'S Weapon Wednesday: Weapresent Sydney Shirt.

Hello world, Wealcome to a Weapresent Weapon Weadnesday. Today we've got a Weapresent Sydney shirt that if you live the Australia you could pick up at a Foot Locker near you.

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Converse Coastal Carnage July 24-26, 2009

Converse is bringing some Carnage to the Coast. It was recently announced that Converse will be hosting an invitation only event in Huntington Beach, CA.  As you can see from the information below the event will take place from July 24-26.  The combined purse will be 50,000 bucks.  If you're in the area come on out to experience the Carnage first hand. 

SPoTlight Skateboarding has a run down on all of the invites so you can see who will be participating in the Carnage. (Every time I type Carnage I want to say it three times out loud like a monster truck commercial, Carnage, CARnage, CARNAGE!!!!).   Big thanks to Transworld Skateboarding the images above.

Hopefully I can get some more information about this to pass on to all of you.  Hope everyone enjoyed the 4th of July Holiday.  Depending on how you look at things the 2nd of July could have been the actually holiday to celebrate our Independence. Still others may hold out to November 19, shout out to all of the Matthew Thornton fans out there, or sometime in January for all of you Thomas McKean-amaniacs. 

'S Friday Flashback: Converse x Disney's Mickey Mouse Sneakers Pin

You already know that I am a huge Converse fan, but what you may not know is that I am also a huge Disney fan. The truth is, I've been to Disney world more times than I care to mention on here. Needless to say we pretty much go to Orlando every year for vacation. I found this item on eBay a few weeks ago and needless to say I completely forgot to bid on it.  Seeing as how I had never heard about the Converse x Disney project I was really geeked to find this pin. 

I haven't been able to locate the actually shoes that this pin is promoting so if you have any pictures or information on them that would be great, thank you in advance. 

I'll be out of town next week, I am going out to the Vegas Summer League...well at least one day of it.  But I've got some posts that I can write out in advance, if I get to it.  So stay tuned next week to see what's up. Converse Outlet stores in Vegas here I come, it's time to stimulate the economy!

'S Weapon Wednesday: 90's Weapon Hi

Welcome to The Converse Blog's Weapon Wednesday!  I've been sitting on these Weapons for a couple of months now but I just couldn't hold back any longer.  At some point in the 90's Converse released the Weapon's again.  The upper looks, for the most part, exactly like the Weapon of the 80's.  What really sets these apart is the midsole and I assume the outsole is different too.  On the midsole there is a Converse branding hit near the toe cap area of the shoe.  Then in the heel area of the midsole there is a purple section that travels up from the outsole.  You'll see what I am talking about below... 

That's it for today,  still no word on any of the rookie shoe contracts so stay tuned.

Converse All Star Stencil.

Recently Converse released a special make up the All Stars featuring a stencil spray paint design. You can find all three of these shoes at Converse.com, which is where I got these pictures from.  One of the aspects of this release that I really enjoy is that it's not over the top.  Besides the ankle patch placement there a few other areas that are hit with the spray paint.  It's also nice that you can wear this without having to go out and buy something to match it, as all three versions come in either white/black/red or Black/white/red colorways.  However, the best part of this release is in the ox version.  This is one of the few, if not the only, All Star ox that features the iconic Chuck Taylor ankle patch. 

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Converse Update: Nike CEO Mark Parker just made my week.

I've been cautiously optimistic about Converse the last few years.  I've had high expectations and sometimes they've been met and sometimes they haven't been met.  While growing up as a fan of Converse I sometimes found myself in Bad News Bears mode.  Which is the famous line "Wait til next year," cue music and the little glass bottles of beer showering down. 

With that being said, I am very excited about the upcoming line of hoops shoes for next season and I am anxiously waiting to see what additions will be made to the Converse roster of Schools and Athletes.    Now comes some exciting news from the Nike quarterly reports.  With everyone seemingly freaking out of the decline in Nike revenue for the quarter some rather positive news for Converse has been lost in the shuffle.

In the last year, Converse revenue grew 26 percent to $915 million.  To put that into some perspective, in 2003 Nike bought Converse for $315 million.  Keep in mind that the $915 is revenue, but it's only domestic revenue.  Converse global revenue for the last year was $2 Billion, with a B. 

What is even more exciting for me is that Nike CEO Mark Parker recently reviewed Converse product in the pipeline and was very impressed.   Parker said of the future product that it was,"incredibly strong and diverse" and "our most commercially-potent product ever created."

Read that statement again, because it took me a second to grasp it's real value.  Mark Parker said that future Converse product is, "our most commercially-potent product ever created."  If you're a fan of Converse that should fire you up.  It is exciting for me not only because of the statement, but because of who made it.  I am not sure if I've ever heard Mark Parker say anything this exciting about Converse.   

I got all of these quotes from Shop-Eat-Surf.com, go check it out for more info.  Thanks for checking out the blog, check back Monday for a new post.  Unless something breaks over the weekend about one of the NBA Rookies. 

'S Friday Flashback: Converse A-Train

A few days ago I found a shoe that I had almost forgot about. I say almost because as soon as I saw it I was taken back to a wonderful memory of when I first saw the shoe. I am talking about today's Friday Flashback the Converse A-Train. It all kind of runs together, but I am pretty sure that these came out before the more popular Converse Cynch. I was in Indianapolis going to a Dolphins and Colts game when I found these in a mall. I bought up a pair right quick, except mine was in a white colorway, but you get the idea from this Red/White/Blue colorway.







I can't remember who posted these up on eBay but thank you for the pics and the memories. Just a few more days until the draft, but there is plenty of time to vote in the current poll at the top of the page...I'll wait...go ahead...thank you. Also follow us at Twitter, which I'll be updating while I am away.