today we're going to be taking a deeper look into the lightning air jordan 4. we have the
2006 version and the 2021 version we're going to talk about styles cuts materials
opinions all those different things so let's go ahead and get into it
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much so first things first if you guys haven't seen the full review on the 2021 video make sure
you go check that one out as soon as you get done with this one i'll have the link for you guys down
below in the description but right now let's do a deeper comparison between these two shoes so
first thing i want to do is talk about the boxes as you can see right here you have an all yellow
top with a lift off lid with the og style like the air jordan 4 og style box when this one right
here back in the 2005 2006 2007 all in that era we had that black and silver or i guess it's mainly a
dark gray not really a black but a black alcohol i used to always call it black and silver even
though it's more like a dark gray but it's a gray and silver box with the silver jumpman here on the
top then you got the jordan here on the side of the box and then jordan here on the lid of the box
on the top and everything like that got your size tag in the front like normal so just off the rip
as you can see presentation wise before you even open up the box and see the shoes it's
definitely a major major difference when it comes to these two now what i can say is this
newer model box that they have been doing they have been coming correct when it comes to the
quality the sturdiness and just the overall build of these boxes and if i could pick one of these
two i would probably go with the yellow one just because i mean this will look icy sitting in the
wall now when i lift open the lid of the boxes you can see you have your all-over cement print paper
here on the newer retro then you got your classic just white paper but these ones these ones come
with a retro card and this is something that i honestly feel like jordan brand should bring back
drop a comment down below if you think they should bring back the retro card i don't know about you
but the nostalgia behind this alone seeing all the og colorways and trying to cross them off on
the list and collect every single shoe and complete the set and all that stuff for me
those were vibes back in the day i definitely wouldn't mind having that retro card from the 2006
and i think if they could mesh those two together that'll make the ultimate drop so like typical
review fashion i start from the bottom of the shoe and work my way up so let's go ahead and
get started with the outsoles so looking at the outsoles right here now i'm not sure if you're
going to be able to catch it on camera or not but the dark gray on the 2021 version is just slightly
lighter now i think this is something that you can only really tell when you put them side by side
some people might be able to visually tell i think it's really hard to tell unless you really put the
two shoes side by side so overall besides that and the color blocking and the patterns that they
did on the bottom of the outsoles everything is essentially the same now when it comes to
the midsoles and the air units you still have the white pod here on the front and the white
midsole on the back the og comes with a dark gray air unit on the inside and then the retro comes
with the white air unit on the inside so that's one visual difference that you might see from
afar especially when you look at the air unit in the midsole and all kind of blends together this
kind of creates a little bit more of a contrast again that might just be a preference thing and
some people might not care about it at all but i have to show you guys the difference between the
two now taking it to the upper when i look at the upper overall throughout the entire shoe it looks
like everything is pretty much identical when it comes to the initial color scheme of the sneaker
they didn't switch anything up when it came to the mesh you got the yellow mesh behind it with the
gray net on top and the 2021 retro rubber nets are a little bit bigger when it comes to the squares
and everything like that as you see side by side you can kind of see the visual difference between
the two me personally i kind of have always been a fan of the smaller grade of it when it comes to
the net but again that's a preference thing and i'm sure not too many people may care about that
but that is something that you may notice if you're really diving deeper into a sneaker when it
comes to the arms and the eyelids of the sneaker everything looks pretty much identical as well you
have your gray suede with your translucent eyelids here on the top and the bottom of the shoe these
both come equipped with a standard pair of yellow laces the laces actually look pretty close to the
same color as well and these don't come with additional laces on either one of the shoes so
if you wanted to add white laces or black laces or gray or whatever it is color that you want to add
that'd be something you have to add on when i look at the jordan 4 patch here on the tongue of
the two shoes i think the newer retro the gray on that area is just a little bit darker but overall
everything is essentially the same gray patch white jump man yellow flight one thing that does
definitely stick out to me is going to be the sock liner the newer retro the sock liner is a
lot more yellow and it kind of separates itself between the material on the upper and then the
