Christmas Comes Early

On Friday my early Christmas present to myself arrived, my Nike ID LeBron 12's. Its been a long time since I've used the ID service, and it still kind of amazes me that you can custom design your own shoes. I've considered it on a number of models over the last few years but was never able to make a design that was quite right. However the great design and excellent colour options available for the LeBron 12 were finally too good to resist.

I'm really pleased with how they came out. The bonded part of the upper is a little shinier than I expected, but the Team Red is a great maroon/wine colour. I think my favourite part of the shoe is the hits of royal blue which really sets of the other colours. As I mentioned in my previous post I wanted to take the basic design of the Heart of a Lion shoe and give it a proper Cavs colourway, and I think its really worked.

The only part of the shoe that didn't come out quite how I expected was the white-on-white paint splatter. As you can see from the pictures it doesn't really show that well, and I was expecting it to be more raised, and in a contrasting finish. However I quite like that it's a subtle detail that you only see up close. Overall the quality is really good, there's a few glue marks around the edges of the posite, but no more than on a normal Nike shoe.

I was really impressed by how quick they got them to me as as it only took three and a half weeks to make and ship, which was a a week and a half quicker than they originally estimated.

I especially love how the new hexagonal zoom air system looks, the coloured pods and the clear sole give the shoe an awesome futuristic look. You can read a great write up on the tech behind it at Design Boom, and I'm really excited to see how it performs on the court.