# What is the most hyped sneaker release of all time?

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

*By YPB Team · Published October 7, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/what-is-the-most-hyped-sneaker-release-of-all-time*

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## Current results (no votes yet)

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

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