Suspicious Torspos

[lampliter87 8]

Came across the new Torspo 321 in the new USA Hockey mag. Am I the only one that thinks they ripped off the Vapor XXX?

The website's not updated, so I can't show you a picture, but it's on page 53 of the August USA magazine.

[twister18 1]

I thought the exact same thing when I saw that add, too. Maybe somebody can scan the ad ?

[mxihockey 0]

When I first saw it I thought it was a new bauer skate, then I realized it was torspo and just lauphed.

[sabres48 0]

I thought the same thing, ill try to scan it a little later if i get around to it.

[Ogie Oglethorpe 14]

Wouldn't be the first time that one of their products looked mysteriously like another makers skate cough-KOR-cough

[VakarLajos 5]

Gloves = old supremes.

[JR Boucicaut 3804]

Gloves = old supremes.

Thought they were Tacklas?

[VakarLajos 5]

JR, you could be right. I don't know Tackla gloves at all really.

We got the Surge 150s (they are labeled Sweet 200 on the Torspo website for some reason) and they look a LOT like the Bauer Supreme 2000 that are lying around the shop.

Now that I take a real good look at some pics of the Roll-4. I'm not too familiar with the Roll-4 as we don't carry them so I didn't make the connection at first. Makes sense because it seems the Roll-4 is just a continuation of the Supreme glove line.

http://www.torspo.com/SWEET%20200%20GLOVE.html

I can post more pics if somebody tells me how. I'm a tard.

[JR Boucicaut 3804]

I see the resemblance in the hand, but the cuffs are totally different.

[VakarLajos 5]

yeah, it's a one-piece wrap around cuff, not a two-piece like the Roll-4. The angles on the rolls and all are almost exact though.

http://pics.summitonline.com/55796.jpg

there's no crease in the cuff like the 2000s. And the padding between the thumb and index is slightly different. It's pretty easy to see where Torspo got their "inspirado" from.

[JR Boucicaut 3804]

Thanks for referencing that company, asshole.

:)

[Fletch 219]

Wouldn't be the first time that one of their products looked mysteriously like another makers skate cough-KOR-cough

Wait - I thought Torspo and Kor had an "arrangement." Are they not working together? Because yeah, those Torspos look a lot like the Shift 1's.

[JR Boucicaut 3804]

Wouldn't be the first time that one of their products looked mysteriously like another makers skate cough-KOR-cough

Wait - I thought Torspo and Kor had an "arrangement." Are they not working together? Because yeah, those Torspos look a lot like the Shift 1's.

No, they moved in when KOR moved out.

But, you know, we on MSH HATE Torspo and we don't know anything.

[Ogie Oglethorpe 14]

Thanks for referencing that company, asshole.

:)

I'm not really an a$$hole, I just play one on the internet

[Race4LastPlace 31]

so, does anyone have a pic of the skates in question

[VakarLajos 5]

The gloves themselves are ok. Nothing great, priced around the same as the Vapor XVI, odd pinch at the base of the thumb though. Definitely not broken in off the rack.

[JR Boucicaut 3804]

Ha, no, we had talked a few weeks back. Vajar mentioned something about made with Tackla so that's why I said that. I had never seen the gloves til tonight.

[VakarLajos 5]

You and JR are BOTH wrong; try 2007 Easton Synergy 500/800 series knockoff, if not the same factory. Only thing that looks like there's been change in are the back rolls, straighter cuff roll, and they are of a "knit" material.

JR, you could be right. I don't know Tackla gloves at all really.

We got the Surge 150s (they are labeled Sweet 200 on the Torspo website for some reason) and they look a LOT like the Bauer Supreme 2000 that are lying around the shop.

Now that I take a real good look at some pics of the Roll-4. I'm not too familiar with the Roll-4 as we don't carry them so I didn't make the connection at first. Makes sense because it seems the Roll-4 is just a continuation of the Supreme glove line.

http://www.torspo.com/SWEET%20200%20GLOVE.html

I can post more pics if somebody tells me how. I'm a tard.

cuff is pretty much exact. I'd say it's an amalgam of those three. Unless there's insider info, I'm sticking with that theory, hehe.

[JR Boucicaut 3804]

[Fletch 219]

LMAO....what a joke.

[Chadd 916]

Why do some people have to make my job as a hockey critic so easy?

[dontdumpdangle 0]

what if they were the perfect skate, just nobody would buy them haha

[lampliter87 8]

That's it in all its sad glory.