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If you missed ordering it earlier this year, you can pre-order the official Mattel Back to the Future hoverboard right now at MattyCollector.com. Plop down around £80 and you’ll get the 1:1 scale model that’s fully sanctioned by the movies. It’s the real deal.
MattyCollector is taking orders for the hoverboard starting at 12:00 PM ET/9:00 AM PT and there will only be a limited amount of hoverboards available so make sure you get in if you like BTTF or Marty McFly or Doc Brown or DeLorean or time traveling fan. Heck, if you enjoy life, you’d want this in your life.
The hoverboard was made by Mattel and developed with the BTTF movie’s special effects supervisor Michael Lantieri, prop maker Mary Anne Lantieri and the BTTF godfather Bob Gale. It measures about 28″ x 8″ x 3″ and though it doesn’t actually hover, it does have a “whooshing” sound sampled from Back to the Future. It’s basically the hoverboard you want until 2015 comes along. Go get yours here. [MattyCollector]
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So what you’re saying is you can preorder a board with sound effects.
A board with less functionality than a skateboard. I wasn’t expecting a BTTF hover board but I was hoping for a bit more than this.
Such as? A hoverboard with wheels? You’d just look silly.
Because you won’t look silly standing on an unmoving board making whooshing noises?
Fair point. However, luckily, at least it’s the board that makes the whooshing noises. Would be extremely silly seeing you standing on an unmoving board where you are making the whooshing noises.
What do you think I did before this came out?
A snowboard, maybe?
I would like to think that as a “replica prop” then you wouldn’t be playing with it/standing on it and would want it displayed somewhere nice. So… with that in mind why not put a couple of magnets in the silver discs, and then two magnets in a stand to repel it, so at least it looks like it’s hovering.
That’d be a good idea. Ooooooo, having the hoverboard on my wardrobe actually floating. Oh my GOD!!!!
Et voila….
http://gizmodo.com/5549271/a-real-working-hoverboard-exists
Now that would be quality.
Wonder if you could get one strong enough to take your weight and find a shop with metal floors.
I think the metal floors might not have the effect you were looking for.
Yeah, another problem with the magnet idea would be stopping the hover board simply flipping over.
As posted further up…
http://gizmodo.com/5549271/a-real-working-hoverboard-exists
You could combine it with some photoshop skills like another giz article earlier today.
Im sure someone will hack it to actually erm you know, hover!
It looks kind of like the Official London 2012 Olympics hover board, thanks to the colour scheme and design language.