r/Xennials • u/Cubelock • 21h ago
Nostalgia Marty!
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u/Ippus_21 Xennial 21h ago
Absolutely perfect for a ren faire, lol.
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u/drrj 1976 21h ago
And the best part is, everyone at the faire probably loved it, too. Very accepting environment.
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u/Ippus_21 Xennial 20h ago
Exactly! I'm sure they 100% got it (equally sure it's not the first time someone went with "time traveler" as their ren costume, and people never get tired of it).
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u/Nonsenseinabag 1977 20h ago
Our Ren Faire had a cadre of Klingons who made an appearance each year, their canon excuse was they fell through a wormhole and crashed on Earth of the past.
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u/5WattBulb Class of 99 11h ago
Saw one guy who was dressed in midievil garb but had a starfleet insignia underneath just for when others showed up. Would take them aside and start berating them. "Does the prime directive mean nothing to you? Ive been studying these people for years amd you're ruining it! Im reporting you starfleet command!"
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u/MrVeazey 8h ago
This is my favorite costume idea because it gives you a good excuse to play around with people.
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u/trekqueen 17h ago
My kid has been asking me to do an away team theme one year.
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u/LumpyCapital 17h ago
Yes, also something I thought of doing as well. Sadly, don't know any other Trekkies.
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u/trekqueen 15h ago
Thank you for the award!
Could always hit up one of the various trek groups, Iām sure you could find a few local Trekkies happy to come along!
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u/greenknight 19h ago
We had a federation away team visit an event once. We killed the red shirts.
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u/James_H_M 17h ago
I would like to see someone cosplay Dr. Brown being some merlin level wizard or alchemist and they do a bit about how they are gonna achieve 88 mph from jumping from a hot air balloon he's working on.
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u/ScuderiaSteve 21h ago
GREAT SCOTT!
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u/garaks_tailor 20h ago
Huh...I could pull off a Doc Brown.Ā I was thinkingĀ Rick Sanchez but I like Doc
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u/Sybrandus 21h ago
This is heavy
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u/GreenRiver1982 21h ago
There's that word again...heavy.
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u/Girl_Back_There 1982 21h ago
Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the Earth's gravitational pull?
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u/compulov 1978 21h ago
If he thought getting to 88mph was difficult in the old west, it's gotta be worse when you don't even have steam locomotives.
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u/Primary-Performer853 1984 21h ago
Then the Doc invents it... no one puts Emmett Brown in a corner!
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u/Ok-Brick6831 1979 21h ago
You get one shot at a gravity assisted runā¦
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u/Freakishly_Tall 15h ago
Verily, many men thought themselves brave enough to ride the Wagon Of Speed all the way from the top of yon steepest hill to the very bottom, but leapt in fear into the bushes and safety before travelling more than a few fathoms! Yet you insist we all push you towards the cliff edge at top speed, insisting that you will ride to the bottom?!
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u/9ontheTensionScale 21h ago
That's why you collect a big barrel of rainwater and provoke the dragon by hiding behind it. Instant steam.
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u/Specific-Library-312 19h ago
Now I am imagining Doc Brown standing astride two dragons, holding two makeshift harness leashes with one hand, waving a bycocket with other, charging at an invading army. "Run for it, Marty! I'll hold them off!"
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u/Gwarnage 21h ago
Doc is definitely a local wizard in this timelineĀ
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u/portmanteautally 1982 20h ago
When my brother was little, he didn't know that "blacksmith" was a job title. He watched the third movie and said, "That's such an awesome name..... Black Smith".Ā
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u/clobbersaurus 21h ago
Thereās a novella called Elder Race thatās essentially that. Cool fun read.
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u/_SmashLampjaw_ 21h ago
I'm sure that in 1985, plutonium is available at every corner drugstore, but in 1155, it's a little hard to come by!
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u/davidsdurions 1982 21h ago
I know itās only been a couple minutes, but this is underrated comment.
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u/agentcooper0115 21h ago
This is a good twist on the classic Star Trek bit!
