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This is some extreme papercrafting. David Brownings created these pretty realistic-looking kicks using nothing but colored paper. I’d actually rock them if I knew they’d last longer than a few steps.

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Time to retire your old Chuck Taylors. There is finally a worthy high-top successor. Handpainted by Rachelle Williams of ParadoxArtistry, these Super Mario Sneakers feature all of your favorite Mario characters, custom crafted onto a pair of high-tops.

These are so awesome it hurts. $160 will snag you a pair of these sneaks or you can choose from a butt load of other awesome shoes offered on their Etsy store. They are even taking orders for custom sneakers. I’ll take a Gearfuse-themed pair!

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I can’t be too sure whether these are women’s exclusive or if dudes can rock these bad boys as well. I don’t care how queer it might sound, I would totally rock a pair of these. I’d rock them like a hurricane. I’d rock them like a lobster. I’d rock them like Zeppelin. You get the point?

Even if they were only woman sizes, I’d get a size 15 pretend and I didn’t know. If rocking these Wonder Woman Reeboks is feminine, then I am woman, here me roar mothatrucka. If I ever get my hands on one of those exclusive pairs of Nike sneakers, these would fit right in.

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Some people get really overly excited about their shoes. I mean, yeah, we love our cool shoes over here at Gearfuse, but not quite this much. The Shine Rack allows shoe fans to show off their finest pairs of kicks right on their wall.

It’s sort of like a wine rack, but with less wine and more foot fungus. Each rack carries one pair of sneakers, so if you are a real sneaker freak, you might have to buy a crap load of these to show off as many pairs as you’d like.

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This Haute Charcuterie pair of Nike Air Force 1s puts the pedal to the metal and the metal to the muscle. Designer BlackYard created these anatomical pair of Nikes, which divides your foot into prime slices of meat.

I’m sure this has some sort of snazzy concept, like “Oh, Nike is just one of those corporations filled with porky pigs.” But honestly, this just makes me want to buy a new pair of shoes.

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These customized Nike Dunks by Daniel Reese are some of the coolest, geekiest shoe designs I’ve ever seen. Without exception, I would rock every single pair of these bad boys, including the pink and cutesy Princess Peach pair. They’d actually go great with my Bubblebum Pants.

I dare you to find a cooler Nike shoe design than these. Each pair will be about $220. Included in the designs are Twitter sneakers, Mario sneakers, Zelda sneakers and even Michael Jackson Thriller sneakers (my personal favorite). Check out tons more after the jump. Which is your fave?

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It’s no secret that we here at Gearfuse are no fans of the Nintendo Wii. So really, it comes as no surprise that when Nike teamed up with Nintendo for its new Blazer sneaker, the end result was an ugly ass shoe. Look at that dull blue sole! And the Nike stitching on the back heel? It looks like it was done by a bootlegger in China. The only redeeming thing about these shoes is the tongue, which features the Wii power button (photo after the jump) with a sleek microdot pattern.

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Paying an ode to the Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes classic White Men Can’t Jump, these Nikes will have you ballin’ on the court with diamonds in your grill (such silly lingo!), Called the Flight Lite High, these shoes are as high as a pair of high-tops can get. Seriously. Reebok’s Pump doesn’t have jack shit on these puppies. Check out the bottom of the shoe after the jump – so colorful! If I played basketball, I’d insist on buying a pair, though at $300, they’re a wallet-drainer.

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Etnies is no stranger to the world of Pacific Sunwear and skating. Ryan has a pair of Etnies, I used to have a pair of Etnies and chances are, your mom had a pair of Etnies (you’re welcome!). For those of you who can skateboard in real life and own a next-gen console, you can score a pair of these limited edition Skate 2 Etnies at Zumiez stores around the US. Any true Skate fan would be all over these like a packrat in a turmoil. What?

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Nike is no stranger to designing lightweight footwear. An old pair of Air Mercurial Vapor IVs I used to own were the lightest shoes I had ever touched on this planet. Now Nike is telling me that I’m an idiot and that these $400 Mercurial Vapor SL (”Super Lite”) shoes are the next generation of Nike. Designed for soccer, these shoes weigh a total of 190 grams and are made up of some material called Tepex that’s normally used in aerospace engineering, as well as a carbon fiber body. 190 grams! That’s less then the amount of weed you have stashed in your closet!

Unfortunately, coolness comes at a price; Nike only made 2508 pairs of these so you’ll have to do some serious searching or spend over $1000 on eBay. Ouch. After the jump, more sweet pic-age.
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