Who would have realized that the speckled paint look from the eighties would make a comeback in 2015?

justinpe

@SinAmos:

That's just the way hipsters like it. Bonus points if it doesn't match the rest of your outfit.

OGHowie

MCFLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EspadaCero

lack of power laces is the biggest problem here... surely there has to be an elegant solution, even if it's not electric in nature. anyone have ideas on how to do power laces mechanically?

nutbastard

Form over function. Naw, these things were ugly back then and even more ugly today. If they decided to make them actually work, then there would be lots of love.

SinAmos

Shoes? Where we're going, we don't need any shoes.

BloggyMcBlogBlog

@Tomahawk214:

Also, your mom has cancer. Ha ha ha...

justinpe

@Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy:

Seven years from now

justinpe

Serious business in the "Do-Want" department going on right now.

Power-laces are a must though...

Absent Blue

@Tomahawk214:

yeah if you're going to go for the low hanging fruit (OMG he has a degenerative disease!) at least make it clever. your shit doesnt even make sense. the guy wears shoes NOW, doesn't he?

nutbastard

Are these gonna be mass produced eventually? Or do i have to go get raped on ebay to buy a pair?

keebie81

@Tomahawk214: Hmm...Just not funny for some reason...I don't know...

doobiebros2two

Did you take them to 88 MPH?

BloggyMcBlogBlog

Give.

Me.

doobiebros2two

@Mazda Plainview: When did this happen?

Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy

Too bad Michael won't be able to get his feet into these shoes because of the Parkinsons.

Tomahawk214

When reached for comment, Missy Elloit said she was waiting for the hyperbadonkadunk's out later this year...

for the ladies.

praevalesco

one of the guys from Opie & Anthony went to the Nike store in NYC and interviewed people about these sneakers...NO ONE knew they were from BTTF...it was just a cavalcade of sneaker geeks and bballers :(

Mazda Plainview

@nutbastard: Didn't Puma have a shoe back in the day with a knob on it you could twist to tighten? It's been awhile but I can vividly remember the commercials. Same idea with a mechanical implementation.

MagnoliaBoy

Brian,

Please send these to me after you are done. I hope you're a sample size.

sygyzy

@nutbastard: The pump2.0 shoes are basically that. You put em on and take a few steps and they pump up the air bladders to reach equilibrium with your feet.

solOptimus

are they Nike+ compatible

BiZarRroBALlmeR

Problems:

1) Doesn't look or operate like the ones in the films
2) See 1

TheAdAgency

Seriously, the whole point in having these is power laces. As far as I'm concerned, they have 6 years to get it right.

inseptiv

@justinpe: 2015? I'm seeing that crap all over the place NOW.

ALT

@azzy: So that's what happened to the housing market...

Xavoc

Wack kicks!!! They remind me of those old Kodiak boots I had to wear as a kid.

wetworker

@nutbastard: Tell Carmen that!

Yeah I'm kidding... or am I?

Metkis

The pinnacle of power-shoe-lacing tech was the reebok pumps that required a CO2 cartridge and special adapter to inflate (or you could do it by hand.. lame!).

I was the coolest kid in the class until one of my friends overinflated the CO2 and popped my bubble :(

azzy

I said give me two pair (cause) I need two pair So I can get to stompin in my 2015's

dmenafro

@ALT:

Really? Do you spend a lot of time on the set of Saved by the Bell?

justinpe

Should HAve Been Called McFly Wire Tech.

punisher-prime

@Metkis:

ok im going to uncrate to order a shitlist now...

nutbastard

@nutbastard: I think we should further deconstruct the failure of his comment, cause if you have to say "because of the Parkinsons" then the line didn't work.

Now, if we take that part out, we are left with:
"Too bad Michael won't be able to get his feet into these shoes."

Which implies that he has some kind of foot condition or some kind of elephantiasis, which he clearly doesn't have. It's nonsense. Therefore, we can cut it out, and the only joke left is..."Michael J. Fox has Parkinsons." This isn't funny at all. It's just mean.

Now compare this to a recent, equally offensive, MJF comment I made on the "blurry, shaky-cam leaked photo of the PSP 3000" post.

Seriously, why do people continue to insist that Michael J. Fox is a decent spy!?!
/too soon?

While perhaps still mean and disgusting, note that at no point do I actually explain the line. That is left to the reader to draw from the reference. The "work" that you have to do to make the connection is what makes it "clever." (And I use that term loosely.) But it still makes sense, even though the post itself has nothing to do with Back to the Future. And now you know.

(What you now know is mostly that I am a douchebag, but still you know.)

92BuickLeSabre

Nikon takes some sweet shots, eh?

