'A Cinematic Icon That Transcends Time and Space'
The DeLorean Time Machine ‘ Transcending Time and Space’
The DeLorean Time Machine:
'A Cinematic Icon That Transcends Time and Space'
In the realm of science fiction and pop culture, there are few movie vehicles as iconic and legendary as the DeLorean Time Machine.
Forever etched in our minds as a vessel capable of transcending time and space, this charismatic silver sports car has captured the imagination of millions worldwide.
Introduced in the timeless classic "Back to the Future," the DeLorean Time Machine has become a symbol of adventure, nostalgia, and the limitless possibilities of time travel.
Let's take a closer look at the allure and enduring fascination surrounding this fictional but beloved vehicle.
1. A Timeless Design:
The DeLorean DMC-12, designed by renowned automotive engineer John DeLorean, originally aimed to conquer the automobile industry with its sleek stainless-steel exterior and iconic gull-wing doors.
However, it was its transformation into a time machine that cemented its place in cinematic history.
The DeLorean's stylish design and futuristic appeal became synonymous with time travel itself, possessing a unique ability to captivate audiences even after several decades.
2. The Flux Capacitor and Time Travel:
At the heart of the DeLorean Time Machine's temporal capabilities lies the legendary flux capacitor.
Created by the eccentric scientist Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown, this fictional device allowed the DeLorean to reach the required speed of 88 miles per hour to activate time travel.
The flux capacitor demonstrates the quintessential blend of science and imagination that has made the DeLorean Time Machine such an iconic symbol.
3. A Vehicle of Adventure:
The DeLorean Time Machine, piloted by Marty McFly and Doc Brown, took audiences on thrilling and unforgettable journeys.
From the suburbs of Hill Valley to the Old West and even the distant future, the DeLorean became a vessel for exhilarating escapades and time-crossed character development.
Its ability to transport characters to various eras showcased the importance of personal growth and the impact of their actions on the space-time continuum.
4. Cultural Impact and Legacy:
Beyond its role in the "Back to the Future" trilogy, the DeLorean Time Machine has become ingrained in popular culture, inspiring countless parodies, TV programs, and homages.
Born from the imagination of writer Bob Gale and director Robert Zemeckis, the vehicle has since become a symbol of nostalgia for many who grew up watching the films, as well as a source of inspiration for future generations.
5. Real-Life Passion and Enthusiasm:
The DeLorean Time Machine continues to inspire a dedicated community of fans who devote themselves to replicating its design, modifying their own DeLoreans, or attending "Back to the Future" conventions.
These enthusiasts keep the spirit of the DeLorean alive, reminding us of the endless fascination and nostalgia associated with this iconic time-traveling symbol.
Conclusion:
The DeLorean Time Machine has transcended the realms of both fiction and film, becoming a cultural phenomenon admired by fans young and old.
Its timeless design, fictional technologies, and thrilling cinematic adventures have left an indelible mark on popular culture. Decades after its first appearance on the silver screen, the DeLorean Time Machine remains an enduring symbol of imagination, adventure, and the timeless appeal of time travel itself.
So, hop in, buckle up, and let your imagination soar as you embark on a journey through time and space with this legendary vehicle !!!
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Time Paradox Explained - Back to the Future
Great Scott !!! We feature Doc Brown’s Time Travelling DeLorean in our Blog about one of the wonders of Time Travel the Time Paradox. What is a Time Paradox - How does it relate to Time Travel and we discuss the science involved.
Time Paradox
“Doc: “I foresee two possibilities. One, seeing herself thirty years in the future would put Jennifer into shock and she’d simply pass out. Or two, the encounter could create a time paradox. The results of which could cause a chain reaction that would unravel the very fabric of the space-time continuum and destroy the entire universe!... Granted, that’s the worst-case scenario. The destruction however might be limited merely to our own galaxy.”
Marty: “Well that’s a relief!”
— Doc and Marty discussing the implications of 1985 Jennifer running into her 2015 self.
A paradox, in time travel, is “a situation in which the effect of an incident contradicts or eliminates the cause of that same incident”.[1]
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Time travel paradox Explained
The Earth rotates around the sun - the sun rotates around the galaxy - the galaxy moves in the universe. All that being said, if the time machine were possible, the DeLorean would be in a different place, and not the same place each time it moves into the past or future.
Solar System
Here’s one possible answer: The time machine is still affected by the gravitation pull of a body such as that on Earth.
Expounding upon that: Views from inside the time machine indicate that the DeLorean time machine is traveling through a portal that only opens when the machine reaches 88 miles per hour.
Since time travel hasn't been witnessed, it's plausible that the unopened time portals are held in place by the Earth's gravity or by a physical force not yet proven. The ideas behind the first paragraph, about Earth's movement in space, have been discussed in the article about spatial displacement.
DeLorean Time Travel
Behind the scenes
The word "paradox" is often used to describe a mystery or an unanswered question. eg :
Paradox was also the title of the musical score played during the scene in Part II in which the time-traveling Doc Brown talked with his younger self while handing himself a wrench to attach the electrical cable to the lamppost in 1955; since Doc Brown caused a "pair o' Docs" to occur.
Doc Brown
Though many paradoxes arise in the trilogy, Doc may be overzealous about them because, though the effects obviously happen, the risk of destroying the space-time continuum may not really exist, mearly being a fabrication of Doc's mind to give reason to fix time-lines.
Evidence of such exists, because 1985 Doc was willing to correct 1955 Doc with the wrench size and give him the suggestion that he was conducting a weather experiment as well as telling him there was going to be a storm. He also gave 1955 Doc information on how to repair the DeLorean, via the letter, while he was stuck in 1885, knowing the risks.
There is nothing in Einstein’s theories of relativity to rule out time travel, although the very notion of traveling to the past violates one of the most fundamental premises of physics, that of causality.
With the laws of cause and effect out the window, there naturally arises a number of inconsistencies associated with time travel, and listed here are some of those paradoxes which have given both scientist and time travel movie buffs alike more than a few sleepless nights over the years.
The time travel paradoxes which follow fall into two broad categories:
1) Closed Causal Loops, such as the Predestination Paradox and the Bootstrap Paradox, which involve a self-existing time loop in which cause and effect run in a repeating circle, but is also internally consistent with the timeline’s history.
2) Consistency Paradoxes, such as the Grandfather Paradox and other similar variants such as The Hitler paradox, and Polchinski’s Paradox, which generate a number of timeline inconsistencies related to the possibility of altering the past.
1: Predestination Paradox
Travel through Time
A Predestination Paradox occurs when the actions of a person traveling back in time becomes part of past events, and may ultimately causes the event he is trying to prevent to take place.
This results in a ‘temporal causality loop’ in which (Event 1) in the ‘past’ influences (Event 2) in the ‘future’ (time travel to the past) which then causes (Event 1) to occur.
With this circular loop of events ensuring that history is not altered by the time traveler, and that any attempts to stop something from happening in the past, will simply lead to the cause itself, instead of stopping it.
This paradox suggests that things are always destined to turn out the same way, and that whatever has happened must happen.
Sound complicated? …… O.K this may sound a grim, but just for a moment Imagine that your lover dies in a hit-and-run car accident, and you travel back in time to save her from her fate, only to find that on your way to the accident you are the one who accidentally runs her over.
Your attempt to change the past has therefore resulted in a predestination paradox. One way of dealing with this type of paradox is to assume that the version of events you have experienced are already built into a self-consistent version of reality, and that by trying to alter the past you will only end up fulfilling your role in creating an event in history, not altering it.
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The Time Machine (2002)
In ‘The Time Machine’ Movie' in (2002) for instance, Dr. Alexander Hartdegen witnesses his fiancee being killed by a mugger, leading him to build a time machine to travel back in time to save her from her fate.
His subsequent attempts to save her fail, though, leading him to conclude that “I could come back a thousand times… and see her die a thousand ways.” After then traveling centuries into the future to see if a solution has been found to the temporal problem, Hartdegen is told by the Über-Morlock:
“You built your time machine because of Emma’s death. If she had lived, it would never have existed, so how could you use your machine to go back and save her? You are the inescapable result of your tragedy, just as I am the inescapable result of you.”
The DeLorean Time Machine
Movies: Examples of predestination paradoxes in the movies include :
12 Monkeys (1995), TimeCrimes (2007), The Time Traveler’s Wife (2009), and Predestination (2014).
Books: An example of a predestination paradox in a book is Phoebe Fortune and the Pre-destination Paradox by M.S. Crook.
2: Bootstrap Paradox
Bootstrap Paradox
A Bootstrap Paradox is a type of paradox in which an object, person, or piece of information sent back in time results in an infinite loop where the object has no discernible origin, and exists without ever being created.
It is also known as an Ontological Paradox, as ontology is a branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of being, or existence.
– Information: George Lucas traveling back in time and giving himself the scripts for the Star War movies which he then goes on to direct and gain great fame for would create a bootstrap paradox involving information, as the scripts have no true point of creation or origin.
– Person: A bootstrap paradox involving a person could be, say, a 20 year old male time traveler who goes back 21 years, meets a woman, has an affair, and returns home three months later without knowing the woman was pregnant. Her child grows up to be the 20 year old time traveler, who travels back 21 years through time, meets a woman, and so on.
These ontological paradoxes imply that the future, present and past are not defined, thus giving scientists an obvious problem on how to then pinpoint the “origin” of anything, a word customarily referring to the past, but now rendered meaningless.
Further questions arise as to how the object/data was created, and by whom. Nevertheless, Einstein’s field equations allow for the possibility of closed time loops, with Kip Thorne the first theoretical physicist to recognize traversable wormholes and backwards time travel as being theoretically possible under certain conditions.
Movies: Examples of bootstrap paradoxes in the movies include ‘Somewhere in Time’ (1980), ‘Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure’ (1989), ‘The Terminator’ movies, and ‘Time Lapse’ (2014). The Netflix series Dark (2017-19) also features a book called ‘A Journey Through Time’ which presents another classic example of a bootstrap paradox.
Books: Examples of bootstrap paradoxes in books include Michael Moorcock’s ‘Behold The Man’, Tim Powers’ The Anubis Gates, and Heinlein’s “By His Bootstraps”
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3: Grandfather Paradox
The Grandfather Paradox concerns ‘self-inconsistent solutions’ to a timeline’s history caused by traveling back in time. For example :
Again we are going to be very grim for a minuet, if you traveled to the past and killed your grandfather, you would never have been born and would not have been able to travel to the past – a paradox. Let’s say you did decide to kill your grandfather because he created a dynasty that ruined the world. You figure if you knock him off before he meets your grandmother then the whole family line (including you) will vanish and the world will be a better place. According to theoretical physicists, the situation could play out as follows:
The Grandfather Paradox
– Time line protection hypothesis: You pop back in time, walk up to him, and point a revolver at his head. You pull the trigger but the gun fails to fire. Click! Click! Click! The bullets in the chamber have dents in the firing caps. You point the gun elsewhere and pull the trigger. Bang! Point it at your grandfather.. Click! Click! Click! So you try another method to kill him, but that only leads to scars that in later life he attributed to the world’s worst mugger. You can do many things as long as they’re not fatal until you are chased off by a policeman.
– Multiple universes hypothesis: You pop back in time, walk up to him, and point a revolver at his head. You pull the trigger and Boom! The deed is done. You return to the “present” but you never existed here. Everything about you has been erased, including your family, friends, home, possessions, bank account, and history. You’ve entered a timeline where you never existed. Scientists entertain the possibility that you have now created an alternate timeline or entered a parallel universe.
Movies: Example of the Grandfather Paradox in movies include ‘Back to the Future’ (1985), ‘Back to the Future Part II’ (1989), and ‘Back to the Future Part III’ (1990).
Books: Example of the Grandfather Paradox in books include Dr. Quantum in the Grandfather Paradox by Fred Alan Wolf, The Grandfather Paradox by Steven Burgauer, and Future Times Three (1944) by René Barjavel, the very first treatment of a grandfather paradox in a novel.
4: Let’s Kill Hitler Paradox
We will steer off this subject soon but similar to the Grandfather Paradox which paradoxically prevents your own birth, the Killing Hitler paradox erases your own reason for going back in time to kill him. Furthermore, while killing Grandpa might have a limited “butterfly effect”, killing Hitler would have far-reaching consequences for everyone in the world, even if only for the fact you studied him in school.
The paradox itself arises from the idea that if you were successful, then there would be no reason to time travel in the first place. If you killed Hitler then none of his actions would trickle down through history and cause you to want to make the attempt.
Movies/Shows: By far the best treatment for this notion occurred in a ‘Twilight Zone’ episode called ‘Cradle of Darkness’ that sums up the difficulties involved in trying to change history, with another being an episode of Dr Who called ‘Let’s Kill Hitler’.
Books: Examples of the Let’s Kill Hitler Paradox in books include How to Kill Hitler: A Guide For Time Travelers by Andrew Stanek, and the graphic novel I Killed Adolf Hitler by Jason.
5: Polchinski’s Paradox
American theoretical physicist Joseph Polchinski proposed a time paradox scenario in which a billiard ball enters a wormhole, and emerges out the other end in the past just in time to collide with its younger version and stop it going into the wormhole in the first place.
Polchinski’s Paradox
Polchinski’s paradox is taken seriously by physicists, as there is nothing in 'Einstein’s General Relativity to rule out the possibility of time travel, closed time-like curves (CTCs), or tunnels through space-time.
Furthermore, it has the advantage of being based upon the laws of motion, without having to refer to the indeterministic concept of free will, and so presents a better research method for scientists to think about the paradox.
When Joseph Polchinski proposed the paradox, he had Novikov’s Self-Consistency Principle in mind, which basically states that while time travel is possible, time paradoxes are forbidden.
However, a number of solutions have been formulated to avoid the inconsistencies Polchinski suggested, which essentially involves the billiard ball delivering a blow which changes its younger version’s course, but not enough to stop it entering the wormhole.
This solution is related to the ‘timeline-protection hypothesis’ which states that a probability distortion would occur in order to prevent a paradox from happening. This also helps explain why if you tried to time travel and murder your grandfather, something will always happen to make that impossible, thus preserving a consistent version of history.
Books: Paradoxes of Time Travel by Ryan Wasserman is a wide-ranging exploration on the topic of time travel, including Polchinski’s Paradox.
Are Self-fulfilling Prophecies Paradoxes?
A self-fulfilling prophecy is only a causality loop when the prophecy is truly known to happen and events in the future cause effects in the past, otherwise the phenomenon is not so much a paradox as a case of cause and effect.
Say, for instance, an authority figure states that something is inevitable, proper, and true, convincing everyone through persuasive style. People, completely convinced through rhetoric, begin to behave as if the prediction were already true, and consequently bring it about through their actions. This might be seen best by an example where someone convincingly states:
“High-speed Magnetic Levitation Trains will dominate as the best form of transportation from the 21st Century onward.”
Jet travel, relying on diminishing fuel supplies, will be reserved for ocean crossing, and local flights will be a thing of the past. People now start planning on building networks of high-speed trains that run on electricity. Infrastructure gears up to supply the needed parts and the prediction becomes true not because it was truly inevitable (though it is a smart idea), but because people behaved as if it were true.
It even works on a smaller scale – the scale of individuals. The basic methodology for all those “self-help” books out in the world is that if you modify your thinking that you are successful (money, career, dating, etc.), then with the strengthening of that belief you start to behave like a successful person. People begin to notice and start to treat you like a successful person; it is a reinforcement/feedback loop and you actually become successful by behaving as if you were.
Are Time Paradoxes Inevitable?
The Butterfly Effect is a reference to Chaos Theory where seemingly trivial changes can have huge cascade reactions over long periods of time. Consequently, the Timeline corruption hypothesis states that time paradoxes are an unavoidable consequence of time travel, and even insignificant changes may be enough to alter history completely.
Lets explain this theory in a little story ….
