Monopoly Reeboks

[Jenn! 918]

Two New England companies have collaborated on an unlikely fashion mash-up: Monopoly and sneakers.

Canton-based Reebok and Rhode Island toymaker Hasbro Inc. are launching a Monopoly-inspired footwear collection featuring a variety of styles based on the Monopoly game. Monopoly dice, tokens, cards, houses and hotels, and the Monopoly money inspired the details for the laces, prints, colors and overall design of the shoes, the company said.

"Monopoly has global recognition as one of the most iconic board games of all time, and Reebok is excited to be able to translate this fun into footwear," said Christian Stegmaier, Reebok's head of lifestyle product marketing.

The line will debut worldwide in late August with a suggested retail price range of $40 for toddler sizes and $75 to $85 for women's and men's sizes. The second wave of the collection is scheduled to launch in November 2008.

http://www.boston.com/business/ticker/2008...launches_2.html

Will you buy them?

[Peikko 1,575]

The millions of 'monopoly' game fans that have been eagerly awaiting some monopoly memorobilia for decades of course. Silly Jenn, how could you be so skeptical?

[Amby 490]

Neil is shoe/sneaker obsessed. He just said "oh no they're reeboks! if they were adidas I would so get them!"

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I don't know about Reeboks - but I've wanted that cell-phone based monopoly game for 3 years now

I will say though that as shoes go - these one as particularly foul.

Edited August 8, 2008 by Number 6

[Amby 490]

I don't know about Reeboks - but I've wanted that cell-phone based monopoly game for 3 years now

I will say though that as shoes go - these one as particularly foul.

I think I can get Monopoly on my phone. I'm looking now.

it's true! 2 monopoly games to choose from on my phone!

[Ms. Squirrel 11]

They are awesome and I would buy and wear them. They look cool with skinny jeans.

I have a thing for funky trainers.

[Peikko 1,575]

You like that shade of green/red on a shoe? Hmmmmmmmm, the green reminds of mint icecream.

[Ban Hammer 13,332]

sorry jenn, they do not pass go.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Take white reeboks and have some drunk vomit over them - and you will have a product not unlike the one that they are selling.

[Ms. Squirrel 11]

You like that shade of green/red on a shoe? Hmmmmmmmm, the green reminds of mint icecream.

OR green

I would not buy them just for the colour, but I think the monopoly idea is fab.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Anyone who buys them should go to jail

[Peikko 1,575]

I don't dislike the theme, funky themes are cool, I am a bit freaked out by THAT colour scheme though.

[Ms. Squirrel 11]

You just have to combine it with colours that don't go with it - you get an absurd colour combo and your style looks funky Japanese. I am thinking yellow t-shirt and purple cardigan. Oh - even better, grey t-shirt.

Edited August 8, 2008 by Ms. Squirrel

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Neil is shoe/sneaker obsessed. He just said "oh no they're reeboks! if they were adidas I would so get them!"

Aren't they all made in the same factories in Malaysia?

[tom&tata 2]

I don't know about Reeboks - but I've wanted that cell-phone based monopoly game for 3 years now

I will say though that as shoes go - these one as particularly foul.

I love the game. Made the mistake of downloading/playing it on weekday night. I think I went to sleep at 2 AM that night.

I will pass on the shoe. I am not a mint-green-shoe person