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What is the most hyped sneaker release of all time?

By YPB Team

Mall crowds, crashed apps, police outside a downtown shop and raffles with millions of entries. Which drop caused the most chaos?

  1. Nike SB Dunk Pigeon — ranked #11
    Nike SB Dunk Pigeon
    Jeff Staple's 2005 New York Dunk whose launch made the front page of the New York Post.
    1000pts
  2. Adidas Samba OG — ranked #22
    Adidas Samba OG
    The 2023 revival that turned a 1950s football trainer into the year's hardest shoe to find.
    839pts
  3. Air Jordan 11 Concord — ranked #33
    Air Jordan 11 Concord
    The December 2011 retro whose release set off crowd trouble at malls across the US.
    599pts
  4. Nike Dunk Low Panda — ranked #44
    Nike Dunk Low Panda
    The black and white Dunk of 2021, restocked for years and still sold out.
    599pts
  5. Nike Mag — ranked #55
    Nike Mag
    The self-lacing Back to the Future shoe, released in tiny numbers in 2011 and 2016.
    599pts
  6. Nike Air Foamposite Galaxy — ranked #66
    Nike Air Foamposite Galaxy
    The 2012 space-print Foamposite whose All-Star weekend release caused crowd trouble.
    0pts
  7. Nike Air Max 95 Neon — ranked #77
    Nike Air Max 95 Neon
    The 1995 runner that caused 'Air Max hunting' muggings in Japan.
    0pts
  8. Air Jordan 1 Bred — ranked #88
    Air Jordan 1 Bred
    The black and red 1985 colourway Nike sold as the shoe the NBA 'banned'.
    0pts
  9. Off-White The Ten — ranked #99
    Off-White The Ten
    Virgil Abloh's 2017 ten-shoe Nike collection.
    0pts
  10. Travis Scott x Air Jordan 1 — ranked #1010
    Travis Scott x Air Jordan 1
    The 2019 reverse-Swoosh high-top that crashed the SNKRS app.
    0pts

Comments 1

Police were called to malls in six states for the December 2011 Concord retro, a $180 shoe: https://youpick.best/articles/air-jordan-ranked-many-ways

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