Why tots gotta have all the fun?
Police departments should make it part of the uniform. Because when a foot pursuit ensues, they are flashing red & blue on their own heels.
Yes. Full stop.
I’m going with “no”, because it’s a shit product for the environment when you have batteries and electronics fitted into rubber. If the battery runs out, the electronic breaks or the rubber wears out, the entire product is likely to be discarded and burned together.
If you want to attach small lights to your shoes, go ahead. You can then also transfer the lights to your next pair of shoes, change the battery and repair or discard of everything separately.
I want neon trim on mine. And hydraulics, too!
Yes. And we should have Heelies and soap shoes, too!
If we’re going down this rabbit hole, shoes with lights is pretty far down on the list of child-oriented products that should be made for adults.
Other potential entries include:
- Clothes with dinosaur/unicorn/etc designs
- Bouncy castles
- Bedding and sheets with fun prints
Inflatable dinosaur costumes(we figured this one out already)
Bedding and sheets with fun prints
- Technically there’s no one and nothing stopping you from buying Pokemon bedding, for example.
Clothes with dinosaur/unicorn/etc designs
- Also, cute clothes have been trendy since MLP:FiM at the earliest.
I’ve been in a bouncy castle with kids and alone. It sucked and I was very tired.
Maybe if there were some full-size humans bouncing they would bounce me around too instead of me launching kids onto the roof.
Snow boots that change color in the cold. I had those as a toddler and they were the coolest things ever.
Saw a kids sweater with a fuzzy dinosaur on it recently. Thought it would be amazing as an adult sweater. But of course it would cost $400 if it existed
But you can get most of those things already. Shirts can be ordered with custom prints. You can rent (or buy) a bouncy castle and put it in your backyard. Beddings and sheets I get, because you can probably only find them in twin sizes.
Light-up shoes in adult sizes on the other hand are nearly impossible to find, or are pretty expensive if you find one.
There was an art show that had a bouncy castle for adults. I think that’s a thing
It is, there used to be a place around me that catered to adults for bouncy inflatable things.
$10 and some mushrooms and it was an amazing time.
I’m very interested in where you are sourcing this list!
I have two children and very few inhibitions.
Lights, yes.
Blinking or strobing lights, no
If you must have blinky lights, there should be something different than walking that sets off the blinking show.
How about dancing
Well, it’s not walking. Dance mode, activate!
Only if we get the built in inline roller skates, too
Like 12 years ago a guy i knew from the edm scene in socal created exactly that with his company called electric styles and he’s still doing it.
Looks like they’re also on amazon, ebay etc
Only $35 is a bargain for those shoes so there must be a catch. For reference, I went to Burger King with my wife for lunch last week and it was $35 for just our two meals.
Yea good point. Their domain is abandoned so not sure what deal is any more. Last I heard is they were moving manufacturing from china to Mexico
Amazing!
I was at a music festival about a week ago and there were several dozen people wearing these, they were kick ass
While it has what can be considered a use case, to increase your visibility in the dark. However it’s a terrible solution. Instead wear a high-vis reflective vest, and/or wear some kind of clip-on lights. I’ve got a high-power clip-on flashlight that I put on my belt for when I have to walk into our dark-ass parking lot, or otherwise need to see where I’m going and don’t want to risk getting run over.
Even more fun with knee high stockings, a short skirt, and a bikini top. Better if you identify as cis male
No. More. Gewgaws.
They already do. You can also get Heelys in adult sizes, in case anyone was wondering.
Do adults buy them in sufficient quantities to justify producing them?
Not sure if they still do, but they did at one point. LA Gear “Lights”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKUGNeZt63o
Needless to say like any gimmick, they died off fairly quickly.
I remember a few reports of “criminals” having them on and trying to run away from the police. Might have been on “Cops” once or twice, even.
They were in an X-Files episode where someone was robbed/killed for them. S6E10, “Tithonus”. But, yeah, fad didn’t last long because they quickly became a bit of a “what a loser” item, even for us that were kids at the time.
