Back To The Future 2015 Not 'Exactly' As Predicted
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NORTH TEXAS (CBS 11 NEWS) - Hold on to your hoverboard – the 2015 envisioned in Back to the Future Part II doesn't look exactly like the start of the New Year Thursday.
In the classic movie filmed in 1989, Marty McFly jumps in the Delorean time machine and fast forwards to 2015. The future he meets includes flying cars, hoverboards, and self-lacing shoes.
It is fun, says one man, to imagine how the movie makers arrived at those inventions.
"The idea of time travel and the idea of the future and revisiting the past – that never gets old," said Videobob.
Videobob is a custom car builder and prop maker.
Among his collection – replicas from Ghostbusters, Knight Rider, and the iconic DeLorean time machine from the Back to the Future movies.
"This is one of almost 20 Delorean time machines we've built," said Videobob, sitting inside the custom creation.
Videobob says the movie changed his life, turning a hobby into a business that is even the subject of reality TV – a show called Screen Machines on Reelz TV.
"People who lived in the 80s can relate to it and now the people in the future can look back on how we thought the future was going to turn out," he said.
Some of the technology imagined in the movie is similar to innovations of today.
For example, the glasses Doc Brown wears resemble Google Glass. Flat screen TVs and video calls are common today. Biometrics, like thumbprint technology found on smartphones, are also featured in the 26-year-old film.
"I'm betting people like Steve Jobs from Apple watched those movies thinking, 'hey we should make that for real' – and they did," said Videobob.
The car builder says if he could have one futuristic piece from the movie match reality today, his choice would be easy.
"I want my car to fly. I have the Delorean. I'm waiting for the hover conversion. I want the flying car. That's the thing I want most," he said.
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