Exculsive Footshop version of Superstar available now
Posted by Huw,
You know how sports shoe manufacturers make exclusive limited editions of their footwear for specific shops? It seems that LEGO is getting in on the act, too...
KolarDario in Czechia alerted me to the fact that Czech sportswear shop Footshop has released a version of 10282 Adidas Originals Superstar containing an additional 243 parts and a sticker sheet to enable the stock shoe to be converted into the shop's exclusive version of the Superstar.
He tells me that it was designed by a Czech LUG member, approved by LEGO Czech Republic, and the pieces and stickers were made and packed by LEGO.
I've added it to the database as 10282-2 Adidas Originals Superstar X Footshop 'Blueprinting', where you'll find a picture of the stickers and the bag of additional parts. The instructions are available as a PDF at the Footshop website.
Just 200 are available, so you'll need to be quick if you'd like one. It costs the same as the normal version, €90 / £80.
Find out more here, and place your order at Footshop if you're in NA or the EU, or ftshp.co.uk if you're in the UK.
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I don't care for the original set and I hate stickers, but somehow this combination is pretty cool!
Wow, this shoe thing isn't going away any time soon, is it?
The instructions include a sticker that covers multiple tiles on the insole.
What a strange-shaped castle!
Definitely needs more Blacktron.
Had no idea shop specific exclusive edition shoes was a thing.
And gone
@CC said:
"The instructions include a sticker that covers multiple tiles on the insole. "
That surprised me too.
Also, you place the big "FTSHP" sticker on top of the Adidas print. Kinda weird.
I thought Lego had stopped this and just to wind people up more there was no limit on how many you could buy. I added 19 before it told me there wasn't enough stock, I was trying to see if these were really limited to 200. I then got just 1.
@nightmarish5 said:
"Also, you place the big "FTSHP" sticker on top of the Adidas print. Kinda weird."
I didn’t notice that detail. Asking to cover a printed element with a sticker is outrageous.
Looks like regional sets are the future of LEGO.
This exists purely for someone to find it browsing this site in 10 years and see it go for $700 on bricklink
@jedisquidwardagain said:
"This exists purely for someone to find it browsing this site in 10 years and see it go for $700 on bricklink"
Thats the only reason I got one, no interest but you had me at limited to 200. I wonder how long they would have lasted had Huw not added that.
Lego is short for leg godt or "play well". I wonder what Danish for "collect well" or "display well" is considering all the collectors items and display pieces Lego is trying to sell to adults.
As I suspected when I read the article, these 200 would sell out almost instantly. I'm sure most went to people buying them for resale value and not due to genuine interest in this particular sneaker.
@ogel_chicago said:
"Looks like regional sets are the future of LEGO. "
Lego fans when like 6 out of about 800 sets annually are exclusive to a certain region
Literally the dumbest thing since reprinting sets in other colors. Wait wasn't that 5 minutes ago?
@PDelahanty said:
"As I suspected when I read the article, these 200 would sell out almost instantly. I'm sure most went to people buying them for resale value and not due to genuine interest in this particular sneaker."
Kinda like how the exclusive trainer market works so
@ogel_chicago said:
"Looks like regional sets are the future of LEGO. "
Yes this one borderline-unofficial set and a pilot program experiment indicate that the future business strategies of a multi-billion dollar company whose success is dependent upon global sales figures have gone completely off the rails. This is a reasonable assumption and not at all hyperbolic and based upon anecdotal evidence.
Wow, multiple regional exclusives in one day! We're on a roll! Does there happen to be a Chinese festival tomorrow? Don't want to lose the momentum, you know!
I neither bought nor wanted to buy any of these, but they do all have POTENTIAL RESALE VALUE written all over them. It does kind of stink for anyone who wants to buy Lego for nothing other than the pleasure it brings them.
hypebeast culture finally reached Lego
Nope.
So?... A shoe that has some blue pieces and stickers. WOW, Im so excited!!...
@AllenSmith said:
"Wow, multiple regional exclusives in one day! We're on a roll! Does there happen to be a Chinese festival tomorrow? Don't want to lose the momentum, you know!
I neither bought nor wanted to buy any of these, but they do all have POTENTIAL RESALE VALUE written all over them. It does kind of stink for anyone who wants to buy Lego for nothing other than the pleasure it brings them."
No orphan is crying themself to sleep tonight because they cannot buy a LEGO shoe.
You're on a site with database of nearly 18,000 LEGO items, most of which are related to building. Googling "LEGO for sale" gave me over 330 million results. There are other options.
I think we need a shark jumping theme. Call it a Sports/Pirates crossover reboot or whatever...
I was walking past them yesterday and the day before. I actually went into the shop to see it. I thought the stickers were a bit odd, but now i know why.
@CC said:
" @nightmarish5 said:
"Also, you place the big "FTSHP" sticker on top of the Adidas print. Kinda weird."
I didn’t notice that detail. Asking to cover a printed element with a sticker is outrageous.
"
8634 does that for the license plate. I didn't realize until when I rebuilt it a couple years ago, so I took off the sticker and put it on a blank 1x2 tile.
