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Hi all, as you all know, Adidas has brough chaos with the NMD runners this week, people camping at Foot Locker, spending 5K to resell, running, fighting... you know... chinese stuff
besides from that, we are going to review what we think that has been the most important releases this week
In one hand, we have the Nike Am1 safari Qs imitating the original release from Atmos. There are a few differences with the og
this time safari has gone Afro on all the toe box, a glow in the dark ice sole that will make salty to every Og colector
as you can see it has a horrible shape that looks like a London double-decker bus.
Later we will try to shave it and reshape the toe box to make it look much better or at least as good as the old Am1's
On the other hand, we have here the most important release for us this week, maybe because of hype, maybe just confort and style. The ultraboos uncaged by Solebox as part of the Consortium tour.
In our town Madrid only 10 pairs arrived at Sivasdescalzo, luckily we got a pair so we are going to review the most important aspects.
So, as we sayd before, lets talk about the Solebox ultraboost. Solebox has been awarded by adidas to colaborate in the Consortium tour with another 11 stores worldwide.
It remembers us to last years project run by Asics for the 25th anniversary of the Gel lyte III with 12 coloaborations in the whole year by 12 stores worldwide also.
If im not wrong (that i am) this is the second or maybe the third release of the consortium tour, started by Kith nyc with the tubular doom, then followed by Nice kicks with the NMD, and now Solebox
Berlin's most famous store, previously directed by Hikmet Sugoer, one of the most important figures in the european game, who decided to design this UB inspiring its colorway on the Tiergarten coat of arms, something like Animal beast garden coat of arms.
grey tones on the whole pair plus a red/laser Continental sole to prevent slips that the original and horrible ultraboost sole make
Packaging is superb, with a perfect execution of a wine color box with gold accents with store name, the consortium logo, inside we can see inspired consortium paper. So its a perfect box and we all love to get this kind of stuff and we really miss it on colabs of every brand.
This time, ultraboost has been uncaged from its original shape with the three stripes cage giving more freedom
but some buyers worldwide have been saying that it fits bigger, we dont know if due to the uncage or just the mold but i had to go -0.5 from my true to size (based on Nike am1)
you can feel that 0.5 or 0.25 on the front of the toe box
about materials, Solebox selected a whool upper really soft that remembers me to my grandma's whool sweater
if you have a wide foot or something similar, the shape will became a bit tight and it will be visible on the shape.
about the back part, we can see that its branded on the left with Solebox logo
materials on the heel are nubuck? seems like it but not too hairy, tongue is produced with premium suede, really soft
with Solebox S in one side and on the other Adidas logo. Inside we can find that the insole has store branding and Consortium branding.
to be honest, it doesn´t have much more to coment, its nice, soft and simply great looking.
it comes with 3 laces choice, one pair of ropes of the same color of the upper, the ones that come from factory and a third option
with red/laser laces as the sole that rarely no one will use.
just to end with this review, maybe we are in front of Hikmet's last desing with Adidas
as Snipes group is now the owner of Solebox. There are rumours of incoming colabs of solebox designed by him
we have all seen leaked pics of a new Asics model, but rumours talk about a new saga of Three brothers on Asics as they did with Saucony
maybe just rumours as many others on the net...
we hope you have enjoyed the review of the Solebox uncaged Ultraboost by Adidas
lets see how they look on feet and make your own conclusion about if it's worthy the resell value near 600 or 700 euro.
To end this review and as we talked earlier, we are proceeding to shave or cut the toe box hair of the AM1 Safari
we used small scissors to cut nails, just take care with the parts were the pair joins with the safari print
it took like 15 minutes to get to this point, nearly ended the left pair
as you can see, using an iron (whool position) with a little bit of water on a towel to prevent burning the toe has given us a better shape
due to the water on the towel the toebox is still wet, to avoid toe marks or ruining the shape
but results are great, we had a double-decker bus and now we have a lovely shape that remembers us to Nike's best years with AM1
we need to shave the other pair and on our next video we will try to compare with and old face friend the Og model and this new Qs version of safari.
in case someone thinks that toe box looks weird, we place papers inside to avoid loosing the shape as the toe is still wet
Thanks for watching, hope you enjoyed with us and see you on our next video.