adidas predator mania © 2002 Adidas released the Predator Mania to coincide with the 2002 FIFA World Cup in South Korea and Japan. They designed it with Far Eastern style in mind, so it had sharp angular styling and came in various colour schemes in addition to the traditional black–red design. These included the "champagne," which was a champagne-white colour, a "champagne gold," which was a gold pearl-like white, however, just stud back ground and heel cup was gold. These were worn by David Beckham, Alessandro Del Piero, and Raúl. These were available in the XTRX Blades for soft ground use, which came with a stud key and could be loosened or tightened at the owners comfort and also the red firm ground blades for hard surfaces. These were not detachable and came fixated to the boot.

Problems with reliability of the XTRX Blades meant a revised version was released in late 2003, the Mania 2, which incorporated minor changes to the layout and design of the studs. In addition to this, with the revision, Adidas also released the boots with traditional screw in studs which were previously only available to professional players who had the boots custom designed by Adidas. Predator Mania2 colours were "lunar" and "gun metal.", The final revision of this boot came with the release of the HG (Hard Ground) sole, which was the same as the FG, except that the studs were black instead of red and were joined up and more robust with the boots intended to be used on third generation and synthetic surfaces. Blue Mania were only released in small numbers, primarily in the North American market, Japan, and Korea and are rare in Europe.

With the success of the Mania in 2002, Adidas launched a budget version of the boot called the Manic. This featured all the key characteristics of the Mania boot but with small cosmetic differences. A cheaper young cow leather was used in comparison to the Mania's kangaroo skin leather. There was also a difference in the size and length of the tongues on each boot, compared to the Mania and the achillies protector on the heel was not plastic. Differences in the studs and colouring of the under sole are also evident, although the differences can be hard to notice at a glance, the Manics are often mistaken for Manias even though the recommended retail price of the Manics was £60, opposed to the £120 of the Manias.

With the difference in leather and other features, the Predator Mania FG is intended as the peak of the Predator range. With the line discontinued in late 2003, the boot has long been out of stock. Second-hand prices, however, for the boots still dwarf the original £120 recommended retail price