“Hey you, get your damn hands off her!”
April 17, 2007 10:24 AM Subscribe
Obviously fake.
posted by monju_bosatsu at 10:28 AM on April 17, 2007
posted by monju_bosatsu at 10:28 AM on April 17, 2007
I still say Converse should retool the 'All-Star' as the Air Maravich.
posted by jonmc at 10:29 AM on April 17, 2007
posted by jonmc at 10:29 AM on April 17, 2007
Now I want the 3d version of the shark and the hoverskates.
posted by darkripper at 10:29 AM on April 17, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by darkripper at 10:29 AM on April 17, 2007 [1 favorite]
Probably just a replica some geeky fan put together. Still cool, though.
posted by Faint of Butt at 10:31 AM on April 17, 2007
posted by Faint of Butt at 10:31 AM on April 17, 2007
Mr Fusion. My entire life since Spring of 1985 has been a quest for Mr Fusion.
posted by DU at 10:35 AM on April 17, 2007
posted by DU at 10:35 AM on April 17, 2007
How much extra do we have to pay for it to come with one of these?
"Here you go little girl."
"Keep it! I got a bulldog now!"
posted by ZachsMind at 10:40 AM on April 17, 2007
"Here you go little girl."
"Keep it! I got a bulldog now!"
posted by ZachsMind at 10:40 AM on April 17, 2007
Even if only in extremely limited quantities, this would be absolutely amazing.
if by absolutely amazing we "of limited to no interest to anyone but a handful of people unlucky enough to obsess about Back to the Future II of all things."
posted by shmegegge at 10:42 AM on April 17, 2007 [1 favorite]
if by absolutely amazing we "of limited to no interest to anyone but a handful of people unlucky enough to obsess about Back to the Future II of all things."
posted by shmegegge at 10:42 AM on April 17, 2007 [1 favorite]
You know a different definition, shmegegge?
posted by brundlefly at 10:43 AM on April 17, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by brundlefly at 10:43 AM on April 17, 2007 [1 favorite]
a fake? i don't know. i don't understand some people's fascination with sneakers, but the connoisseurs are out there.
posted by es_de_bah at 10:51 AM on April 17, 2007
posted by es_de_bah at 10:51 AM on April 17, 2007
You know a different definition, shmegegge?
you know, now that you mention it, I don't?
also, for as long as I've seen your username around here, it took me until just this instant to realize it's a reference to The Fly.
posted by shmegegge at 10:54 AM on April 17, 2007
you know, now that you mention it, I don't?
also, for as long as I've seen your username around here, it took me until just this instant to realize it's a reference to The Fly.
posted by shmegegge at 10:54 AM on April 17, 2007
I once sprained my ankle, I had to wear those McFlys (minus the Nike logo) for 3 weeks
posted by matteo at 10:55 AM on April 17, 2007
posted by matteo at 10:55 AM on April 17, 2007
Even though Nikes seem to have a built in self destruction sequence, I would buy a pair of these.
posted by drezdn at 10:57 AM on April 17, 2007
posted by drezdn at 10:57 AM on April 17, 2007
They didn't report it here so I'm saying it's a hoax. If they were selling those shoes for real, BTTF.com would know about it and they'd be trying to get their cut.
Great Scott! This guy, who dubs himself Britain's least famous celebrity, has worked on a prototype for a one man hoverboard, using leaf blowers! And it works! Even on water (tho it can't hold a person just yet - the leaf blowers are a little heavy themselves). He's abandoned the skateboard look and now it's shaped like a circle, but it's progress. Can we get there in eight years? Then be stylin' with the self-lacing Nikes? Only 'time' will tell.
Two years ago there were talks of Michael J Fox reprising the role of Marty McFly. However, he'd now be story-wise, the equivalent of Doc Brown. His job would be to take all he'd learned from Doc in the years between parts three and four, and advise new youngsters in the dangers of time travel. I think it woulda worked.
