Back to the Future hoverboard up for auction: $30k to play
By Darren Murph 
posted Jul 25th 2008 8:15AM
posted Jul 25th 2008 8:15AM
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Now, if only it really worked! Then I'd pay the entry fee... or maybe less!
You can keep it. I got a Pitbull now.
For 30k that sucker better really hover and show an in-flight movie.
Look, for less than $10,000 more, Goldie Wilson III will hover convert your old road car into into a skyway flyer! For only $39999.95!
And you better believe him! He's an analrapist.
Pronounced 'anahl ruhpist'
This is heavy.
you win the internet
Great Scott!
Don't use up all the internets... please save some for me!
Is there something wrong with the Earth's gravitational pull in the future?
Great Scott!
crap, someone already said it, how did I miss that...
Oh well, um.. here, these links will make up for my above failure:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwY5o2fsG7Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zcbQNuQN0A
Crap! I remember this movie like it was yesterday... now I really feel old...
Maybe for you it really was yesterday, since you want to believe in that "moving backwards and forwards through time" thing which would undoubtedly create havoc in the space-time continuum.
It is 2008 and we still don't have hoverboards. Sigh...
2015 is right around the corner though. I'm ready to preorder mine.
And don't forget to bet on the Cups in 2015!
You don't win the spelling bees, do ya
You mean bet on the "Cubbies".
I say stock up on Dustbusters while you still can!
Don't mock me!!!!!
I barely think the DeLorean's worth that much.
It is once you get it up to 88mph.
It flies, just depends where you use it... :)
Or what you're taking when you do.
This would go perfectly with my Journey DAP.
80's Here I come!
It does fly. Depending on what you smoke.
Unless you go skydiving with it, but i guess that is kinda just "falling with style."
its actually 36k because of a 20% buyers premium
I hate MANURE!
I can just see some of you rich nerds standing on it playing make-believe that you're hovering around trying to escape Biff before he beats you into a bloody pulp.
I could understand that maybe the board could hover in the movie, but I never could figure out the steering and braking. I'd say the whole hoverboard concept was flawed as much as the going back into time concept. I suppose "Back to the Present" wouldn't have done well at the box office.
Let me know when the Caped Crusader outfit is for sale. Leaping off rooftops wearing a black cape and matching leotards seems much more manly than using some nerdy hoverboard.
You are no fun ... :(
Um, those nerds would probably pretend it was Griff, and not Biff, since he actually was doing the chasing in that scene.
Assuming the disks on the bottom create some sort of force field, one would go forward by leaning forward, brake by leaning back and steer by carving left right. I'm thinking much like riding a snowboard?
@Sly - So basically it's a $30K Segway that's pink and doesn't work? That's pretty awesome.
When you lean forward on a snowboard, you get a mouth packed full of snow and possibly a fractured wrist.
haha force field? it would suck if you could only ride this on magnetic fields at the amusement park. i would want to go around town kicking peoples asses with this thing. the only way for this thing to go forward when you "lean forward" is for the "disks" to be fans made by aliens so they can spin @ 999999999999999999rpm and create enough normal force to lift a 150+lb body off the ground.
Haha... TJ, are you a Muntz?
For some reason I've always thought that Lowest Ranked was a fellow snowboarder...I guess not.
Leaning forward would be a nosepress, back would be a tailpress, and yeah I've always imagined a hoverboard riding a lot like a snowboard, like Sly said.
Biff beating you to a pulp? Nah, Biff is a guitar-playing comedian...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwY5o2fsG7Y&feature=related
You Idiot! Hoverboards don't ride on water! You need POWA!
i believe its:
"mcfly you bozo! hoverboards dont work on water! unless you got powa! hahahahahahaha"
True and Trueness. I have been owned...
I hate to split hairs, but I believe he actually says "bojo."
(I guess that's just what toughs say in the future.)
Damn! If only I hadn't spent $20k on that Bentley Laptop.
Hoverboard $30,000, special effects crew not included.
Forget the hoverboard... they have the holy grail of movie props: C-3PO's feet:
http://cgi.liveauctions.ebay.com/902-C-3PO-feet-from-Star-Wars-A-New-Hope_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp3286Q2em14Q2el1318QQhashZitem230267025413QQitemZ230267025413
Oh, and the Holy Grail:
http://cgi.liveauctions.ebay.com/916-Holy-Grail-Indiana-Jones-and-the-Last-Crusade_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp3286Q2em14Q2el1318QQhashZitem260257433416QQitemZ260257433416
This prop would be even more coveted if it were real:
http://www.sixtiescity.com/SciFilm/Images/SF083.jpg
DO WANT!
