What the Heck Were SOAP Shoes?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 มิ.ย. 2024
- SOAP Shoes, what the heck ever were they?
The interesting shoes Sonic wears in Sonic Adventure 2 have some background actually.
Let's talk about it!
---Table of Contents-----
0:00 Intro
1:43 Rail Grinding
3:16 SOAP Background
4:37 SOAP Influence and Sponsorship
6:54 SOAP Aftermath
7:55 SOAP Cameos
8:58 Conclusion
9:42 Outro
10:29 End Screen
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Let me know your opinions about the SOAP shoes! Do you think they’ll ever return in some major way? Or are they a dead fad lost to time?
I honestly don't mind them too much but I do like his Original shoes more and movie sonics shoes remind me of the Soap shoes sonic wore
@Kathaleen Lantgen uhh that's bad
They're dead. SOAP is gone forever and is almost forgotten. Perhaps it won't be back
I really hope these shoes do come back, because with this year being the 20th anniversary of Sonic Adventure 2, people are going to start playing this game again, and Soap is going to get noticed big time (I hope), and I really want a pair of these shoes when the time comes so that I'll be able to not only have fun but to be able to showcase how fun it can be if other people had them.
@@BenSchubert1995 the SOAP company ended at some point so nope. Not gonna happen sadly
shadow with heelies instead of jet shoes? hell yeah
Nah, maybe create a new fast moving character that can move fast by sliding on their heels using ice powers or something. Personality wise, they could have a calm yet cocky demeanor, kinda like Shadow and Sonic's personalities combined, and since they can maintain their speed using ice, they could be kind of a show off by sliding on their heels backwards or spinning around with a grin similar to Sonic's cocky grin.
And if they actually made and sold shoes like that, I'd definitely buy them!
It’s the obvious next step in his character progression
Hear me out: Silver with Crocs.
I Love your videos Billeh :>
I swear the Sonic characters have the best looking shoes. I want real life Sonic Soap Shoes.
Working on it
I've been looking for soap shoes forEVER. They're super hard to find tho, since they stopped being sold a long time ago.
I feel like I seen a pair.
Me too
There actually was a pair of Soap shoes that were specifically marketed as the “Sonic” Soap shoe - The Scorcher. They looked different than most Soap shoes in the sense that they took styling cues from running shoes, whereas most Soaps took their styling cues from skate shoe style.
0:40 fun fact, In the original SA2 it was Comic Sans, but in all the HD versions they changed it to Impress
the Japanese text still uses impress too
uh no, SA2HD doesn't use impress
ngl I kinda wish soap shoes were still being made
so I could get a pair
wait are they?
@Hypersonicfan 2000 If your willing to shell out 250$ for used ones, sure
Imagine Soap shoes and heelies combined
@@uncoolstamps7320 that would be aggressive roller blades
@@hydrochloric007 I found some a couple of years back for a fourth of that price. They were about $60.00. I dont even know a site that has them anymore and the ones I have seen are pretty ugly.
SOAP shoes made for grinding on rails, a hidden gem of the late 90s~
and now they are back (we have them)
I’ll tell you what they were...
THE BEST DAMN PAIR OF SONIC SHOES IN THE SERIES.
A person of culture
and to ever have them back they go when you need to pay for soap advertisement or anything all they have to do is just put them on Sonic they don't even need any information since they don't aren't called soap shoes and game they're actually called high speed shoes
As true as that is, I do like his regular shoes. They have this classic feel to it.
Now, if SEGA were to add character customization sort of like how they did for Colors Ultimate and Forces... Maybe we'd see Sonic wearing these bad boys again. It's just a thought.
Sonic fan: "thank you for changing my life"
Shoe: *anger intensifies*
This is the video where I realized that Soap is an actual brand. I’m a freaking idiot
Don’t worry, it took me YEARS to realize too. 😂
When I was a kid, i thought the soap ads in city escape and radical highway were related to actual soap.
@@taylord5381 Same, I always thought it was weird that they announced a soap brand so much in the game.
