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[Alphahawk]

I was just going through a buzzfeed list about bad 90s fads and I remembered this. I remember you were so cool awesome if you had these as a kid, I had one pair but then my parents threw them away and didn't let me get another pair. Something about animals being killed to make them or something.

Who else remembers these?

 

[GavinGT]

Remember? I'm still wearing them.

 

[Persona7]

I can barely remember them

 

[blame space]

yeah I remember the shoes

LA Gears

 

[Heartfyre]

I always wanted a pair, but I never got one.

I wonder if it all started from there...

 

[Jarrod38]

LA Gear were the best.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

I remember in high school some geeky white kid still had light up shoes. We were all sitting up in the bleachers for the game and we saw this dude. We peer pressure'd the fuck out of him to let us see it for a minute, and we stood up and smacked the bottom like "GOD SAID LET THERE BE LIGHT!"

 

[Grym]

A majority of toddler shoes still have that. My 5 year olds freaking winter boots light up when he walks

 

[HUELEN10]

I had some... but always wondered why the lights were red instead of purple, or blue.

I really wanted purple and blue lights.

 

[Dishwalla]

Yeah, my mom would never spring for them, so I never had a pair.

Never got a pair of Heely's either

 

[Fox318]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMpodB2Rc9o

you need to pick up some spreewell's

 

[nasax]

LA Gear shoes were the shit when I was like ten in the early 90s

 

[David Incorporated Esq.]

They still make them, I see kids wearing them every so often.

 

[Strangelove77]

I consider light up shoes to be one of the least offensive fads of the 90s. There's so much worse.
Light up shoes are alright.

 

[Breakage]

Had a pair of black and white LA Gears. I thought they were so cool at the time.

 

[Lionel Mandrake]

Tennis shoe companies popularized these to make it easier to hunt children from their limousines. Most of them used nonlethal net cannons and let them go after they weighed them, but a lot of kids are still unaccounted for.

Scary.

Be safe, GAF.

 

[F!ReW!Re]

Young kids wear them everywhere here in China.....

 

[Princess Viola]

Those are the shit.

 

[sixteen-bit]

They're coming back.

 

[SalvaPot]

They still exist.

 

[Santiako]

My niece has a pair and so do some of her friends (they're all 5 years old).

 

[M.W.]

Hell yeah! My son has a pair.

 

[Reverend Funk]

do they make adult sized heelys

 

[Beren the Empty-Handed]

Maybe we should push for an adult's line of light up shoes.

EDIT: DAMMIT REVEREND FUNK

 

[UFO]

I had a pair, and I wanted to kill myself a month after I got them when the fad died.

 

[AlexMogil]

They're coming back.

After beyblade.

After.

 

[FrsDvl]

They still exist. My daughter has a few pairs, cause they are awesome.

 

[CarpeDeezNutz]

They're still a thing.

 

[sixteen-bit]

After beyblade.

After.

Beyblade is dead.

Let it R.I.P.

 

[Kevyt]

Beyblade is dead.

Let it R.I.P.

Nooo

 

[TapeDispenser1000]

Remember how one shoe always had a burnt out light though

 

[sgjackson]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMpodB2Rc9o

you need to pick up some spreewell's

i remember these! they had a fuckload of colorways too iirc

 

[Ovid]

LA Tech was my shit.


I had these: http://www.sneakerpedia.com/sneakers/8847

 

[cameron]

In the 90's, kids walked to school in their new pair of L.A. Lights and walked home in their socks after getting jacked.

 

[Speedy Blue Dude]

Growing up is when it's no longer socially acceptable to wear light up shoes.

 

[Krappadizzle]

The coolest kids had that shit when I was in school.

 

[Watevaman]

I remember the light-up feature not lasting very long on all the pairs I had. I think I went through 2 or 3 pairs before my mom just decided to get regular shoes.

 

[Eye for an Eye]

Just a couple years ago Sketcher's Twinkle Toes line was a big hoopla. They're like mini strobe lights and were considered distracting in the classroom. And the far fetched scams of some students having seizures caused by them.

 

[Ishida]

Still wearin' mine.

 

[ReturnOfTheRAT]

Xeno technology

 

[Alucrid]

it's just evolved

 

[R10Neymarfan]

Still wearin' mine.

But are they self lacing?

 

[GavinGT]

Growing up is when it's no longer socially acceptable to wear light up shoes.

This guy looks pretty grown up to me:

...except for the part where he never learned to properly tie his shoes. He really shouldn't be horsing around on the roof like that.

 

[MrCunningham]

yeah I remember the shoes

LA Gears

Oh man, I had a pair of these when I was like... 11

They weren't that colour, but they were LA Gear hightops with the lights.

 

[Phreaker]

A majority of toddler shoes still have that. My 5 year olds freaking winter boots light up when he walks

I was going to say I saw a little kid with them on not too long ago.

 

[v1lla21]

I remember having a pair of light up shoes that also had buttons. The buttons were for sound effects.

 

[?oe?oe]

 

[Tesseract]

the kid who had these in my class was the worst basketball player i've ever seen

 

[Aarglefarg]

I saw a small child wearing them just yesterday. I can't remember the time before that though.

 

[Laevateinn]

There was a little British kid in the hotel I stayed at in Tokyo that was rocking light up shoes.