A paleontologist, with the help of a time travel device, travels back to the Jurassic Period to get photographs of Stegosaurus, Brachiosaurus, Ceratosaurus, and Allosaurus amongst other dinosaurs. He knows he can’t take samples so he just takes magnificent pictures from the fixed platform that is positioned precisely to not change anything about the environment.
His assistant is about to pick a long blade of grass, but he stops him and explains how nothing must change because of their presence. They finish what they are doing and return to the present, but everything is gone. They reappear in a wild world with no humans, and no signs that they ever existed..
They fall to the floor of their platform, the only man-made thing in the whole world, and lament “Why? We didn’t change anything!” And there on the heel of the scientist’s shoe is a crushed butterfly.
Butterfly Effect
The Butterfly Effect is also a movie, starring Ashton Kutcher as Evan Treborn and Amy Smart as Kayleigh Miller, where a troubled man has had blackouts during his youth, later explained by him traveling back into his own past and taking charge of his younger body briefly. The movie explores the issue of changing the timeline and how unintended consequences can propagate.
Solutions
Scientists eager to avoid the paradoxes presented by time travel have come up with a number of ingenious ways in which to present a more consistent version of reality, some of which have been touched upon here, including:
–The Solution: time travel is impossible because of the very paradox it creates.
–Self-healing hypothesis: successfully altering events in the past will set off another set of events which will cause the present to remain the same.
–The Multiverse or “many-worlds” hypothesis: an alternate parallel universe or timeline is created each time an event is altered in the past.
–Erased timeline hypothesis: a person traveling to the past would exist in the new timeline, but have their own timeline erased.
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Here’s some more Paradox theory’s for you to think about ….
As we mentioned before, the concept of traveling into the past becomes a bit murky the second causality rears its head. Cause comes before effect, at least in this universe, which manages to muck up even the best-laid time traveling plans.
For starters, if you traveled back in time 200 years, you'd emerge in a time before you were born. Think about that for a second. In the flow of time, the effect (you) would exist before the cause (your birth).
A math professor travels into the future and steals a groundbreaking math theorem. The professor then gives the theorem to a promising student. Then, that promising student grows up to be the very person from whom the professor stole the theorem to begin with.
Then there's the post-selected model of time travel, which involves distorted probability close to any paradoxical situation [source: Sanders].
What does this mean? Well, put yourself in the shoes of the time-traveling assassin again. This time travel model would make your grandfather virtually death proof. You can pull the trigger, but the laser will malfunction. Perhaps a bird will poop at just the right moment, but some quantum fluctuation will occur to prevent a paradoxical situation from taking place.
But then there's another possibility: The future or past you travel into might just be a parallel universe. Think of it as a separate sandbox: You can build or destroy all the castles you want in it, but it doesn't affect your home sandbox in the slightest. So if the past you travel into exists in a separate timeline, killing your grandfather in cold blood is no big whoop. Of course, this might mean that every time jaunt would land you in a new parallel universe and you might never return to your original sandbox.
Confused yet? Welcome to the world of time travel.
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The DeLorean TIme Machine
Time travel may be theoretically possible, but it is beyond our current technological capabilities.
Time travel — moving between different points in time — has been a popular topic for science fiction for decades. Franchises ranging from "Doctor Who" to "Star Trek" to "Back to the Future" have seen humans get in a vehicle of some sort and arrive in the past or future, ready to take on new adventures. Each come with their own time travel theories.
The reality, however, is more muddled. Not all scientists believe that time travel is possible. Some even say that an attempt would be fatal to any human who chooses to undertake it.
Understanding time
What is time? While most people think of time as a constant, physicist Albert Einstein showed that time is an illusion; it is relative — it can vary for different observers depending on your speed through space.
Albert Einstein
To Einstein, time is the "fourth dimension." Space is described as a three-dimensional arena, which provides a traveler with coordinates — such as length, width and height —showing location. Time provides another coordinate — direction — although conventionally, it only moves forward. (Conversely, a new theory asserts that time is "real.")
Most physicists think time is a subjective illusion, but what if time is real?
Einstein's theory of special relativity says that time slows down or speeds up depending on how fast you move relative to something else. Approaching the speed of light, a person inside a spaceship would age much slower than his twin at home. Also, under Einstein's theory of general relativity, gravity can bend time.
As Marty McFly would say ‘ Doc this sounds Heavy ! ‘
Doc Brown
Picture a four-dimensional fabric called space-time. When anything that has mass sits on that piece of fabric, it causes a dimple or a bending of space-time. The bending of space-time causes objects to move on a curved path and that curvature of space is what we know as gravity.
Both the general and special relativity theories have been proven with GPS satellite technology that has very accurate timepieces on board. The effects of gravity, as well as the satellites' increased speed above the Earth relative to observers on the ground, make the unadjusted clocks gain 38 microseconds a day. (Engineers make calibrations to account for the difference.)
In a sense, this effect, called time dilation, means astronauts are time travelers, as they return to Earth very, very slightly younger than their identical twins that remain on the planet.
Through the wormhole
General relativity also provides scenarios that could allow travelers to go back in time, according to NASA. The equations, however, might be difficult to physically achieve.
Wormwhole
One possibility could be to go faster than light, which travels at 186,282 miles per second (299,792 kilometers per second) in a vacuum. Einstein's equations, though, show that an object at the speed of light would have both infinite mass and a length of 0. This appears to be physically impossible, although some scientists have extended his equations and said it might be done.
A linked possibility, NASA stated, would be to create "wormholes" between points in space-time. While Einstein's equations provide for them, they would collapse very quickly and would only be suitable for very small particles. Also, scientists haven't actually observed these wormholes yet. Also, the technology needed to create a wormhole is far beyond anything we have today.
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Alternate time travel theories
While Einstein's theories appear to make time travel difficult, some groups have proposed alternate solutions to jump back and forth in time.
Infinite cylinder
Astronomer Frank Tipler proposed a mechanism (sometimes known as a Tipler Cylinder) where one would take matter that is 10 times the sun's mass, then roll it into very long but very dense cylinder.
After spinning this up a few billion revolutions per minute, a spaceship nearby — following a very precise spiral around this cylinder — could get itself on a "closed, time-like curve", according to the Anderson Institute. There are limitations with this method, however, including the fact that the cylinder needs to be infinitely long for this to work.
An artist's impression of a black hole like the one weighed in this work, sitting in the core of a disk galaxy. The black-hole in NGC4526 weighs 450,000,000 times more than our own Sun. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Black holes
Black Hole
Another possibility would be to move a ship rapidly around a black hole, or to artificially create that condition with a huge, rotating structure.
"Around and around they'd go, experiencing just half the time of everyone far away from the black hole. The ship and its crew would be traveling through time," physicist Stephen Hawking wrote in the Daily Mail in 2010.
"Imagine they circled the black hole for five of their years. Ten years would pass elsewhere. When they got home, everyone on Earth would have aged five years more than they had."
However, he added, the crew would need to travel around the speed of light for this to work. Physicist Amos Iron at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel pointed out another limitation if one used a machine: it might fall apart before being able to rotate that quickly.
Cosmic strings
Credit to Aderson Institute
Another theory for potential time travelers involves something called cosmic strings — narrow tubes of energy stretched across the entire length of the ever-expanding universe. These thin regions, left over from the early cosmos, are predicted to contain huge amounts of mass and therefore could warp the space-time around them.
Cosmic strings are either infinite or they’re in loops, with no ends, scientists say. The approach of two such strings parallel to each other would bend space-time so vigorously and in such a particular configuration that might make time travel possible, in theory.
Time machines
It is generally understood that traveling forward or back in time would require a device — a time machine — to take you there. Time machine research often involves bending space-time so far that time lines turn back on themselves to form a loop, technically known as a "closed time-like curve."
The Doctor's time machine is the TARDIS, which stands for ‘Time and Relative Dimensions in Space’.
Doctor Who Tardis
To accomplish this, time machines often are thought to need an exotic form of matter with so-called "negative energy density." Such exotic matter has bizarre properties, including moving in the opposite direction of normal matter when pushed. Such matter could theoretically exist, but if it did, it might be present only in quantities too small for the construction of a time machine.
However, time-travel research suggests time machines are possible without exotic matter. The work begins with a doughnut-shaped hole enveloped within a sphere of normal matter. Inside this doughnut-shaped vacuum, space-time could get bent upon itself using focused gravitational fields to form a closed time-like curve.
To go back in time, a traveler would race around inside the doughnut, going further back into the past with each lap. This theory has a number of obstacles, however. The gravitational fields required to make such a closed time-like curve would have to be very strong, and manipulating them would have to be very precise. [Related: Warp Speed, Scotty? Star Trek's FTL Drive May Actually Work]
Back to the Grandfather paradox
If that were to happen, some physicists say, you would be not be born in one parallel universe but still born in another. Others say that the photons that make up light prefer self-consistency in timelines, which would interfere with your evil, suicidal plan.
Some scientists disagree with the options mentioned above and say time travel is impossible no matter what your method. The faster-than-light one in particular drew derision from American Museum of Natural History astrophysicist Charles Lu.
That "simply, mathematically, doesn't work," he said in a past interview with sister site LiveScience.
Also, humans may not be able to withstand time travel at all. Traveling nearly the speed of light would only take a centrifuge, but that would be lethal, said Jeff Tollaksen, a professor of physics at Chapman University, in 2012.
Using gravity would also be deadly. To experience time dilation, one could stand on a neutron star, but the forces a person would experience would rip you apart first.
Time travel in fiction
Two 2015 articles by Space.com described different ways in which time travel works in fiction, and the best time-travel machines ever. Some methods used in fiction include:
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One-way travel to the future: The traveler leaves home, but the people he or she left behind might age or be dead by the time the traveler returns. Examples: "Interstellar" (2014), "Ikarie XB-1" (1963)
Time travel by moving through higher dimensions: In "Interstellar" (2014), there are "tesseracts" (which is the four-dimensional analogue of the cube) available in which astronauts can travel because the vessel represents time as a dimension of space. A similar concept is expressed in Madeleine L'Engle's "A Wrinkle In Time" (2018, based on the book series that started in 1963), where time is folded by means of a tesseract. The book, however, uses supernatural beings to make the travel possible.
Travelling the space-time vortex: The famous "Doctor Who" (1963-present) TARDIS ("Time And Relative Dimension In Space") uses an extra-dimensional vortex to go through time, while the travelers inside feel time passing normally.
Instantaneous time jumping: Examples include "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" (2006), the DeLorean from "Back To The Future" (1985), and the Mr. Peabody's WABAC machine from "The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show" (1959-64).
Time travelling while standing still: Both the "Time Machine" (1895 book) and Hermione Granger's Time-Turner from "Harry Potter" keep the traveler still while they move through time.
The Time Machine
Slow time travel: In "Primer" (2004), a traveler stays in a box while time traveling. For each minute they want to go back in time, they need to stay in the box for a minute. If they want to go back a day in time, they have to stay there for 24 hours.
Traveling faster than light: In "Superman: The Movie" (1979), Superman flies faster than light to go back in time and rescue Lois Lane before she is killed. The concept was also used in the 1980 novel "Timescape" by Gregory Benford, in which the protagonist sends (hypothetical) faster-than-light tachyon particles back to Earth in 1962 to warn of disaster. In several "Star Trek" episodes and movies, the Enterprise travels through time by going faster than light. In the comic book and TV series "The Flash," the super-speedster uses a cosmic treadmill to travel through time.
Star Trek
Difficult methods to categorize: There's a rocket sled in "Timecop" (1994) that pops in and out of view when it's being used, which has led to much speculation about what's going on. There's also the Time Displacement Equipment in "The Terminator" movie series, which shows off how to fight a war in four dimensions (including time).
So is time travel possible?
While time travel does not appear possible — at least, possible in the sense that the humans would survive it — with the physics that we use today, the field is constantly changing. Advances in quantum theories could perhaps provide some understanding of how to overcome time travel paradoxes.
One possibility, although it would not necessarily lead to time travel, is solving the mystery of how certain particles can communicate instantaneously with each other faster than the speed of light.
In the meantime, however, interested time travelers can at least experience it vicariously through movies, television and books.
Article credits to www.space.com Elizabeth Fernandez
More Time Travel and Philosophy
In general relativity, things called closed time-like curves can exist, and are a way to solve general field equations.
It’s like stepping on a train, taking a wonderful trip through the mountains, and returning to the same spot you left off, both in space and in time.
That means the moment where you step off the train is both in the past and future of when you got on the train in the first place. In a closed time-like curve, an object returns to the same place and time that it was in the past, completing a loop. It’s unclear if closed time-like curves exist in our universe, but if they do, mathematically, they would allow for time travel.
Then there’s option two.
In this quantum mechanical model, each choice opens up another universe. If time travelers changed something in the past, they would enter another parallel universe.
The original timeline would still exist, one among many branching worlds. In such a model, it might be very hard for time travelers to return to the universe they came from.
Finally - if time travel is possible, time travelers can only do certain things.
A time traveler who went back in time, for example, could not kill Hitler, no matter what he tried. This raises all sorts of philosophical problems - does the time traveler still have free will? It’s difficult to say time travel is possible while simultaneously destroying freedom of choice.
Paradox-Free Time Travel While Preserving Freedom of Choice
That’s where young physicist Germain Tobar steps in.
Under the supervision of physicist Dr. Fabio Costa, Tobar came up with a way to mathematically preserve freedom of choice, while allowing for paradox-free time travel.
For example, let’s imagine there is a scientist in a laboratory with a time-traveling coin.
The coin enters the laboratory at some point in the past as “heads” and leaves at some point in the future as “tails”. Tobar’s model fixes the boundary conditions - the point in time where the coin enters and leaves the laboratory - as always heads and tails.
Then, his model allows the state of the coin to change when it is in the laboratory. Since the initial and final state of the coin is fixed, a paradox is avoided. However, anything can happen to the coin when it is in the laboratory. “For example,” says Tobar, “she [the scientist] can decide to always flip the coin, or always prepare heads regardless of what she got... it can flip, it can hit other coins, and so on.” But no matter what she did or how hard she tried, each time the coin time-travels through her lab, it will always leave as “tails”.
Let’s take another pertinent example. “Say you traveled in time, in an attempt to stop COVID-19’s patient zero from being exposed to the virus,” Costa says. “However if you stopped that individual from becoming infected – that would eliminate the motivation for you to go back and stop the pandemic in the first place.”
In Tobar’s model, no matter what you did, the virus would still escape somehow. “You might try and stop patient zero from becoming infected, but in doing so you would catch the virus and become patient zero, or someone else would,” says Tobar. “No matter what you did, the salient events would just recalibrate around you.”
Even time travellers couldn't stop the spread of the coronavirus.
That means that you have complete freedom of choice, but no matter how hard you tried, you could not stop COVID-19 from escaping.
But this is good news for Marty McFly in Back to the Future. Nothing he did could prevent his parents from falling in love and getting married, and eventually, allowing Marty to be born. Other things might change, like how they met, or what his father ate for breakfast that morning. But nothing could change their eventual meeting.
This doesn’t necessarily rule out other models of time travel, for example, a quantum mechanical one.
Quantum Mechanics
“Some of the quantum approaches would indeed invoke the existence of multiple universes, which interact through the time machine, possibly creating alternate timelines,” says Tobar. Instead, Tobar and Costa’s model is classical and shows that if only one universe exists, it is possible to allow for paradox-free time travel.
This work has other implications as well, including the unification of quantum theory with general relativity. “One of the main issues is that, in such a theory, time seems to disappear, making the traditional, temporal view of dynamics unsuitable,” says Tobar. “Our work presents a different way to look at physical laws, which could find applications in theories of quantum gravity.”
Could closed time-like curves, and potentially time machines, exist in our Universe?
Credit to Anderson Institute
“Proposals so far involve exotic matter (with negative or infinite energy), and we don't know if such matter exists in our universe,” says Tobar. “An interesting consequence is that the CTCs [closed time-like curves] would only exist after a certain point in time, which means it would not be possible to time travel to before the first time machine was created. This would explain why we haven't seen any time traveler from the future yet.”
