so as you guys know Nike did an exclusive access on the Royal toe Air
Jordan once and I got lucky and I hit my package just came in the mail I'm ready
to open these things up and see what they're really talking about welcome
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enough talking let's go ahead and crack this box open Oh baby and here we have
it the Air Jordan one royal tow you have your classic Air Jordan one Nike box
with your black with your red hit typical to Jordan ones that have been
releasing over the past few years now reading on the tag you have Air Jordan
one retro high og black black white game royal and Nan retail a hundred and
seventy bucks taking off the lid we have our normal white paper that comes with
the shoot we got this shoe oh we got this shoe so before we get started with
the review I want to make sure I show you guys the shoes that I will be using
in the comparison and that is the bread toe Air Jordan one the CDP Air Jordan
one the fragment Jordan one and the Royal Air Jordan one let's get into the
shoe starting with the outsole you have your classic Air Jordan one royal
outsole similar to the Arizona one royal working our way up to the midsole we
have an all white midsole with a white stitch all the way around the shoe and
taking our way up to the upper I think this is one thing that is very
controversial I have a lot to say about this so I'm gonna try to break this down
quick as possible but the color blocking I think that's one thing that is just
really throwing me off right now I still don't know how I feel about the color
blocking starting with the toe of the foot we have a smooth black leather
working our way up to the toe we have a royal tumbled leather looking at the mid
foot we have a white panel here with a pure white leather accenting that with a
black swoosh and black here on the back and also around the eyelids with the
white air jordan wings logo the white wings logo again I think that's
something that's thrown me off as well I might have preferred if it was blue or
like but I don't know it is what it is we got to take what we can get working
our way to the back of the foot we have a royal blue collar here with black
straps taking it to the sock liner this is something that I actually do
appreciate it's more of a neoprene style more of a fine more smooth fit I do like
that they are incorporating that with the newer Air Jordan once it gives it
just a little bit more of a premium vibe another thing about the premium vibe I
think the leather hit here on the tongue I think it's a nice little accent some
people don't like it but I think it will eventually grow on people because the
leather is just a little bit nicer than the regular mesh that we normally give
we have a nylon tongue classic to the Air Jordan one and then on the install
we have an all-black insole with a royal blue Nike Air this shoe comes equipped
with black laces and royal blue laces so now let's talk about color blocking in
the whole aesthetic of the sneaker I want to break this down with a couple of
different shoes so the first major thing that really stands out to me is the
color blocking when we talk about the toe series this is a bred toe we have
the purple toe the green toe different things like that but when it comes to
the Royal toe the color blocking is changed when it comes to the back half
of the foot compared to here you have the red to match with the toe and then
you have black that doesn't match with the toe and it's more reversed similar
to the fragment or other shoes that we will get into in a little bit so for me
it's kind of throwing me off and I don't know if I could really call this the
blue toe or whatever you'd like to call it it's just not that same color
blocking style to me so when I think of this shoe I'm just like this is what I
know this is the norm now so this is kind of just throwing it off for me and
I feel like these in a sense relate a little bit more to the CDP Air Jordan
one if you look at this shoe right here you can see the color blocking with the
all-black basically the black is what I'm talking about when I talk about the
color blocking but if you see here it's got the same type of paneling the only
thing difference here is you have the royal here compares to the white and
then around the color you have the white here in the royal here but when you look
at the sense of the sneaker and where they're kind of going with it
I feel like this vibe really connects with this shoe a little bit more just
because it's more dominant on the shoe again this is all opinion based based
off of me let me know what you think down below in the comment section this
shoe kind of reiterates three or four different types of models of sneakers
and color blocking styles and they're giving us something new when it comes to
this style because we don't normally see this color blocking style on the back of
the foot matching with the front of the foot like this it's always pretty
opposite or different so this is something new it might be something that
might grow on us overtime but again right now it's
just kind of throwing me off so next I want to compare it to the Air Jordan one
from 2017 this is the Royal right here as you can see it's got crystallization
on the black part of the leather so I'm hoping with the newer retros this
doesn't happen on these if you want to learn more about that check out the link
above I have a full description I'll show you how to get rid of it how to
