Update 2: Puma has now confirmed that its upcoming Animal Crossing collection arrives on 18th September. Could there be more than the shoes and hoodie pictured below? We'll keep an eye out as that launch date gets closer.
Update 1:
A load of pictures of the shoes and a hoodie have popped up on sneakerfreaker.com; what do you think?
Original Article:
The official Twitter account for Puma has teased an upcoming collaboration between the sportswear brand and Nintendo's Animal Crossing, a cute little life sim series you may have heard of. The latest entry released for Nintendo Switch in Marc—
Ah, you know what Animal Crossing is. The real question is what exactly could this animal-filled teaser image portend...
We're gonna go with sneakers. It's always sneakers, right? It was sneakers when they teased the Tetris X Puma collab, it was sneakers with the Puma X NES collab, and it was sneakers when they did a range of Mario crossovers, too. It would be silly to expect pizzas or umbrellas or something.
Nintendo just quote-tweeted Puma's image adding the line "Something new is on the horizon", too, so we'll update this post when we get a look at the incoming footwear. We've got our fingers crossed from something Raccoon-y. Timmy and Tommy trainers FTW.
Let us know what you think these Animal Crossing Pumas will look like below.
[source twitter.com, via sneakerfreaker.com]
Comments 27
Introducing wild puma to animal crossing villages seems ill advised...
Sad, just sad. Real sad. Might as well have mcdonalds and gilette adverts in Animal Crossing now.
Some cool Puma themed foot wear for your villager would be pretty good imho.
Update,
Looks like it's the over way round, the stuff looks cool though.
Not the acnh news people want...
If these trainers magically transformed me inside the game, then YES!!!
Where's Clark's when you need them!?!
Like the colours, not the model.
Like the colors & design, but not the ironic, thick dad-shoes inspired soles. (not feeling that trend)
Can I get like an update to the game instead of a $150 pair of sneakers that I'll forget exist in about 30 minutes?
Oh, look, Animal Crossing clothing you can go to a store and purchase instead of walking in a circle shooting at balloons and shaking trees for 2 weeks to make them yourself. Reminds me of the older AC games....
That color combination is seriously cozy. Would I wear these in public?! Maybe!
Why do so many Animal Crossing products keep using this exact design pattern?
The same few villager faced tiled on a mint green background?
Interesting to see animal crossing becoming more mainstream
Not that IKEA needs more money, but I always thought they'd make an absolute fortune if they introduced a line of Animal Crossing furniture. And I don't mean furniture with the AC logo stamped on it. I mean furniture designed to look like some of the in-game furniture items. If that day ever comes, I'm throwing out all my furniture and sashaying down to IKEA to max out my credit cards.
I don't even play Animal Crossing, but being a shoe geek, I might just get those... just because.
not gonna lie, I love both of them but the chance of me getting either before scalpers grab them all is slim to none
I may have to make a poor purchase decision later. They'd go well with that turquoise blackmilk AC dress.
it looks more for woman, for me.... i guess. its not my kind of mancave color.
I like that the bottom of the shoes are brown, because no one can tell if you stepped on Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
Animal Crossing Fit training? Animal CrossFitting? It’s in there somewhere.
No thanks, I'm waiting for the Animal Crossing (tm) condoms to prevent crossbreeding in certain communities, Animal Crossing (tm) Bibles and, the most important, Animal Crossing (tm) toilet paper (having the scent of Korok seeds)
these will be gone in a flash drip like this not made to last
Puma help fund apartheid and illegal land grabs in Palestine by sponsoring the IFA. No way I will buy anything they produce.
@Quarth That was my first thought as well
Surprised people are complaining so much, I think they're kinda cute?
@Clarice Weclome to late stage capitalism I guess...I am getting a bit sucked in by those sneakers.....ugh......one born every minute
I like how they're going out of their way to hide the disgusting heel, like they're ashamed of it. Indeed, I would have bought this if it were a normal looking sneaker, and they almost made me think it was with their deception.
@Clarice That doesn't seem analogous at all, lol.
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