You're wrong,they did Elan amps,which have this pretty ugly camo graphic. and then some mantis-thingies,you can ride fakie with'em so nicely. But would I buy the matis or amps? No. But to think about it,i used to have 540's and they weren't that good,and then,on the last day when I was at a big resort my friend hit a huge rock and his composites of the candide's came out. that sucked,he slid away,abut on the next run i hit the exact same fucking rock(under the snow)and BLADOW! my skis were broke too. the resort said at first that 'you ride the street course with your own responsibility,look at the sign' and after a huge debate and some blackmail attempts,me and my friend got skis,and i'm pretty glad they gave 'em,but my friend still cries his ass off when someone menties candide's and he goes to psychotherapy too. Gonna buy troublemakers next season..