Yet another reason for stem-cell research. Help Fox and millions of others get past this Parkinson's thing - I WANT BACK TO THE FUTURE PART FOUR! (and my own flying car, dammit!)
posted by ZachsMind at 10:57 AM on April 17, 2007
Great Scott! This guy, who dubs himself Britain's least famous celebrity, has worked on a prototype for a one man hoverboard, using leaf blowers! And it works! Even on water (tho it can't hold a person just yet - the leaf blowers are a little heavy themselves). He's abandoned the skateboard look and now it's shaped like a circle, but it's progress. Can we get there in eight years? Then be stylin' with the self-lacing Nikes? Only 'time' will tell.
Two years ago there were talks of Michael J Fox reprising the role of Marty McFly. However, he'd now be story-wise, the equivalent of Doc Brown. His job would be to take all he'd learned from Doc in the years between parts three and four, and advise new youngsters in the dangers of time travel. I think it woulda worked.
Yet another reason for stem-cell research. Help Fox and millions of others get past this Parkinson's thing - I WANT BACK TO THE FUTURE PART FOUR! (and my own flying car, dammit!)
posted by ZachsMind at 10:57 AM on April 17, 2007
I hope this doesn't turn into another LOLDELOREANZ thread.
posted by Mister_A at 11:04 AM on April 17, 2007
posted by Mister_A at 11:04 AM on April 17, 2007
If this is true, these things are the most illegal/insane sneakers ever made.
posted by Wolfdog at 11:09 AM on April 17, 2007
posted by Wolfdog at 11:09 AM on April 17, 2007
The whole Back to the Future series was my favorite ad ever.
posted by Citizen Premier at 11:09 AM on April 17, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by Citizen Premier at 11:09 AM on April 17, 2007 [1 favorite]
shmegegge writes "also, for as long as I've seen your username around here, it took me until just this instant to realize it's a reference to The Fly."
It's odd. That's happened a number of times: people suddenly recognizing the name.
posted by brundlefly at 11:17 AM on April 17, 2007
It's odd. That's happened a number of times: people suddenly recognizing the name.
posted by brundlefly at 11:17 AM on April 17, 2007
I can't believe nobody's linked to mcfly2015.com yet. Er, well, it's kind of linked to in the FPP's link.
posted by zsazsa at 11:31 AM on April 17, 2007
posted by zsazsa at 11:31 AM on April 17, 2007
I hope this doesn't turn into another LOLDELOREANZ thread.
Man, that was a bitchin' car. But then, my generation grew up wanting one.
posted by Pope Guilty at 11:36 AM on April 17, 2007
Man, that was a bitchin' car. But then, my generation grew up wanting one.
posted by Pope Guilty at 11:36 AM on April 17, 2007
How do I make the leap from "some guy got some pictures anonymously emailed" to "Nike is ramping up production"? Would it be easier to get from premise to conclusion if I had a hoverboard?
posted by revgeorge at 11:39 AM on April 17, 2007
posted by revgeorge at 11:39 AM on April 17, 2007
bring back the IMG tag!
posted by quarter waters and a bag of chips at 11:44 AM on April 17, 2007
posted by quarter waters and a bag of chips at 11:44 AM on April 17, 2007
These seem like some that Comic Book Guy would wear.
posted by blue_beetle at 11:56 AM on April 17, 2007
posted by blue_beetle at 11:56 AM on April 17, 2007
A little while ago, I stole a coworker's nameplate off his cubicle wall, which is a lot funnier if you know how anal he is about these things. The plan was to just sit on it for a while and then return it in some mildly humorous fashion. Someone suggested photocopying and faxing it to him. I drew up a cover letter and couldn't think of a clever company or person it could be coming from, so I made it from Dr. Emmett Brown of Flux Capacitor, Inc. I did have the foresight to change the date to November of 1955.
