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The Real 2015 McFly Shoe from Back to the Future Appears on eBay
2008-07-17 12:09:57 by Jose Fermoso in Gadget Lab
 

Mcfly_real_shoes The saga of the 2015 McFly shoes continues.

A couple of weeks after the popularity of the futuristic (yet indelibly fictional) shoes from the movie Back to the Future caused Nike to release their modern adaptation, the real owner and creator of the movie prop has stepped forward with a not too-shocking revelation: The shoe is real (there's only one boot) and he's putting it up for sale on eBay.

After placing the starting bid at $1,000 last Friday, the auction has gone up to $2,550 with three days remaining.

The popularity of the iconic shoes has benefited from the growing anticipation of the year 2015, the year the shoes are worn in the movie sequel. Recently, fans created an online petition to pressure Nike into creating a real version of the shoes, but when Nike came out with a fake 'McFly' shoe called the Hyperdunks, it caused all kinds of fan outrage in the blogosphere and the real world.

Many were displeased with the Hyperdunks as a ploy to use up the cache of the movie (we said there's no way they were the real McFlys), while others were incensed with the limited number of shoes that were made available, in terribly organized events.

According to the eBay seller, he used to be a technician at the Nike Sport Research Lab and he was the man who designed and installed the electronics for them.

Mcfly_2 In his eBay seller page, we get to learn some interesting trivia about the movie and the history of the shoe, including its alternate names: the 'Slamball' and 'Nike Mags.' In a scene cut from the original script, Marty McFly was supposed to play a 3D-racquetball game called Slamball, where the 'mag'-netic shoes allowed players to climb walls.

Despite the fact that the shoe looks like a mummified, rat-chewed version of its former self, I still wouldn't mind trying them out. According to the owner, the shoe's E-L panels and LEDs still work and are powered by a hard-wired power pack. What do you guys think? Is this a waste of money, or a good investment in movie history?

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