Ay don’t feel bad! I was the excact same!
I thought it was another fictional brand like chaos soda
They're back as DLC in Frontiers by signing up to the newsletter until January 2023.
I hate my life
I didn’t sign up, dang
@@blueiconGD Yeah probably, there's already a mod that makes the SOAP shoes show up as super sonic
@@DaLazyRat yeah, but for those who can’t have mods on consoles, the only way for us to get soap shoes in Frontiers is Sega making an unlimited supply of DLC Soap Shoes in the game.
The way to get SOAP shoes to come back is to get a parkour team interested in them. Adding unexpected edge grinding to all that wall jumping and wall running would make that team really stand out.
We're working on that!
@@EpicGrindshoes I have so much faith in this project, you already have my support!!
Its back!!!
I really love the soap shoes, I feel like every sonic game after adventure 2 should have it , just like how chips bracelet should be in every sonic game after Unleashed, but we all know how it is
If only they cared about consistency after unleashed.
CHIP Bracelet, Chip wore that on his neck, NOT wrist which makes it Chips Choker, Sonic put it on his wrist becoming a Bracelet so Chips Bracelet is false.
well are you in luck my friend
I'm from the future, and Sonic Frontiers has it!!
"What the heck even is soap?" The truest of nerd questions...
Right?
What kind of name is "Soap"?
@@FluffyIronGolems Well there's loads of other dumbass shoe names too, like Gucci?.. Wtf
Alright, here’s my take on it.
The name may derive from the fact that you get to “slide” on rails, something soap is a bit notorious for being.
It could also come from the fact that the grind plates have a bit of a soap bar-esque shape.
Lol
sonic used to have so much drip, man.
What's funny is, a really early promo image for Sonic Heroes featured him still wearing the 2G Hi-Speed Shoes (apparently the official name of that particular pair of shoes).
I'd actually really like for a future SA2 remake/remaster to have the ability to change to the original Sonic shoes as a bonus option
I'd love to get a full HD remake, with hand animation instead of the weird, mascot costume-esque mocap.
But who would?
@@James-Nobles me
@@altr1k make it a mod
@@James-Nobles tried to make it and already gave up in one minute someone else needs to do it💀
Finally a video that researches the SOAP shoes. I've been curious about them for a couple years now so this video was helpful.
We have brought them back!
POV: you came back cos of the frontiers dlc
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@@EnchantedSmellyWolfI'm so glad I signed up for them
I can't believe a pair of shoes had made so many cry today. This is truly the best timeline.
I literlly met my best friend of over 20 years due to soap shoes. I had just moved and started my freshman year, and I remember seeing him with a pair. Asked if he like sonic adventuer 2 and the rest is history, soap shoes literlly changed my life.
I want heeleys to be the ultimate power up making you faster than sonic.
i actually never realized that in the beginning cutscene he didn’t have soap shoes
I remember back when I was in 3rd grade, one kid showed up with a pair of soaps and we all stared in amazement, it got to the point that most of our parents refused to buy us a pair so what we would do in the bathroom at school is take some of the hand soap and put that on our shoes so we could grind on this box platform that was to help the younger kids to stand at level with some of the urinals, boy the 90's were sure a trip.
I wish I had thought of that!
The closest thing I had to soap shoes was sliding on the tile floors with just socks on or putting plastic Tupperware lids under my feet to slide on the carpet
I don’t know why but I feel like not many people would have been angry if sonic kept those shoes
They wouldn't be, no one cared back in the day and no one would have cared if they stayed.
Honestly I prefer them over Sonic's usual shoes.
Why would they? They look wayy better than his usual pair. I can actually see those as more aerodynamic than the usual pair.
@@cookiesontoast9981 nah sonic fans as a whole are huge (most of the more general fans wouldn’t care)
But the more serious/diehard ones would certainly complain the same way one does about his green eyes, quill length, sonic and santiago, hotdog vs pointed shoes etc
I literally just got on TH-cam after seeing the sonic side of twitter genuinely being mad that frontiers is using the forces sonic model making his quills 0.3 centimeters taller or some shit and im not kidding
I complain about that kinda small stuff too from time to time so i kinda get it.