@CC said:
" @nightmarish5 said:
"Also, you place the big "FTSHP" sticker on top of the Adidas print. Kinda weird."
I didn’t notice that detail. Asking to cover a printed element with a sticker is outrageous.
"
I made building instructions (or modified them) for this version of adidas shoe. The reason for placing sticker on printed part was simply no availability of part 79679 in white without print. And its exclusivity was not idea of LEGO but FOOTSHOP ordered modification of this set at Czech LEGO Trading and they asked us (Czech LUG kostky.org) wheather we are able to design it. So we did it and FOOTSHOP received their "new" set.
Larger stock would have been nice. Well, at least I have some goats for comfort...
@ComicAvenger said:
"hypebeast culture finally reached Lego"
can't wait for a Lego x Supreme collaboration
I found the article which shows its a bit taller than the actual shoe, but links just take me to a toy shop with normal Lego so guessing all sold out. Further searching found plenty of Adidas ZX8000 with Lego badge on tongue still available and on 25% discount?
@ALEGOMan said:
"feet are gross, shoes remind me of feet, i still don't know why they keep pushing this like it's something exciting that everyone will be into."
Maybe it's for feet fetishists.
Next up: Lego Leather & Lace Collection.
Look at that, they back-pedalled on their “no regional exclusive” promise twice in one day. Bravo LEGO.
Attractive shoe bottom
Purchased a few moments ago.
@Snazzy101 said:
"You're on a site with database of nearly 18,000 LEGO items, most of which are related to building. Googling "LEGO for sale" gave me over 330 million results. There are other options."
You're on a site with a database of nearly 18,000 Lego items. You should know they're not all fungible. Different people enjoy different things.
I don't like artificial scarcity as a sales model. I like the gentle experience of building Lego, not the cutthroat race to buy it. Artificial scarcity turns the hobby into one of acquisition rather than enjoyment of product, creating winners and losers and psychological drama where none needed to exist. And it attracts scalpers who ruin even the acquisition experience. Fortunately, I have no interest in sneakers, but it's a safe bet many of those who do are now dealing with a scalper or feeling left out. I don't know why anyone deserves to be a second-class citizen in the hobby just because they were unlucky enough to have a specific Lego set interest.
@AllenSmith said:
" @Snazzy101 said:
"You're on a site with database of nearly 18,000 LEGO items, most of which are related to building. Googling "LEGO for sale" gave me over 330 million results. There are other options."
You're on a site with a database of nearly 18,000 Lego items. You should know they're not all fungible. Different people enjoy different things.
I don't like artificial scarcity as a sales model. I like the gentle experience of building Lego, not the cutthroat race to buy it. Artificial scarcity turns the hobby into one of acquisition rather than enjoyment of product, creating winners and losers and psychological drama where none needed to exist. And it attracts scalpers who ruin even the acquisition experience. Fortunately, I have no interest in sneakers, but it's a safe bet many of those who do are now dealing with a scalper or feeling left out. I don't know why anyone deserves to be a second-class citizen in the hobby just because they were unlucky enough to have a specific Lego set interest."
Oh wake up, a substantial aspect of this hobby is already about acquisition, to suggest otherwise is to be incredibly naive. How quickly does any discussion here about new sets switch from I like this/I hate this to What are they making next? Not even a day.
Is that because of the gentle experience of building or because of the joy of bricks? No, it's because people like new things and like acquiring new things. But the very idea everything has to be available everywhere just to avoid hurting anyone's feelings is ridiculous. If it wasn't for its rarity few people would want it. Is it supposed to shelfwarm just to prove a point about egalitarianism? A point likely lost on the billions of people in the world who couldn't afford the product in the first place?
Funnily enough, there are dozens of other shoe stores around the world that could conceivably have their own custom shoe produced by LEGO. All part of the Adidas Consortium. I am very much looking forward to these releases and watching you and others twist in the wind about it.
I went to an estate sale recently to get some comic books I wanted. This person had obviously been collecting back in the era when comics were "collectibles" instead of stories to relish. He had stacks of duplicate "Number 1" issues, obviously never touched, presumably acquired because they would be "valuable" some day. And there they were, at an estate sale, being liquidated.
I left them there. The stories weren't great. The value in creative works is their content, not the polyethylene bag around them, or the number on the front.
If you disagree, fine. Whatever floats your boat.
But when the money-making opportunity in a product is engineered so that it gets vacuumed up by a horde of scalpers whose definition of "fun with Lego" is watching their bank account balances trend northward, it actually cheapens the product. (Just ask the comic industry.)
I think this sneaker thing was pretty neat, except for the "supplies limited, act now!!!" part. I can do without Lego turning into a ritual of ultra-limited 3 AM set drops to get instantly resold on eBay like the sneakerhead thing has become. Ditto with regionally targeted sets—Lego's always done them, and that's fine. But even in the early 90s, Lego was able to provide European-exclusive merchandise in the US market via Shop at Home. That was enough to take the bite off.
Include an 'Old Woman' minifig and I'll show some interest.