Shoes are a cool collectible, thought they can often be a bit costly. Sometimes they sell out fast, or are hard to find. Being fairly large, they're good for display, but if they've been worn, care has to be taken to make sure they don't deteriorate.
Apparently so, with this bright red pair of the famous rubbery plastic clogs. Crocs are a contraversial thing, with some people hating the duck foot looking design and over-saturated 'fad' market nature of them,
Notice that the heel strap serves as the white stripe, and the pin that holds it on is a gold ring. It has a full color modern logo on it as well. There's sliding modern Sonic graphic on the interior/heel area, and the sole is indeed white to match his shoes. (Notice the copyright is under the strap)
Of course, like most Croc things they can be decorated by pushing charms into the vent holes in the top of the shoe. These charms are officially called Jibbitz but sometimes are called Crocypops or Croc Charms.
Crocs went all out and made TWELVE different ones to choose from. That's quite a selection, even if you can't mount all of them to the shoes at once.
You can get:
Gold ring, actual 3D transparent chaos emerald, chili dog, thumbs up glove, Sonic's shoe, figure 8 peel out Sonic, side spikes Sonic head, forward facing Sonic head, as well as Knuckles, Tails, Amy and Shadow faces.
Aside from the ring (hard chromed plastic) and the emerald (transparent plastic) all of them are that flat layered texture rubber.
Jibbits: You can buy these separately, you don't have to mount them on shoes, you can just collect them as an item for fun.
On June 12th Journeys Stores confirm they HAVE these Crocs. They're 49.99 , but the price of the charms is unknown. Other stores are likely to follow, and will be added here as they are known.
They're a nice enough classic design, if you didn't already have something similar. They're also reasonably priced at 16.00. Photo by Taaron
However...several early Amazon reviews have these as being very not-sturdy, specifically that the strap breaks off rendering them useless. This seems very out of character for the usually quality Crocs brand.
It's a traditionally shaped pair, with thick white sole, blue laces on top, and Sonic print fabric on the inside (the foot bottom area and the fabric liner) There is a 1-up container on the shoe-tongue, rings on the rubber heel part, and a modern Sonic portrait on the outer side of each shoe.
The box will have either a window in the top, or an art of the shoes/a photo. The dot on the box says "Color Me In Box", so it is covered with light blue Sonic line art scattered all over. These will be 65 dollars upon release.
The foot bottom part has a chili-dogs pattern, the modern logo & should be fuzzy. The tops each have a modern Sonic face art...but there's a sparkle drawn on it? The heel will also have his name from the modern logo on there. This will have the same coloring box as the others.
Notice that all of these photos are not, they're just art of what they want the product to look like, and nobody did any text-wrapping for the heel there.
GroundUp really does bring something new to the table on the trend of 'mis-matched' shoes. With this pair, you get 1 Sonic shoe and 1 Shadow shoe! They each lace up with white laces, and comes with a charm of the characters' face for the laces. The Sonic shoe is blue & red with white and black accents and a picture of him on one side with squares. The Shadow shoe is black and red with white accents, and has him standing on one side. Each one has their name across the heel. This pair is also 65 dollars, and is in adults sizes.