People could say thats a twitter thing; but i’ve been in this fandom for years, long before twitter was ever even thought of and can definitely say fans get mad over little things in literally any fandom, regardless of what the change was or why
Remember the “blue arms” thing lol?
I like his regular shoes just as much as the soap shoes.
They have returned... as Soap fans , and Soap owners we've brought them back!
Oh my god I *just* made a comment about you guys- really excited to get a pair!
AHHH!! Please do Sonic inspired ones please! I need a pair!
Can confirm epic grinds are super fun, very fun to hit a grind at school then go to class
I really want SOAP shoes to make a comeback tbh
Come back?? these should be his new cannon shoe
@@Drvm614 I mean I wouldn't mind that either but I meant in real life lmao.
It's back.
@@melon6444 Well, they're kinda back, a company named epic grind shoes has started making its own SOAP shoes.
if we get remakes these shoes better be in the game!
The shoes will be but the ads will be gone
Your wish has kinda come true?
I dunno, Frontiers isn't a remake, but you can get Soap shoes by signing up to Sega's newsletter
Oh don't worry, there will be Heelys. As a wisp power.
Shoes powered by Wisps would be pretty sick.
Shadow's Air Shoes are basically high tech heelies when you think about it.
This was very insightful for me. I didn’t know much about the adventure games so hearing about the history of the SOAP shoes was very cool.
They officially returned for Sonic Frontiers
It's amazing to me that it took so long for SOAP to find it's obvious soulmate in Heelys. Like, you'd think they'd meet up in detention one day and just become best friends for life.
Lmao🤣
On a side note, heelys with a soap grind plate as well... like combined into the same shoe... that’s the dream team right there🤩
Go from grinding down a rail and straight onto wheels when you land off it to keep that momentum going. It would be so awesome... but also potentially deadly if you landed on a rail with the wheel part instead of the grind part since the wheel would just roll you off instead of you having that extra second or two to calculate how you’re going to save yourself if you had landed on the sole of your shoe with a regular soap shoe instead
Truth be told they should have kept those shoes over the original......I also found a pair online a couple of years back. They are insanely difficult to find now.
5:39 "every point afterwards." Yeah.... no. In the Dreamcast version, the cutscene where Sonic boards the shuttle (Dark Story) he's rocking his regular shoes.
I love The Soap Shoes and rail grinding in the Sonic games
Over a year later, it is confirmed that the SOAP shoes will be free dlc in Sonic Frontiers. You have to sign up for a newsletter to get the code for it though
I actually own a few pairs of SOAP shoes, and I started getting into it around 2011, so it wasn't easy finding pairs, but some websites still sold them brand new. Unfortunately, a couple of pairs have gone missing somehow, I don't know if I threw them out accidently, or I left them at a skate park or something. One of the cool features of some of them was being able to replace the plastic grind plates if they got worn out, the problem though was that when I bought new plates, the rubber from the shoes were so worn down that the plastic would stick out, making it nearly impossible to walk from being all slippery. But yeah, I have an interesting history with SOAP shoes, and I definitely stood out in my school at the time, more so than usual being a weeb lol.
At least 1 of my friends as a kid had Soap shoes and yes on the playground it was pretty fun trying to grind on stuff. Didn't realize the shoes in Sonic were actually Soaps till years later.
Sonic has SOAP.
Shadow has Heelies.
Silver has a busted up old pair of L.A. Lights that don't even work half the time. That's how you know he's from a bad future.
Also, SOAP shoes seem like the most fun way to break your ankles
SA2: Still sponsoring Soap over two decades later.
They're back
Man, I remember Soap shoes WAYYYY back before sonic adventure came out. These things were like, parkour before parkour was cool lol
I grew up with SA2, so my opinion may be biased, but I feel like the shoes have a unique attitude that fit Sonic's character really well.
