If you missed the news, The Hundreds dropped their Rosewood Collection at both THSF and THLA. As with other Rosewood Collections in the past, these shirts are exclusive to only The Hundreds’ stores in LA and SF only! This season, they have 2 collaboration t-shirts with Phil Lumbang’s Awesome Bears, as well as some shirts that can only be found at either the LA or SF location.
A few days since Kix-Files dropped the preview of the Nike Hypermax NFW “Back to the Future” sneakers, they have now released a detailed look at the next shoe that will dominate the sneakerworld. The McFly inspired colorway is created with a grey base, speckled midsole, light blue highlights and pink accents. The upper is fully made of grey/silver satin with a white patent leather swoosh. Several sections on the bottom sole glows in the dark. Look for these to release at select Nike Basketball retailers next month. In the meantime you can get yours at: Kix-File’s On-Line Shop.
Last year the Back to the Future Marty McFly inspired Nike Hyperdunk made the sneaker world go crazy and one year later the same colorup makes its way to the Hypermax. The McFly inspired colorway with a grey base, speckled midsole, light blue highlights and pink accents. One big difference between the two is that the mid-section for this Hypermax NFW no longer comes with flywire technology, replaced with flexible and comfortable satin material. Stay posted for release info!
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Nike is releasing another Air Mag inspired “McFly” edition of the Hypermax. The shoe features a grey satin upper with a larger swoosh and the iconic pale blue color can be found along the midsole support wrap, outsole and accenting. Additional detailing has insole graphics, tongue font, a removable strap and splatter midsole. Look for these to drop sometime this Summer.
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With people going nuts over the Air McFly inspired HyperDunk, wouldn’t it be something to get your hands on the real deal? Well, an original prototype shoe and not shoes has surface on Ebay. Starting bid is at a cool $1000, but this is a once in a lifetime opportunity. This one shoes was worn by Michael J. Fox and was used to build the final pair that he wore in the movie. Get it on Ebay here.
This is IT. The one and only original prototype of the Nike shoes Michael J. Fox wore in the movie Back To the Future II. You are bidding on a single shoe, not a pair. The shoe was designed as a working model, not a practical shoe, although it can be worn. It was worn once to the premiere of the movie in Beaverton, Oregon, and again by Michael J. Fox in Hollywood at a test fitting.
Back in 1989 I worked in the Nike Sport Research Lab as the Electronics Technician. The original BTF2 shoes for the movie were built by hand in the Nike Sample Room, and I was the one who designed and installed the electronics for them.
The lights in the side of the midsole and the Nike logo on the ankle strap are electro-luminescent panels, and there is an array of six randomly flashing LEDs on the side of the heel that were never visible in the movie
They were originally called “Slamball Shoes,” and that’s what most people called them around Nike. There was supposed to have been a scene in the movie in which Marty plays Slamball, a game like 3D racquetball where the participants wear magnetic shoes which allow them to climb up the walls. That scene was never shot because the cost of building a huge room on gimbals to create the effect was too great.
The REAL name of the shoes in Marty McFly’s world of 2015 was the “Nike Mag” because of their magnetic properties, and that’s what is molded in the back of the heel.
The shoe is in “good” condition for what it is, but since the polyurethane midsole and fabric body of the shoe were simply spray-painted in the suggested color, some of the paint has flaked off over time. The LEDs, the E-L panel on the ankle strap, and one of the two E-L panels on the midsole still work. The other midsole panel comes on if you flex the shoe slightly. I originally thought I could get away with a rigid connection between those two panels, but it turned out that the flexing of the shoe during wear broke the connection. It might be fixable with some delicate surgery, but I never had the guts to try it.The included power/electronics pack is hard-wired to the shoe, and requires two 9 volt batteries to operate.
I believe the shoe was built as a men’s size 9, although I couldn’t swear to it. It is whatever size Fox was at the time.
The shoe comes with a color photocopy of the original design drawing by Nike’s Tinker Hatfield (the designer of all of the Air Jordans, among many other things).
It looks like that picture that was floating around wasn’t a photoshop job. Nike will be releasing a Mcfly inspired Hyperdunk. The design similarities between the new Kobe Bryant signature shoe and the ever popular “never released Back to the Future shoe” are uncanny. The shoe features a 2015 stamp on the tongue, speckled midsole, and the used of the flywire material. Rumors are circulating that the release is next month, July 2008. Marquesole has them early for a whopping $2015!
