Galaxy Foamposites!!!! For sale!

Foamposite Galaxy

HA!  I got you here now read this!  Last night as I was getting ready to go to bed a little after midnight, I checked my timeline and read a tweet from one of my friends that read, “PG plaza saved a couple lives tonite...”.  This raised my curiosity and I began to think what could possibly be going on at PG plaza, where lives needed to be saved.  I began to use my logic and deductive reasoning to figure this out.  Being a native of this glorious county of Prince George’s in Maryland, I know the stores that are in PG Plaza, a large percentage of them are shoe stores and athletic wear.  As I sent him a reply asking what he was referring to it hit me.  Either a new line of Jordan’s or a new line of “Foams” must have been released.  Sure enough his response was that the release of the new “Galaxy Foamposites” was shut down.

 Foamposites or as they are more commonly referred to by sneaker enthusiasts “the foams”, first debuted in 1997, worn then by Orlando Magic guard Penny Hardaway.  Priced at $180 and with a revolutionary design and unconventional look, people weren’t exactly tearing down the doors to get a pair of the overpriced shoes.   Through the years Nikes has sampled a wide array of new color schemes and design phases on the shoes and popularity and demand has sky rocketed.  Now 15 years later we have reached the point where interest in the shoes has breached the level of insanity.

In 2011 we began to see the images that we have associated with the release of Jordan brand shoes to the release of “the foams” (now priced at $220).  On July 1^st in the state of Maryland two separate incidents were reported, one at the afore mentioned PG Plaza, and another at Iverson mall in Forestville, for the release of the “Electric Blue” foamposites.  In the incident at PG Plaza 3 people were stabbed and 2 died and in the incident in Iverson Mall 12 people were robbed. 

In the last month Nike has released two more versions of its Foamposite shoes, the “Metallic red” (Feb, 4), and the “Galaxy (Feb 24).  People have still been camping out in front of stores in tents, days in advance, fighting in lines, and robbing people for their chance to get their hands on the shoes.  With the release of last night’s “Galaxy”, it seems that police finally have gotten proactive and last night shutting down the release of the shoes in stores in Florida and in Maryland.  Leaving patrons who waited for hours to leave empty handed furious.

We’ve seen this site plenty of times before with Jordans, iPods, iPads, Playstations, Xbox’s.  These items are released in a limited supply and it creates a chaotic and dangerous situation.  How did we reach this point of insanity?  Right now there is a bid going on for a pair of these shoes on ebay for $70,000!  Don’t believe me?  Click the link! So the question arises, who is responsible for correcting this?   The manufacturer?  The consumers?  The authorities?  What do you think?   

People waiting for the Galaxy Foams in Atlanta