cavx
Master Member
LOL he looked like he was riding a giant air hockey puck. Kudos to him for making it work.
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Nike confirms BTTF MAGS Power Laces coming this Year (2015)
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LOL he looked like he was riding a giant air hockey puck. Kudos to him for making it work.
Grey
Sr Member
Also notice that every video linked on the Kickstarter page has music and no live audio, to cover up the extremely loud high frequency noise it emits.
About the topic though, I agree with airair. There's no confirmation of any kind here and this is just another faux-news YouTube channel that tries to make money through advertising by "reporting" every scrap of information on the web with dubious origins.
n0regret5
Sr Member
I know.. but it is, and I quote; "a working hoverboard".
lukebrynycz
Sr Member
I contacted Nike about this, quoting Tinkers promises when we bought them:
Hi,
I'm a current owner of the 2011 Mags and paid quite handsomely for them for the great cause, and never regret that moment. However, I remember Tinker specifically saying the following:
Interviewer: "Are there any plans to ever release them as a regular release later on in the future?"
Tinker: "No. To preserve the value of what people will spend for these shoes and the money that will — and hopefully, again, that’ll be as much as we can get for each shoe, so the amount of money to charity is the most we can come up with — In order to preserve that, we’re not going to re-release this shoe and we’re not going to commercialize it any further. What you will see, though, probably sometime in the future is that there will be some– this shoe has already helped inspire some unique design features on some new shoes and we are committed to designing shoes in the future that do come alive and do sense your body and do certain things, so this is a precursor to the future of probably all athletic shoes we design."
The only way I think those fans would be happy (myself included) is by offering power laced Air Mags to current owners at a hugely discounted price as it would likely destroy the current value of these limited pairs.
Their response:
Hi Luke,
Thank you for sharing your feedback with us.
We appreciate that you took the time to let us know your thoughts. It’s through feedback like yours that we are able to grow and improve as a company, so we have passed it along to the appropriate department within Nike.
Thanks again for contacting us.
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There's no way they would ever release them to the public. The most that would happen, would be one of their actors recreating the scene in the alley where he put them on sat in the time machine. The law suits and returns department costs would kill them.
Hi,
I'm a current owner of the 2011 Mags and paid quite handsomely for them for the great cause, and never regret that moment. However, I remember Tinker specifically saying the following:
Interviewer: "Are there any plans to ever release them as a regular release later on in the future?"
Tinker: "No. To preserve the value of what people will spend for these shoes and the money that will — and hopefully, again, that’ll be as much as we can get for each shoe, so the amount of money to charity is the most we can come up with — In order to preserve that, we’re not going to re-release this shoe and we’re not going to commercialize it any further. What you will see, though, probably sometime in the future is that there will be some– this shoe has already helped inspire some unique design features on some new shoes and we are committed to designing shoes in the future that do come alive and do sense your body and do certain things, so this is a precursor to the future of probably all athletic shoes we design."
The only way I think those fans would be happy (myself included) is by offering power laced Air Mags to current owners at a hugely discounted price as it would likely destroy the current value of these limited pairs.
Their response:
Hi Luke,
Thank you for sharing your feedback with us.
We appreciate that you took the time to let us know your thoughts. It’s through feedback like yours that we are able to grow and improve as a company, so we have passed it along to the appropriate department within Nike.
Thanks again for contacting us.
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There's no way they would ever release them to the public. The most that would happen, would be one of their actors recreating the scene in the alley where he put them on sat in the time machine. The law suits and returns department costs would kill them.
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JLeezy23
Sr Member
Just goes to show and prove one thing: The RPF makes the next best thing possible with the mods made to the replicas, I dont think i would ever save enough for an actual Nike pair unless they were less than $1000 each, but i can save enough and mod the V2s to make em close enough haha
BTTFSpencer
Sr Member
I want Doc's Vandals.
Devil Master
New Member
And so are those from the Gadget Show, and those from Mythbusters. They are boards, they hover, so they are hoverboards.
They rely on a cushion of air instead of a magnetic effect, but that is what makes them more functional, as well as at least 20 times cheaper. Win-win.
