Cast your mind’s back to many years ago when director Robert Zemeckis was doing the publicity rounds for Back to the Future II and mischievously claimed that the hoverboards from the 2015 segment of the film were actually going into production. It was a complete fabrication of course, but I’m sure there were a number of excited children who half expected Santa to be dropping one off in that year’s bundle of presents.
The good news for that generation of kids who were misled is they may finally get the chance to own another of the film’s futuristic props, Marty McFly’s Nike Air Mag shoes! Nice Kicks have news that these automatic lace-ups have actually been patented by Nike (there’s a nice diagram of the trainer below).
Back to the Future is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year and fans are riding the wave of nostalgia at the moment (watch this space for our interview with Bob Gale, one of the film’s producers!), so this is the perfect time for Nike to unveil this idea.
Personally, I’ll be more impressed when a new batch of DeLoreans hit the market, each with their very own built-in flux capacitor.