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Hoverboards
Hoverboards - Are they Real ? Can I Buy one ? or are they for the Future ?
Hoverboards
Back to the Future Hoverboard
Every since Marty McFly's hoverboard, appeared in Back to the Future Part II it sparked off the question ….. Would we riding Mattel Hoverboards in 2015 ? well …
October 21, 2015, came and passed (the date Back to the Future II was set in), and still no pink hoverboard were floating around the streets.
Although some new toy products did get released, they did use the name Hoverboard, but didn’t actually Hover as they still had wheels, with flashing lights and Bluetooth speakers they has everything bar the long awaited ‘hover’ mode, so how could they call them Hoverboards ?
Fast forward to the end of 2020 and now people are searching for ‘Best Hoverboards in 2020, One Wheel Hoverboards, Seats for Hoverboard, even Bluetooth Hoverboards, but the problem is still the same, they do not levitate and require at least one wheel or two.
So what about a real Hover Board that can actually levitate off the ground. Is this something for the Future or can we buy one today ?
Well, Yes and No
Of course Hoverboards don’t work on water (in the film, but later you will see how one inventor made this happen). The thought of riding a floating skateboard board has been the dream of Si/Fi and Back to the Future fans since the film was released in 1989.
Lets explore the possibilities
How does a hoverboard work ? There are two main ways - either it could sit on a cushion of air, or use Maglev superconductors
But levitating skateboards are already here. They might not anywhere near as commonplace as the Back to the Future universe foretold, but that doesn't mean the tech will never reach the streets, or at least a few inches above them
Other gadgets from the the film did make it though such as : self-lacing Nike Mags, large flat screen T.V’s, google glasses ! But where are all the hoverboards, well ……
These 3 companies have made functional hoverboards, to varying levels of success.
Hendo Hover
Different types of Hoverboard
HendoHover
Hendo Hover. The company behind the hoverboard, called Arx Pax, is mainly focused on harnessing electromagnetic energy through its Magnetic Field Architecture (MFA) system to create more sustainable, "floating" foundations for structures in the face of extreme weather.
Evolution of the Hoverboard
In 2013, (launched on Kickstarter) with a developer's kit the next year and showed up in its first public prototype form ,with none other than skateboarding legend Tony Hawks
The Hendo board is a fun side project that serves as a proof of concept for the MFA system. Hendo Hoverboard is one of Time magazine's 25 Best Inventions of 2014
The Hendo design uses disc-shaped magnetic hover engines located on the bottom of the board. These depend on an opposing magnetic field, found on a specialized surface below to provide lift.
Currently, this surface substrate needs to be a non-ferromagnetic conductor. Right now we use commonly available metals in simple sheets, but they were working on new compounds and new configurations to maximize the technology and minimize costs.
Dimensions: 10" x 10" x 5" (25cm x 25cm x 12cm) - Individual Engine Dimensions: 4.5" diameter x 2" high (11.5cm x 5cm) -
Hover Height: 1/4" - 1/2" (1cm - 1.5cm)
Battery Life: 10-15 min
Charge Time: 1-2 hrs
Weight: 10-12 lbs (4.5 kg)
Payload: ~ 5 lbs (3 kg)
Hendo Hoverboard
Unfortunately, you can't just ride it anywhere -- but the system does actually allow riders to truly hover off the ground. It hovers 15cm above the floor, the battery lasts just a few minutes. And $10,000 (£7,500) a pop?
Version 2.0 of the Hendo launched in 2015, which was the last we heard Arx Pax about board development, as the company has focused on applying its MFA tech in other areas.
How does a real hoverboard work ? Levitation
Levitation using magnets seems simple - just put one magnet over another, same poles facing, and the top one will float. Voila, right?
Sadly, as we all find out this never works, this is due to something called ‘Earnshaw's Theorem’, a stable static equilibrium between two magnets is impossible. There have been a number of ways around this, but none have proven feasible enough for everyday applications. Until now.
Here’s where we get very technical (just for a few minuet) ……
Earnshaw’s theorem states that “A charged particle cannot be held [statically] in a stable equilibrium by electrostatic forces alone.” (Griffiths, p.115)
Earnshaw’s Theorum
Lenz’s law explains how eddy currents are created when magnets are moved relative to a conductive material. These eddy currents in turn create an opposing magnetic field in the conductor. The core technology called Magnetic Field Architecture (MFA™), focuses this field more efficiently.
Earnshaw's theorem states that a collection of point charges cannot be maintained in a stable stationary equilibriumconfiguration solely by the electrostatic interaction of the charges. This was first proven by British mathematician Samuel Earnshaw in 1842. It is usually referenced to magnetic fields, but was first applied to electrostatic fields.
Earnshaw's theorem applies to classical inverse-square law forces (electric and gravitational) and also to the magnetic forces of permanent magnets, if the magnets are hard (the magnets do not vary in strength with external fields). Earnshaw's theorem forbids magnetic levitation in many common situations.
If the materials are not hard, Braunbeck's extension shows that materials with relative magnetic permeability greater than one (paramagnetism) are further destabilising, but materials with a permeability less than one (diamagnetic materials) permit stable configurations.
You can go ahead and google both of these scientific principles, but to sum it up in regards to levitation: Lenz = Easy, Earnshaw = Hard.
The Hendo Hoverboard is a first-step product, a precursor to the broader implementation of the world-changing technology of MFA. It enables a new generation of lift and motion technology that will change the way we view transportation. Additional applications for MFA technology are virtually limitless - from business, to industry, to healthcare, and beyond.
Unlike magnetic levitation systems employed today, hover systems are comparably inexpensive and completely sustainable. Hovering modes of transportation are now possible and practical. Lifting a wide range of loads - whether it's a person riding a hoverboard (what we were all expecting) or a building riding out an earthquake (what we never imagined could be possible) - is all within reach.
Omni Hoverboards
Omni Hoverboard
Canadian inventor Alexander Duru’s Omni's hoverboard design takes a different route to get its passenger in the air, using a system of propellors to take to the sky -- it goes much higher than just hovering a few inches above the ground. It's closer to a drone than a skateboard, evoking less of a Marty McFly vibe and more like something the Green Goblin from Spider-Man might use to fly around.
Omni Hoverboard
In the course of 1 year Catalin Alexandru Duru, developed his first prototype before setting out to break the Guinness World Record for the longest flight on a hoverboard back in May 2015. He only needed to fly 50 meters (about 165 feet) to break the previous mark -- but he wound up zooming around for 275.9 meters (905 feet 2 inches) at heights of up to five meters (16 feet), obliterating the record in the process.
Omni Hoverboard Hovering above crowd
That mark was by a jet-powered rig, but Duru continues to hone his craft, taking it to France for flight demos and showing it off in a Hyatt ad to cap off 2016.
Specifications:
Aircraft type: eVTOL hoverboard prototype
Piloting: 1 pilot
Flight control: Unknown
Cabin: None, the pilot stands using snow boarding straps to keep your feet locked onto the aircraft
Flight time: 1.5 minutes
Propellers: 8
Electric Motors: 8
Batteries: 8 lithium polymer batteries, generating about 40 horsepower
Length: Unknown, possibly 2.5 meters wide (over 8 feet wide)
Landing gear: 4 fixed landing legs
Safety Features: Distributed Electric Propulsion (DEP), provides safety through redundancy for its passengers and/or cargo. DEP means having multiple propellers and motors on the aircraft so if one or more motors or propellers fail, the other working motors and propellers can safely land the aircraft.
Resources:
Omni Hoverboards website
Omni Hoverboards Facebook
Omni Hoverboards Twitter
Omni Hoverboards YouTube Channel
Omni Hoverboards LinkedIn
Article: Video: Watch incredible footage of farthest flight by a hoverboard record set by Canada's Catalin Alexandru Duru, Guinness World Records, May 22, 2015
Video: Farthest flight by hoverboard - Guinness World Records, Guinness World Records, May 22, 2015
Article: Montrealer sets world record for farthest flight by hoverboard, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, May 23, 2015
Video: Omni's propeller-based hoverboard prototype (first test flight), Omni Hoverboards, May 25, 2015
Video: Omni's propeller-based hoverboard w/landing (prototype), Omni Hoverboards, June 18, 2015
Video: Canadian Develops Futuristic Hoverboard, CBC News: The National, Oct. 13, 2015
Article: Canadian inventor tests new prototype of record-setting hoverboard, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Oct. 14, 2015
Video: Training Before our flight in Paris, Omni Hoverboards, June 9, 2016
Video: Ball for the Portuguese Cup Delivered from the Air by a Man on a Hoverboard, Omni Hoverboards, May 29, 2017
Video: Brazil - Parintins Folklore Festival - Festival do Boi-Bumbá - do Caprichoso - Third night, Omni Hoverboards, July 4, 2018
Video: Hoverboard followed by Drone, Omni Hoverboards, Jan. 16, 2020
Lexus Hoverboard
Lexus Hoverboard
Car maker Lexus threw its hat into the hoverboard development ring, too, flexing its engineering muscles beyond the world of luxury vehicles.
June 2015, the company released a set of teasers claiming it had created a real life, rideable hoverboard, piquing interest with footage that appeared to show the board floating in an otherwise normal skatepark.
A video showing pro skater Ross McGouran shredding up the skatepark looked like Back to the Future's 2015 wasn't too far away -- but there were some caveats.
Lexus Hoverboard
Like Hendo, the Lexus board depended on a magnetic field to provide the hover power, so the skatepark was specially built for the ride. The smoke coming from the board wasn't just some cool add-on feature, either -- in order to work, its components were cooled by liquid nitrogen to maintain a frigid temp of minus 197 degrees celsius.
It keeps the board in place using “quantum locking” – a property of type 2 superconductors that overcomes the tendency of magnets to wobble off and repel each other, using a sort of magnetic, sticky “vortex”.
Unfortunately for hoverboard enthusiasts, custom magnetized skateparks aren't too common, and Lexus made it clear that the board wasn't going to be released for consumers. The campaign was just a flight of marketing fancy to prove Lexus has the capability of creating something spectacular.
These three innovators have scratched the surface of hoverboard tech, and, given time and development, show that the experience is at least possible
With future technological strides, what they began could eventually give everyone a shot at a real-life Marty McFly experience.
What about conventional thrust propulsion?
ArcaSpace (US Company) comes admirably close to the ideal with its ArcaBoard.
Arcaboard Hoverboard
It’s capable of hovering 1ft in the air, 36 electric propellers generating 200kg of lift controlled by onboard balancing tech to help stabilise it. You can even control it using an app on your smartphone,for a 3 minute run time
Arca Board - Hoverboard
The Flyboard Air is a jet-powered “personal aerial vehicle” capable of vertical take-off and landing. It can fly to 150 metres in height at 87mph. Emergency and military applications would be a the top of the list with a flight time of 12 minutes (but Zapata anticipates longer trips in the future).
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So to answer the question
Are Hoverboards real ?
Well Yes, but not like it was portrayed in the back to the future II
So in 2022 we are still awaiting for Mattel’s bright pink Hoverboard to float into the future as some of the coolest transport you could imagine, and someday through these pioneers it may become a reality
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Are Fat Bikes Cool ? (what is a fat bike) + ( the History of Fat Bikes )
Fat Bikes are cool right ? Big 4” to 5” tyres can tackle any terrain are they are fast, will some hiding there size in a full carbon frame with ultra light weight wheels. They're comfortable, grippy, great fun to ride and can do pretty much anything any other mountain bike can do and more, but what is a Fat Bike, where they they come from and are why are they so cool ?
Fat Bike
Fat bikes receive much attention for good reason.
They’ve ridden the length of continents, across the snowy state of Alaska in winter, and along unique sections of coastline all around the globe, and even appeared at the South Pole by means of human power, one of which was actually a tricycle !
While fat bikes are capable of extreme all-terrain conquest, they also entice riders with their go-anywhere capacities on a more local scale. almost 12 years ago none of this existed.
The development of the conventional mountain bike is essential to the genesis of the modern fat bike.
In the 1970s and 80s, groups of ingenious riders in California and Colorado modified single speed balloon-tire cruisers with a wide range of gears, powerful cantilever brakes, and durable lightweight components.
Like never before, early all-terrain bikes were able to explore new routes, both up and down the mountain. Mass manufacturing and broad distribution helped the mountain bike explode on the market in the early 1980s, and by 1986, mountain bikes outsold road-racing and road-touring bikes.
Adventurous riders explored deep into the backcountry, scouting new roads and trails, while others took to the streets and discovered that wide tires and an upright position make a comfortable urban commuter or cross-country tourer.
Fat Bike Tyres
Fat Bike
Most importantly, mountain bikes enlivened cyclists with a new lens. With the ability to ride so many more places, the once finite resource of smooth pavement was replaced by an infinite universe of back roads, logging tracks, mining roads, and hiking trails.
But limitations remained, especially on rocky terrain, soft surfaces, and steep grades. Since the late 1980’s, mountain bikes have developed through suspension, lighter materials, and improved geometry, but most advancements have focused on the ability to conquer rough terrain at speed (i.e. mountain biking).
Fat bikes attempt to solve the unique challenge of riding on a diverse range of surfaces, including sand, mud, and snow.
The history of the modern fat bikes includes two contemporaneous stories of development in Alaska and southern New Mexico. As mountain bikes arrived in shops in the 1980s, customizations for riding on sand and snow were quick to follow.
In 1987, the first Iditabike event challenged riders to travel 200 miles of Alaskan backcountry in winter, following snowmobile and dog mushing trails.
The course followed the first section of the historic Iditarod dog mushing trail to Nome, another 1000 miles further. Conditions along the trail range from rideable frozen crust — the result of daily freeze-thaw cycles — to a mélange of soft snow, glare ice, and liquid water overflow.
Harsh conditions, and lots of walking alongside a bike in the snow challenged riders to improve their equipment for next year. A wider tire footprint was essential.
Fat Bike in Mountains
Fat Bike Rims (History)
Individual rims were pinned or welded side by side, laced in tandem to a single hub, with two tires.
With twice the footprint, the wider system allowed more riding and less walking.
One notable experiment, called the “six pack,” even used three rims and tires side by side on both the front and the rear of a custom frame.
The tandem rim concept was improved by removing the two inner rim walls, to accept a single large-volume tire, which could operate at low pressure, and was lighter.
Simon Rakower of Fairbanks, Alaska, modified rims in this manner for customers before entering production of the 44mm wide Snowcat rim.
These wide, lightweight rims allowed the largest possible footprint, and fit within most conventional mountain bike frames. Most importantly, these rims were available off-the-shelf.
They were standard equipment on winter bikes in Alaska for many years.
Fat Bikes Tyres (History)
Fat Bike Rims
At about the same time, Ray Molina was exploring new terrain in southern New Mexico, and across the border into Mexico.
Riding sand dunes and arroyos, Ray began manufacturing an 82mm wide rim in Mexico, along with a 3.5” tire to match, called the Chevron.
He made several frames to accommodate the new equipment and testing took place at the Samalayuca sand dunes in Chihuahua, Mexico.
At the Interbike trade show in late 1999, Alaskan Mark Groneweld made plans to bring Remolino rims to Alaska.
Paired with his custom Wildfire Designs frame and a 3.0”-3.5” tire like the Nokian Gazzaloddi or the elusive Specialized Big Hit (both borrowed from downhill bikes), the first modern fat bikes were born.
John Evingson, of Anchorage, Alaska, also built and raced highly refined custom bikes to fit Remolino rims and 3.0” tires.
Long-distance winter riding and racing continued through the 1990’s in Alaska, and in 2000, Mike Curiak of Colorado won the first official Iditasport Impossible race to Nome, riding and pushing his bike over 1000 miles in just over 15 days.
Fat Bike Tyre (Designs)
The First Fat Bike
Mike’s accomplishment may be the greatest proof of concept for fat bikes, ever.
He rode a custom Willits frame made by Colorado builder Wes Williams, designed around Remolino rims and 3.0” tires.
