Bad Wax

A lot of the readers of my blog are about my age.  Children of the early to late 70s, and early 80s.  One of my all time favorite movie trilogies is Back to the Future staring Michael J Fox.   In 1989 they released the 2nd installment of the movie and in it Fox’s character, Marty McFly wears these futuristic high top Nikes.  A video of them can be seen below:

I definitely don’t have my pulse set to trends in America, but I guess, ever since that movie came out people have been itching for a pair of sneakers just like them.  There is something neat about power laces, I will freely admit that.  But I don’t remember thinking to myself, I gotta have those sneakers.  I guess however, there is a sector of the world that yearns for items like those.  So it was revealed a few months ago that Nike would produce an extremely limited edition production of those shoes.  I’m thinking, cool, power laces!  So the other day Nike unveils them using Kobe Bryant as their pitchman.  They even bring him out in a DeLorean:

And he begins to model the new Nike Hyper Dunks. Better known as the Air McFly.  But guess what, they only made 350 of them.  First off, I’m thinking that’s a load of crap.  They wouldn’t have gone through all the trouble of making the sneaker, putting it production, and bringing in Kobe Bryant to model it if they weren’t going to make these en mass.

So I bet you are wondering what they look like?  Surely they have the power laces and they light up like the movie, right? Wrong, they look like any other Nike Air high top.  Here is a good picture of them below, next to what the shoe looked like in the movie:

I would like to think that if Nike was going to do this, they have done it right.  At least make it look like the original.  Instead they made another version of an Air Nike.  Since I couldn’t find how much they were going for initially, I would have to guess anywhere from $200-$300.  But don’t worry, if you didn’t get your pair, you can get them on eBay where they are going for close to $1500 a pair.  They are a pair of shoes people!  WTF? Get some power laces and then ask for $1500 – $2000.  In the mean time you have a limited edition pair of sneakers. Oooooooooooooo.  People are morons.  These will be in mass production in 3 months and then all the idiots that shelled out thousands for the shoe will feel great when in a year’s time they’ll be on the Marshall’s shelves for $50.