Brian Lam

@Brian Lam: "Nikon takes some sweet shots, eh?" Of you with your Nike on?

Mandatory_Field

@92BuickLeSabre: Good points! Did you want to borrow my hammer, Lesabre?

Brian Lam

man.. i would soo wear those.. im serious.. I love back to the future.. :(.. i wouldnt wait in line tho for shoes.. and my shoes are usually around 40-60max..

dapoktan

@nutbastard: Watch out for the 2 year contract. It's a real rip.

Metkis

@DisposableInterloper:

how about a contrary, "Nike provides much needed employment to people who live in places that would be worse off without them" comment?

slavery is one thing, but if you think it's abusive to employ children in any capacity, then you're ignoring 99% of human history.

8 years old you're ready to start doing SOMETHING constructive IMO.

nutbastard

What? No "Nike supports child labor" comments? I'm disappointed.

DisposableInterloper

The fact that they COULD wait 20+ years but COULDN'T wait an extra 6.5 years to merchandise this disgusts me.

Seriously... there are only two times that this merchandise makes any sense... when the movie was first released and during a re-release in freaking 2015!

nagumi

*who wouldn't want to

92BuickLeSabre

@Brian Lam: Man, who want to hold it for a minute or two.

92BuickLeSabre

Now if Nike didn't inflate their prices more than Puma pumped the Pumps I could afford a pair. *shuffles his outlet-store bargain NewBalances*

OoBaSNoRk

Couldn't they just add some little vertically arranged motors to each side of the heel that would wind up the laces when you apply enough pressure to a sensor underneath the heal? Then release the lock with the green button on that fat strap over the front? It seems so easy, coming from somebody with no engineering experience whatsoever.

I mean, the batteries would wear out in a month, unless they could somehow recharge them when you walk, but so would the novelty of the shoes anyway. Not to say I wouldn't still buy them.

nuclearlove

@nutbastard:
Actually, forget it. I really doubt I could carry anything resembling a debate with you.

I mustn't forget my shit list. I've got you listed as the one that thinks orbiting gyroscopes could someday be made to move perpetually while providing energy.

DisposableInterloper

@Me:
Err, I meant to type: "imagine no middle..." Please excuse any other typos.

DisposableInterloper

@nutbastard:
By promoting child labor, and thus creating demand for it, they're undermining education of those children and robbing them of their very precious childhood. If child labor is deeply entrenched enough, it further creates a demand for large families, and children can become a significant source of income.

And what of the children? They're going nowhere. No education, no future, nothing. It's not so cut-and-dry as "oh, they'll make money and work their way out of their current predicament." Child labor is designed to keep them down, and it's designed to ensure cheap labor for years to come. Someone fresh out of high school in today's world has little hope for a future without a college education; imaging no middle school at all. What kind of future do those kids have?

As for your comment on human history, let's subjugate women and foreigners, let's wage war against whoever we like for gold and glory, sacking, raping, and pillaging our neighboring lands, and open up conquered lands for hunting the exotic wildlife to extinction, and hell, why not start up the old trade of sugar, spice, and slaves? Yep, screw the changing times, for those were the good old days. Hell, if they're eight years old and ready to do something productive, let's force them into marriage while we're at it. After all, it was historically acceptable.

DisposableInterloper

@DisposableInterloper: quick history lesson.

You do realize that the american school calendar is based on the harvest/planting calendar. The reason our kids get summers off are based solely upon the fact that they were REQUIRED to go and harvest in the fields during the "SUMMER BREAK" and return to school post LABOR DAY.... man education can do WONDERS. So yes, child labor is a part of EVERY SOCIETY.

It wouldn't hurt to have some of these puss-a-fied generations of entitlement whores to actually WORK a summer or 2 to actually reap a harvest that they have sown...stop looking to the GUB'MENT to help you out. And we wonder why our children have the work ethic of sloths.

No offense to the sloths

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
==Cordfucious

Cordfucious v 2.0

"I frankly disagree that it's a matter of differentiating "between what you do know and what you don't," as you put it, because by that reasoning, some random dumbfuck that understands how little he or she knows would be better educated than a jack of all trade that's yet to get a feel for his limits. "
@DisposableInterloper: But that sir is what we call wisdom

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
--Cordfucious

Cordfucious v 2.0

DAMN!!! I wish i got my hands on these Air McFly's. I wanted a pair but they're super limited and im very jealous at giz for getting them.
Hope you sport them well by wearing your puffy vest and inside-out jeans.

again, im jealous.

kaiesis

@Cordfucious v 2.0:
Oh yes, I do know the history of the school calendar quite well. Indeed, I'm a proponent of getting rid of the summer vacation, while injecting a bit of extra vacation time throughout the rest of the year to keep kids from burning out. Too much time is spent getting students back in the rhythm of school and refreshing what they learned the previous year. I think it'd be better to keep students in school year round.

