I can't believe the Christmas comment flew over your head. I was saying the exact reason these wont be a GR is because they aren't releasing before Christmas. As much as I love the shadows, they are no where near as iconic as the royals, let alone the black/red 1's. Knicks, hawks, celtics, cool concepts but new retro colorways aren't touching OG's c'mon. Touching on the Christmas point I made earlier, I understand that JB has a full calendar and a lot of heat coming out for the rest of the year with the best ones falling right under that holiday umbrella...except these. These are probably the most anticipated retro (along with the alleged NA BC3 and even those are suppose to come out in time for the holidays) to come out for the second half of the year or even the whole year depending on your view and yet they are releasing right after Christmas. My point being that it might be a strategy on Nike's end to keep the whole limited thing on these NA 1's going by releasing them after Christmas. Even if we get blacktoe/shadow production numbers the demand will be way bigger