The bike is now on display at Absolute Bikes in Salida, Colorado, one of the best towns along the Great Divide Route. Until 2005, custom frames and hard-to-find rims and tires comprised the microscopic fat bike genre.
The Surly Pugsley changed the fat bike scene dramatically, providing the single greatest boost to availability and participation in the history of the fat bike.
Released in an audacious purple color in 2005, along with the 65mm wide Large Marge rim and the 3.7” Endomorph tire, the modern fat bike era was born.
The Pugsley was available to almost every bike shop in the country through Quality Bicycle Parts (QBP), a distributor with broad reach.
The bike came as a bare frame and fork, and was intended to be completed with common mountain bike components, including standard 135mm hubs and a 100mm wide bottom bracket, also borrowed from downhill bikes.
Following the release of the Pugsley, and subsequent sales growth, several other companies quickly joined the market.
In 2007, pioneering a symmetrical aluminum frame with ultra-wide hubs (165mm, then 170mm, now 190mm) and rims (70mm and 90mm), the Fatback bike company of Anchorage, Alaska pushed fat bikes into the future, providing more flotation with less weight.
The First Fat Bike
In 2010, both Surly and Salsa released complete fat bikes through the QBP distribution chain, providing another huge leap in accessibility and sales.
This year, over a dozen companies are offering complete bikes.
Ten years ago, this would have been hard to imagine.
Fat Bike Tyres
Fat Biking on snow
The future of fat bikes is bright as new bikes and adventures make headlines each year.
From 22lb carbon bikes to rack-friendly steel touring models like the classic Pugsley, there is a fat bike for everyone.
Fat Biking
Thanks to Billy Koitzsch for the collection of historical fat bike equipment.
Credits to NICHOLAS CARMAN You can find his stories, photographs, and ideas online at gypsybytrade.wordpress.com.
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Hill Valley - ‘Back to the Future’ History
Back to the Future - Learn all about the famous town featured in the film called Hill Valley which we seen in 1985, 2015, 1955, 1885
Hill Valley
Is the fictional town in California that serves as the setting of the Back to the Future trilogy.
Hill Valley Clock Towner - Back to the Future set
In the trilogy, Hill Valley is seen in four different time periods (1885, 1955, 1985 and 2015) as well as in a dystopian alternate 1985.
The films contain many sight gags, verbal innuendos and detailed set design elements, from which a detailed and consistent history of the area can be derived.
The name "Hill Valley" is a joke, being an oxymoron. However, an early script for Back to the Future Part II mentioned that Hill Valley was named after its founder, William "Bill" Hill.
Production
For Back to the Future, the producers considered filming the town square scenes in the real city of Petaluma, California, but soon realized it would be prohibitively expensive and impractical to alter a real place to suit the different eras.
Instead filming was completed on the Universal Studios backlot, where they had more control.
Hill Valley - Back to the Future set
Gremlins Set
The town square set, once called Mockingbird Square after the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird but now known as Courthouse Square, had been used for many films and television shows dating back to 1948's An Act of Murder.
One notable example is the very first episode of the sci-fi series The Twilight Zone, called "Where Is Everybody?" in 1959.
The Hill Valley courthouse can also be found in the movies Bruce Almighty, Gremlins, Bye Bye Birdie, Sneakers, The Offspring's music video "Why Don't You Get a Job?", an episode of Major Dad entitled "Who's That Blonde" and even in an episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
Gremlins Cinema - (Remember the DeLorean crashing into it !)
The clock tower itself was a removable addition, one of many ways in which the Courthouse building has been redressed over the years to suit the needs of a production.
Many of the cars that appear in the 2015 scenes are either modified for the film or concept cars.
Hill Valley Sign 2015
Examples include Ford Probe, Saab EV-1, Citroën DS 21, Pontiac Banshee Concept, Pontiac Fiero and Volkswagen Beetle. Cars reused from other science fiction films include the "Star Car" from The Last Starfighter (1984) and a "Spinner" from Blade Runner (1982).
Griff's car is a modified BMW 633 (which was notably never in the convertible form seen in the film).
For Back to the Future Part III, Hill Valley 1885 was filmed in Sonora, California. The producers were able to use the land rent-free under an agreement to leave the set buildings on site.
All buildings except the clock tower were left intact after production completed.
! On November 6, 1990, an arson fire on the Universal Studios Hollywood backlot destroyed much of Courthouse Square, the setting in which all the other time periods were filmed.
However, the Courthouse itself survived the devastation and other facades were reconstructed.
! Another fire on September 6, 1997 again damaged Courthouse Square. Once again, the backlot facades were then rebuilt, with the exception of the facades used for Hill Valley 1885.
! On February 14, 1999 fire at Whittier High School, California, where some (mostly exterior) scenes were filmed, destroyed the men's gym there.
! On June 1, 2008, yet another fire destroyed part of the rebuilt Courthouse Square backlot and damaged the clock tower.
Real-life locations
Other real-life shooting locations of Hill Valley landmarks include:
Doc Brown House
Doc's house in 1955 is the Gamble House in Pasadena, California. Doc's garage in 1985 was a façade set up next to a Burger King on North Victory Boulevard in Burbank, California.
Twin Pines/Lone Pine Mall is actually the Puente Hills Mall in Industry, California.
Lone Pine Mall
Marty McFlys House
Marty's Lyon Estates house in 1985 is actually at 9303 Roslyndale Avenue, Pacoima, California.
The 1955 Lyon Estates field is actually along farmland between the city borders of Chino, California and Corona, California.
Lyon Estates
Peabody on his Ranch
Peabody's Twin Pines Ranch is really at Golden Oak Ranch, which is owned by The Walt Disney Company and used in many Disney productions.
· The houses of George McFly, Lorraine Baines, and Biff Tannen in 1955 are all in South Pasadena, California.
The train that hit the DeLorean and the Futuristic Train was parked in Port Hueneme, California.
· John F. Kennedy Drive is actually Victory Boulevard in Burbank, California.
· The River Road Tunnel is actually Observatory Tunnel at Griffith Park in Los Angeles. The actual tunnel is only a fraction of the length of the one depicted in Part II.
The Pohatchee Drive-In Theater where Marty initially travels from 1955 back to 1885 was not a real theater. It was constructed full-scale for the third film in Monument Valley, Utah (near the Arizona/Utah border) and was torn down after that portion of filming was completed.
· Marty's race with Needles was shot on Doris Avenue in Oxnard, California.
According to an 1885 railroad map in Back to the Future Part III, Hill Valley is located in Northern California in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Dialogue in Back to the Future Part II and Back to the Future Part III places it in "Hill County", a fictional county in California.
Fictional history
The following information is taken directly from places and events shown or mentioned in the three films:
Early settlement
The town of Hill Valley is depicted as having been first settled in 1850 and incorporated in 1865.
By the 1880s, it was connected by railroad to San Francisco. Construction of a new county courthouse was well underway in 1885, the setting of Back to the Future Part III, in which a new clock was dedicated for the building.
The Shonash Ravine Bridge was completed in the summer of 1886, around the same time the ravine was renamed Clayton Ravine in memory of Clara Clayton, a school teacher who died from falling into the chasm.
However, in a revised timeline where Doc Brown saved Clara's life, the town renamed it Eastwood Ravine after Marty McFly's persona when it is believed that "Eastwood" fell into the ravine while trying to stop some train hijackers (who are really Marty and Doc).
Town square
By 1955, as seen in the first two Back to the Future films, the area around the courthouse has developed into the downtown of Hill Valley.
In front of the courthouse is a grass-covered town square, with stores, two movie theaters (Essex and Town), and cafés on the surrounding streets.
A key moment in the town's fictional history takes place on Saturday, November 12, 1955, at 10:04 p.m. PST, when lightning strikes the courthouse's clock tower, freezing the clock at 10:04.
Hill Valley lighting strike
The clock is never repaired and becomes a local landmark, left in its non-functional state at the behest of the Hill Valley Preservation Society.
Hill Valley Preservation Society
The broken piece of ledge from Doc Brown's successful attempt to channel lightning from the clock tower is likewise never repaired, as can be seen when Marty returns to 1985 and in 2015, but not in the Alternate 1985.
In Marty's original timeline, many of the town square businesses have moved or closed down by 1985.
The new businesses which replaced them include a second-hand shop, a yoga studio, and an adult book store.
The Essex movie theater now shows porno movies while the Town Theater is used for church services, and the courthouse is in a state of disrepair, and at night at least one homeless person (called "Red" by Marty) sleeps on the town square park benches.
The grassy park outside of the courthouse has been converted into a parking lot. "That was always one of the major elements of the story even in its earliest incarnation," screenwriter Bob Gale says in The Making of Back to the Future, "was to take a place and show what happens to it over a period of thirty years.
What happened to everybody's home town is obviously the same thing. They built the mall out in the boonies, and killed all the business downtown, and everything changed.”
By the 21st century, the downtown area has experienced a revival as the courthouse has been converted into the Courthouse Mall.
Hill Valley 2015
Businesses have begun to move back into and around the town square and the parking lot has been replaced by a pond.
The clock on top of the courthouse is still preserved at 10:04, and the mall's logo is an illustration of a lightning bolt striking the clock tower.
The Town Theater / Assembly of Christ building has been converted to an art museum with a mural painted on the front side of the building above the marquee.
Signs that say "Welcome to Hill Valley" are seen in 1955, 1985 and 2015.
Welcome to Hill Valley
Both 1955 and 2015 signs have symbols representing the Rotary, Kiwanis and Lions clubs. In addition, the 1955 sign has the logos of the YMCA, Jaycees, and Future Farmers of America while the 2015 sign has those of the Neighborhood Crime Watch eye logo and the 4-H Club clover logo.
The "Welcome to Hill Valley" sign in 1985 does not contain any signage representing any clubs and mentions the name of Mayor Goldie Wilson.
In the alternate 1985 Marty is seen walking over the sign, which has been knocked down and an 'E' has been spray painted over the 'I' in HILL VALLEY making the name HELL VALLEY.
Welcome to Hell Valley
This sign does not display the name of the mayor but instead the words "A Nice Place to Live" as also seen in 1955. A sign referencing US Highway 395 is also shown next to the Town Square in 1955.
Hill Valley 1955
Hill Valley 1955
Twin Pines Mall (Lone Pine Mall)
Twin Pines Mall is a shopping center located outside Hill Valley, where Doctor Emmett Brown first tests his time machine, making his dog Einstein the first time traveler in the world.
Lone Pine Mall
The site where the mall was filmed for the movie is actually Puente Hills Mall, located in City of Industry, California. The J.C. Penney location seen in the movie had been shut down, and is now occupied by a 24 Hour Fitness center.
The mall's name changed to Lone Pine Mall after Marty went back to 1955, because he accidentally destroyed one of the two baby pine trees for which it was named as he fled an irate Old Man Peabody whose barn the DeLorean had crashed into upon arriving in 1955.
Peabody DeLorean
Peabody Pine Trees
Time Machine on Peabody Farm
Time Machine lands in Peabody farm
Alternate history
In Back to the Future Part II, a nightmarish alternate version of Hill Valley (dubbed 1985A by Doc) is depicted complete with a partial history. Due to the influence of the powerful and corrupt Biff Tannen, gambling was legalized in 1979. Tannen's toxic waste reclamation plants were built downtown, polluting the air and leading to pollution alerts to be issued.
All of the local businesses in the downtown area closed or relocated and were replaced with strip clubs, porn theaters, and brothels. Tannen also bought off the police.
Hell Valley Biff Tannen
Consequently, crime increased and biker gangs settled in the city. Hill Valley's public schools burned down and the courthouse was converted into Biff Tannen's Pleasure Paradise Casino and Hotel. The clock on the courthouse still remains at 10:04 although despite the damage the Doc did to the tower's platform in 1955, for whatever reason, it now seems to have disappeared.
Hill Valley Clock Tower
Biff also murdered George McFly (Marty's dad) in 1973 so that he could marry George's wife Lorraine (Marty's mom) therefore making him a corrupt family man as well as town ruler. He also helped Richard Nixon remain President of the United States until at least 1985. Biff's effect on history affected the whole world – in this version of history, the Vietnam War was also still ongoing by May 1983.
According to the original script for Back to the Future Part II a partial view of the alternate 2015 was also to be depicted. By this time Biff now owns half the state of California with his influence having gained his son, Biff Jr., the seat of governor and they uphold their power and corruption with an army of large, powerful cyborg police officers.
Hill Valley Business
Many family businesses are passed down from generation to generation in Hill Valley. As a result, the city changes but remains similar from one generation to the next, as businesses are updated but rarely change. These recurring elements were a deliberate choice on the part of the filmmakers.
The production designer of Back to the Future Part II, Rick Carter, is quoted in a DVD extra as saying, "The future is built on the present." Director Robert Zemeckis adds that the continuity between the different eras in Hill Valley's history is an example of the adage, "the more things change, the more they stay the same".
The following is a list of such places. When a place is not seen or mentioned in a movie, it is marked unknown. Some buildings shown in 1885 scenes are actually located further down the street in an area not shown in the first two movies.
List of filming locations :
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This is a list of known filming locations used in Universal Studios' Back to the Future trilogy.
Hill Valley location Real-world location
McFlyResidence (2015) 3793 Oakhurst Street, Hilldale 3793 Oakhurst Street, El Monte, California 91732 PRIVATE Gated community
McFly residence (1955) 1711 Bushnell Avenue, South Pasadena, California PRIVATE
Baines residence 1727 Bushnell Avenue, South Pasadena, California PRIVATE
Tannen residence 1809 Mason Street 1809 Bushnell Avenue, South Pasadena, California PRIVATE
Strickland residence (1985-A) 12511 Bailey Street, Whittier, California PRIVATE
Parkerresidence (1985A and 1985) 161 N. Magnolia Avenue, Monrovia, California 91016 PRIVATE
Doc'sgarage and Burger King (1985) 535 North Victory Boulevard, Burbank, California PUBLIC
Courthouse Square Universal Studios Backlot PUBLIC
Universal Studios offers tours, most of lot burned
Lyon Estates entrance - (1955) Chino-Corona Road, Chino, California PUBLIC WITH RESTRICTIONS Gate access open only on weekends - Lyon Estates entrance (1985 and 1985A)
Sandusky Avenue and Kagel Canyon Road, Pacoima, California 91331 PUBLIC
Audition location for Battle of the Bands McCambridge Park Recreation Center, 1515 Glenoaks Boulevard, Burbank, California PUBLIC recreation center
Twin Pines/Lone Pine Mall Puente Hills Mall, 1600 South Azusa Avenue, City of Industry, California PUBLIC mall parking lot
Twin Pines Ranch Golden Oak Ranch Place Canyon Road, Newhall, California PRIVATE property of Walt Disney Company
Site of DeLorean Time Machine's destruction - South Ventura Road at Shoreview Drive, Port Hueneme, California PUBLIC street, best photos before 3:00 p.m.
Stairwell of Biff Tannen's Pleasure Paradise Casino & Hotel Universal City Hilton - 555 Universal City Parkway,Universal City, California 91608 PUBLIC WITH RESTRICTIONS Access for hotel guests and paid parking only
5401 Olympic Los geles filming location C A 90036 PRIVATE
Hilldale (1985) Doris Avenue and Oxford Drive, Oxnard, California PUBLIC
Public street, best photos before 3:00 p.m.
