Note: The above listing refers only to vehicles driven by the main characters in the movies and/or members of their families. a b c Failes, Ian (October 21, 2015). "The future is today: how ILM made time travel possible". Fxguide. Archived from the original on July 1, 2016 . Retrieved June 12, 2016. This may well be the most obscure reference of the lot – but the barbed wire salesman who counsels the Doc on his broken heart isn’t just a random character. Although not named as such, he bears a clear visual resemblance to Joseph Glidden, the businessman who really did patent barbed wire in the 1870s and became one of the richest men in America as a result. 84. Punch-out A conscious echo of the first film’s famous closing line, or sheer coincidence? It can’t be accidental… surely? 67. Maggie McFly Nahin, Paul J. Time Machines: Time Travel in Physics, Metaphysics, and Science Fiction. Springer, 1999. ISBN 0-387-98571-9

Various proposals have been brought forth in the past by fans of the movie franchise for why the car has to be moving at 88mph to achieve temporal displacement, [2] but actually the production crew chose the velocity simply because they liked how it looked on the speedometer, modified for the movie. [2] The actual speedometer on the production DeLorean's dashboard only goes up to 85mph, and the car itself was criticized for being underpowered. The instruction manual for the AMT/ERTL DeLorean model kit also states: "Because the car's stainless steel body improves the flux dispersal generated by the flux capacitor, and this in turn allows the vehicle smooth passage through the space-time continuum". [11] Time circuits [ edit ] Time Circuits from DeLorean used in the first and second films condensador de fluzo/de flujo". www.fundeu.es (in Spanish). Fundéu RAE. October 21, 2015 . Retrieved March 10, 2023. I mean, look, this is Den of Geek. Do we really need to tell you that when Marty’s in front of the mirror he’s paying homage to Taxi Driver and the Dirty Harryseries (specifically Sudden Impact)? Or that the latter is yet another Clint Eastwood reference? No? Good. 81. The hole in Doc Brown’s hat

Shop by Collections

If you’re wondering, incidentally, why George is pouring himself a bowl of Peanut Brittle and eating it like cereal: it’s a remnant of a deleted scene from just after Marty arrives home, in which George is coerced into buying a huge amount of the stuff from his neighbour’s daughter. Presumably intended to show how spineless he is, it’s also kind of redundant when you have the Biff scene immediately following, so while it’s amusing it’s not hard to see why it was cut. 14. Red, Yellow & Green Concotelli, Steve, director. OUTATIME: Saving the DeLorean Time Machine. Virgil Films, July 19, 2016, www.outatimemovie.com/. The antiques store from which Marty buys the Gray’s Sports Almanac is probably the purest, most concentrated burst of easter egg/referencing in the entire trilogy, and we could be here all day listing everything you see in the window.

McDermid, Val. A Suitable Job for a Woman: Inside the World of Women Private Eyes. Poisoned Pen Press, 1999. ISBN 1-890208-15-9

For most of the first film, the 1.21 gigawatts are supplied by a plutonium-powered nuclear fission reactor and, with the absence of plutonium, a bolt of lightning channeled directly into the flux capacitor by a long pole and hook in the film's climactic sequence. [3] At the end of the first film, and for the remainder of the trilogy, the plutonium nuclear reactor is replaced by a "Mr. Fusion Home Energy Reactor" generator possibly acquired in 2015. [4] The "Mr. Fusion" device apparently converts household waste into electrical power; the name suggests nuclear fusion. Due to a "hover conversion" made in 2015, the car also becomes capable of hovering and flight, though it lost this ability at the end of the second film. [4] [5] History [ edit ] Having a scene in which a dog sits behind the wheel of a car – as Einstein becomes the world’s first time traveller in the remote-controlled DeLorean – was, according to Bob Gale, a nod to the 1959 Disney film The Shaggy Dog, which sees a sheepdog not entirely dissimilar to the Doc’s pet doing just that. 16. The Scarecrow A Practical Guide to the International System of Units, U.S. Metric Association, Feb 2008". Lamar.colostate.edu. April 5, 2006. Archived from the original on June 13, 2010 . Retrieved March 8, 2010. definition and pronunciation of gigawatt". Merriam-Webster Feb 2008. April 25, 2007 . Retrieved March 8, 2010. Hey, we didn’t say all the ‘nerdy spots’ were going to be about movie references, you know. 21. “I don’t know if I could take that kind of a rejection…”

In 2015, the DeLorean was given the ability to fly along with a barcode license plate to replace its old one. In the third film, after Marty and 1955 Doc recovered the DeLorean from the mines, a vacuum tube circuit was installed on the front hood to restore its time traveling ability. 1955 Doc also replaced the rotted away tires with whitewalls. Once in 1885, the DeLorean had one final set of modifications: the tires were again replaced with train wheels and a boiler temperature gauge that's connected to the stolen locomotive's boiler is installed in the dashboard. [ non-primary source needed] Fictional timeline [ edit ]The "A" car, also known as the Hero car, was the most detailed and utilized vehicle during production. [17] After filming was over, the "A" car was delivered to Universal Studios Hollywood as an attraction piece. As time passed, visitors started taking parts off the vehicle and wandering off with them. Bob Gale selected a team to repair the car so it could be in a perfect condition. The vehicle is currently being displayed at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. [18] It’s a subtle reference – a longer version of the scene, ultimately cut down, would have made it more explicit – but when the street cop asks the Doc if he has “a permit” for the “weather equipment” under the tarpaulin, he starts rummaging in his wallet. Surely the Doc isn’t the kind of guy who’d bribe an upstanding member of the thin blue line? That’d be as crazy as him being the kind of guy who’d get a bunch of terrorists to steal plutonium for him. Or Marty’s dad being a creepy pervert. Funny the things you overlook in characters. 27. Guitar Heroes Yep, that’s Huey “Power Of Love” Lewis with the megaphone, judging Marty’s band The Pinheads as being “too darn loud” to perform at the school dance (a line that Lewis himself purportedly suggested). A bit harsh, given that it’s his song they’re covering, but there you go.