Maple Lab shrinks Snot's Wide Boys into a Halloween four-pack

The listing gives the size as 8mm x 6.2mm — diameter by width — which is the part doing the work here. Wide Boys is a chunky profile on a skateboard wheel, and the point of the fingerboard version is that the proportions survive the scale change rather than getting rounded off into a generic bearing wheel.

The rest of the spec sheet, as Maple Lab publishes it:

• 75D urethane, which the brand calls its hardest formula
• ABEC-9 stainless steel shieldless bearings
• Two neon orange and two neon green wheels per set
• Franky's Pumpkin graphics, taken from Villani's pro model wheel for Snot

Maple Lab describes the set as handcrafted and the urethane as premium, but the listing doesn't say how the graphics are applied or whether the cores differ from the standard Wide Boys release. Treat those as open questions until the brand says otherwise.

Most fingerboard wheel collabs stop at a logo. This one starts at the silhouette: the shape is the licensed thing, and the graphic rides along with it. That is the harder half to pull off, because a 6.2mm-wide wheel has to clear the deck and the truck hanger while still reading as wide at a glance, and a wide wheel sitting under a 32–34mm deck changes how the setup looks from the side more than any colorway does.

The color split is the other decision worth noting. Two orange and two green means the set reads as a seasonal edition from above and from the side rather than only in a flat-lay photo, and it gives the wheel graphics somewhere to sit against a contrasting ground. It also means an odd-wheel look if you swap one out later, which is either a problem or the point.

Maple Lab's copy calls the Wide Boys "legendary" and says they're back; the magazine hasn't seen a release history for the line beyond this listing, so take the run's length as unconfirmed. The Manchester-based brand already makes decks, trucks, hardware, grip and handboards alongside wheels, so the urethane is not a one-off side project.

One variant — Neon Orange and Green, 8mm x 6.2mm, 75D — listed at 37.50 on Maple Lab's own store, which prices in pounds. It appeared on the site on October 8, and the brand hasn't published an edition size or an end date for the run at the time of writing.

The Franky's Pumpkin set is on Maple Lab's store.