From there, things sort of took a life of their own. We took photos of the nameplate around downtown Chicago (inside a Red Eye kiosk, held by the Sky [women's basketball team] mascot, in front of the Chicago Theater, in the display window of some tourist shop on Michigan Avenue...we even got a sweet, confused couple to hold it in front of The Bean for a portrait). I created a Yahoo account--1point21gigawatts or something like that--and started emailing them to him (bccing everyone else in the office, of course). We were able to draw this all out over the course of about three weeks, ending it when he started to enjoy it himself.
I had one particular photo pre-picked as the coup de grace, but then another coworker mentioned that the parking garage that houses our company car also has a Delorean. "It's derelict, the tires are flat," he told me, "people wrote 'Flux capictor, bitch' in the dust on the windows, but it's definitely a Delorean." I had to have this picture. And so we got it.
Anyway, I sure wish I had a pair of these to wear around the office. Though they're nothing without the hoverboard.
posted by Terminal Verbosity at 12:14 PM on April 17, 2007 [6 favorites]
From there, things sort of took a life of their own. We took photos of the nameplate around downtown Chicago (inside a Red Eye kiosk, held by the Sky [women's basketball team] mascot, in front of the Chicago Theater, in the display window of some tourist shop on Michigan Avenue...we even got a sweet, confused couple to hold it in front of The Bean for a portrait). I created a Yahoo account--1point21gigawatts or something like that--and started emailing them to him (bccing everyone else in the office, of course). We were able to draw this all out over the course of about three weeks, ending it when he started to enjoy it himself.
I had one particular photo pre-picked as the coup de grace, but then another coworker mentioned that the parking garage that houses our company car also has a Delorean. "It's derelict, the tires are flat," he told me, "people wrote 'Flux capictor, bitch' in the dust on the windows, but it's definitely a Delorean." I had to have this picture. And so we got it.
Anyway, I sure wish I had a pair of these to wear around the office. Though they're nothing without the hoverboard.
posted by Terminal Verbosity at 12:14 PM on April 17, 2007 [6 favorites]
Speaking of Deloreans, this has me wondering about a physics conundrum:
Imagine if the time-travelling Delorean and Buckaroo Bonzai's Jet Car were traveling head-on toward each other. Then right at the moment of collision, the Delorean hits 88 MPH engaging its flux capacitor, while the Jet Car simultaneously engages its oscillation overthruster. What would happen?
posted by Dr-Baa at 12:28 PM on April 17, 2007
Imagine if the time-travelling Delorean and Buckaroo Bonzai's Jet Car were traveling head-on toward each other. Then right at the moment of collision, the Delorean hits 88 MPH engaging its flux capacitor, while the Jet Car simultaneously engages its oscillation overthruster. What would happen?
posted by Dr-Baa at 12:28 PM on April 17, 2007
Depends on if they cross the streams or not.
posted by stenseng at 12:32 PM on April 17, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by stenseng at 12:32 PM on April 17, 2007 [1 favorite]
Nice construction--especially if it is in fact a hoax. I would up two levels in my b-boy stance with those.
posted by kosem at 12:55 PM on April 17, 2007
posted by kosem at 12:55 PM on April 17, 2007
Awesome. Between Dr-Baa's comment and stenseng's comment, I think we achieved nerd critical mass.
posted by brundlefly at 12:59 PM on April 17, 2007
posted by brundlefly at 12:59 PM on April 17, 2007
Man, I wish you worked at my office, TV. Seems like you enjoy fun.
posted by Mister_A at 1:03 PM on April 17, 2007
posted by Mister_A at 1:03 PM on April 17, 2007
Funny. I'm sure if they ever go in production they will be priced at something like $300 US a pair as they are targeting the relatively well off 25-37 year old demographic that was old enough to remember the movie but not old enough at the time to realize how juvenile the movie was. And if you buy them, at that age, you couldn't exactly wear them around. Thus it is the type of shoe you stick in your closet and show your friends at your next wine and cheese party. Maybe they would catch on with the younger crowd, but one would have to do a survey. It may or may not.
posted by bhouston at 1:12 PM on April 17, 2007
posted by bhouston at 1:12 PM on April 17, 2007
if you buy them, at that age, you couldn't exactly wear them around.
