Happy Back to the Future Day!

Time circuits on...

This day had to come. A day that has been predestined for almost thirty years. For fans of a certain trilogy of films from the 1980s, this day is a special one. Why? Well, this is the day Marty McFly, Jennifer, and Dr. Emmett Brown arrive from 1985!

Yup! It's Back to the Future Day! A day of celebration for BTTF fans, and fans of pop culture in general. The time-jumping saga is on the mind of every film buff and pop-culture geek today!

In Back to the Future Part II, Marty McFly, Jennifer Parker, and Emmett Brown travel to the year 2015, in an attempt to prevent Marty and Jennifer's future son, Marty Jr., from getting involved with a criminal gang and ruining his life. Mayhem ensues.

The 2015 in that film was portrayed as almost like a colorful wonderland, with flying clouds racing across the skies, Pepsi provided in odd bottles, self-lacing shoes, the Cubs winning the World Series, and perhaps the coolest thing to ever be seen in that possible future: The hoverboard.

Yes, the hoverboard! The grandson of the skateboard, using maglev technology to allow people to ride around while floating on air.

Fans of the films have watched and noted over the years how the world has changed, observing how the real life 2015 has come to resemble the film 2015. In many ways, it has been similar, but very different. The film predicted the idea of real-life video conferencing thanks to things like Skype. Flat-screen TVs with high-definition picture are now a part of many homes. Florida has baseball teams. And it even looks like the Cubs may clinch the World Series this year. Life imitates art, indeed.

Sadly, life hasn't managed to pull off the perfect imitation of art. I have never seen a real-life Café 80s. The hoverboard has become a reality, but nothing like the pink Mattel toy that Marty uses to escape Griff's gang. However, forces have seemingly come together to help life imitate the art a little more.

Nike has created a limited run of shoes based on the Nike MAGs that Marty wore in the films, auctioning them off to raise money for the Michael J. Fox Foundation, which is dedicated to Parkinson's research. The shoes had lights, but no power-lacing feature. They are working on a version that fixes that little issue.

Pepsi is also releasing a limited run of bottles based on the Pepsi Perfect bottle Marty tries to use early in the film.

For me, Back to the Future Day is an exciting day, and I just might get me a Pepsi Perfect to celebrate (And I'm not a Pepsi guy!). As much as real life has imitated the fictional 2015 of the film, I do hope one thing from that film never comes to life: Bionically-enhanced street punks.

"Hoverboards don't work on water!" "Unless you got POWER!"