Bodega Stocks the Air Jordan 1 High OG Royal

The Air Jordan 1 High OG Royal goes on sale Saturday, October 10, 2026, and Bodega is carrying it online at bdgastore.com and in store. It is the black and royal blue pair's first return since 2017, and the first in traditional leather since then, built on the standard High OG shape instead of the rarer '85 cut.

2:00 PM, Style Code IQ5495 005, One Colorway

Nike's launch page lists the Air Jordan 1 High OG Royal under style code IQ5495 005, with a 2:00 PM start on October 10 and a retail price of $185. Nike's product copy describes a premium leather upper, a foam midsole, a rubber outsole and perforations across the toe box.

Coverage names Nike SNKRS and select Jordan Brand retailers as the launch channels. When Sneaker News published its release table on July 21, SNKRS and several other stores were still marked Coming Soon, so the retailer list stayed open for months. Men's Journal and Nice Kicks carry the same date and price as Nike's page, so the sources agree on the basics. Bodega's listing puts a name on one of the retailers, though its post gives no start time of its own, so 2:00 PM is Nike's number. The Boston boutique opened in 2006 and has held Nike Tier Zero status since 2008, which is why its shelf is one of the places a Jordan 1 General Release lands on day one.

Smooth Leather Replaces 2017's Tumbled Hide

The 2026 pair is cut from smooth leather, where the 2017 Royal used tumbled leather, according to the Sneaker Files retailer guide. Smooth hide shows every crease as a clean line. Tumbled leather carries a pebbled grain that softens creasing, so the two pairs will age differently on a foot. For a buyer the practical read is simple: smooth leather shows every crease and rewards a pair you keep clean, and tumbled leather forgave both.

Sneaktorious calls this the first traditional leather Royal since the 2017 release, a gap of nine years, and one retailer description says the upper is leather throughout with no suede. That is the whole pitch. There is no collaborator, no new material story and no change of last, just the same colorway rebuilt in the leather the original Royal was meant to wear.

The money tells you where Nike put it. At $185 the pair costs $55 more than the $130 Air Force 1 '01 Triple White that Bodega carried in July, and $50 more than the $135 Shox Z Calistra it stocked a few days later. That premium buys the taller upper and the perforated toe box.

The Cut Is the High OG, Not the '85

Several early reports expected the High '85, the build Nice Kicks describes as the rarer shape. The pair Nike listed is the standard High OG, which makes it the easier of the two to find in your size on release day.

Sneaktorious reports the shoebox is inspired by a 1985 photograph of Michael Jordan, and Sneaker News headlined the packaging as special. The box is the only part of this release that points back to the year the shoe was born. The shoe itself points back to 2017.

Three Nike Family Releases Through Bodega Since July

Bodega has now put three Nike family products in front of buyers since July: the Air Force 1 '01 Triple White, the Shox Z Calistra in Metallic Silver and Pearl Pink, and this pair. Between the second and third it carried the PUMA x J.L A.L capsule The Shape of Things to Come, which rebuilt the CELL Geo sneaker with a full apparel line.

The other Jordan release in that stretch was gated. JAIDE's Air Jordan 11 Low Fiberglass went on sale September 18 only through James Whitner's Whitaker Group stores, with entry through Nike's EQL raffle platform, and that Air Jordan 11 Low cost $205. Its entry ran through four retail sites under that one company. Nothing in the Royal's launch coverage describes a raffle, an account requirement or a single owner of the stock. It is a Saturday release with sizes, a start time and a shelf.

Nine years, one change of leather and a shoebox that borrows a 1985 photo: that is the full list of what the Royal returns with, and Bodega's online and in store sale starts today.