Hilldale (2015) Oakhurst Street and Somerset Avenue, El Monte, California 91732 PRIVATE Gated community with NO TRESPASSING signs
The desert (Pohatchee Drive-In) Monument Valley, Utah, Navaho Nation Indian reservation PUBLIC WITH RESTRICTIONS Filming took place off roads in protected area
Hill Valley High School, Whittier High School, 12417 Philadelphia Street, Whittier, California PUBLIC WITH RESTRICTIONS Public high school, no access allowed during school hours
The exterior of Delgado Mine and Boot Hill Cemetery China Flat, Santa Monica National Recreation Area, Oak Park, California PUBLIC
Involves 40-minute hike to location from King James Ct in Oak Park (CA)
River Road Tunnel Observation Tunnel, Griffith Park, Hollywood, California PUBLIC In park
The exterior of Doc's Mansion and garage (1955) The Gamble House, 4 Westmoreland Place, Pasadena, California PUBLIC Public tours available
The door and interior of Doc's mansion (1955) The Blacker-Hill House, 1777 Hillcrest Avenue, Pasadena, California PRIVATE
Private residence (rare 10-year tour possibly organized)
The interior of Hill Valley High School's gymnasium for Enchantment Under the Seadance
Hollywood United Methodist Church, 6817 Franklin Avenue, Hollywood, California PUBLIC
Church usually public, but always ask permission first
The starting line, Griffith Park, across from the Greek Theatre PUBLIC street in public park
McFly Farm (1885) China Flat, Santa Monica National Recreation Area, Oak Park, California PUBLIC
Involves 40-minute hike to location from King James Ct in Oak Park (CA)
Shonash Ravine Bridge (1885) Near Sonora, California, about 6 miles west of Chinese Camp PRIVATE
Gated field. Always ask permission first.
Clara's house Tuolumne County PUBLIC WITH RESTRICTIONS Unpaved road
Buford Tannen's lake campsite, Near Sonora, California PUBLIC WITH RESTRICTIONS Unpaved road
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Willys Jeep Mini Replica -1941 (Coolster)
One of the coolest Toys you can buy in 2021 …. the Mini Jeep this amazing little ATV sit in between 1/2 and 1/3 scale model of a 1941 Army Jeep. This 125cc single cylinder can take two adults across a vast array of terrain at speeds of upto 40mph with an estimate MPG of 80
1941 WIllys Style Coolster Mini Jeep
What is a Mini Willys style Jeep ?
These amazing vehicles sits at just over 1:3 scale, they are fully working petrol driven models of a WWII Jeep. Able to fit two adults quite comfortably, built for off-road use using Coil spring suspension.
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What engine does a Mini Jeep have ?
They have either a 125cc and 150cc engines
Capable of speeds up to 37 mph.
4 Stroke single cylinder.
3 Speed forward 1 Reverse
How fast does a mini jeep go ? 37 mph
Driving Review :
lets start out with the fun factor which is 10 out of 10 !
Having a little petrol engine under the hood, linked to a 3 speed forward 1 reverse semi -automatic (so no clutch to worry about) gives you the options of using a very low 1st gear for off-roading in deep mud, hill climbing etc. Gear 2 is still perfect for off-roading while still giving the torque required to plough through most terrains.
Moving into 3rd gear gives you the top speed of 37.5mph, when using the amazing little vehicle on the road. Off Course it mainly geared for off roading, so those deep knobbly tyres will make road use nosier, and in the wet (on tarmac) caution should be taken and it does make it a little slippy !
But the great thing is you could purchase another set of wheels to use road tyres when not plugging through rough terrain.
The Steering wheel is adjustable in reach so most adults (I’m just under 6ft) can get comfortable behind the wheel.
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Mini jeep bonnet
Mini jeep grill
It comes with front and rear lights, indicators, rear reverse light, horn, seatbelts, additional fuel tank, spare wheel, windscreen, handbrake and disc brakes.
So it has nearly all the necessary Road Legal equipment bar :
A fog light
Hazard warning flash
Roll over cadge.
And if you’re in the U.K a MPH speedometer (Kmh only, and this is highly inaccurate, so would be best to purchase a GPS Speedometer)
Also it has an a optional Speed limited for those younger drivers out there
In some states these can be road legally, and the 37.5mph top speed comes in handy to keep up with traffic.
As there is no sound proofing, a helmet makes driving this on the road a lot more comfortable and it can get noisy, but that’s part of the fun !
Off-Road those two first gears really do make getting through most terrains very easy, the knobbly tires get stuck into the deepest of mud conditions and seem to make the whole experience very exciting, and certainly brings on many smiles per mile !
Coolster is owned by an American based Company who distribute these mini ATV / Golf carts
Mini Willys Style Jeep Specification :
1 : 2 Scale
Mini Jeep engine 125cc Engine 4 stroke, 154fm, XinYuan
Features : Reverse light, Neutral light, Horn, indicators (with audio alarm) reverse light, Spare wheel, Army style Gas Can,
Transmission 3 speed with reverse
Drive Type : Chain : 530H 153l
EPA approved Carb
Petrol 1.06 gal
Tire size : 18x7-8
Oil capacity : 0.8L Air cooled motorcycle oil with clutch additive
Battery 12v 9A
Coil Suspension Front / Rear : Dual Arms with swingarm rear
Jeep Mini Willy’s Style in forest
Mini Willy’s style jeep WWIi
The windscreen does fold down, so again this makes getting through trees, and branches a lot easier as there’s no risk of damage
Mini Jeep buying tips
These do not come completely fully built out of the box, (unless your buying from a dealer) like Coolster.
So if your buying new or 2nd hand this is what you need to check :
Front Suspension strut bolts are tight
The exhaust bracket and exhaust bolts are tightened, whilst we are on this subject check the exhaust manifold bolts are tight
Check wheel Hub bolts are tight
Check wheel nuts (although overtightening can strip the thread)
Check steering rack bolts are tight
Check steering ball joints bolts are tight
Check handbrake works
Check Disc brake are functioning correctly
Check steering column, and steering wheel bolts
Check all suspension bolts,
Check the fuel line is secure (as clips are not very strong)
Check Rear axle bearings are greased (there is a grease nipple) but apparently they come dry
Check chain is lubricated
Check body security as the bolts can and do rust
Mini jeep - Coolster
Jeep Dashboard
Mini jeep engine
Mini Jeep gross weight 330.7 / 363.8lbs
Mini Jeep Weight capacity 264.6lbs
Disc Brakes front rear
Electric start with Key
Fully working lights, indicators, horn and speedometer
Speed limiter function (can be added)
Shock Absorbers
Fold down windscreen
Parking Brake
Leather Seats
Safety Belt
Spare Wheel
Spare Fuel Tank
1941 style mini jeep
Mini jeep dashboard
Mini Jeep Dimensions
Width :
950mm
Height :
950mm
Length :
1950 mm
Ground Clearance :
9.84 inches
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K&N Air filter
Snorkle
GPS Speedometer and Tachometer
Fuse Box
D Rings on bumper
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"What a fantastic day for my sons birthday who is BTTF mad, Mark was friendly, accommodating, and very professional, nothing was too much bother, my son could not sing his praises highly enough, the car, where do I start, attention to detail was amazing and looked every part like the film vehicle, and all the props were spot on , the cap, jacket, mag boots, hover board, plutonium case, sports almanac etc, and made available to add to the experience, dont hesitate to ask yourself if you would want this as an amazing addition to a special day, just book it, you will not regret it.
Thank you Mark and his his very good friend John who helped make the day incredible."
Check out a fantastic review we have received for our DeLorean Time Machine Hire !!!
David left us this review.....
"What a fantastic day for my sons birthday who is BTTF mad, Mark was friendly, accommodating, and very professional, nothing was too much bother, my son could not sing his praises highly enough, the car, where do I start, attention to detail was amazing and looked every part like the film vehicle, and all the props were spot on , the cap, jacket, mag boots, hover board, plutonium case, sports almanac etc, and made available to add to the experience, dont hesitate to ask yourself if you would want this as an amazing addition to a special day, just book it, you will not regret it.
Thank you Mark and his his very good friend John who helped make the day incredible."
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Meeting Bob Gale - Claudia Wells - Kevin Pike
The day my Back to the Future dreams come true, meeting Bob Gale - Claudia Wells - Kevin Pike !!!
I got to drive Bob Gale to the event who signed my Hoverboard and car seat ! ,also Claudia Wells signed my DeLorean Sunvisor and Kevin Pike spent 20 minuets looking at the detailing on my Time Machine conversion
Comic Con july 2022 ……
“The Future is here !!!”
Bob Gale - DeLorean Time Time
Being a huge fan of Back to the Future (ever since the DeLorean appeared from Doc Browns truck in the original film), meeting the creators and actors of the film was a mission that seemed impossible ……..
Well July 2022 gave the the opportunity not only to meet :
Bob Gale (Screenwriter and Co-writer of Back to the Future)
Claudia Wells (aka Jennifer Parker - Marty McFly’s Girlfriend in the first Back to the Future )
Kevin Pike (Back to the Future -Special Effects Supervisor)
But also opportunity to spend time with them, and even drive Bob Gale to the event !
Let me start with a little back story…..
Taking you ‘Back’….. Back in time to 2016 when I decided to make my dream come true by owning a DeLorean !
I certainly didn’t release on what a roller coaster ride my DeLorean would take me on…..
(I know “where we’re going we don’t need roads” !! ) but in this story we do ….
It’s took me to new places, met some amazing people, found new communities, learnt so much including engineering, electronics, car mechanics (including engine strip and rebuilds), vehicle electronics, Movie prop making, website design, sales and marketing, website design, SEO, and much much more….
Some may say it’s a Car ….. well yes, that of course is true, but it’s much more than that …..
The DeLorean was one man’s vision, a vision for a new future of automotive car building in the hope of providing an ethical Sports Car to masses. This vision was from a briliant engineer called John Z DeLorean.
A car to this day, was built in record time (28 months) a record which has never been beaten. Especially as he started it all without a factory, no workers, no money, not even a working proto type.
All these factors didn’t matter to John, as this was to prove one man could accomplish anything in late 1970’s 1980’s with just imagination, sheer will power, and undoubted belief he could start his own car company.
Anyway I digress (as I could get too carried away telling this story) please read more here ….
Fast forward to 1980, a Visionary Writer called Bob Gale wrote the Back to the Future Script along with Robert Zemeckis. At the time the studios’ did not like the script and concept, saying Time Travel movies just do not work, they where looking for something different.
But Bob and Robert persisted (again similar to John DeLorean never givinging up on their dream. With the script being knocked back (over 40 times) finally Universal picked up the production through Amblin Entertainment
And the Future was now set…….
Bob Gale - DeLorean Time Machine with Mark Elliott
Claudia Wells Back to the Future - with Mark Elliott
Fast forward again to 1985, by this time a lot had happened (especially concerning the DeLorean) with John Z DeLorean’s dream becoming a reality in February 1981 with the 1st DeLorean rolling off the production line. But then on 26th October 1982 the company filed for Bankruptcy. John DeLorean along with his car’s reputation where in tatters.
Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis where looking for a Time Machine for their script (the original idea was a refrigorator) and the futuristic DeLorean was the only vehicle that they wanted Doc Brown to drive and convert into a ‘Time Machine’
Pressing the fast forward button to March 2020, the start of lockdown ! a very strange time for everyone.
I was not furloughed from my job which meant I worked all the way through the lockdown. But with no car shows, no events, and no days out and about. I thought why not use this extra spare Lockdown Time to Lock myself in the garage to convert My DeLorean into a perfect replica of the ‘A-Car’ Time Machine as used in the first film ( as any one would do ! )….
So in March 2020 I began….
The idea had come from visiting may shows throughout the years I owned my Delorean. At these shows I would display the props like the flux capacitor (as that’s one of the first questions anyone asks ) when they see a DeLorean. And also a Hoverboard, Almanac, Nike Mags, Marty’s cloths and trainers, and all the letters from the films.
Seeing what enjoyment everyone got from the props, I thought when you say DeLorean the Time Machine words always follow on.
I am both a fan of the car itself and John Z DeLoreans background story, and also a huge Back to the Future Fan. So putting these two together is a Dream come true.
As I entered the conversion I released two things :
It had to be movie accurate, so all the parts needed to be built out of alloy and all the hoses wiring etc had to be real
I didn’t want to damage the DeLorean in anyway (as a conversion would require drilling into those lovely stainless steel panels) so any equipment fitted must be able to be removed without any damage to the car itself.
So both of these two points would add major complications on top of an already difficult task
So I spending the whole of lockdown studding the A Car in the film (which is now located in Los Angeles California’s Peterson Museum) .
Luckly for me it was rebuilt in 2015 for the 30th celebration of the Back to the Future franchise. So there were plenty of photo’s. Of course there’s’ more to it than studding the photos
The rebuild of the car came out on Blu Ray, so I watched this (just a few times !) and then the exact dimensions had to be obtained.
Claudia Wells - Kevin Pike - Mark Elliott with the DeLorean Time Machine
Fast Forward again now to July 2022 where the opportunity to meet the creator of Back to the Future, the Special effects Supervisor for the Film and also Marty’s Girlfriend
came to Southampton.
I desperately wanted their signatures, but how was this going to happen when they are in such demand at these events. But little did I realise I would have the opportunity to Drive Bob Gale to the Event itself, where he would sign my car. Which would also give me time to answer the questions I always wanted answering.
So the doors of the Hotel opened and Bob Gale walked out, (I still cannot believe I met him) he shook my hand and asked my name. He was so friendly and really wanted to spend time talking about Back to the Future Film, at the same time signing the back seat of my DeLorean and my Hoverboard !
We then set off in the Time Machine with both doors open, as we drove past all the fans waiting to get into the event. Arriving in ‘Style’ in Bob Gales visionary Time Machine
Bob Gale was an absolute pleasure to, and is genuinely happy that everyone enjoys the Film which keeps it Alive….
Then I returned to the Hotel, this time the doors opened to reveal Claudia Wells who enthusiasm, energy and enjoyment of the Film was absoutley fantastic, especially as she interacted with all her fans. She was so easy to talk to and was only too pleased to take part in a mini-photo shoot and signing with my DeLorean.
I spoke breifly spoke with Kevin Pike on the Saturday (to ask if he could cast his expert eye over my Time Machine Conversion,) what better person than the Special effects Supervisor of Back to the Future to give me advise on Time Machine conversions !
So on Sunday he rembered I was desperate for his oppionin and visited my DeLorean to give me the ultimate word on whats correct
He has an excellent sense of humour and a fantastic memory for detail. He started at the front of my DeLorean with the flux bands and worked all the way around the car (which I have filmed !) He very compilentory (especially on my Flux bands which took me absolutely ages to get right), and was giving me pointers regarding the finer details on the components and wiring (even down to the tightness of the wiring looms). Also the exact colours to use (which even with all the reasearch I did, did not find this information. So once again Thank You to Kevin for his time and advise.
I was so happy that he had the time to spend with me, and now my mission to fix all those points he went through, and at the same time was Surprised how much detail I got correct.
Then managed to get Kevin Pike and Claudia to pose for a Time Machine Photo’
Being at this comic con around such creative, energetic, imaginative people is truely refreshing. This is a world of ‘Anything it possible’, if you can imagine it, it can be built for everyone to enjoy through the media of TV and Film. I felt truely energised, and greatful these people had brought something special for anyone from the age of 3 to 103 to enjoy for a lifetime.
I was so pleased that in addition to the Back to the Future As an additional bonus I also got to drive :
Chris Barrie with Mark Elliott
Chris Barrie -
Comedian, impressionist - Spitting Image - Red Dwarf (Arnold Rimmer) - The Brittas Empire (Gordon Brittas) - Tomb Raider (Lara Crofts Butler)
Maia Brewton with Mark Elliott
Maia Brewton -
Adventures of a Baby Sitter - Back to the Future
Tim Blaney-
The Voice of Short Circuits - Johnny 5 - Puppeteer and voice actor - Voice of Frank the Pug in Men in Black
Short Circuit - Johnny 5
Tim Blaney - The Voice of Short Circuits - Johnny 5 - Puppeteer and voice actor - Voice of Frank the Pug in Men in Black
Stripe from Gremlins - Proving DeLorean’s do have Gremlins in them !
Bob Gale with Mark Elliott’s DeLorean Time Machine
Claudia Wells Back to the Future (Jennifer Parker ) with Mark Elliott
Claudia Wells Back to the Future (Jennifer Parker ) with Mark Elliott
Claudia Wells Back to the Future Jennifer Parker
Bob Gale never running OutaTime to sign Back to the Future DeLorean Time machines and props.
