Adidas Turning Homer’s ‘Strolling Into Bushes’ Meme Into Sneaker

It hasn’t been an amazing month for Adidas, but when the German sportswear large could be counted on one factor as of late (or during the last 20 years), it’s discovering methods to squeeze some money out of licensed sneaker offers. Subsequent up: The Simpsons.

Earlier this month we bought our first take a look at a Simpsons x Famous person collab, which sees practically the complete floor of the shoe coated in blue fuzz to approximate Marge’s hair. It appears to be like precisely like a pair of previous Cookie Monster sneakers I as soon as purchased for my (then) two-year-old:

One other shoe within the lineup, one leaked earlier in the present day and this time a Stan Smith, options Homer as a substitute. Whereas initially seeming quite a bit much less concerned than the Marge shoe—possibly there’s a balding joke right here, I don’t know—flipping the shoe round reveals this one has some fuzz too, however solely on the heel:

Just like the meme itself, that is one thing you possibly can chuckle at if you see it on the web, however spending cash to put on it in your ft? Hrmmmmmm.

Not that Adidas will care. Whereas the corporate’s Yeezy collaboration has turned to ash, and had been value huge cash at its peak, Adidas’ bread and butter within the sneaker enterprise (like Nike’s), isn’t in excessive profile, restricted releases however in two different locations: for probably the most half, it’s the on a regular basis roster of venerable classics (the Famous person, the Stan Smith, slides, and so on) and to a lesser extent it’s tie-ins like this.

We’ve seen this quite a bit over the previous couple of years, as the corporate has launched sneakers primarily based on all the pieces from Sport of Thrones to Pokémon to South Park to a earlier Simpsons launch, and whereas many of those come have come throughout wanting a bit naff, some (Pokémon particularly) have been nice!

There’s no phrase on a launch date or value for both of those.