Hmm now Im really tempted to waste my student loan on this hoverboard instead of going to college. Itd be worth it!
FAKE! too much $30,000.00!? Hmm We Still Don't Own Hoverboard in the 2008 DUH! We still wait till by 2020. That stupid 30,000.00 for one Hoverboard. If Someone say "It is true hoverboard" where PROOF if work float or not?
What are you smoking, dude? Of course it's fake!
Apparently someone hasn't seen the movie (or read the article) and realized that this is a PROP from Back To The Future II and III...It doesn't actually hover (at least not without an army of movie special effects guys) and no one is claiming it does.
here PROOF if work that float or no: http://youtube.com/watch?v=TSBY4aqVH4g
you wait no by 2020, hoverboard fake not
...if only it were real. think of all the gas you'd save....and the fact that you wouldn't have to get exercise (like biking/rollerblading/walking)...
Does it come with the handlebars that McFly ripped off?
"Heyyyy!"
Sorry, kid.
Quite clearly the one in the picture is not the one up for Auction. (differences in the detail, take a closer look)
I wonder how many other "hoverboards" are waiting to be auctioned after this one ? !
if it actually hovered like in the movies, I be all over that sweet deal!
+1 for the They Live icon
I watched one of those crappy making of things on TV back in the day that said that hoverboards were a real toy that was recalled after poor sales. I hate that guy to this day.
I even imagined special skating rinks (hey it was the 80's!) that had a magnetic floor that repelled the board. It would be difficult to keep the board from flipping over though.
That would be an urban legend.
Zemeckis would often say that the hoverboards were real but that was just because he was just getting so fed up with all of the "how they do that" questions.
No company ever produced a working hoverboard and it wasn't pulled because of poor sales, horrible accidents, or anything else. It was just a cool toy that every kid who saw the movie 'wished' was real and so it was pretty easy to buy into the idea that it was real, you just couldn't have one.
Actually, you can make a real working hover board. Just take a piece of toast. Butter one side, and then duct tape it to a cats feet! Be sure to have the butter side facing the cat. There you go, free and everlasting levetation.
I call fake or altering. If you look at the pictures from the movie and the pictures of the auction board, they are different. There is a black screw or something on the hover pad in the movie picture, but there is not one on the auction picture. Curious. Also, the screw on the top of the board is at a slightly different spot on both boards.
No, its an offical movie prop auction. No faking of any kind.
You've got to realize that there were hundreds of these things made (well maybe not hundreds but a lot more then one). Some would of been used for specific shots, like a "floating" prop would of probably been different from a close up prop. Then even within the different types there would be multiples because since its nothing more then painted wood its going to get chipped, scuffed, etc.
And the mattel logo partially covers the green lines in the movie screenshot while not in the pic.
And the diagonal pink lines are closer together in the movie.
Etc, Etc.
i don't know how people pay this kind of money for this junk even if it was the original from the movie. there's too much money surplus somewhere.
For those wondering, Griff's Pitbull hoverboard is currently housed at the Science Fiction Museum in Seattle, WA.
Pilgrimage road trip!
Seriously, if not for the trilogy, I'd have three empty spots in my top five favorite movie list.
So, wait... Looking at the foot strap on this... McFly rode Mongo?!
Thats alot of money, but you know there are plenty of move buffs and hardcore geeks that'll buy it anyway.
what a great piece of memorabilia if you're a big Back to the Future fan..
Whoever wins it better keep it in good condition until I make enough money to buy it off him in the future :)
I'll see you in the bidding war then... in about 30 years?
Bullpies! They can't auction that - it's DAMAGED GOODS, I say.
Not only is it used by a time traveler with WHO KNOWS how many diseases from the old west, but the Handlebars are missing! That's dangerous AND irresponsible.
Let's boycott this auction. All you have to do is NOT give them $30,000+. Who's with me?!
I'm surprised there's no steampunk version of this thing yet.
Uh oh, what have I done?
But will it hover?
I've got an old deck and two Tap-Lights that I'll rig up for someone.
...And I'll only charge them $3,000. Just think, that's a 90% savings, ACT NOW!!!
McFry!!!!!!!
Fujitsu-san! Konnichiwa!
Blendtec should buy it - now theres something I would like to see blended!
I wonder if I can rig a flux capacitor to it...