Living the Dream - Bob Gale with Mark Elliott’s DeLorean Time Machine DeLorean
Great Scott - We also have video of the event …. Watch this space !!!
27 Back to the Future Gadgets and Trends we have in 2023
27 Back to the Future Gadget and Trends that we actually have in 2021 (apart from the Mattel Hoverboard show in the photo !!!)
27 Gadgets featured in Back to the Future' gadgets that are real in 2023 !……
2015 was the year when Back to the Future II promised everything would be cooler.
The first Back to the Future movie hit theaters 37 years ago.
In the sequel, released in 1989, director Robert Zemeckis imagined a futuristic world where people would have hoverboards, food hydrators and automatic dog walkers. Oh, and for some reason, fax machines would still be cool.
Amazingly there are some gadgets the film predicted correctly. Here are a just a few tech tools from the Back to the Future universe that have actually come to life.
1. Phone glasses
Phone Glasses
In Back to the Future II, everyone wore multi-purpose smart glasses to watch TV or answer calls.
Today, we have things like Google Glass and the Oculus Rift for similar-ish tasks, though neither are super mainstream yet.
Marty’s future self gets fired during a video phone call in Back to the Future II. That call is not only prophetic of video chat applications like Skype and Apple’s FaceTime but also of Facebook, in that personal details like date of birth, occupation, political leanings, and hobbies are shared electronically.
BTTF Phone Glasses
Of course, the movie gets a few details a little wrong—like the widespread use of fax machines. But amazing prediction being the movie was released some 36 Years ago
2. Doors with fingerprint recognition (and biometrics in general).
THUMBPRINT BIOMETRICS
BTTF Fax Machine
Thumb Print Reader
Thumb print reader on front door
Aside from phones with touch ID, people today can buy door locks that operate with fingerprint recognition.
In BTTF II’s version of 2015, thumbprints are the preferred mode of identification. We first see a futuristic thumb-pad in action when Hill Valley Police use one to identify Jennifer, whom they find sleeping in an alley.
Once at the McFly residence, we see another thumb pad, in the place of a doorknob. They pop up again as a way to make mobile payments. None of that seems very far-fetched today.
The real question when it comes to thumbprints isn’t about the technology itself, but if it’s “the most efficient, reliant way of accelerating and expediting transactions,” says Shawn DuBravac, head of research at the Consumer Electronic Alliance.
What seems more likely is less of a reliance on actual thumbprints and more of one on our smartphones, which DuBravac says “will become an extension of your thumbprint.” That sounds better anyway. If your front door and phone communicate with each other, the door can open while you’re walking toward it, rather than requiring you to press your thumb to a pad.
For an even more futuristic twist, there's a hotel in Barcelona that has a fingerprint recognition system on its doors, as well as a Singaporean hotel that has fingerprint recognition technology. (On top of that, it also largely be run by robots.)
3. Marty McFly's self-lacing Nikes and Smart Clothing
THE SELF-LACING NIKES
Do we really need self-tying laces ?
Not really. Laces are not only very easy to tie, but also quick and don’t exactly require a ton of energy.
But that doesn’t mean that self-tying laces aren’t super cool or make us any less excited about the prospect of someday owning our very own pair of Nike Air Mags.
Gone would be the days of not only your shoes coming untied by accident, but also trying them too tight or too loosely. That’s a world I want to live in.
In the sequel, McFly slips on a pair of self-lacing white Nikes, inspiring a chorus of ooh-ing and aah-ing sneakerheads.
In 2011, Nike actually released 1500 pairs of limited edition Nike Air Mags, replicas of the '80s high-tops.
They were only sold through an eBay auction, with benefits going toward the Michael J. Fox foundation for Parkinson's Research.
Nike Mags
Nike Mags Hoverboard
2011 Nike Mags
Auto Adjusting/Drying Clothes
Real world technological advancement has led to the public sale of hydrophobic sprays that can prevent items and clothing from becoming wet, but we still don’t have anything close to the amazing jacket that Marty McFly wears in Back To The Future Part II - which not dries itself after the hero’s hoverboard mishap, but even has the capacity to grow and shrink to fit perfectly on a person’s body. This would certainly make shopping a hell of a lot easier (no need to try anything on!), but clothes probably also last a lot longer.
Self Adjusting Jacket
Size Adjusting Fit Jacket
Auto Drying Mode On
4. TV video calls
VIDEO CALLS IN THE FILM.
Video Call
Mc Fly Video Call
TV SKYPE CALLS WITH AN XBOX ONE
Video chatting straight from your TV seemed like a futuristic impossibility in 1989. Today, we have the power of video calling in our pockets. There are also numerous ways to video chat on a TV in today's world, from using a smart TV with Skype to using a BluRay player or an Xbox One.
5. Tablets
Characters casually wield tablets in the film and — surprise, surprise — we're obsessed with the things now. Sure, we all made our jokes when the iPad was initially released, but tablets have since become the perfect in-between for people carrying laptops and too tired to stare at small phone screens.
BTTF Tablet
Mobile Payment Technology
Viewers catch a glimpse of a flat, wireless electronic device in the film, during a scene in which an elderly Terry asks Marty to electronically donate $100—equal to only a couple of inflation-adjusted 1985 dollars—to save the town’s historic clock tower.
Thankfully, inflation hasn’t hit the dollar nearly as hard as Back to the Future predicted. But mobile technology has met and even surpassed that of the devices in the movie—in a way that one of the film’s screenwriters recently said he never could have imagined.
6. 3-D movie obsessions (and never-ending sequels)
Jawes 19 3D
Jaws 19
AN AUDIENCE WATCHES A 3-D FILM
In one scene, McFly walks by a movie theater called a Holomax playing Jaws 19 — and a hologram of a shark leaps out at him.
Sure, we don't have hologram theaters, but 3-D movies have become de rigeur (experiencing a particular boom after the release of Avatar in 2009) and are only becoming more impressive.
Sequels and remakes in general are also getting fairly more aggressive in Hollywood. (Looking at you, Fast and Furious 7 and Spider-Man).
7. Hands-free gaming
THE ARCADE GAME WILD GUNMAN
Wild Gunman
Marty playing Wild Gunman
THE XBOX KINECT Playing video games with your hands is basically like playing "a baby's toy," according to a kid in the film (played by a pint-sized Elijah Wood). Today, we have the Xbox Kinect, which can operate via gestures and spoken commands.
Wild Gunman
8. Holographic Advertisements
The proliferation of holograms definitely sounds cool, just because the technology would actually be neat to see in real life, but it has its downsides as well. For example, do you really want to be just minding your own business on a street corner and suddenly get attacked by an advertisement for Jaws 19?
Halographic Jawes
9. Dog Walking Drone
Dog Walker Drone
Owning a dog is a lot of fun, but it’s also a lot of responsibility. That fact was surely the inspiration behind the dog walking drone featured in Back To The Future Part II. Sadly, this device would probably be exploited, but it would definitely be helpful if you’re just too busy to go for a walk, or are on vacation and can’t find a dog walker.
Flying drones are ubiquitous in Back to the Future’s 2015, and they’re shown doing everything from walking a dog to capturing images for news organizations.
The latter prediction has come true, and while people still walk their dogs the old-fashioned way, drones—widely available to consumers for about $1,000 a pop—have given us new and creative ways to catch fish, deliver dry cleaning, and make people feel awkward at holiday parties
Owning a dog is a lot of fun, but it’s also a lot of responsibility. That fact was surely the inspiration behind the dog walking drone featured in Back To The Future Part II. It would definitely be helpful if you’re just too busy to go for a walk, or are on vacation and can’t find a dog walker.
10. Floating Back Fixer
BTTF Flying Back Brace
Hurting your back is rough, simply because it means that practically every move you make starts to hurt. It’s why I can have a lot of appreciation for the floating back fixer that George McFly uses in Back To The Future Part II.
11. Food Hydrator
Food Hydrator
A part of me does wonder if the taste of the food featured in Back To The Future Part II is at all affected by the dehydrating/hydrating process, but assuming that it’s not, then hopefully this technology will eventually become a part of our everyday life.
Not only would it make preparing meals incredibly easy, but it would also make it extremely simple to send a great deal of food to people and areas suffering from starvation.
“Boy, oh boy, Mom, you sure know how to hydrate a pizza.”
But, “Boy, oh boy, Mom, you sure know how to PRINT a pizza” is a total possibility.
“In the future, maybe consumers will go down to the store, pick up a tube of A, B, and C molecules, type ‘filet mignon’ [into their 3-D printers], and they’ll have filet mignon,” says Roger Clemens, a food scientist at USC and spokesman for the Institute of Food Technologists. Early versions of this technology are currently in the works. In fact, a pizza printer exists, though the product doesn’t look delicious, or even edible. Still, the dream of “pizza from a tube of nothing,” as Clemens calls it, is alive.
12. Sleep-Inducing Alpha-Rhythm Generator
A bad night’s sleep is the worst. You wake up feeling miserable, and that particular feeling seems to follow you throughout the day as everything becomes stupid, annoying, or enraging. If we actually had EZ Sleep’s Sleep-Inducing Alpha-Rhythm Generator, however, all of this would be put in the past. At night, you just point the two lights at your face, and before you know it you’re getting the most restful sleep of your life.
All it takes is a quick flash from Doc’s handheld device made by EZ Sleep, and Jennifer is out cold. A product like this in the wrong hands would be trouble.
“The idea that we can induce a radical change in at least an unhealthy brain with a series of light flashes is not completely out there,” “The demand for it would be incredible. People are definitely looking for that device or that pill that makes sleep automatic.
13. Hoverboards
Can anyone honestly say that they walked away from a screening of Back To The Future Part II without wanting a hoverboard of their very own?
While surely dangerous – just like any skateboard – they look like they’re a ton of fun, and also a good method of transportation.
It’s true that they have their limitations – like lower-power models struggling to work over water – but I wouldn’t even hesitate picking up the real deal if it worked exactly how it does in the film.
We’re talking about a real hoverboard here, not Hendo’s hoverboard, which requires a specialized surface to hover. In BTTF II, the hoverboard Marty borrows from a young girl works on any surface except water.
How far away is that? Frey is firmly noncommittal. “Ten years, 20 years, who knows?” he says. He’s not so quick to discount Hendo’s innovation, though, saying, “It’s an interesting breakthrough in thinking that dramatically brings a BTTF II–type device much closer.”
14. Weather Control and Scheduling
Weather prediction has certainly come a long way since Back To The Future Part II, but sadly we still haven’t gotten to the point where a government body called "The Weather Service" can schedule when it’s going to rain.
It’s a shame it doesn’t exist, because it could not only stop or prevent major disasters, but also save lives. It would even be beneficial for all of us on a day-to-day basis, just because it would allow us all to plan our schedules better around necessary but dreary weather.
15. Mr. Fusion
The Mr. Fusion Home Energy Reactor has a fairly small role to play in Back To The Future Part II, but given that it’s an invention that could potentially solve the world’s energy problems, it deserves very special recognition.
The idea of turning garbage into fuel is one that today’s scientists only dream about, and if the technology were actually invented it could change everything. The version featured in the film isn’t 100% ideal, as it can really only power the DeLorean’s time circuits and flux capacitor and not the car itself, but it is the ultimate step in the right direction.
16. Flying Cars?
Flying Cars back to the Future
When Doc, Marty, and Jennifer first arrive in 2015, the airborne DeLorean is cruising through the sky on a literal highway. According to Thomas Frey, executive director of futurist think tank the DaVinci Institute, we shouldn’t expect to see either of those things, ever.
“We will never get to the flying car era,” Frey told Vulture. “We will get to the era where we get flying drones that haul people, though.” The BTTF II model, in which a person gets behind the wheel of his own flying car, is too dangerous, Frey says.
Flying along the Freeway
Flying Taxi Cab
“Once we get into three-dimensional space, flying vehicles are exponentially more complicated, As for the highway in the sky, Frey envisions a much more sophisticated solution to controlling air traffic. “Directional layers of airspace,” he says, where specific altitudes have a designated direction in which vehicles fly.
Flying DeLorean
Not to Mention the Weight
Don’t believe Goldie Wilson III, grandson of former Hill Valley mayor Goldie Wilson, who charges “only $39,999.95” to convert an “old road car into a skyway flyer.” Frey says, “Traditional cars are way too ‘Heavy’. They’re constructed all wrong for something like that.”
Wilson Hover Conversion
17. Robot Gas Stations
By 2015, Hill Valley’s local Texaco has lost its attendants, replacing them with a robotic arm that fills the tanks of flying cars. The Dutch have invented a robotic pump, and though these are a long way from ubiquity,
Robot Gas Station
More likely, though, he says, is a variation on the full-service gas station but for electric cars. “Being able to drive over a platform with an electric car, and charge your battery and never have to get out, is entirely possible right now,”
18. Neon Curbs
Neon Curbs
It’s easy to imagine why neon curbs would be common in 2015 Hill Valley, given the need to land a car from above, but don’t expect to see them in real life.
In fact, all public-safety lighting may one day be replaced by jellyfish genes, “We’re able to embed them in trees and plants, and there’s some interesting speculation that a lot of night lighting is going to go away and we’ll have our plants and trees glowing in the evening.”
19. Abolition of the Justice System
Back to the Future Police
In 2015, Doc tells Marty, lawyers are abolished and the criminal justice moves at the speed of light. That’s how Marty Jr. is tried, convicted, and sentenced within two hours of his arrest.
That kind of justice system would require a society in which “surveillance is so pervasive, intrusive, and thorough that every action (and thought?) could be monitored and recorded.” The technology to achieve that type of surveillance, at least as it relates to actions, exists today, but let’s hope it’s never deployed.
Not because we should fear the technology itself, Smith says, but because of the people behind it. “We would always need to worry about the manipulation of criminal evidence and control of prosecutions by those flawed human beings who are controlling the technology.”
20. Bionic Implants and Rejuvenation Clinics
Technological advancements in BTTF II’s version of 2015 aren’t limited to consumer electronics and transportation. There are a few goodies for those hoping to live forever, too.
Bionic Implants Griff Tannen
Bionic implants are apparently elective enough that teenage Griff Tannen has them, and Doc mentions a trip to a rejuvenation clinic that, among other things, added 30 to 40 years to his life.
Doc Brown Rejuvenation Clinic
Doc Brown Rejuvenation Clinic
Frey, who has written extensively on the future of biotech, says 3-D printing presents an alternative to rejuvenating our failing bodies or augmenting them with mechanical implants.
“There’s all this work being done on 3-D printing body parts. How long until we can 3-D-print an entire replacement body for ourselves?” he asks.
21. Cubs Sweeping the World Series in 5 games
If we would have done this piece a few years ago, BTTF II’s joke about the Cubs finally winning the World Series would be just that — a joke.
But in 2016 just a year after they predicted in the film it actually happened ! ….”If only we could go back in time and put some money on the Cubbies”
Cubs win world Series
22. Computers that take orders via voice controls:
Cafe 80’s
Siri, anyone? And the new Apple TV emphasis on Siri integration makes it even weirder.
23.News footage being filmed by a drone:
News Drone BTTF
Drone footage is increasingly common, though they didn't quite foresee the explosion in the amateur drone market.
24. Super-thin advanced digital cameras?
Marty McFly and Doc Brown
If anything, Doc Brown is a bit behind the times. Our phones are usually our cameras now too.
25. Large Screen Multi Channel :
BTTF Large Screen TV
While we might not watch six TV channels at once, Marty's son certainly has the same need for multiple streams of information as today's millennials. We just prefer them in rapid succession, on our phones, or via a dual monitor setup.
26. Waste-Fueled Cars
Although you can’t yet buy a vehicle with a fusion engine, like that in Doc Brown’s DeLorean, the scene in which Doc uses garbage to power his car (well, technically the flux capacitor) is prescient.
In fact, Toyota is promoting its new hydrogen fuel cell car—the Mirai—with an ad campaign featuring Back to the Future actors Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd.