why not? i think it's a hoax, too.
posted by mrgrimm at 1:25 PM on April 17, 2007
why not? i think it's a hoax, too.
posted by mrgrimm at 1:25 PM on April 17, 2007
Fortunately brundlefly, the critical mass will not harm me while I hang out here in the basement of the Alamo.
posted by Dr-Baa at 1:25 PM on April 17, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by Dr-Baa at 1:25 PM on April 17, 2007 [1 favorite]
To address Dr-Baa's conundrum, it is my belief that the result of this apparent collision would be an anticlimactic nothing. The Delorean travels through time, the fourth dimension, while the Jet Car travels through the eighth dimension. The ultimate effect is that the flux capacitor and the oscillation overthruster both cause their respective vehicles to apparently "depart" from our three-dimensional awareness, so at the moment of impact, the Delorean would vanish from sight and the Jet Car would phase into immateriality. Null result.
(Unless, as stenseng added, the streams were crossed. But that's an eventuality we don't want to contemplate.)
posted by Faint of Butt at 1:41 PM on April 17, 2007
(Unless, as stenseng added, the streams were crossed. But that's an eventuality we don't want to contemplate.)
posted by Faint of Butt at 1:41 PM on April 17, 2007
I think we achieved nerd critical mass.
At least we're not at the critical desalinization point.
posted by Terminal Verbosity at 1:42 PM on April 17, 2007
At least we're not at the critical desalinization point.
posted by Terminal Verbosity at 1:42 PM on April 17, 2007
Griff's board was a pitbull, not a bulldog. There is no such thing as a 'bulldog' hoverboard.
posted by hellphish at 1:45 PM on April 17, 2007
posted by hellphish at 1:45 PM on April 17, 2007
Sorry, Faint of Butt, but the oscilation overthruster would bathe the Delorean in quantum weirdness, the overthruster is a device "which systematically reorders matter by annihilating electrons and positrons." The Delorean would have been dismantled at a subatomic level before it got up to speed.
posted by lekvar at 2:13 PM on April 17, 2007
posted by lekvar at 2:13 PM on April 17, 2007
Items from that film have certain limitations.
posted by hoverboards don't work on water at 2:20 PM on April 17, 2007 [6 favorites]
posted by hoverboards don't work on water at 2:20 PM on April 17, 2007 [6 favorites]
Now I want the 3d version of the shark and the hoverskates.
Actually, it was a hoverboard, and as a matter of fact, they really produced them!*
* Not really, though.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 5:11 PM on April 17, 2007
Actually, it was a hoverboard, and as a matter of fact, they really produced them!*
* Not really, though.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 5:11 PM on April 17, 2007
Is this something I would need a hoverboard to understand?
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 6:35 PM on April 17, 2007
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 6:35 PM on April 17, 2007
Well lookee here! Anyone who really wants these shoes has a grassroots campaign on their side: the McFly 2015 Project.
posted by hermitosis at 7:27 PM on April 17, 2007
posted by hermitosis at 7:27 PM on April 17, 2007
Man, puke & cry, I was drooling over that hat until I realized they put their dumb ass logo right on the front of it.
posted by Citizen Premier at 7:43 PM on April 17, 2007
posted by Citizen Premier at 7:43 PM on April 17, 2007
Whoops, zsazsa got it up here hours ago.
"Think, McFly, think!"
posted by hermitosis at 7:46 PM on April 17, 2007
"Think, McFly, think!"
posted by hermitosis at 7:46 PM on April 17, 2007
Hm I didn't notice that, Citizen Premier. That sucks ass.
posted by puke & cry at 1:31 PM on April 18, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by puke & cry at 1:31 PM on April 18, 2007 [1 favorite]
Is this something I would need a hoverboard to understand?
"Wrong answer, McFly!"
posted by Servo5678 at 3:31 PM on April 18, 2007
"Wrong answer, McFly!"
posted by Servo5678 at 3:31 PM on April 18, 2007
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