The End of World Industries #shorts

The story of how World Industries got a second life through the idea of a smart graphic, and how Flame Boy & Wet Willy swooped in and saved the company. Watch the Full Video in our "14 Things You Didn't Know About World Industries" video. #skateboarding #shorts

[fastballfilms]

Makes sense why I saw em in wal Mart at one point

[beemelonhead]

My first real board was a "Flambo" graphic. It was flameboy hanging out of a helicopter shooting a machine gun dressed like Rambo. I also have that "wet dream" board where Wet Willy is dreaming of Flameboy being dipped in water. My dad suggested using rails as a kid so my graphics wouldn't get scratched off. This was late 90s so I got made fun of for it but I'm glad he did because now I have a collection of classic boards. A few World decks and then I started skating AWS because Photosynthesis was my daily skate video to watch. That Era of AWS graphics were so cool I'm glad my dad did that for real.

[anthonygato]

Jason lee also made the cross over. it was a very small pond at the time but still beat probability

[jaykerivan]

My first board was a world industries board, Indy trucks and spitfire wheels and lucky 7 bearings and shorty's hardware, straight from 2003

[pokebombstommy]

I had the neon orange flame boy mini when I was ten. I miss that board

[davidramone]

And it worked! When I was a kid ALL the kids wanted a world industries deck, flame boy to me illuminated my eyes! when I seen the cartoon the first time on a friends deck, so Rad :) .

[Kromatikeys]

I was one of those kids that was immediately drawn to World Industries in the late 90's/early 00's. I remember my childhood friend had a set of Kreeper trucks to go with his World Industries board too. I miss those days.

[nestlesnipes]

First board was a bam element. Always loved these boards tho wish I could find a old school world industries snowboard

[ryangordon]

Man that Battle 2000 boards was awesome.

[aaronstainer]

I only had one world world industry board i was traveling in oz and missed skating so got one and it was one of my favourite boards

[DraugysVault]

Now I know why I don't find any World sneakers these days.. I use to love those shoes back in the day

[antifascistskater]

Yo I like these a lot, thank you for doing the research

[dantoth]

Rocco is much underrated for his impact on skateboarding in both skating and industry. Remember now, he was a pro freestyler who also skated street before Rodney and had profound influences on Rodney which led us to where we are now! .. imho!

[MFHyde_Garcia]

My first board was a world industry, and i loved it so much. I skated that thing till it chipped and broke on me

[lazyk]

It worked. I loved world in the late 90s the graphics were top tier

[helohi]

My first skateboard was a World Industry board with Wet Willy my friends and I thought he looked funny.

[AAquatics]

Keep these up, love em
Shout out from Winnipeg Manitoba Canada

[Estradachris]

They did make cool deck graphics and stuff tho. Remember i had a world industries backpack that held ur skateboard. That was my baby😭

[DeejDeparts]

Dude ive searched for that simpsons clip my entire life. I was watching it one day and could've sworn I saw a world industries logo under the bus, my friends all thought I was lying. Core memory for sure.

[shirokumaotaku]

World Industries is one of those brands where you look at one of the graphics & think that it kinda looks like one of those cheap Wal-Mart Boards