The only so-called "loss" is that they don't look like those in the movie, but hey, I'd rather have a functional hoverboard that doesn't look like its fictional counterpart, than one that almost doesn't work unless it's lying on very specific surfaces and you can't even use to whack troublemakers on the head because it's so expensive.
The same thing for the HC Mags vs. the Nike Mags. So the proportions of the former are slightly off, but that does not justify paying 50 times more for something with the same functionality.
I don't understand your problem with Nike releasing these full force. You paid a lot of money for them because it was for charity. Nike would make so much more money releasing these world wide then just making a few pairs for thousands of dollars. It's perfect business sense for them to do that. I am pretty sure Nike can afford any lawsuits current owners of Mags would bring because they were pissed they thought they would be one of the few to own them. Every back to the future fan should have a right at owning a pair.
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Grey
Sr Member
I think several people paid a lot of money for them because they wanted to say "I have the official Nike AirMag and you don't!"
Or because they wanted to re-sell it. What do I know.
cavx
Master Member
You have a made a good point because in the end, it is just elastic and velcro with lights that may break if you actually wear them.
I agree. As I said earlier, I would love to see a general release with no electronics just to give BTTF fans the chance to own real NIKE MAGs. Then do the "special" and auction them at what ever price they can get for them.
If they can, all the power to them.
For the rest of us, we now have two levels of replicas that we can mod to look almost the same for far less. One even has the much sort after branding including a tag on the inside of the shoe.
Grey
Sr Member
I don't know, i'm not sure this technology has any marketability outside of the BTTF affiliation. I'm sure self-tying shoes seemed like a novel idea in 1989 but how many people are really going to want shoes that have to be recharged? The inconvenience of doing so would outweigh the 30 seconds it takes to tie a pair of sneakers. Who knows, though.
MrSouthpaw
Sr Member
Grey
Sr Member
That's a very interesting design, and I like the "no electronics" concept. Though it really only supports my theory about the lack of marketability for this technology, given how drastically short they fell of their Kickstarter goal.
JLeezy23
Sr Member
I remember hearing (reading, rather) that they wanted powerlaces for older folks and people who cant tie shoes themselves. I doubt that we'll see people as old as Doc wearing MAGs and paying that much for shoes with tech just so they can have a tighter fit, the elastic is just as good in that purpose
cavx
Master Member
Like this?
I am amazed with all the new and improved versions of technology we have today and yet we still tie shoes with a piece of string. Something needs to happen here.
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Devil Master
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Exactly. Which brings us to another point in favor of the HC Mags: even if you buy a pair of Nike Mags, you're never gonna wear them (unless you are in the show business) because they are too expensive. But in the end, if you believe that they can only be looked at, you might as well just print a photograph of them and look at that, and save $5000.
That's cool, but I think Nike wouldn't use the term "McFlywire". Considering the name of the shoe, it's more likely that they would use "MagFlywire", which still sounds similar to McFly, but doesn't infringe any trademark.
I 100% agree with that. I've always hated shoelaces for all the reasons that this video presents, and for my entire life I've always favored shoes without laces, unless nothing else was available in my foot size with the look I was looking for.
This, incidentally, provided for a funny anecdote when I was in middle school, I was wearing Velcro sneakers as usual, and a classmate of mine had decided to play a "Your shoe's untied" prank to everyone. He approached me, pointed at the general direction of my feet, and this dialog happened:
Him: "Your shoe's untied!"
Me: "Yeah, sure it is."
Him: "But it's true! Look at it!"
Me: "Don't try to convince me, I know it's not."
Him: "It is! I saw it come off myself!"
Me: *facepalm* "Please, take a good look at my shoes, and realize why you're looking like a dumb@$$ right now."
Him: *looks at my shoes* "Oh. Your... uhhh... straps are open."
Me: *laughs out loud*
MrSouthpaw
Sr Member
Griff: McFly!
Marty Jr.: Yeah?
Griff: McFly!
Marty Jr.: What?
Griff: Your shoes' unbelted.
Griff: Your shoes' UNVELCED! (As in unvelcroed)
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