prevent it all those different things and why it happens but for the most part
when I'm looking at the issue right here I see two different kind of colors and
shades when I see the Blues this one's a little bit more light it's a little bit
softer it's more vibrant and then you have a darker deeper royal blue right
here on the new pair and then on the tongue you have your black with a royal
blue Nike Air and on the new one you have black with the white Nike Air so
there are obviously a bunch of differences but when I talk about color
blocking or anything like that I would say these only resemble towards the
Royals when it comes to the toe the midsole some of the mid part of the foot
and then more of the outsole okay so now we're on to the final one and this one
right here is obviously the one that everybody wants to see the differences
in all those different things but the fragment one is basically what the Royal
toe should look like just - the white toe here it should be blue and that
would be the Royal toe if you look at the back of the foot right here you can
see it has royal blue and black this one is black and royal blue so essentially
all they did was flip the colors here on the back of the foot and then that's
what got us here our new royal toe version but I really wish they would
have kept this same color blocking style on the back of the foot and then put
that on here and just put the Royal toe on it but again that would have probably
diminished the value in the hype around this shoe and me personally I think
Jordan Brand really didn't want them to lose the hype around this shoe by giving
a gr version so because of that they decided to switch the back half because
it was just too close to the fragment so I went on Instagram like I always love
to do and I posted a poll to see what everybody else thinks and then obviously
I post the results on here so go ahead and follow me on IG if you want to be a
part of that as well but basically what I asked the people I said is this shoe
fire or is his shoes trash and 83% of the people said this shoe was fire 17%
said trash but one thing that is very interesting to me look at this right
here 23% chose the blue toe and 77% chose the
bread toe but they called this shoe fire and it's just overwhelming when it comes
to the bread toe and then when we come to the Royal version
27% verse 73% again very overwhelming for the og colorway I even thought these
probably would beat the CDP it was 48 to 52 percent in favor of the CDP
so these ranked last on the list obviously I didn't want to do the frag
because you already know about those but these ranked last on the list when it
came to all those comparing them in a battle against each shoe so now the
question is all those people that said this shoe was fire how fire is this shoe
really let's send it over to my boy jumper man Chris and see what he has to
say yo what's going on DJ man these royal toes I think these things are
actually pretty fire I think they're actually one of the best jordan wants to
come out so far this year I like the color blocking the color scheme I like
the royal is the blacks and the white looks and yes I kind of do wish it was
the color scheme of like how these are you know the bred toes are which the
Nate the royal color was like you know up here and all that but it's still cool
I think they're actually nice but yeah I definitely wouldn't be sleeping on these
things if you try to cop this weekend and do not sleep on GS pairs either as
well all right all right DJ appreciate you having me on now back to you
shoutout to jumper man Chris if you guys haven't already check out his channel
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I will also have it at the end of the video for you guys to check him out but
basically I just want to see what you guys think now drop comments down below
in the comment section were you guys able to hit on the shock drop the
exclusive access whatever you want to call it did you guys get lucky did you
have a chance and then not get them did you have a chance and get them do you
plan on getting these in the future what do you guys think about the shoes I just
want to say I feel like this shoe is very very different the color blocking
is different it's not what I wanted or expected but at the end of the day I
can't be mad at it because they are trying something different and I feel
like yes the shoe is 170 bucks do you really want to pay that money but when
it comes to Arizona one on the whole you know value aspect and all that stuff I
think what the way Arizona ones are going right now is worth it to get the
shoe and make your decision later down the road if you want to keep them if you
want to rock them if you want to sell them because I'm telling you right now
if you don't buy the shoe for retail you're probably not gonna be able to get
it for retail ever again after that fact because the price will eventually just
go up typical to every other Air Jordan one you give us six months next thing
you know it's worth three hundred four dollars now you want the shoe and you
can't even buy it because it wind up double the price so if I would say if
you're really thinking about getting it I would say just buy the shoe anyways
and then that way you can make up your mind once you get in hand once you touch
it once you feel it once you see I feel like it's cool it's solid you know it
gets the job done it ain't the best but we still gonna
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