Hydrogen-powered cars are lauded as environmentally friendly since they convert hydrogen and oxygen to electricity, with water vapor as a byproduct. That eco-friendliness is partly offset by the fact that fossil fuel or natural gas is typically consumed to create the hydrogen in the first place, but scientists are experimenting with solar and wind-powered generation—and, in Orange County, Calif., hydrogen will be harvested from human waste.
27. Pepsi Perfect
Pepsi Perfect
This one is a marketing stunt, though hardcore fans might not mind: In honor of the trilogy’s 30th anniversary, Pepsi is selling a limited number of bottles of “Pepsi Perfect,” the soda of choice in Back to the Future‘s 2015.
The bottles, sold in the movie for $50
Despite the futuristic packaging, the flavor of Pepsi Perfect is traditional; the company is using natural cane sugar rather than the typical corn syrup. Unfortunately, that doesn’t make it any healthier.
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https://www.sandstoneproductions.co.uk/blogtothefuture/2021/2/19/back-to-the-future-fashion-te2yx
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https://www.sandstoneproductions.co.uk/blogtothefuture/2021/2/2/hill-valley-history-jxrr4
Back to the Future Gadgets and Trends we have in 2021
Doc Browns Biography and the History of his DeLorean Time Machine
Marty McFly Biography also featuring Biff, George, Jennifer, Loranine
Back to the Future - Hill Valley History
https://www.sandstoneproductions.co.uk/blogtothefuture/2021/2/2/hill-valley-history
Back to the Future - Detailed storyline
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The Time Paradox explained - Back to the Future
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Mini Jeep Mini Review
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How does the Time Machine work - Back to the Future
https://www.sandstoneproductions.co.uk/blogtothefuture/2020/11/22/how-does-the-time-machine-work
The DeLorean Motor Company - What did it fail ? Or did it ?
https://www.sandstoneproductions.co.uk/blogtothefuture/2020/11/22/whydiddeloreanmotorcompanyfail
The DeLorean Motor Company - History
https://www.sandstoneproductions.co.uk/blogtothefuture/2020/11/22/deloreanmotorcompany
The Flux Capacitor - Back to the Future
https://www.sandstoneproductions.co.uk/blogtothefuture/fluxcapacitor
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https://www.sandstoneproductions.co.uk/blogtothefuture/istimetravelpossible
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Back to the Future Fashion
Marty McFly
The clothing and accessories that people wear are a distinctive part of the popular culture. Clothing styles change not only with the time period, but also communicate one's social class and occupation. Those who don't dress appropriately are often viewed as outcasts or rebels, or at the very least, odd and out-of-place, so Marty McFly's clothing proved to be an endless source of embarrassment for him during his adventures, in spite of Dr. Emmett Brown's attempts to be prepared.
They generally had three options when they traveled from one time period to another:
They purchased and changed clothes after arriving in a new time period
They tried to find appropriate clothes for their destination before traveling
They neglected to change clothes and just endured the awkwardness of attracting attention.
Note: Outfits are described here under the time periods the clothing came from, which were not necessarily when they were worn.
Back to the Future Fashion
Outfit 1: Marty McFLY
This Marty McFly outfit is probably the most iconic of them all.
Everything from the vintage wash denim jacket and faded dad jeans, to the orange puffer vest, looks as good now as it did back in ’85.
Trainers
They’re the overwhelmingly popular Nike Killshot 2 which was originally released in the ’80s and saw a surge in interest when it re-released in 2009, and subsequently in 2014 in collaboration with J.Crew.
Marty McFly
Marty McFly
Denim Jacket:
Quilted Vest:
Tennis Sneakers: Nike Killshot 2 (They’re the overwhelmingly popular Nike Killshot 2 which was originally released in the ’80s and saw a surge in interest when it re-released in 2009, and subsequently in 2014 in collaboration with J.Crew)
Aviator Sunglasses: RayBan
Retro Calculator Watch: Casio
Marty
"Life preserver" First day of school in 1955
Marty wore a red and gray jacket (that he took off in the school cafeteria), white shirt with light blue rectangles, brown pants, brown loafers (slip- on shoes), and had hair tonic in his hair.
"Darth Vader"
The day of the skateboard chase – Marty wore the same red and gray jacket, this time with a black shirt with red chain link pattern, brown pants and Converse Chuck Taylor All-Star shoes.
"That zoot suit"
Marty wore a gray wool suit, a white shirt and narrow red tie, that afterwards he called a “zoot suit”. "Get yourself some 50’s clothes ... something inconspicuous!"
—Doc to Marty
Marty in his "inconspicuous" disguise.
"Something inconspicuous"– Marty chose an “inconspicuous” outfit to cover his basic outfit; he added a black felt fedora hat, black leather jacket and dark sunglasses. When Biff confronted Marty, he referred to the outfit as "that stupid disguise".
After getting to Biff's car, Marty took off his sunglasses. At the Enchantment Under the Sea dance, Biff's gang member Match wondered how he changed his clothes so fast. After being knocked down by a door as his other self ran through it, and when Biff stole back the almanac, Marty was forced to abandon the fedora, which had fallen off his head. When taking Doc back to his mansion, Marty put the jacket and Nikes by the fireplace, along with the letter, so they could dry off.
At the Delgado Mine – Marty wore the same clothes as the day of the skateboard chase, and added a tan overcoat.
Marty's 1955 western outfit
"Clint Eastwood never wore anything like this" – Doc prepared Marty to travel to 1885 with a pink and blue shirt with long, yellow fringe running along the chest, back and sleeves, under five embroidered atomic model designs on the front and back of his shoulders, a red bandana around his neck, red corduroy pants, an ornately tooled belt with golden sunburst buckle, white Nike sneakers, and carried along a white cowboy hat and boots that were too tight.
Outfit 2: Biff Tannen
Biff Tannen
Oh Biff — the mild mannered, charismatic antagonist of the Back To The Future trilogy.
Contrasting shirt tie combo, for the pants I tailored wool (herringbone) trousers. And for the shoes, black leather with white soles to complement the shade of the knit tie.
· Bomber Jacket: (alt) Grey
· Charcoal Wool Trousers
· Black Oxford Shirt
· Grey Knit Tie
· Black Minimalist Sneakers
Outfit 3: George McFly
The timid George McFly
George McFly
· Harrington Jacket: ASOS
· Olive Corduroy Pants: Everlane
· Grey Oxford Shirt: Everlane
· Black Frame Eyeglasses: Warby Parker
· Navy Suede Chukka Boots: Thursday Boot Co.
Outfit 4: Emmett Lathrop ‘Doc’ Brown
Doc Brown, the effervescent inventor of the first time machine, built out of a DeLorean sports car.
Often in a state of shock and awe, Doc had some questionable outfits throughout the series.
Doc Brown
Doc Brown
Doc Brown
· Khaki Trucker Jacket: Flint and Tinder (alt)
· Slim Fit Alpha Khaki: Dockers
· Stripe Polo Shirt: Amazon Essentials
· Suede Sneakers: Koio
“…your future hasn’t been written yet. No one’s has! Your future is whatever you make it. So make it a good one!”
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The clothing and accessories that people wear are a distinctive part of the popular culture. Clothing styles change not only with the time period, but also communicate one's social class and occupation.
Clothing in 1985
"C'mon, I had to change! You think I’m going back in that-- that zoot suit?"
—Marty
Basic outfit –
Marty McFly
Marty McFly
Marty McFly
During most of his adventures, except when he changed clothes in 1955 and 1885, Marty wore Guess blue jeans with black 3/4" suspenders, a red t-shirt, lavender ("purple") Calvin Klein underpants, and white Nike Bruin shoes with red swoosh and backtab
(no word Nike on them until he visited 1885) with gray socks (changed to white socks when he visited 2015).
School outfit –
Marty McFly at School
From Friday before school through his first day in 1955, Marty added a Guess Marciano two-tone blue denim jacket with an "Art in Revolution" button, a Fender P-Bass pin and a white checked Shah Safara shirt to his basic outfit.
He accessorized this with a Casio CA50W digital watch on his left wrist, a silver Aiwa model HS-P02 Walkman, and mirrored Zeiss aviator sunglasses with a sweatguard in the morning.
"Life preserver" – From the evening at Twin Pines Mall through his first day in 1955, Marty added a dark orange Class-5 bubble down vest to his school outfit.
Tales From Space – Doc gave Marty a yellow full-length radiation suit for protection when loading the plutonium. Due to the similarity of his outfit to that of a space alien on a comic book cover, his outfit scared the Peabody family and an elderly couple driving past Lyon Estates in 1955.
"Darth Vader" – Marty wore the yellow full-body radiation suit, a hair dryer from Doc Brown's suitcase tucked into a belt, and held his Aiwa portable stereo cassette player.
Darth Vader BTTF
Doc Brown
Doc Brown
"Devo outfit" – Doc wore a white full-length radiation suit, over a green print shirt, white undershirt, black pants and orange Nike Vandal high-top shoes. He also had a watch on his left arm, and digital stopwatch on a lanyard around his neck.
Train shirt – While in 2015, Doc changed back to 1985-style clothing, a yellow Hawaiian shirt with a cartoon train pattern and brown cargo pants, expecting to return Marty, Jennifer and Einstein back home right away.
Jennifer "Hey Mom, nice pants" -
Jennifer wears a blue vest over a white shirt and has pink flower pants.
Other distinctive clothing of 1985
§ Dave wore a uniform for his job as a Burger King restaurant server.
§ George owned a suede jacket.
§ Biff wore a green warm-up outfit on Saturday; a purple warm-up outfit on Sunday.
Clothing in 1955
Biff
"Biff" - On Saturday, Biff wore a red short-sleeve pullover shirt.
School - At school, Biff wore blue jeans and a shirt with a checked red and white pattern.
For the rest of the week, Biff wore a grey jacket, a white T- shirt and black pants. He added a black shirt and a white tie for the Enchantment Under the Sea dance.
Lorraine
"You’re so ... thin" –
On Saturday, November 5, Lorraine wore a pink and purple plaid dress which had a rounded collar, a matching belt around the waist, and a pink bow at the neck. She also wore white socks.
School –
At school, Lorraine wore a blue blouse with a silver brooch and a purple pencil skirt. She also wore her hair in a bun.
"I think you'd look better wearing nothing at all"
On Saturday, November 12 at Ruth's Frock Shop, Lorraine wore a pink knitted sweater, saddle shoes and a novelty black cotton giraffe-print circle skirt which Biff lifted up to expose her panties once outside the shop.
"Well, lookee what we have here"
At the Enchantment Under the Sea dance, Lorraine wore a pink strapless dress, bought with Babs at Ruth’s Frock Shop, which she covered with a white sweater. When she leaned over in the car, Biff was able to see down the front of her dress.
Doc
On Saturday evening, Doc wore a silver robe with black lapels, white shirt, and white knit tie, and dark pants. During the rest of the week, he wore a long white laboratory coat, and put on a pair of green safety goggles when demonstrating the clock tower model. The following Saturday, as he tried to connect the electrical cable, Doc was wearing shoes with Velcro closures that had not yet been invented,[5] although he might have found them in his future counterpart's suitcase.
Other distinctive clothing of 1955
§ Milton Baines wore a coonskin cap, popularized by Disney’s Davy Crockett films.
Clothing in 2015
"First, you have to get out and change clothes."
—Doc to Marty upon arrival in 2015
Doc in his 2015 yellow coat.
Doc Brown
* Marty in his future son's outfit.
"Marty, you’ve got to come back with me"
Doc appeared in Marty’s driveway wearing a long yellow coat, a red shirt with Japanese symbols (no undershirt), silver wraparound glasses with internal video display, and a plastic transparent necktie.
Train shirt – (See: 1985 Doc Brown)
Marty
"You're the spitting image of your future son" –
* Marty Jr.’s outfit and Marty’s disguise consisted of an auto-adjusting and auto-drying jacket (though Marty Jr.'s jacket was broken on the left sleeve), blue jeans worn inside-out (Marty only turned his pockets out), white socks, white Nike MAG power-lacing shoes and a color-shifting lenticular baseball cap.
Marty Jr. wore a white t-shirt with a logo featuring a plus and minus sign. 47-year-old Marty wore a brown business suit over a light brown shirt and brown and yellow multiple ties with rising sun motifs.
Biff
Biff's outfit consisted of a red quarter zip sweatshirt and black, white and green plaid pants.
Griff
Biff Tannen
Griff's outfit consisted of a helmet with sharp metal spikes, a black-ribbed light green jacket over a black chainmail shirt, black pants and black boots adorned with a sharp metallic rhinoceros-like horn.
Marlene
Other distinctive clothing of 2015
§ Multiple ties worn by Terry, Goldie Wilson III and Marty Sr.
Clothing in 1985A
Lorraine
Lorraine 2015
Lorraine Baines McFly, aged 47, in 1985A clothing and breast implants.
"You’re so ... big" – Lorraine Baines McFly wore a black, belted pant suit with patterns of multicolored dots, and high heeled shoes. The blouse had a low neckline revealing her breast implants.
Biff
Although Biff was fabulously wealthy as a result of his cheating with the almanac in 1985A, his sense of dress was still tacky as the Biff of the original timeline. His outfits were gaudy and ugly, with gold chains and bright blue blazers, giving him the appearance of a lounge lizard. After coming out of the hot tub, Biff wore a blue bathing robe over black swim shorts.
Other distinctive clothing of 1985A
§ Biff's bodyguard Match wore a white cowboy hat.
§ Biff's goon 3-D no longer wore his nominal 3-D glasses as the 3-D movies fad had long since faded by 1985. However, unable to part with the nickname, he wore aviator sunglasses which he had custom made, the left lens to be red and the right lens to be blue.
Clothing in 1885
"You can’t wear those futuristic things in 1885. You shouldn’t even be wearing them in 1955."
—Doc Brown at the Pohatchee Drive-in
Marty
"Clint Eastwood never wore anything like this" – (See: 1955 Marty)
Marty's 1955 western outfit plus hat.
"You sure look like Seamus McFly" – Same as "Clint Eastwood never wore anything like this" (see: 1955 Marty), with a straw derby hat[6]
"Some respectable clothes and a fine hat" – Most of the week, Marty wore a long, blue workshirt, brown jeans, and a brown sarape over long underwear, with a brown flat-topped hat, and boots.[7] The outfit was very similar to the one Marty saw Clint Eastwood wearing in A Fistful of Dollars.
"Go ahead, make my day" – One morning, Marty woke up wearing his long underwear with a half-fastened drop seat, and put on his hat and gun belt to practice in front of the mirror.
Behind the scenes
1955
Bob Gale said that costume designer Deborah Scott found nearly all the clothing for the film in the studio’s wardrobe department; they didn’t have the budget for her to make many original items.[8]
Lea Thompson found the pink dress uncomfortable to wear and even more uncomfortable to dance in, and would walk around the set in the 1950s corset bra and crinoline underskirt to avoid wearing the dress, and once even shocked her mother when she visited her on the set. But despite that, she still hung on to one exemplar of the dress that was given to her, and helped out with the filming of the second movie when the original dress had been lost, and she provided it herself.[9]
The black fedora Marty wore as apart of his 'something inconspicuous' disguise was made by the Stetson hat company, especially for Michael J. Fox.[10]
2015
Costume designer Joanna Johnston said she was terrified at the prospect of designing the clothing of the future, making costumes for the cast and 150 extras from scratch, since Bob’s concept did not have a basis in anyone else’s work. For a future society in which men and women are truly equal, the clothing styles would exaggerate the difference between the sexes. She decided to use a very wide variety of fabrics in bright "but not fluorescent" colors.[11]
1885
Costume designer Joanna Johnston was already familiar with the clothing for the period, having worked on the movie Tess, but found that most of costumes that were made for the Westerns of the '40s, '50s and '60s lacked the authenticity she was looking for. After further research, she created clothing for the main characters and as many as 500 extras based on the original clothing patterns she found.[12]
Back to the Future is being cited as a key fashion inspiration, it will come as no surprise to any fans of the film or, indeed, of fashion.
