It's Oct. 21, 2015. Do you know where your power-lacing Nikes are?
Hard to believe it for some of us who saw "Back to the Future" in its original release (as kids ... very young kids, OK?), but it's been 30 years since the theatrical premiere of the film that sent actor Michael J. Fox into superstardom on a pair of flaming tire tracks — and forever made the stainless-steel, gull-winged DeLorean iconic for something other than a short production run and ignominious ending. But more important, today is the exact date to which Doc Brown and Marty McFly traveled from 1985 in the DeLorean time machine with Marty's best girl Jennifer in tow.
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OK, so the future isn't quite as, like, futurey as the characters' Oct. 21, 2015 visit in "Back to the Future Part II." But we all gotta admit: The Chicago Cubs making it to the National League Championship Series makes for some eerily prescient prognostication on the filmmakers' part. As many of us will recall, by the time Marty and Doc reach the future, the Cubbies had won the World Series for the first time in more than a century.
Meanwhile, on the self-fulfilling-prophecy side of things, 2015 has also brought us a working hoverboard of the sort used in the future of the film, developed by Lexus — though, sadly, it's still not mass-produced and distributed by a toymaker like Mattel. However, there are rumors that those way-cool self-lacing Nike high-tops, the Nike Mag, would be available for real starting today. Which is basically amazing.
To commemorate this pop-cultural milestone, we've culled Cars.com's and PickupTrucks.com's "Back to the Future"-centric coverage we could find going back in time nearly a decade. Check it out and reminisce with us. After all, looking back (like the flux capacitor in Doc's DeLorean) is what makes time travel possible.
Lexus Hoverboard Makes Our 'Back to the Future' Fantasies Reality
DeLorean Motor Co. Takes Film Fans 'Back to the Future'
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DeLorean Making a Small Comeback
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