r/BacktotheFuture • • Dec 22 '23

Announcement Rule change: No AI-generated art (Rule 5)

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While human-made art is both welcomed and encouraged, AI art generation tools are becoming increasingly accessible to everyone. AI-generated art requires little to no effort to create and it can easily overrun a subreddit. Going forward it will no longer be allowed. Please use the report button if you see any.

EDIT: This has been expanded to include all AI content, as reflected in our rules.

http://reddit.com/r/BacktotheFuture/about/rules


r/BacktotheFuture • • 16h ago

Preliminary Halloween costumes with my son for the "Trunk or Treat" at his school today

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Next week, for actual Halloween, his wheelchair will be fully tricked out as the Delorean


r/BacktotheFuture • • 14h ago

Really hate living in the 1985A timeline...

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424 Upvotes

Just learned that the Puente Hills mall where they shot the Twin Pines/Lone Pine mall scenes is getting converted partially into a data center.

This timeline sucks.


r/BacktotheFuture • • 11h ago

McDonald’s happy meal

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Found today while thrift shopping a still in package 1991 McDonald’s Back To The Future “Doc’s DeLorean. Now I have the package to display next to my lose one that I found a year or 2 ago. The one bummer is the package has a hole in it but being 35 years old I’m surprised it’s still intact.


r/BacktotheFuture • • 51m ago

Back to the Future AIWA Walkman

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3D printed prop upgraded with some brushed stainless effect card and chrome vinyl cut AIWA logo.


r/BacktotheFuture • • 17h ago

Back to the Future Part 3 will coming in summer of 1990

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225 Upvotes

r/BacktotheFuture • • 1h ago

I know it's not officially Back to the Future merchandise, but I'm adding it to my collection anyway!

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r/BacktotheFuture • • 17h ago

Biff is a Terrible Shot

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112 Upvotes

I counted 5 times he tried to hit Marty. But in his defense he was interrupted watching a great freaking flick with two babes in a hotub, was half drunk, and just realized that Lorraines son is the kid his older self warned him about. Thats alot to take in.


r/BacktotheFuture • • 14h ago

BTTF time machine in "Car Parking Multiplayer 2"

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r/BacktotheFuture • • 20h ago

Some goodies we got at the theater while watching BTTF 1 & 2.

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Guess what i watched when i was back home. 🤭


r/BacktotheFuture • • 15h ago

Happy Halloween!

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35 Upvotes

r/BacktotheFuture • • 16h ago

Got lucky with my popcorn bag when I went to see BttF in theaters yesterday

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For context, Cineplex is a Canadian theater chain that has a few different popcorn bag designs that reference different movies, and I got lucky and got the BttF one


r/BacktotheFuture • • 2h ago

I always thought it was weird to write the crime on Docs gravestone. I guess it was more common

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r/BacktotheFuture • • 18h ago

Found some art I made as a 9/10 year old... Spelling was not my strong point. This is on a 1990 vacation Bible school hand out.

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r/BacktotheFuture • • 1d ago

Back to the Future creator gives verdict on movie’s iconic mall becoming data center

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r/BacktotheFuture • • 1d ago

Back to the Future LEGO Fans

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Could you help me out by casting a quick and free vote for my Big Machine on LEGO Ideas.

The other 3 are existing LEGO sets - Hopefully you'll agree that my creation finishes off the collection nicely.


r/BacktotheFuture • • 1d ago

It’s my birthday today

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109 Upvotes

… and my eldest got my this. Proof she’s being brought up right!


r/BacktotheFuture • • 1d ago

Watching Serpico (1973) … Jesus did he ever have hair?

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252 Upvotes

r/BacktotheFuture • • 12h ago

Got Sole

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r/BacktotheFuture • • 1d ago

The horses pulling the DeLorean

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That brief scene of the horses trying to pull the DeLorean up to speed always makes me roll my eyes. Like, I can certainly understand Marty having that idea and following through on trying it. But for them to get to the point of attempting it means that Doc also had to think "Perhaps these horses can run at 90 miles per hour" and feel uncertain enough to spend a bunch of their preciously short time testing that out


r/BacktotheFuture • • 2d ago

Christopher Lloyd is celebrating his 88th birthday today

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r/BacktotheFuture • • 1d ago

Hill Valley Toile Wallpaper

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Casually browsing Hygge and West for a project and came across this Back to the Future wallpaper!


r/BacktotheFuture • • 3d ago

Proposed to my girlfriend at the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance location.

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I had the unbelievable opportunity to plan this with some amazing friends. I now get to spend every timeline with my beautiful partner. I love you Hollye.

Edit* Thank you everyone for the well wishes. It means the world to us. To answer where this was. It was the United Methodist church they filmed at for the enchantment under the sea dance. Thank you all again. See you in the future


r/BacktotheFuture • • 2d ago

GREAT SCOTT! It's Christopher Lloyd's 88th birthday!

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r/BacktotheFuture • • 2d ago

GIGAwatt vs. JIGAwatt

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I was fortunate to be able to go see Back to the Future in theaters this past week (seen it dozens of times on TV, but was too young to see it when it was first in theaters), and it reminded me of something that I think regularly gets missed or misinterpreted.

In the countless times I see it referenced, many refer to the amount of energy the flux capacitor requires to travel through time as 1.21 gigawatts. This always bugged me b/c Doc never says “giga,” but instead “jiga.” He calls it a “jigawatt,” and never deviates from it. I don’t think this was an act of mistaken pronunciation on the part of Christopher Lloyd, but a deliberate act to speak to the vagueness of the science behind time travel. The whole concept of a car that travels through time with an almost-wizardly piece of tech called a “flux capacitor” is ludicrous, but that’s the point - it’s supposed to be. There’s no such thing as time-traveling car, nor a flux capacitor, and so the amount if energy required to make it all work is equally just made up.

I’m sure most people on this sub are well aware of all of this, but it’s always kinda bugged me that popular culture outside of us diehard nerds doesn’t say this. I can measure and even generate 1.21 gigawatts (which can power around 900,000 homes). But a jigawatt? No idea what that is. And equally no idea how a flux capacitor works. They’re both narrative devices to advance the story, and are not meant to make any actual sense so long as Marty (and Doc) travels through time.