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But to be honest, there were more than a few of us that were sad that Nike was releasing those Venice Beaches WAY BEFORE Minotauro blessed us with his PS version...![]()
trust me, i've hated those things from the start.![]()
I went in to FTL this week to check out the fades and heroes in person. No fades in my size as expected but just wanted to see the shoes.
A dude in there was pushin the VBs on me. He was like "Yea we do have the Venice Beach's coming this weekend, it's a multi-color version, we'll have your size in those."![]()
To each his own, but I've tried hard to find anything about them that I like...
Because i recieved a huge reception on that OC inspiration, i thought i would do my own rendition on the Venice Beach 8....
So this is what we'll get coming Saturday. This inspiration has some kind of abstract inspiration of the reflection of the sunset on the water. However, it's really difficult to see:
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Just some little inspiration of what we can see if they were done in an ideal way....
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The venice beach sign, which shares similar colors to the South Beach LeBron 8....
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Now we'll look at the prestos, with the all-overprint on the neoprene:
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Imagine a water motif printed on the Kobe 8 to signify the water of Venice Beach....
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If Nike just stuck to basic, straightforward inspiration we could've gotten something like this:
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The numbers are from 2012. Kobe 8 isn't included. Only the Kobe VII, Lebron 9 and X, KD IV, and whatever Melo (9?) was out last year.also didn't 8s started lateIt is such as huge difference, 300 million to 50 million.
But now that I thought about it, it makes more sense. LeBron's shoes are more expensive than Kobe's, and in addition to his main shoe, LeBron also has his lowtops and the zoom Soldier series that both sell decently. Add that to the fact that his shoes at $180 cost more than Kobe's at $140, and I could definitely see LeBron selling more than Kobe.
Now, did I see him selling 6X more in revenue? Hell no. But I guess that's what happens when you get a bunch of bandwagon fans joining you.
kobe $50mil. carmelo $40 mil. are they sure?
btw this is only US sales, worldwide I think Kobe is still more popular
just take the style code and go into a footlocker and order them, they are still available in certain sizes in stores across the US, they are plenty in my brother's area (Tampa, FL) and I was just in Maryland yesterday and saw some sitting on shelves in a mall Footlocker there. Just make sure you get an employee that knows what they're doing and is nice enough to help you with this.
Don't I still have to wait another week to stock locate or will I be good this weekend to hunt em down... would like to use a bday coupon too if I can
just take this number 555035 500 to your local Footlocker and have them look it up, just as long as it is in stock at another store, no matter how far away it is you will be able to purchase and have it shipped to your address. Trust me these are available in Footlocker stores around the US, the key is to find a helpful employee that doesn't mind taking the time and looking it up and ordering for you.
Kobe to Bron numbers fail to take in how many of each shoe were produced for sale. I'm guessing LeBron has a hell of a lot more made this year than Kobe did so outselling him by 6x would make sense if much more were made.
It's all comparative folks. Numbers don't lie, but they also don't tell the whole truth.
JUST ARRIVED ON MY DESK AT WORK. ON FEET PICS WHEN I GET HOME.
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If this was releasing it'd be an insta-cop for me. Nice workIf Nike just stuck to basic, straightforward inspiration we could've gotten something like this:
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I love the kobe 8 but I must say this thread at times has turned into a place for a bunch of whiney babies that just insult eachother, instead of a place where information and love for the kobe line is shared. I don't post often (for obvious reasons) but I've been a member of NT since around '04. I was in here when the ZK1 first dropped and we were all excited that our boy KB8 finally got a coo shoe. Now half the cats that are here be running their mouth for no reason like they were in here through the ZK1-8 like myself and others were. Earn respect and give it fellas. Get back to the shoes and stop acting stupid like you sit when you pee.
Sorry for the rant but I read more BS in this thread then info/appreciation/helpfulness. Let's stop hating on people's jeans, socks, fav cw etc. Just childish...![]()
This is the best comment I've seen in quite sometime. The negative comments are beyond ridiclous at this point. MOVE ON!People are always going to find something to complain about. No shoe is going to be perfect, all of the Kobe 8 colorways have sold out for the most part for a reason.
Nike played it safe and still made a ton of great colorways.
I like the VB's, remind me of the Glass Blues. I get the complaints, but it's just one colorway. Pass and move on to the next.