"Nike air Flight Huarache" Still hoping, praying, and waiting for these to return. This year or n

jshortt · Oct 7, 2023

rainking said:
Are you %&^$#%&$^#*T^$#! KIDDING me, Nike? These are so close yet so far away from being the OG Pip PE. Same colors as his for the heel-counter strap and the neoprene bootie, but then you go and eff up the actual upper coloring and the outsole? Unbelievable. Just mother^%*%* ! unbelievable

rainking said:
Nah, I can't deal with that entirely unnecessary black outsole. Kills the whole look for me. I'll remember this as one of the all-time troll jobs they've pulled. All they had to do was use the same upper from the Fab Fives and swap the heel strap and bootie for these black/red ones. Done. Instead, they went to the trouble of changing things up, and for what? To create a version that looks worse. Way to go.

Was waiting for your reaction on this one. :rofl:

jshortt · Oct 7, 2023

Welp. In TN on vacation with my girl, walked into the Nike outlet and found the Fab 5's. Had one last size 12, and even with the purple being ridiculously wrong, couldn't turn them down for $89. :lol:

jacksodk · Oct 7, 2023

jshortt said:
Welp. In TN on vacation with my girl, walked into the Nike outlet and found the Fab 5's. Had one last size 12, and even with the purple being ridiculously wrong, couldn't turn them down for $89.

This the luck I need. Went to one outlet in Charleston, SC and they had nothing. Asked the guy to do a stock locate and see if another outlet close by (Charlotte, Hilton Head or Myrtle Beach) had them and he said they can't stock locate..... :rolleyes

tuxedo1208 · Oct 7, 2023

Charlotte doesn’t have them (yet).

rainking · Oct 8, 2023

jshortt said:
Was waiting for your reaction on this one.

jacksodk · Oct 8, 2023

tuxedo1208 said:
Charlotte doesn’t have them (yet).

Keep me posted. I will be up that way 2x in the next 2 weeks. Hopefully, they have them by next Saturday or Oct 19th

jshortt · Oct 8, 2023

jacksodk said:
This the luck I need. Went to one outlet in Charleston, SC and they had nothing. Asked the guy to do a stock locate and see if another outlet close by (Charlotte, Hilton Head or Myrtle Beach) had them and he said they can't stock locate.....

Damn, they don't stock locate any more? I haven't asked for that in a minute, but that seems kinda crazy.

AIR J XIII · Oct 8, 2023

jacksodk said:
This the luck I need. Went to one outlet in Charleston, SC and they had nothing. Asked the guy to do a stock locate and see if another outlet close by (Charlotte, Hilton Head or Myrtle Beach) had them and he said they can't stock locate.....

Ducktales.

They can absolutely check stock locally.

jacksodk · Oct 8, 2023

jshortt said:
Damn, they don't stock locate any more? I haven't asked for that in a minute, but that seems kinda crazy.

AIR J XIII said:
Ducktales.

They can absolutely check stock locally.

Oh. I absolutely know they can stock locate. Like dude, I done been in this shoe game for over 30 yrs (yes, I'm telling my age a little, lol) so I know what they can do. Either he just didn't want to (even though the store was slow) or he just didn't know how or knew he could stock locate. I even told him I had the sku and upc and he still looked clueless.

jshortt · Oct 8, 2023

jacksodk said:
Oh. I absolutely know they can stock locate. Like dude, I done been in this shoe game for over 30 yrs (yes, I'm telling my age a little, lol) so I know what they can do. Either he just didn't want to (even though the store was slow) or he just didn't know how or knew he could stock locate. I even told him I had the sku and upc and he still looked clueless.

Probably didn't know how, so he just said they couldn't. Drives me nuts when people do that.

tgr818 · Oct 9, 2023

The wait for these black/royal to drop is insane. Hope stock is up QS on these is trash

AIR J XIII · Oct 12, 2023

Official pics of the black/Lyon blue should be out shortly…

vinnuendo · Oct 12, 2023

AIR J XIII as you said

seandon23 · Oct 12, 2023

Is the blue the right shade?

fdub · Oct 12, 2023

seandon23 said:
Is the blue the right shade?

Nope!

The 03 retro had a slightly Lighter blue. That blue should’ve been “sagan blue” like the 03 retro and the OG’s

superblytrife · Oct 12, 2023

Those look off to my eye.

fdub · Oct 12, 2023

1992 OG

2003 retro

seandon23 · Oct 12, 2023

fdub said:
Nope!

The 03 retro had a slightly Lighter blue. That blue should’ve been “sagan blue” like the 03 retro and the OG’s

Thanks I looked at the pics and knew the blue was off. Good to know I wasn’t going crazy lol

fdub said:
OG

2003 retro

I’d taken the shade of the 03 pair at least. These new ones aren’t it sadly

vinnuendo · Oct 12, 2023

These look a little darker right?

jln912 · Oct 12, 2023

They look great to me . I’ll be getting two pairs for sure

jshortt · Oct 12, 2023

Yep, blue is definitely off. Should be more of a blue-grey than royal. Still wild to me that as much work as those guys claimed to have put in to get these "correct," they've done such a piss poor job. :lol: