Mattel Goes 'Back To The Future' With New Pink Hoverboard
Strap on your hoverboards, kids. We're going back to the future. What? You don't have one? Come 2012's holiday season, you will.
El Segundo-based Mattel, the world's most profitable toy company, is unleashing replicas of the pink hoverboards featured in 1989's "Back to the Future Part II" and 1990's "Back to the Future Part III." DesignTAXI says the boards will even exhibit a hole where Marty McFly, played by Michael J. Fox, ripped off the handlebars.
But don't get too excited, McFly fans. The boards will not actually hover or work on water if you have power, but per a press release, the toy makes "multiple whooshing sounds and will glide over most surfaces." We're slightly saddened by the lack of the actual hover capability, but Mattel says to "check back in 2015 for that feature," which is the same year the film predicted we'd have our beloved boards.
The price of the "high-cost" futuristic marvel will be released later this month, as stated in Mattel's press release, and MattyCollector.com will take pre-orders from March 1 through March 20 before production begins. Final products are expected to ship in November/December 2012. But there's a catch. If the minimum number of orders is not fulfilled, production will not happen, and customers will not be charged.
