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Anti Hero China 8.5x32.25x14.38
I'm curious how many of this graphic are on Chinese boards...
The thing I found odd was the concave on the BBS 8.5" / 14" wb is noticeably steeper than any DLX board I've ever had/seen (closer to FA concave). I grabbed my son a True Fit 8.5" and he liked the added width but hated the 13.75" wb, so I was hoping the new AH short 8.5" would split the difference for him since he was fine with the 14" wb on the 8.38" True Fit he previously had. It came and as soon as I took it out of the box the concave took me off guard, but I kept my mouth shut hoping he wouldn't really notice it. A few sessions in he told me he was not comfortable on it at all and I ended up grabbing him a standard-size DLX 8.5" (the new Barbee graphic) after he stole my friend's Blue Eagle to take a few laps at the park and liked it way better. For my sanity, I compared the 3 boards and the AH is clearly a different mold with a concave that is not really "DLX-ish"...
Top is a Krooked Barbee Soulful Deck 8.5" x 31.8" w/ 14.25" wb
Middle is a Krooked Una True Fit 8.5" x 31.35" w/ 13.75" wb
Bottom is a Antihero Taylor Pigeon Vision 8.5" x 31.75" w/ 14" wb
For the American market, they are all still BBS, as far as others have said, but for everywhere else, they are mostly going to be from China in future drops, with a few notable exceptions, either some riders, or some sizes / shapes.
This is what others have said, along with seeing the pre books that have which boards are from where.
Those pics of boards from China are from a shop in Canada, so it seems like even that close to USA, they are going with the cheaper option, as the new BBS drops are significantly higher in price, almost pricing them out of the market for a lot of people, it would seem.
As to specific sizes, shapes or molds, the smaller / shorter wheelbase molds might be steeper overall, or you guys might have just got a steeper board / top of the stack, where others might not be quite so steep. I am thinking they are steeper overall as others have also had similar stories re Tru Fit boards being a bit too steep for them.
All the other sizes and shapes are on older molds that seem like they have been around for a long time, so nothing is changing there, just the new Tru Fit they had to make new molds for.
With the development of manufacturing in China, they had to do whatever they did and as per that DLX reply above, seems like they have most of it covered but still not everything up and running yet, but for anyone still in USA I don't think you guys would even see any of these China made boards, or at least not yet, unless something else happens or they changed over completely to China for everything.
The boards NOT being made in China were the bigger shaped boards, some specific riders boards (not going to say who) and some special editions that might have been different to the usual or more basic molds that they have now set up over there in China, but the sizes and shapes should still mirror the same boards that DLX has had for a long time. Just yet to wait and see if the concave and spoon kicks are the same, or anything else feels different to the usual BBS boards.
As to your question, the AH Pigeon series you have in USA is all still BBS, but it was on China boards for the rest of the world, so that would be 100% of them for non USA countries, along with the other DLX boards from that same drop.
All the AH eagles, Real ovals and Krooked eyes were still BBS made, according to the info people have provided.
Those shorter blue eagle shape 8.5 boards are very much loved by a lot of people, so at least you are on a winner there with those ones, given how popular they are and that they would never be hard to come by in whatever graphic runs, or the standard lines like the blue eagle if nothing else.
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