Here we go!
What I ordered:
What I got:
I thought they came out almost as I'd imagined. I didn't think the clear outsole would be SO ICY. The quality was pretty good. I was kind of disappointed by the Flywire/Skinwire parts... it was definitely not as nice and thick as the Dark Knights and Chaos. The iDs Flywire feels like pleather and I thought it would crease but walked around, jumped, and etc and they didn't crease.
It was kind of sloppy, in my opinion, that you could see a lot of the stuff that was going on underneath the toe area.
They felt like maybe half an ounce lighter. The memory foam around the ankle wasn't as thick. I didn't have any problems with the gluing and I thought they fit like they should have.
The printing on the Kobe sheath sign on the bottom on the outsole was pretty sad as they painted the general area of the sheath (didn't try to neatly paint it; you can see it in my pic of the icy soles underneath). I thought the overall paint would be more shinier but the purple is the same dull purple (as I go in the Kobe IV iD) and I thought the Metallic Gold in my Swoosh would've been more metallic and shiny like foil but it was good enough.
It was a nice touch to get my own Kobe V insoles rather than the plain black NikeiD insoles like in the Kobe IV iDs.
I changed laces to the thin black oval ones I got from Foot Locker and thought it looked nice.
I don't think I'll return these but if I had to do it over again, I'd do this one:
Who knows? Maybe my icy clear soles will yellow and match my metallic gold Swoosh!