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Custom Batman and Robin sneakers

Cory Doctorow at 10:20 pm Mon, Aug 30, 2010

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Daniel Reese's Batman and Robin custom-painted sneakers are damned cool -- I'm especially partial to the Robins. There's a large selection of custom kicks at Brassmonki.com, on a wide variety of pop culture themes.

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Cactaur

Whats the legality about doing something like this? Having visited the site it doesn’t seem he pays royalties or licensing fees.
lobizao

I was thinking I was way ignorant and that maybe Â£ 500.00 wasn’t as much as I thought, but based on everyone’s reaction, I guess it’s the buttload of money that I thought it was. I wonder if they’ve sold any shoes for that price
- Itsumishi
  
  People pay crazy amounts of money for custom kicks.
  
  When I had more money than I do now I was spending $200AUD about 5 or 6 times a year on sneakers. I barely even thought about it.
  
  I would have spent much more than that had I come across something like this.
  
  All that said and done. $200 to blow on something isn’t something I’ve got anymore. If I want to spend that amount of money I have to put it aside and think about it…. damn budgets.
Anonymous

I want to see the versions of these that he’s actually painted. Most of the pics on his site are photoshopped shoes with color and a image added, not too many shoes featured that he’s ACTUALLY hand painted. Seeing these digitally colored comps is nice & all but I want to see the real deal before giving him any props. Have they been made yet?
Yikes120

Yeah these are sweet! The colorway is just nice.. DC Comics converse super hero sneakers I think is better though….http://whollysblog.com/wordpress/converse-dc-comics-chuck-taylor-collection/
Sneakerhead

Super Heroes are cool but Villains have more fun. Check out these Joker custom kicks: http://pimpmykicks.com/2010/09/13/joker-custom-nike-air-force-ones-af1s/
Anonymous

Batman and Robin? I think that “R” stands for rasta… they look all Jamaican to me
Yikes120

Yeah these are sweet! The colorway is just nice.. DC Comics converse super hero sneakers I think is better though

http://whollysblog.com/wordpress/converse-dc-comics-chuck-taylor-collection/
snakedart

Does anyone ever intentionally dress like Robin? I always thought it was something that happened accidentally, a result of inattentive dressing, and resulted in a shocked realization, tittering of strangers, and a few hours’ humiliation.
Anonymous

i love the superhero sneakers=) but i wanted to know how much they were. thanks!!!
Peripatet

Tres cool. But at 500 GBP, I’ll pass, TYVM.

Maybe Green Lantern has some of his castoffs on eBay. . .
PrettyBoyTim

I like the Buzz Lightyear ones, but Â£750? I guess each one is hand-painted by someone in Woking.

I guess it must be possible to buy the plain white sneakers and create your own…
S1s3but0

There you go:
http://brassmonki.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/green-lantern.jpg
I reckon it has the same price tag though.
MarkM

For Â£500.00, I’d rather buy that Jet-Pack I’ve been looking at, and keep my high-top chuck taylors.
Itsumishi

Man, those are some very fly kicks.

I’m usually fairly eh about Nikes, but man.