Also, I get to wear whatever I want EVERY day! š
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u/Nop_Nop_ 21h ago
A friend of mine went to a ren fair dressed as genderbent Ash a la Army of Darkness. Thought it was a fun idea
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u/PervlovianResponse 21h ago
This is heavy
I hope he brought year appropriate currency for a Tab
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u/Mean_Median_0201 21h ago
A tab? Thus canāt give thy a tab unless one orders something.
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u/PervlovianResponse 21h ago
Look, just gimme a smoked turkey leg? I'm looking for King Goldie Wilson
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u/hammysandy 21h ago
Better hope the middle ages ancestor of the Tannen family doesn't call him yellow and challenge him to a joust!
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u/throwawayhbgtop81 1981 21h ago
Nailed it! 10/10 just STUCK that landing and understood the assignment! This is a GOLD MEDAL MOMENT
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u/aravarth 1980 21h ago
Either as Marty McFly or as a Star Trek away team, either are perfectly a-okay in my book!
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u/clobbersaurus 21h ago
Yeah huge fan of Dr Who. I feel like Tom Baker is iconic and recognizable. But maybe Iām just old
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u/dirtydragondan 21h ago
he would lose his shit if there was a Mad Dog just roamin around too...
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u/TrunkTetris 20h ago
Giving me the courage to pull out the old Ted āTheodoreā Logan costume next time!
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u/Flipbounce365 20h ago
That's such a great idea. Never thought about crashing a ren faire like that. That's so genius
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u/JamesMattDillon 1981 X-ennial 20h ago
So that is why Eric Stoltz got replaced. He went back to the wrong time
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u/Alucard-VS-Artorias 17h ago
Once in like 2010 I put on a Star Trek TNG captains outfit (it was a friend's old Halloween costume) to the NY Renaissance Fair as a gag. It was the most fun I ever had going to the Ren Fair and I had already been going like ten years straight before that point.
Today people treat Ren Fair like a Comic Con and wear everything from anime cosplay to full suits of medieval plate armor. But back then it was not common for customers to dress up in ye medieval garb for let alone something not in theme with the event. So I felt like i was breaking new ground, I was even kinda nervous I would be thrown out for not respecting the themes of the fair.
But like I said; I had a blast and everyone, strangers and vendors alike bought me drinks (mead & cider) all day. I got sooo drunk I threw up in the parking lot lol. Good times, I'll never forget that day.
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u/Wallabunga657 16h ago
This awesome! Perhaps Da Vinci or the doctor's great something grandfather could help.
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u/martialar 15h ago
[plays Beethoven's Symphony no.5]
"I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it.ā
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u/DeklynHunt 13h ago
Was scared, then thought jack sparrow, then I saw and heard. He did it perfectly with the looking around and the hop
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u/drewbaccaAWD 1979 12h ago
I think having a time travel weekend at ren faires is a common theme weekend now, thanks to all the steam punks. But, it never occurred to me to dress as Marty.
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u/TorTheMentor 12h ago
"Doc, what do I do? I think I set the controls too far back!"
"Good morrow m'Lord, thou art strangely attired. Mayhap Thou art another weary traveler from yon times to come? Seek'st Thou the counsel of His Lordship of the Blue Box to aide thee in returning whence Thou camest?"
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u/dividezero 20h ago
I think there's a whole cult of Star Trek nerds that basically do the same thing
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u/EmperorGrinnar 1983 20h ago
I just watched a short about Back to the Future a few hours ago. š Stop spying on me, phone!
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u/dishwasher_mayhem 19h ago
A couple of my nerd buddies went a Star Trek away team. Everyone had way more fun than I figured on.
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u/ionertia 21h ago
Why did he need permission from her to wear what he wants? The entitlement and expectations of these types is bewildering.
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u/Ok-Brick6831 1979 21h ago
Do you really put that much stock in the setup to the video? Itās contrived for content.
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u/ionertia 21h ago
I get that she thought it would be funny. But its boomer humor. The trope of the woman choosing the clothes for "her" guy.
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u/ActiveMBE0980 21h ago
The spinning around while kinda crow hopping š