O.T.T wrote: Thanks Oak, I had never heard of that before. I thought it was just the Mars and ducati that got released with the red unobtanium. Does anyone have a picture of it for the forum as only the three standard Romeos are in the database. What lens did it come with?
Here's a picture (Thanks to whoever gave it to me a long time ago and credit goes to them).
Nothing different about it other than read earsocks and the serial #.
O.T.T wrote: As for the x-men juliets I had never heard of an extra special limited edition run of 5000. Where did you hear about that?
From an Oakley Brand manager and another manager of some sort (that one was through a sales rep) after months and months and months (and months) of digging to get the information and then verifying it. I've found that Oakley's not too forthcoming about releasing production information, but if you're nice enough and you get the right person at the right time of day, they'll eventually answer your question.
Here's a quick and dirty history lesson of the Ruby Juliet: At one point in early 2000, Oakley wasn't going to make ruby Juliets even though the X-men movie was coming out (and even though they had a display at their Irvin, CA location saying that it will be available in summer of 2000). Comic book fans started writing in to Oakley and practically begged for them to produced Cyclops' shades (myself included). Eventually, Oakley broke down and said they're looking into the possibility of "Ruby Quartz" as another colour combination in addtion to the other four they had at that time. Hence it became so. Oakley then said it will produce a limited run of the sunglasses, though at that point, they didn't know how many they would produce. Some of this stuff up to this point was documented on Corona Coming Attractions, Dark Horizon, and other comic book film websites. I'm sure many comic book fans also remember this.
Oakley, however, didn't know if the Ruby Juliet was going to be a profitable venture. After all, the Juliets were only a year old at that point and the Ruby lens would be difficult to produce. They did an initial run of the sunglasses to see how the market would accept them at the price they were charging (which eventually became higher than the other Juliet colour combinations), thus birthing the X-men 5,000 LE (5000 because it was the same # as the MJ LE and that seemed to have provided them a good indicator, so if it was good for the MJ LE, it's good enough for the X-men LE). Oakley found that they sold very well and continued the Ruby Juliet until recently.