In this edition of Bootleg Boards we have a Denny Riordon bootleg. Kryptonics used this graphic in 1988 for Denny’s first street deck. Later that year, after Kryptonics reincarnated into Toxic, they released a seemingly identical shaped Rordion deck with a slightly different ‘people in my head’ design. In 1990 the head popped up a third time on a Toxic Riordon freestyle deck. Maybe whoever copied that deck thought it was a very popular design, although the ripoff we have here was clearly based on the first version of the graphic. Even the skull with the dagger on the top side reminds me of the Ripstik and mid to late eighties Kryptonics decks or maybe it’s because their boards looked kinda cheap as well.
Sold on Ebay for $15 on a Buy It Now.
Regular Toxic Skates version, seen in Ebay Watch: April 2008
Freestyle version
2 comments
PIGCITY
We had these in the UK, everyone knew of the Riordon deck as it was advertised heavily in RAD.
kilwag
I guess there is a sweet spot between popular enough to bootleg and not popular enough to get noticed when bootlegged.