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Monday, June 30, 2008

Fashion Back to the Future Shoes Soon to be a Reality?

Posted by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey on Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 11:12 AM

Back to the Future fans, rejoice! The sneaks Marty McFly wore in Back to the Future II are scheduled to be released by Nike in late July, according to Wired. They'll be called Nike Hyperdunks, but unfortunately will not come with the super awesome automatic lacing feature, as seen below.

WHEN WILL THE FUTURE EVER CATCH UP?!?

 

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NOT interested. Where's my friggin' hoverboard!?!
Posted by Ned on June 30, 2008 at 11:26 AM · Report
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Ned, your glamor shot is about the best thing I have ever seen.
Posted by Rob on June 30, 2008 at 11:45 AM · Report
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Ned- there's a book called "where's my jetpack" by dr. daniel h. wilson (it was supposed to be called "where's my fucking jetpack," but that's not marketable to the children of wired magazine execs...) that should explain why you are still commuting by 2 or 4 wheels.

In regards to the shoes, the "Air Yeezy," Kanye West's shoe, has been around for a little while, but used the B2TF2 nikes as inspiration.

Personally, I want the Reeboks from Aliens. Those are dope.
Posted by miguelaron on June 30, 2008 at 11:55 AM · Report
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Does anybody else remember some "The Making of Back to the Future" TV special that came on around the time Back to the Future Part II came out? And there was some dude on there--I think he was a special effects artist for the movie--saying, "Oh, the hoverboards aren't even a special effect! Those were invented years ago, but the government decided they were too dangerous, so they couldn't sell them. So there's this big warehouse full of unused hoverboards, and we just got a couple and put 'em in the movie!"

I believed that asshole for like 10 years.
Posted by Erik Henriksen on June 30, 2008 at 12:01 PM · Report
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my sister and law works at Nike and told me about this. i think its kind of neat but Nike might be way behind the hipster 80's revival.
Posted by M-Eyes on June 30, 2008 at 5:03 PM · Report

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