Nike released 150 pairs of Pigeon dunks in 2005. Back then - those numbers were laughable. Way below demand. Today? Simply absurd. How many pairs are on the market? At what price? Why even call it a ‘

Nike released 150 pairs of Pigeon dunks in 2005. Back then - those numbers were laughable. Way below demand. Today? Simply absurd. How many pairs are on the market? At what price? Why even call it a ‘release’?  
 
In 2004 or 2005, when these shoes came out - I remember the sneaker ‘community’ being a relatively small space. People went apeshit over the pigeons. Even 15 years ago - people almost DIED over these shoes. The cops found machetes and baseball bats at the release. Google ‘Sneaker Riot’. I wasn’t there - I was at work - but my homie @danposite (RIP) was on the cover of the @nypost and told me all about it.  
 
Today - with the secondary sneaker market surpassing several BILLION dollars and everyone and their mother talking about sneakers (that @netflix show #sneakerheads had me hating myself just a little bit), you’d think Nike might figure out a better way to fill the gap; I know some of y’all don’t think the gap needs to be filled, but I’m one of those people who does. Maybe it’s my background in #economics .  
 
I don’t think these @warrenlotas ‘dunks’ are ‘fake’ - I think they’re tributes. I had a convo with someone in the DMs and broke it down like this: Nike released 150 pairs of ‘Pigeon Dunks’ 15 years ago. At this point - 15 years later - they might as well not even actually exist. They exist in theory, sure, and a few people have a handful of pairs, but realistically no one can actually buy or wear them at this point. IMO - these @warrenlotas shoes are a ‘reimagined’ or ‘recycled’ piece of unattainable lore that your above average ‘sneakerhead’ can actually buy to wear.  
 
They know what they’re doing. IMO - if Nike wants to ‘protect the legacy’ and discourage the fakes and the ‘tributes’ and satiate willing and paying customers - why don’t they release a similar shoe with a different colored swoosh or a different colored liner? One for the collectors and one for the consumers. 
 
I guess the question comes back to - are sneakers consumables? Are they collectibles? Are they both? Are they neither?