Looks like Back To The Future 2 really did predict the future!
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He arrived on stage as Marty McFly, a passenger in a DeLorean driven by Christopher Lloyd in full Doc Brown mode.
In 2011, Nike produced 1,500 replica pairs, which were auctioned off on eBay and earned millions for The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research.
At a special screening for the film Wednesday, star Michael J. Fox admitted on the red carpet that he was a little torn over that one.
Nike says that the models it’s showing off today are merely the shoe’s first iteration.
In addition to the actual shoes, Nike MAG designer Tinker Hatfield actually sent Fox a handwritten note complete with a sketch of McFly holding a pair of Nike MAGs.
As we said, Fox is the first person to have received these shoes and if you’re hoping to get your hands on them, you might have a hard time doing so.
Made famous in the second instalment of the BTTF trilogy, the Nike Mag shoes are the dream of Marty McFly fans everywhere.
This isn’t the first time Nike Mags have been on the market.
October 21, 2015 is Back to the Future Day.
He said: “There’s no other character that has come up, that keeps going for 30 years”.
The company patented an “automatic lacing system” in 2008.
“We started creating something for fiction and we turned it into fact, inventing a new technology that will benefit all athletes”, CEO Mark Parker said about the shoes (quoted by Engadget).
Nike has celebrated Back to the Future day by presenting actor Michael J Fox with a pair of the self-lacing shoes he wore in the 1985 movie Back to the Future II. It began: ‘Hey Michael, nearly thirty years ago, we embarked on a journey to create a glimpse ‘into the future.
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