...is it me, or do these look like a cross between the Soap Faders and Septums?

Check the second picture, you may be able to see what I mean there

Yeah it does. The toplines and eyestays are different, but there are several styling clues that are similar. Even the colorway you mentioned is almost a full repeat Mart. A lot like the Praba-Groove styling redo, don't you think?

...is it me, or didn't Soap release a shoe called the Flow as well? Always wanted a pair, never got round to getting them.

Hey Dunk, yes the Soap Flow was released in 2001. It and the Dash were two of my favorites. They both just fit great, like an athletic shoe should. But hell, I like the Praba and Scorcher, too. I guess I have become a fixed plate kind-of guy. Rick, I agree with you and Mart, HSL is pulling styling queues from the legacy designs, but I miss the old models. There is some great stuff there, but getting directional answers out of Carrollton is taking an act of Parliament (Congress in our case). Imho :|

Yeah, I always wanted the navy/gray Flows. They got the styling bang on. Steve, you're obviously as big a shoe geek as Mart is ;)

yes, they are basically the express plates - which is why "express" is listed as the grindplate. ;-)

i cant beileve hsl now owns soap! in my opinion heelys and soap shoes should be seperate things. soaping takes more skills than using heelys and i really think that the original soap shoes should make a comeback for the new generation....the little scumbags

I really wouldnt mind owning a pair of the black ones.

I like the black ones the most! AWW! so cool! Man I gotta put this on me b-day list!!*puts one list* I would go with the blue ones, but they look horrible. I'd keep just a blue wheel, blue (h) sign, and the rest black. The red ones look cool, but they look to much like the 2-wheeler.

once again heelys are gay and u put these on your b-day list spiderman(but we all know spider man kicks ass) is better then that.i got a good question get some soaps,who might it is that shoe with no frecking wheel.I rest my case.:)