DESIGN FETISH: Adidas x Star Wars Sneaker Packaging

4 Comments | Posted: December 22nd, 2009 | Filed under: Design Fetish | Tags: ,

It’s blatantly aimed at the retrofetishists out there who remember buying Kenner action figures off the peg, but I don’t recall having seen shoes in a blisterpack before. More views of the shoes themselves on the Superfly Deluxe site

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4 Comments on “DESIGN FETISH: Adidas x Star Wars Sneaker Packaging”

  1. 1 rikemice said at 6:05 pm on December 22nd, 2009:

    I agree, very cool — but how do you try them on? Though I suppose they lose all value as soon as you open them?

  2. 2 Dean said at 7:23 pm on December 22nd, 2009:

    True collectors keep the shoes ‘mint in box’. :)

    Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer shoes that I can try on, as well.

  3. 3 Alex W said at 11:05 pm on December 23rd, 2009:

    A Bathing Ape did a whole bunch of crossovers with Marvel and DC that I have long been covetous of. There’re a few here: http://www.bathingapee.com/Marvel-X-Bathing-ape.html

    Actually if it’s the same as those, I think the blister packaging is more like a plastic shell that wraps to the edge of the cardboard and just around it. So with a little bending and (possibly) creasing you can pop the back out without too much damage to the packaging. I saw a used pair of Iron Man sneakers that were worn to fuck but still inside the relatively pristine plastic bubble.

    And that is your far too thought out, completely unecessary answer of the day.

  4. 4 Phill said at 6:37 am on December 24th, 2009:

    I kinda like the packaging of the unofficial Star Wars Super Stars they did a few years ago better:
    http://www.eukicks.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/03-12-07_adiddblk_06.jpg

    http://www.eukicks.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/03-12-07_adiddwht_06.jpg

    I saw teaser shots of these shoes a few weeks ago, but somehow they’re less exciting now. I am interested in the Stormtrooper models, however. Until they’re actually released, I guess.