World Industries Dune Reissue Deck
Pro Model: Chris Pastras (First Pro Board)
Originally released in 1990
Artwork by Marc McKee
Width: 8.875"
Length: 31.75"
Info:
“This is my first board, Rocco turned me and Randy Colvin pro kind of on a dime, Mike V had just left so I think Steve didn’t really know who else to give a board to. The nickname Dune, Rodney [Smith] came up with it. I used to do imitations of this Vietnamese kid Martin, so my brother called me ‘Mardune’ just because I was imitating him so well, and it morphed into Dune. But I had all kinds of nicknames. One was T. Bass, after the crazy Andy Griffith hobo character who was smashing windows, I got it after I smashed our godfather’s car window.
Anyway, I did get to pick the graphics, it was from a children book, the baby was actually White and Marc Mc Kee turned him Afro-American. We developed this deck at the same time than Mike’s barnyard deck, and I actually thought that Mike’s wasn’t really functional, cause it was too square. Me and Rodney [Mullen] worked on this shape and this board sold really well, it was insane, over time they sold maybe 12,000 of these.
It was actually the first double tail that was functional, so I wanted big graphics on both sides just to nail home the double thing. I mean, it has shape to it but had that huge nose because I did a lot of nollies then. So many that Mark Gonzales called me ‘nollie’!”
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