Every single colorway is a unique story celebrating not only the unique physical attributes of the characters but also what each character can teach us about building a better, more inclusive neighborhood. “We didn't just say, ‘Elmo is red, so the whole shoe is red.’ We played with a lot of different tonalities of red, and we brought in hints of orange to represent the nose. But 'Sesame Street' canon is actually divided on the subject. “The hardest part was making sure we achieved a sense of depth and sophistication in our designs,” says Spencer Hawkins, a senior footwear designer at Under Armour. The puppet was originally modeled off Bela Lugosi's Count Dracula, and he certainly appears to be a vampire (the fangs, the cape, the creepy castle and the bats all certainly point to vampirism).

Given the intricate structure of the shoe and the array of stylizations, Under Armour designers took great care to celebrate Sesame Street’s characters. UA Warp works in tandem with UA Flow, featuring supportive tapes that lock the foot onto the UA Flow midsole while allowing for natural movement. The Curry Flow 9 builds on the success of the Curry Flow 8. This updated shoe features a fine-tuned UA Flow traction pattern and the introduction of UA Warp, Under Armour’s new-to-basketball upper technology that improves foot stability. “You can really show your personality through the way that you play. I love to be creative on the court, try new things, and show different sides of myself. The Sesame Street characters prove that everybody belongs in the world of play.” “This collection is an opportunity for people to use their imaginations a little bit,” Curry says. The “Count It” colorway, for example, brings to life Count von Count, with the shiny tongue tab reflecting the satin exterior of The Count’s cape and the shoe’s interior matching the cape’s colorful lining. “Talking Trash,” based on Oscar the Grouch, has a metallic tongue tab as a nod to the trash can, while the tongue tab on Cookie Monster’s “Taking Cookies” and other shoe tabs feature a fuzzy, fur-like feel. I’m guessing that a lot of them don’t even know about the legends.Curry Brand’s “Street Pack” includes seven colorways based on Sesame Street’s indelible characters, who are celebrated with unique markings on the shoe’s tongue tab and a hint-of-character flag near the heel. The classic Sesame Street sign is also featured on the sock liner. Of course most folks wouldn’t bother to tell their kid the legends and how they apply to this character. He might stop in the middle of everything and start counting but that’s just what he does. He won’t leap for your jugular and attempt to rip your throat out, but he’ll count every single thing he sees no matter where he’s at just because he feels the need. The need to hunt and kill seems like it would be more than a match for OCD.īut then using this for the Count on Sesame Street seems like a fun way to introduce the character that according to legends is supposed to be scary but on Sesame Street is one of the nicest guys around. That almost sounds like a stretch when considering how voracious vampires have been depicted as in the past. That would also mean that their desire to feast on your blood would be easily stymied by the need to count out everything you throw at them and would perhaps give you just enough time to find a way to defend yourself or else just run far, far away. It implies that if a person ever faced down a vampire that they would be better carrying a sack of something that contained hundreds of seeds or something that could be used to slow the bloodsucker down. Of course back then the legends and myths were still well-spoken of, but the idea that a vampire might be halted by the need to count something such as millet seeds or grains of rice, according to the Chinese, is a bit hard to fathom. I have to wonder why such a thing would ever happen since despite being a common condition for so long many people never knew about until the 17th century. It’s also kind odd to think that a vampire would suffer from something such as OCD. Kids likely won’t catch on to this until they get older and many adults probably wouldn’t have thought twice about it unless they came across an article like this, but to be honest it’s kind of interesting.

This definitely points to the Count being a traditional version of the character that was derived from legend. Vampires from European lore suffer from OCD, and must count things as a habit. From a European standpoint however vampires do have one trait that is somewhat odd but still stands as a reason why the Count on Sesame Street was the perfect character. There are many myths and legends concerning vampires that differ depending on the telling of the tale or the region it’s told in. You might have found it amusing as a child when Count von Count from Sesame Street had the need to go around counting things so often, but there’s a real reason behind why this character felt compelled to do this.

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