sock liner compared to this pair it kind of blends a little bit better with the material on the upper
one thing that they also duplicated as well is the insoles you have a white insole with a gray
jumpman everything the same on that as well now going to the back of these two shoes one addition
that i really like about the back tabs and how they have incorporated the jumpman logo with
the plastic logo right there they've done this in the past yes we have seen that but they have gone
a different way about stitching as you can see between jordan's arm and his body they have an
open gap right here with the plastic showing and then if you look at the new retro they have that
part closed in and they have a seam line stitch right there behind it so it kind of makes it look
a little bit more clean a little bit more uniform so i definitely like that small detail touch when
it comes to the newer retro fours and how they've added that with the back tabs so overall when it
comes to the color blocking and the scheme of the two shoes they are pretty much identical on that
aspect now when it comes to the actual color of the material the touch and the feel of the
material you're definitely gonna have a different vibe when it comes to the 2021. i would say this
yellow is kind of like a muted yellow it's not as vibrant as the yellow that you would see on
the 2006 pair but at the same time it's definitely still a shoe that's gonna pop because at the end
of the day it's still an all yellow shoe i think that is definitely going to be a preference thing
as well similar to the other preference thing is just the overall shape and the build in the mold
of the sneaker now this is back in the 2005-2006 era when you had all those different retro fours
coming out and everyone was shaped just like this now this one is bringing back the 1989 vibes
they're bringing back that old school style the old school cut you can see the difference right
here between the eyelets and between the stitch lines and everything on the front end of the shoe
also the tongue it's a lot more padded and thicker you got a thicker area around the ankle and the
way the back is formed and shaped and the toe is a lot more slim you can see those two transitioning
photos right there on how the shape and mold of the two shoes are different right there so let me
know which one you guys like more me personally i kind of grew up with this era when i first started
collecting so i had always gravitated to this but i can definitely understand why people like this
style a little bit more i think the shoe looks a lot more bulky in the middle of the foot right
here because i'm so used to such a you know kind of like a narrow vibe right here around the front
end in the middle of the toe and everything like that so i think there's a lot of different ways
to look at it but you're definitely going to see a different shape and form of the shoe when you
see the new 2021 retro my next question for you guys is simply which shoe do you guys like more
the 2006 or the 2021 i posted a poll on my ig to see what everybody thinks if you haven't
already make sure you follow me on ig so you can participate in the polls and see all the results
here on the channel this is what they said 61 to 39 wow i was not expecting those results
i don't know if it's just because i mean okay man i don't even know what to say okay let's think if
it was majority of that way it's probably because everybody's just so excited to be able to get this
shoe a lot of people wanted to get this shoe that have been collecting for many years and still have
never gotten it or you got new sneaker heads that came into the game that heard about the shoe the
myths and the legends of it and seeing how much it was that should be worth like two thousand dollars
and now they're like finally i have an opportunity to buy the shoe at a retail price of 220 or you
know resell whatever 500 600 bucks but that's clearly way cheaper than this version and i think
over time these are definitely going to end up going up give it a couple years and they're going
to be right up there just like these but that's a whole another topic but either way i may be okay
i think that does make sense you know after i think about it after i kind of explain it right
there that does kind of make sense why it would be such a high percentage towards the new retro
i'm just i don't know i think for me you know i love the og when it comes to a lot of different
shoes if it wasn't for this we wouldn't have this so it's that type of thing for me i think there's
a definitely a lot of different ways you could look at it honestly i don't think there's a wrong
answer or a right answer it just wasn't exactly the results i was expecting in my mind so yeah let
me know what you guys think about the results down below in the comment section and like i said about
price and all those other things as well this sneaker right here is like a 1500 or 2000 shoes
something like that and these are currently going for like five five fifty six hundred bucks i think
the price is going to go down they'll probably be worth somewhere around a three or four hundred
dollar range and then over time they're gonna go right back up and next thing you know you're gonna
be like bruh should have gone for 400 and now they're like 800 or 900. i definitely think both
shoes are great shoes to have in your collection super dope super excited to see these and a lot of
people's rotations and on feet and everything like that i'm glad i got a pair for my collection stay
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