Friday, September 9, 2011

Back To The Future was and will remain one of the best films / trilogies ever created.  While we’re all still waiting patiently for our hoverboards, maybe by 2015?!?!  Michael J. Fox brought the next best thing to his visit to The Late Show with David Letterman on Thursday night: The new Nike MAGs, a line of Back to the Future Part II-inspired shoes. MJ showed off the kicks, which are almost an exact replica of the ones worn by Marty McFly himself in the 1989 movie. (Sadly there’s no power laces, but they do light up.) MJ explained that the limited edition shoes - 1,500 of them - will be auctioned off on Nike’s eBay site and that the proceeds will go to his Parkinson’s research foundation. As MJ put it, the coveted shoes will go to 3 groups of “people with major joneses”: Sneakerheads, Back to the Future fanatics, and the Parkinson’s community that want to help advance research. Better yet, Mj revealed that Google co-founder Sergey Brin will match up to $50 million.
I gotta hand it to 'em, this is a great idea in every way!  First set sold in Calli for an estimated 36k!  Furthermore, my hopes were shattered with the average ebay auction price ranged in the 5k-11k range, yet you still may want to shell out your kids' college fund for a set of cool kicks! Most auctions end today!  Good luck!  Go to: http://nikemag.ebay.com/shoes to help out in the cure for Parkinson's.


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