Boosting with Heelies would be Godlike
Honestly I've always wanted some SOAP Shoes, thanks for making this video!! Not a lot of people actually know a lot about them and almost nobody makes videos on them so it was cool to see 👍
I like the soap shoes design a lot! I hope that we'll see those in some of the future games as well!
Im so grad they're back
About ~15 years ago, I actually had a pair of Heelys with the Soap plate on them. They were pretty neat.
Bars of soap on feet, clearly.
I wish they were in every game following SA2. They wouldn't even be out of place in black knight considering Lancelot has those magical jetshoes.(that are never explained by the way. I swear, that game is a nightmare between worldbuilding and the actual plot.)
Who’s come back to this video after the news drop of the Soap Shoes are back in Sonic Frontiers?
Me
yep
I love the soap shoes my fravioute sonic shoe
Me too □
@@ver146 reload your page its a ⬛
They need to bring back the Adventure art style with the soap shoes. Those are the best designs in the series.
Bruh as a kid I always wanted shoes like this! 😂 Little did I know they existed in REAL LIFE! Wow!
Great video btw 😁
Talking about Heelys took me back to 2004, really was a missed opportunity not to have that product placement in '06.
Ngl, I was just sold on the idea that since Sonic got (or was portrayed as) older, his shoes would be enhanced for his crazier moves. Like with the other crazy posters, I thought SOAP was just another needless thing, but you've schooled me on that.
....And this is also coming from a poser from those inspirational years specifically. Looking back, it makes sense why so many of those bumpers were installed on edges like LEGO blocks back then.
Thanks for the vid, and please keep up the great work!
I dug them in Sonic Forces as its inclusion was pretty rad.
The history of the shoe itself was pretty fascinating.
Wish I had soap shoes I wanna rail grind.
I mean you can rail grind with inline skates like in Jet Set Radio
The Shoes are also in Sunset overdrive, one of the major gameplay mechanic is grinding and the main character pretty much has metal soap shoes
6:11 Caught me so off guard because I was listening and not watching lmao
Jokes aside, I absolutely adore the soap shoes. They just have such a hard edge look, and they are a thing of their own! As a game designer, the soap shoes are an inspiration to me. I often look to them when I’m designing shoes for my own characters!
IM LITERALLY SHOES
IM LITERALLY SHOES
Heelies with SOAP plates. Even as an adult I'd be HYPED just to see it on the market.
No cap ever since I found out about Soap shoes, getting a pair has been on my bucket list 😂
Good luck
Yeah good luck with that. The more videos that are made about them, the more people become new fans or them(or if they were *already* fans of them previously, their passion for them gets resparked) and more people go to hunt them down
there’s only so many pairs left in the world. I’m quite worried about it myself, so I’ve decided to just make my own lol
Dude, I love this video. Very informative and well organized. Subscribed.
Great news- since the Soap patent expired in 2017, another company called Epic Grindshoes started making Soap shoes again! So yes, now you can buy a pair!
I got the Epic Dash
Soap shoes are cool I kinda want my own and for them to come back
I remember my grandma took me to so many shoe stores just to find a pair, we never did and I was convinced they didnt actually exist.
Real talk, I would love to see heelys in a sonic game.
I'd imagine it'd function kinda like the original spin attack from the 2d games. When your going downhill you just let momentum take over.
Didn't soap get sollowed by heelys
Soap Shoes brang so much memories since I last played Sonic Adventure 2 Battle on GameCube.
soaps were fun, memories of running down a school hallway, sliding across benches and radiators XD
Imagine Riders Sonic with SOAP shoes.
In the Battle art style.
Another little detail about the Soap branding on SA2 is that the advertisements only appear on the DC and GC versions of the game, on every remaster since then they are normal advertisements like Sonic Team, Sonic, etc
Haven't noticed myself honestly. Oh and here's my list of Sonic's Shoes. 3. Classic. 2. Riders. 1. Soap.
The ankles of the people doing tricks with the Soap shoes bend so much that I'm surprised they didn't become well known for breaking a lot of kids ankles.