As I've said, times change. You'll find vestiges of all sorts of archaic bullshit in any society's culture. That doesn't mean they're at all applicable to the demands and flow of today's world.

As for education, it's very much gaining a wide body of knowledge. What most people forget, however, is that it's also about developing the skills to adapt and apply that knowledge wherever it may be useful. I frankly disagree that it's a matter of differentiating "between what you do know and what you don't," as you put it, because by that reasoning, some random dumbfuck that understands how little he or she knows would be better educated than a jack of all trade that's yet to get a feel for his limits.

DisposableInterloper

@Cordfucious v 2.0:
Let's phrase it this way:

To acquire knowledge, one must study, listen, and observe. To acquire experience, one must do.
-- A Disposable Interloper

DisposableInterloper

@Cordfucious v 2.0:
Wisdom is a nebulous concept that old people seem to ramble on about indefinitely, as if it's some kind of elite asset that only they have.

The cornerstones of education, such as skill, knowledge, and experience, are a good deal more tangible, and those are something that can be honed indefinitely.

DisposableInterloper

@Cordfucious v 2.0:
That's a matter of skill, not wisdom.

A dictionary would define wisdom as a matter of prudence, or discernment into what is true or right. There are few things more nebulous than that, in my opinion.

DisposableInterloper

@DisposableInterloper:wisdom is the application of knowledge.
--Cordfucious

Cordfucious v 2.0

You used a D300 to shoot these pics? Where does this money come from!?!

Substance_D

@Substance_D: If you didn't notice, Giz is doing pretty well these days...

geedots

I love reading the intelligent arguments, they get me all riled up!

Metkis

Look, if we all worked for Nike we would all eventually meet Brad Pitt and Angalina Jolie or Madonna or maybe even both, who knows, and we might all be imported back to the states to live in tabloids. But we can't all be that lucky so be thankful for what you got here in America...even if no one will come and adopt you from your equally stupid jobs.

Excuse me? Is the argument over?

doobiebros2two

i dont care what movie these are from, they're gaudy and ugly as fuck all.

hatlandous

Now, only if Nike could make a pair of Sled Dogs Snow Skates, that are as cool like these pair of futurist 2015 lite weight b-ball shoes, but with ACG technology. LOL, but I'm for real yo!
Tchao.

StealthNinja

Those are some ugly shoes, if i see someone walking off the nike campus here, i will punch them in the face.

crayonwaxy

@crayonwaxy: You work at Nike?

Brian Lam

I used to have shoes that have that same grey stuff, if you get them dirty use a pencil eraser, water craps them out.

VakeroRokero

No power laces makes it less attractive.

It's not like the technology isn't possible these days. And in 6 years I can see it being even more possible.

Let's look at the technology aspect. You need a servo motor that's small enough to fit without being unweildy and the laces need to be self contained and connected. The power source needs to be renewable so you're not replacing batteries all the time. (Can someone say recharging dock for your shoes?) Plus you can't forget the blue LED Nike logo on the front. And make the power supply waterproof because we'll need it.
The McFly2015 campaign looks to be working though. Keep it up and we might just get our Power Laced Nike's. But please, when you do release them, for god's sake, DON'T MAKE THEM LIMITED EDITION! I want to walk into a PayLess and buy a pair! Not go on eBay and pay an assload! We may not get hover cars, but let's at least get some cool shoes.

Jasoco

Without Power Laces, they're just ugly shoes.

macserv

@Mazda Plainview: Which goes to show you nike can sell anything as long as they put a limited edition on it and say limited amount as well. These sneakers are hot though i would buy thema nd wear them with pride even though they're not the prettiest sneakers on the shelf i'd like to add these to my collection.
@macserv: Where are your powerlaces buddy???

SneakerFiend

The shoes looked MEH.

Then I watched the video.

Now the shoes looked BLEH.

bubuli

@DisposableInterloper:

"I've got you listed as the one that thinks orbiting gyroscopes could someday be made to move perpetually while providing energy."

You are an idiot, and a douche, sir.

nutbastard

those things are freakin awesome, i wish i could get my hand on a pair them, just because they are designed after the ones michael j fox wore in back to the future

Delorean2006

@Metkis: Yeah, we know how much you try to be one of THOSE guys...

Carmen Sucks

@nutbastard:
Douche, perhaps. I prefer arrogant asshole, but douche works just fine.

Idiot, however, is your title.

DisposableInterloper