Nike ACTUALLY Making the Back to the Future II Shoes?

• Y-Town Steelhound

  

  Apparently Nike is going to release various versions of this shoe over the next couple years, building up to 2015 when the shoes are actually supposed to be able to power lace.
  
  
  Nice interview with the BTTF writer: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1670475/back-to-the-future-air-mcflys.jhtml
• Scarlet_Buckeye

  

  Y-Town Steelhound;888996 wrote:Apparently Nike is going to release various versions of this shoe over the next couple years, building up to 2015 when the shoes are actually supposed to be able to power lace.
  
  
  Nice interview with the BTTF writer: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1670475/back-to-the-future-air-mcflys.jhtml

  Would love to have a pair (they are sweet looking shoes), but if THIS first generation is starting off at $5k, I can't even imagine what the "final" generation will cost.
• GOONx19

  

  Those are dope.
• dwccrew

  

  tk421;887970 wrote:You obviously didn't read the article.

  I did, what did you not understand about what I said? I said it's a nice ploy by Nike to get 1500 idiots to pay way more than the shoe is worth. I don't care who or what the money is meant to benefit, people will still overpay for those shoes. So please explain to me what you think I didn't understand.
• Y-Town Steelhound

  

  dwccrew;889129 wrote:I did, what did you not understand about what I said? I said it's a nice ploy by Nike to get 1500 idiots to pay way more than the shoe is worth. I don't care who or what the money is meant to benefit, people will still overpay for those shoes. So please explain to me what you think I didn't understand.

  Anyone who purchases a shoe that costs over $30 is overpaying for what it's worth. Like Michael J. Fox said on Letterman, this shoe appeals to three groups of people: The shoe fanatics, the back to the future fanatics, and people who care about curing Parkinson's. Sounds like a win all around to me.
• justincredible

  

  Unrelated to the shoe but related to the movie, there was a DeLorean in the parking lot of Skyline today at lunch.
• Fab1b

  

  First pair sells for $37,000
  Marty McFly Shoe Buyer -- It Was a "Spur of the Moment Decision"
  http://m.tmz.com/article_head.ftl?id=http://www.tmz.com/2011/09/09/tinie-tempah-marty-mcfly-shoes-sneakers-nike-auction-rapper-london-uk-england-back-to-the-future-michael-j-fox-foundation/
• Glory Days

  

  justincredible;889169 wrote:Unrelated to the shoe but related to the movie, there was a DeLorean in the parking lot of Skyline today at lunch.

  on my list of things to own. a company in california still sells them. they basically bought everything that remained of the DeLorean company when it folded. when i looked last, they werent too expensive considering.
• justincredible

  

  How much are they selling them for? I checked on ebay and they were in the $15k+ range.
• said_aouita

  

  They are horrible looking. Even more reason to not like Nike.
• justincredible

  

  said_aouita;889356 wrote:They are horrible looking. Even more reason to not like Nike.

  
  Yeah, those dicks. Raising tons of money for Parkinsons research.
• OSH

  

  
  
  Found this somewhere.