I got to try Soap shoes at a minor league baseball game - so random. They had a truck with pairs of you shoes you could rent, like a bowling alley lol. Then I signed a waiver and got to grind on the array of rails they had. It was so cool and random. I eventually got a pair of Soap shoes. The late 90s man…
I feel like whenever people bring up Tony Hawk in relation to sonic grinding they forget that JSR exists and the grind mechanic is basically exactly the same as in JSR
This is honestly why didn’t mind sonic riders much, like I remember people complaining that “sonic RUNS! He doesn’t need a hoverboard!” But like come on, you’re trying to tell me sonic wouldn’t use a hoverboard for fun?
I thought SOAP shoes were a fake brand when I played the game as a kid too. I love love love the style of these shoes and would love for them to return, both in-game and in real life.
Side note I would love to own Shadow's shoes
Your video was very informative! I had no idea Soap shoes were real (or I just forgot lol), also the sound effects and music you included from the game made me so freaking nostalgic, I swear I was smiling the whole video haha
I love the Arc on the bottom it just gives it more design then plain flat. Also since Sonic has become a success and becoming more relevant I can only hope as an anniversary they recreate them and sell them limited time. There is of course finding someone to customize one.
But seriously, bring back Skate in Streets of Rage 4, with Heelies
Man, I remember when I had my pair of Soaps. They were heavy, but you could take the plates off with the key that came with them. I used to have one of their stickers on my bedroom door. I didn’t really use them though, except on sidewalk edges or an occasional low rail. I do remember when I stepped on a girl’s foot by accident with them at school, and she was wearing open sandals. I don’t remember if they got banned though.
I literally opened up a tab to Ebay and found Heelies with grind plates.Pretty sick. Since SA2B was my first real dive into Sonic games, I only ever want to see Sonic in SOAP shoes. Him wearing anything else feels wrong.
Pretty sad that this video came out before sonic frontiers had the soap shoes. Would have been real fun to see you talk about it
They’re now in Sonic frontiers ❤
I remember in elementary school a few kids had soaps and would grind the railings all over the playground. After a kid broke his arm, they were banned along with Pokémon cards.
I feel in my opinion that in the first cutscene of SA2 for the dreamcast had sonics shoes glitched, but i think it was cool as if sonic switched his shoes on the plane then head to the level,
Even tho its a mistake, it feels natural
SOAP shoes should DEFINITELY come back!! I'd LOVE to have a pair of my own someday!! 💖💖💖
Best Sonic game ever for me. Played it at least 15 times. SA2 is a masterpiece. The first run is just something you never forget. “RUNNING AROUND AT THE SPEED OF SOUND. GOT PLACES TO GO GOTTA FOLLOW MY WAY HOME!” 🥵
Preach it brother!✨
Dope video, my guy! SA2 is one of my favorite games of all time and I always loved the way Sonic looked in the SOAP shoes! By the way, were some of those music tracks remixes or something?
I made my own pair of soap shoes cause I wanted them
Do you have any pictures?
@@eniryuuoke7446 yes but not sure how I can show you on youtube
Seeing this video AFTER Sonic Frontiers fully brought back the shoes as an optional cosmetic is pretty funny.
i don't know if i ever will since they're so rare and expensive now, but it's been a huge desire for me to own and wear a pair of soap shoes. i want to grind like my blue boi, it's at *least* number 5 on my bucket list
Is it just me or is it that chaomix always does videos at night?
Soap sheos should come back I miss them.
When I saw the SA2 boxart in Mega Collection, I have always wanted those shoes. It looked so clean!
Eh, eh?
Oh I get ittt
Bayayayayayayayayahhhh
Brilliant video, I did always wonder about what happened to those shoes!
I thought they really suited Sonic and Shadow :D
My favorite part of Full house…
When they run away from the G.U.N. truck
Wish I knew this was a real brand back in the day. Kid me would make my parents want to kick me out for asking for them so much PURELY for the fact Sonic wore them. At least the designs are still able to be used. Should've been one of his alts in smash too
They were the swaggeist thing to come from the late 90's
Sonic's swagger was exaggerated
Eggxactly