Supreme x Wham-O Savior Frisbee
Supreme vs. Original
Supreme version
About the original
The Wham-O Frisbee is the original 9-to-11-inch injection-molded polypropylene flying disc, licensed from inventor Fred Morrison's Pluto Platter in January 1957 and sold under the Frisbee name from 1958 onward after Wham-O renamed it as a misspelled homage to the Frisbie Pie Company's pie tins popular among Yale students. The disc's balanced rim weight and thin airfoil produce stable, gyroscopic flight at moderate throw speeds, and the name has since genericized in common English usage. Wham-O was founded in 1948 in South Pasadena, California by Richard Knerr and Arthur Spud Melin. The SS21 Supreme collab, the Savior Frisbee, features a box-logo graphic and retailed at $24, roughly a dollar above a standard Wham-O Frisbee.
About Wham-O
Wham-O is an American toy company founded in 1948 by Arthur "Spud" Melin and Richard Knerr in San Gabriel, California. The company began selling a slingshot and expanded into novelty products that defined midcentury American play: the Frisbee flying disc (licensed from Fred Morrison in 1957), the Hula Hoop (1958), the Super Ball (1965), the Slip 'N Slide (1961), and the Hacky Sack. Wham-O has been sold several times since the 1980s and continues to manufacture and license its original product lines. Supreme's collaboration with Wham-O produced Box Logo versions of the Frisbee and Super Ball.
