunks after 06 have been flops and don't go for very much (
some go for maybe 300, but nothing more than that for the most part, some exceptions are WTDs, Three Bears Pack, and DOTDs and that's all I can think of from the top of my head) or are sought after.
Some of these cws are okay, but nothing special imo. Basically pairs, both GR (still) and up until recently (SOLs in March) QSs, are produced in far too many numbers relative to the demand and sit for long periods of time on skate shop shelves and these shops are stuck with the pairs and have to resort to putting them on sale for as low as 60 bucks. Loons sat at my shop for a good 7 months before finally selling out, but only after they were reduced to 60 dollars. So if you're looking to invest in new SBs, which I doubt you are, I'd buy the really hyped up pairs, BUT even there you can go wrong and be stuck with a flop. As for GRs and investing, unless you know someone and can get them for under retail, it really isn't worth it. Plenty of GRs, these days, go for retail on the resale market, so buying them at retail and expecting profit would not be a wise thing to do. Sure people are still paying attention, but there are too many pairs per year as well as too many pairs per cw for there to really be a demand, coinciding with those changes I mentioned above which do in fact make an impact on people's opinion of a Dunk SB. The cws also severely lack a story, and in this era of sneaker culture, that really is what's necessary for a shoe to have that "WOW" factor and for the demand to be there, along with the shape, quality, and correct toecap cut exemplified on the 02-05 Dunk SBs.....along with being limited of course, but even if they weren't limited, those cws would be bought up for sure, besides only a few were
that limited anyhow. Another reason why the cws haven't returned is because of the current designers for Nike SB (mainly Shawn Baravetto), who seem to lack the ability to come up with original eye catching stuff and instead resort to rehashing old cws and replacing materials OR just making the stuff way too plain and as I said before, there are few stories and of the stories that are present, only a very small number are decent, imo. If you look back on the 02-05 cws, the majority were in fact collabs whether they be with artists, shops, or other companies and not designed primarily by a head designer as they are now and have been for quite some time.
You can catch up here as far as what's released since you stopped paying attention
http://www.nikeskateboarding.com/archive#/year/2011
Not all of the 2011 ones are listed, but then again it really doesn't matter at least imo, for me SBs died in 05, and from the many people I've talked to at campouts, on various forums, and at DXCs, they pretty much all agree. So to answer your question, no there haven't been many Dunks that have topped the 05-08 ones as far as I'm concerned, plus Nike SB changed the Dunk in terms of shape, padding, toecap cut, and quality materials which dipped off in 06, these are another reason why people lost interest/ only buy the old stuff. You can also take a look here and see what's coming next year to judge for yourself:
http://niketalk.yuku.com/...THREAD-GRs-and-QSs-added
These links have the majority of them for the past couple months:
http://niketalk.yuku.com/...79/FALL-SBs-Dunks?page=1
http://niketalk.yuku.com/...SB-LOWS-IRON-LOWS?page=1
This is the highly anticipated 'Entourage' Dunk
http://niketalk.yuku.com/...Entourage-Vol-WOW?page=1
And this was the last "big" release which came in July 2011:
http://niketalk.yuku.com/...011-QS-July-23-RD?page=1
This is the QS for September which is getting mixed reviews, we'll see:
http://niketalk.yuku.com/...nk-Hi-updated-pg1?page=3
