Thanks to 2005 Boards Rookbartley who shared in our boars a curious sighting at his local Walmart.
Among several other licensed socks, there was a Transformers Casual Crew Socks 5-Pack made by Bioworld. The socks have 5 different designs featuring G1 Optimus Prime, Megatron, and Autobot and Decepticon insignias. They were found at Walmart in Ft. Wayne, Indiana.
SMB73
Picked up the last two boxes the store had. Quality of the socks are surprisingly decent.
Cosmoglide
a quick Google search did get hits on crew socks for Barbie and My Little Pony (just picked the most obvious franchises I could think of), so there are some out there. I don't know how hard they are to come by in the wild, but there ya go. So you might try googling whatever franchise you're after followed by crew socks and you might get some hits. Happy hunting!
Easy Tiger
News Flash
I hope ASDA start stocking these in the UK. I have a mighty need.
Blackout32
Very cool socks but i have to wonder how high up the leg do they go. Are they itchy and scratchy on your leg and pull the hair out on your leg when you walk. Some socks do that with designs on them.
iuJacob
News flash:
Do they ever carry these in Canadian Walmart? Inquiring minds wants to know.
GAUGE
what is a girl franchise exactly?
please. by all means elaborate.
To my understanding people can like whatever they want, collect whatever they want, play with whatever they want, watch whatever they want, wear whatever they want etc. There's no real gender-centric show, toys or clothing. that's an imaginary thing forced onto us by parents and marketers etc.
That's what has always annoyed me in my 42 years of life about toys, shows, clothing. Blue and Pink etc. sellers and mainstream are far too stuck in the past. People should be able to like and buy whatever they want without shame or ridicule.
Apologies for going on and making it big but yeah, my point def still stands.
But I'm still open to examples of what types of socks you are searching for. I'd like to think there's socks out there for everybody and that no gender is left out. search hard enough and you can find anything. or sometimes there's cases you can have them made custom, or hell…Even make'em yourself. Where there's a will, there's a way.
For me I just want these socks. But, they are all going to be long long gone and stuck on ebay before i ever get a change to find any.
taterx
Got mine around noon. Last pair at my store. The area had been ransacked too.
Venixion
That's not my point and you both know it.
Oniconvoy
Newsflash! Gauge’s point still stands.
Venixion
Newsflash! I'm talking about the socks like these, that are meant to appeal to 30- year old women with girl franchises.
mcart
Well, I mean, I didn't know he wore black socks every day so, it's kinda news
Yes, I know the mod in question fixed it and I know the news credit button is right next to the like button and sometimes will get pressed by accident as we are all human
ViperDragon
Awesome, I will have to look out for these! Thanks to Walmart and these 5-packs, my sock collection is quite large now (Target occasionally has novelty socks, but generally only one pair). I don't even wear white normal socks anymore!
Sammael
What material are they made of?
IronMagnus
I'd so get these, but I'm guessing these are in that standard size 8-12 range that is 95% of socks. They'll be too tight on my 13-wides
Edit: Zoomed in on pic. Yup. 8-12.
GAUGE
news flash! No such thing as boy and girl socks the stores lie. you can wear whatever the fuck you want.
GAUGE
Only place I've seen these is eBay.
Haven't found them in any walmarts here in Phoenix AZ
maz25
I have been to many weddings where guys (in the wedding party and also regular guests) have gotten together to compare and take pics of wacky socks.
Same with ties (beers, disney, cartoons).
These are pretty sweet. I'm getting some.
Novaburnhilde
Oooo, I'd like these.
Lazerwave
I have no idea. I don't know how I got it in the first place.
Venixion
I'd buy those. How come girls get ankle socks and boys get normal ones?