So much so, in fact, that Eastpak is reissuing the original rucksack Marty travelled through time with this season, sold exclusively at Selfridges (although if you have a DeLorean, you are advised to time-travel and buy one of the 80s originals, as Eastpak is certainly not selling them now at 80s prices).
Marty rocking double denim and high-tops
Marty himself has been something of a hipster template for a while now: the double denim, the checked shirt, the high-tops. If only Marty had arrived in east London 2014 as opposed to Hill Valley 1955 (and, later, 2015 and 1885), he would have fit right in and instantly sparked a sleeveless parka revival.
As for the other characters,
Lorraine Baines (later McFly, then Tannen) has, waist up, a proper Alexa Chung look going on, with her Peter Pan collars and demure little jumpers.
Biff Tannen's sports jackets are definitely in style, for men and women, while George McFly's thick-rimmed glasses have been a fashion staple since the dawn of time (maybe alittle exaggeration there)
As for what Back to the Future fashion pieces the biggest vote has to be for Lorraine's wacky 1955 hairstyle, in which her hair zigzags across her forehead
And honestly? Yeah. The clothing is superb. It doesn’t feel costume-y or try hard like The Great Gatsby or Gangster Squad; in BTTF, the period looks are natural yet interesting, feeling cool but dated.
As this film was made in the 80s, that the period they were parodying (1950s) wasn’t that historical. It was like (literally) looking at pictures your parents wore and checking local thrift stores for clothing ideas.
This all probably contributes to why Hill Valley in 1955 feels real and not filled with some wise-cracking gangster with a down-on-his-luck shoeshine kid.
Clearly, there is a huge difference between menswear in 1955 and 1985, but there are just things that make the 1950’s stand out when compared to other eras, but the 1950’s was a remarkably different than the 1940s.
In this post war time, you had the first inklings of true casual style. Instead of sportcoats as sportswear, you had dedicated garments like Hollywood jackets.
Shortjackets with point collars and bomber styles were extremely popular to wear when you were off work or just a youth.
Jeans and converse were the new go-to for casual pant/shoes, though a few still wore pleated
Hollywood waist gab slacks and derbies. And let’s not forget the explosion of prints (tiki and atomic) and tone-on-tone variations that made sportshirts truly “sporty”.
People today call it the Bold Look for tailoring (due to the heavy shoulder pads and dropped button stance) and Rockabilly for casual style. Either way, it’s pretty cool.
Good examples of the fun casual shirts in the 1950s.
Short jackets of all kinds were common, this time done with fun details.
Great shirts and an epic trouser to boot.
Ties in the 1950’s were more about abstract vertical designs. Some were slim, others were wide.
Leisuire jackets were all the rage.
BTTF gets all of this right, presumably by the use of true vintage (since the patterns and designs are really specific) as according to the wiki, they only used whatever was in Universal’s costume warehouse.
However, warehouses could definitely still make good reproductions! We’ll never know what is true vintage or not, but I’m leaning on the use of true vintage pieces since would only be 30 years old and wouldn’t be hard to source and get in decent condition.
Marty McFly
We all know Marty McFly’s epic 1985 look. Denim jacket on slim high waisted jeans, with a solid colored crewneck under a button up shirt; we also can’t forget the life preserver and white/red Nike Bruin sneakers. It’s a classic outfit that isn’t actually out of place today, since you could wear it at a Halloween costume or as a generic dude in LA (maybe lose one of the layers though).
That period paved the way for “non-traditional” garment mixing that ushered in the current way we approach casual style. Since this is only 15 years from the period of overalls with oxfords or puffers and military chinos, it’s no surprise that wanna-be rocker Marty McFly would also wear something as weird.
However, as we saw in the movie, he stuck out like a sore thumb when he was accidentally sent back in time to 1955. Luckily with a rich heir like Doc Brown as a friend, Marty is able to get some period accurate clothes and fit into this iteration of Hill Valley.
Marty’s first look for a new day in 1955 is a damn good one: every piece is so great. Firstly we can see the two-tone leather-gab jacket with a point collar. Two-tone jackets were popular as youth novelty wear. I’m pretty sure the one in the film is a reproduction, but if you found that as vintage it would be worth a lot.
Underneath the jacket, Marty has a block motif sportshirt that he’s rolled up his sleeves a la James Dean. Patterns like this are what make this era’s shirts so much fun.
He has white socks and penny loafers!
With the shirt, he finishes this perfect 1950’s casual-youth outfit with (presumably) pleated hollywood waist slacks that seem to be made of some silk or rayon blend. providing crunchy/shiny texture that fits in with the era’s obsession with patterns and atomic themes.
Overall, it’s a great uniform to do: sportshirt + high rise trousers + casual jacket. Marty wears the look well, with everything fitting perfectly. In fact, this vibe not only informs some of the looks you can see at Inspiration LA It may not be atomic or tiki, but alohas are certainly in full force in today’s spring/summer. Even the thin belts are coming back.
They need to make prints like this again!
When Marty gets into the epic skateboard chase, he retains the two-tone jacket but brings in a new shirt and pant combo. The shirt, now a red/blue piece with a wild diagonal stripe mixed with oversized squares is an EPIC one. Its a bold pattern, which again makes the 1950’s unique in it’s choice of casual patterns. It just has that retro appeal that I think would look great under a sportcoat, if there were just makers that had it (since a true vintage one would no doubt be expensive).
Note here that he’s now wearing some straight cut blue jeans. It’s different than his slightly acid-washed ones from the 80s, mainly in how it drapes. They’re not overly wide, but moderate, ending with a cuff. They look how I want my jeans to fit with proper drape. Again, Marty kills it.
At some point, Marty swapped his Corteze with black converse. Looks very 50’s when worn with cuffed blue jeans.
Another fun gab sportshirt that is worn untucked with a white undershirt base layer.
Note the two-tone coloring. Very 50’s.
His last major 50’s look is a sportcoat-trouser combo, worn to the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance. We don’t really get a good look at the full cut or details, so we’re left wondering if this is a true 50’s jacket (or designed like it) or something from the 1980s that they tried to pass off.
The choice of odd trouser, a charcoal grey fleck Again, this was a time of exploring fabrics and cuts in the realm of tailoring, and while illustrations may keep everything clean, photographs from the era showed that the youth always had a mishmash of things. It’s probably because they didn’t have dozens of trousers to begin with.
The wide cut may be inspired by the zoot suit (Marty does reference it in the film, but zoot suits were more of a 40s thing IIRC), but he rocks it all the same.
Since you get to see it in full force (along with white socks and black two-tone derbies) while he’s playing the guitar, perhaps it’s his way of exuding that rebellious rocker chic in 1955. He certainly stood out amongst the crowd!
Doc Brown
We don’t really get to see much of Doc Brown’s attire until Marty goes to visit him in 1955; Doc is just in a white jumpsuit in the Lone Pine Mall.
When Marty visits him, Doc seems to wearing a variation on what we’d expect a well-to-do heir would wear at home. A pink shirt (the 1950’s loved color, if you couldn’t already tell) and a white single stripe tie are fun nods to the fact that he’s an adult, but you get the affluent charm with an epic silver dressing gown.
With a scale-esque texture and it’s moderate black satin peak lapels (echoed by the pocket piping), it definitely has that post-war fun vibe.
When Doc goes with Marty to Hill Valley High to check out Marty’s parents, Doc has on a very typical “casual man” outfit. The tiki shirt is a no brainer at this point, but note the cool gab jacket he has on.
It’s definitely some form of leisure jacket with modest lapels, patch pockets, and a fun little monogram on the patch. Jackets like this were casual but they clearly took after the classic sportcoat design; it looks smarter than simply wearing a leather jacket or gab short jacket.
Also take note of his straw fedora (I don’t think it’s technically a panama hat). Instead of the traditional black band, he instead has an abstract design as a ribbon, which was a common trend in the 1940s-1960s for straw hats. It also just makes the hat much more casual, which is one of the reasons why it’s hard to wear fedora-type hats often.
Flecked trousers. The 1950s loved fleck.
A checked asymmetrical sportshirt with a yolked pocket flap.
Look at Doc’s weird shirt! Super cool and novelty style that was popular in the late 40s-50s. Finding one today would be rare and expensive.
Doc Brown’s last outfit in 1955 is hard to make out, as he wears an balmaccan style rain coat for the climax, but his polo-style shirt deserves some recognition. Like so many other pieces we’ve seen, the shirt features a fun print, consisting of red and black squiggles.
The shirt has a contrast collar/placket and cuffs, which again fits in with many of the stylistic choices of the era. I’m not sure if I would wear it today, but more brands should definitely take a page out of the era and make something “new”!
Marty’s dad, at least this version of him, dresses like a dweeb because he is a dweeb. It’s supposed to be 1985, where RL and other mall clothes are in full swing, and yet he dresses like a caricature of a 1960’s accountant.
Short sleeve shirt, repp tie, pen pockets, and browline glasses, all contribute to it. I mean I’ve worn socks and shorts together, but I don’t think it looked this bad.
I mean, it makes sense since the film is portraying George as someone who is unlucky, who gets bullied, and gathers no respect.
A flecked short jacket.
In 1955, George McFly actually dresses pretty decently! He’s not exactly sticking out like a nerdy sore-thumb. Like Marty, he wears a few different sportshirts and short jackets, though in comparison, they’re much more plain. George could also benefit with a better fit, but it’s not terrible. At least in most cases.
What George does make a habit of doing is wearing his sportshirts fastened all the way to the top. Now this was done back in the day, but based on photos and illustrations, sport collars were definitely best worn open.
It’s a nerd thing to do that came back in the mid 2010s as the “air tie” and always results in the wearer looking “closed up”. And since George is a nervous guy with no friends or confidence, it works perfectly.
I like the checked cloth and red buttons.
In one scene, George actually wears a two-tone Hollywood Jacket! Like with Doc’s ivory jacket, these are meant to be a casual-yet-tailored approach to casual wear. You’ll see that the cut and design are similar to a chore coat’s, just with shoulder pads and “formal” cloth.
George’s brown gab short jacket has shoulder pads and is a size or two too big for him. Also see how he’s got his shirt buttoned all the way up.
An interesting cotton short jacket with a wider collar and hand warmer pockets. Very cool.
George goes all out for the dance, mainly because it’s his big moment to “save” Lorraine. A white dinner jacket and black tie is hard not to separate from James Bond (or Casablanca), and its actually the first time George wears something that fits him well. It’s still in the 1950’s aesthetic, so he has padded square shoulders, a low button stance, and closed quarters.
When we return to good ol’ modified 1985, accounting-nerd George has been replaced by a true chad version. There are no short sleeve shirts and browline shades here. Instead, he has a very 80s biz-caz outfit consisting of a moleskin blazer, vibrant red polo, and pleated slacks. It’s not bold, but since this is a “normal” outfit, it contrasts against George’s first appearance.I also love the aviators for max 80s cool.
Biff Tannen
Biff. When we first see him, his commandingly bold 70’s outfit just screams like a guy who peaked in high school and still bullies others. Which is definitely true.
It’s such a weird look that actually has some prep vibes to it, mainly with the use of a navy brass button blazer and plaid odd trousers; I think I may even see a white braided belt.
1985 Biff actually dresses rather “normal” for the era, though he stands out for his boisterous character and sheer Kingpin-like aura.
It’s all just sportshirts, white crewneck tees, and jeans, nothing to write home about. but with it just being done with jeans and sneakers, it feels boring, mainly because its an easy way to do a 1950s look. It’s easy to replicate, but don’t forget that a sportcollar makes a world of difference; a regular standing collar wouldn’t achieve the same effect.
I guess the point is that Biff is just a regular old bully, contrasting against George’s plain looks that utilize jackets and Marty’s much more interesting take on the era.
Biff’s jacket of choice is a bomber style one that has black contrasting collar and cuffs. Can’t you see how popular two-tone clothing was in those days? Like Marty’s leather jacket, this one also ends around the waist, but instead of it just being a plain bomber design, Biff’s jacket has decorative front pleating. Don’t ask why, it’s just for show.
Like with the shirt patterns, I wish we also had more vintage-inspired jackets like this!
A black shirt and bold tie? I guess stereotypical prom style was a thing even in 1955.
Others
Strickland has a bowtie and suit, but if you look closely, the suit is very 80s with wide shoulders, open notch and low buttoning point.
In 1955, he has a suit that clearly has more weight and features a fun shadow stripe, a common thing for vintage suits.
Ivy style isn’t really in the film other than the committee deciding on the band. 80s ivy is just like 70s ivy tbh: just a more exaggerated and bold version of 60s ivy.
Goldie Wilson also wears a bar motif sportshirt, though with the wide collar, it might be from the 40’s. That makes sense, since he might not have access to current fashions.
Lorraine’s dad wears a car coat (an overcoat with a shorter length). He has a fedora, which gives him an “adult” look. Not sure if the trouser fit is right though.
As can be expected, Lorraine’s dad has a gab sportshirt. The shorter collar points and higher buttoning point is period accurate to the 1950s.
So much great stuff here, from the faded, cuffed denim and saddle shoes to the absolutely epic novelty knitwear. I’m very glad that the youth have a variety of style!
Striped shirts are what kids wore back then, not flat caps, plus-fours, and suspenders.
Biff’s gang all have variations on casual style. Is that a knit tee I see? Wish we could see the ribbing!
More variety in style here and it all looks period. Love the kid’s pastel blue pleated pants, the red sweater, and what I think is a Cub Scout uniform. Check out that tiny brimmed hat!
Marvin Berry and the Starlighters all wear 50’s silk dinner jackets with their quintessential square shoulders and low button stance. Instead of bowties, they have matching continental bow ties.
Great short jacket.
Conclusion
BTTF is a great example of a movie that makes 1950’s clothing seem accessible and easy. There isn’t a big focus on tailoring, which probably makes it much more palatable. Instead, we see casual 50’s, rockabilly-esque style, which informs a lot of the heritage-Americana that is so easy for guys to wear. Sportshirts and cuffed jeans should get you through the most of it.
The real way to make it interesting is by checking out how Marty does it. Instead of plain shirts, he wore fun patterns that made his attire stand out among the others. It might be vintage and dated, but I certainly love the personality they bring to an outfit, especially since today you can refine it by wearing with loafers or a sportcoat instead of on its own.
Bonus points for those epic two-tone jackets (or leather jackets in general). I’m not sure if the world is ready for the return of hollywood jackets, but after the rise of chore coats and safaris, maybe there’s room for it.
Overall, I think a lot of guys who are searching for a more interesting way to dress can take some cues from this. BTTF did a great job and since it didn’t go too crazy (note the lack of flat caps, which if included would just be inaccurate), it comes off as classic and actually wearable.
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1. ↑ http://www.bttf.com/forums BTTF.com Message Board
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3. ↑ http://www.bttf.com/forums/topic.php?tp=38901-I+FOUND+IT%21+This+is+like+finding+the+holy+grail...+I+have+found+the+Marty+McFLy+Vest%21%21%21#
4. ↑ BTTF III novel, p. 38, 39
5. ↑ Velcro 50th Anniversary : Timeline, see "1985".
6. ↑ BTTF III novel, p. 73
7. ↑ BTTF III novel, p. 98, p. 205
8. ↑ Feature Commentary with Bob Gale and Neil Canton, Part I, at about 1:10.
9. ↑ Gaines, Caseen, We Don't Need Roads: The Making of the Back to the Future trilogy, p. unknown
10. ↑ http://www.icollector.com/Back-To-The-Future-2-Marty-s-Something-Inconspicuous-Fedora-Michael-J-Fox_i20788290
11. ↑ Klastorin, Michael, and Sally Hibbin, Back to the Future: The Official Book of the Complete Movie Trilogy, p. 71-72.
12. ↑ Klastorin, Michael, and Sally Hibbin, Back to the Future: The Official Book of the Complete Movie Trilogy, p. 60-61.
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