Great Scott! Back to the Future (Was: Bringing to Pass BTTFptII's 2015)

I need your help!  I only have 4 years to bring to pass the 2015 seen in Back to the Future Part 2.  It's quite an undertaking, but if we get started now... well, "Anything is possible if you put your mind to it."

I'm not quite sure how we're going to get hoverboards or flying cars that soon, but let's focus on what we can do:

Teens- start wearing your pants inside out.

Everybody- start wearing as much neon lycra as you can get your hands on.  Yes, you will look stupid momentarilly, but people will remember you as being a fashion pioneer once it catches on.

Only frequent shops/restaurants that are like the 80s Cafe or Blast from the Past.  If entrepreneurs start to see how much money can be made from 80s nostalgia prodcuts and services, then they'd open many more of them until they're pretty much the only places to eat or shop.

Start wearing two neckties at the same time.

Get out your fax machine.

Wear hightops, so that when auto-laced shoes are invented, they look just like 30 year old sneakers.

Bundle all of your laserdiscs together in clear garbage bags.  We probably don't have enough to put them on the curb for bulk pickup, but get them ready!

Use the picture-in-picture mode on your TV all of the time.  Or just watch WookieeGroomer's Addicted to Star Wars a lot.

Buy as many talking appliances as possible, but make sure that they have the simplest of computer voices.

80s style haircuts are a must.  Trust me, they will come back in style.

Maybe glue a bunch of sound effect boards to random parts of your clothes.  So that you can taunt people with them at appropriate times.

Let's see, what else?

I'm contracting with a guy I found on instructables to make me lots of those acrylic hats.  Like the little record player one that the girl with the hoverboard had.  Those cost a few pennies though, so I'll need your help for financing.

Petition the Gov't to set up a "Weather Service".

And write DuPont and see how they're coming on that dust repellent paper.

Start buying Jaws movies and memorabilia by the truck load.  They'll have to make 14 sequels in 4 years, but I'm sure they can do it if they have all of our money.

What else?

(Kind of sad that this movie's "prediction" was way off on just about everything except for gas prices.  We look to be on target for the $7/gallon prices in 4 more years.  Assuming we don't overshoot it. (Even more sad that the movie wasn't trying too hard to actually predict things and were probably trying to be as sensational as possible with things like gas prices.  Instead, they were just right)).

xhonzi said:

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(Kind of sad that this movie's "prediction" was way off on just about everything except for gas prices.  We look to be on target for the $7/gallon prices in 4 more years.  Assuming we don't overshoot it. (Even more sad that the movie wasn't trying too hard to actually predict things and were probably trying to be as sensational as possible with things like gas prices.  Instead, they were just right)).

 

So basically Bob Z foresaw Obama.

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xhonzi said:

I'm contracting with a guy I found on instructables to make me lots of those acrylic hats.  Like the little record player one that the girl with the hoverboard had.  Those cost a few pennies though, so I'll need your help for financing. 

I will start making Jaws sequels. It's getting Max Spielberg to directing the 19th that worries me.

http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=149263

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjZtKdqMgHk

twister111 said:

xhonzi said:

I'm contracting with a guy I found on instructables to make me lots of those acrylic hats.  Like the little record player one that the girl with the hoverboard had.  Those cost a few pennies though, so I'll need your help for financing. 

http://www.mirajcaps.com/ Used to sell lenticular BTTF hat replicas but, the manufacturing was too expensive to justify further production. Their site hasn't been updated in years.

 They have those hats at the local comic store.  Also on amazon.  It's pretty cool to read the reviews- people say they get a lot of recognition when they wear them.

Okay, so forgive me for being on this BTTF kick recently, but I had another thought.

(and yes, I realize this might go better over at FE.org, but one of the frinking mods has it in for me).

As I was enjoying the end of BTTF2 and the start of BTTF3, an obvious thought dawned on me followed by a thought I don't think I've ever had, which is soon followed up by an interesting question regarding space/time.  Eventually followed up by a revelation that will shock these forums to THEIR VERY CORE!

Obvious: The 3 BTTF Films are told chronologically from Marty's perspective.

New Thought: I think I'd like to see a fan edit of the three movies that tell the story chronologically from Doc's perspective.  We start with a 1955 Doc who meets Marty, helps send him to the future, and then immediately meets another Marty, helps send him to the past... then flash forward thirty years and see Doc meet Marty at the mall and send him back in time to the 50s (wow, Doc seems to send Marty out in the time machine a lot... he must be dying (get it?) to get to try it himself!) Goes to the future, comes back, gets Marty and Jennifer, goes Back to the Future, chews out Marty abouts the sports almanac, rescues Jennifer, goes back to 1985, goes back to 1955, meets himself, rescues Marty, goes to the Old West, meets Marty again, meets Clara, falls in love, and then sends Marty, you guessed it, Back to the Future, then apparently gets married, has kids and learns how to make a flux capacitor that runs on steam. 

*phew*

Sure, we're missing a lot of scenes that would be required to really make it make sense.  But I think it would be interesting.  Or maybe it's interesting enough just to think about it.  I especially like that part where pt2 Marty comes up to 1955 Doc immediately after the end of pt1 and says he's back from the future.  Seeing that in the context of the first movie makes my brain happy.

Here's the question: Does pt3 OldWestDoc not remember being pt3 1955Doc and sending Marty back to 1885?  It's been 30 years, but he should still remember, right?  As soon as Doc writes the letter to Marty, shouldn't he have memories of Marty bringing him the letter, the two of them finding the time machine, fixing it and sending Marty back to rescue... himself?  And when he sees Marty in his ridiculous cowboy get-up, instead of asking "What idiot dressed you like that?" shouldn't he instead apologize for his ignorance of 30 years ago?

Or is that a different Doc?  Just like Marty presumably doesn't have memories of growing up with the hip version of his parents... Does that pt3 1955 Doc now exist in a different 1955 (1955B. 1955AA being the Marty version of 1955 and 1955A being the old Biff version that leads to 1985A)?  If that's the case, does any of that affect 1985C Doc?  Maybe to the point that he doesn't create the time machine?

But wait!  (Here's the juicy part!)  In BTTF1, Marty left 1985, created 1955AA and then came back to 1985AA (since 1985A is already taken).  What happened to 1985 Doc?  He died!  1955AA Doc has forever been altered by Marty in 1955AA and has then become 1985AA Doc.  1985AA Doc didn't invent the time machine the same way as 1985 Doc.  What was theory to 1985 Doc is practice to 1985AA Doc!  Sure, he came up with the idea for the flux capacitor before the timelines diverged... but what about the idea to use a delorean?  Marty's reaction would have been the same "Are you trying to tell me that you built a "time machine" out of a DeLorean?!?!"  But 1985AA Doc could hardly answer, "Well, I thought why not build it with some style?"  More likely he would have had to say, "Well... that's the car I saw when I was visited by a time traveling Calvin Klein in the 50s."  What about deciding to steal the plutonium?  Depending on when he read Marty's letter, he might have gotten the idea from the letter as well.  What about setting the time circuits for 1955?  1985Doc did this because he was fondly remembering the day he thought of the Flux Cap.  1985AA Doc would have to do it to not mess with history.

And think of how odd 1985AA Doc's friendship would have been with 1985AA Marty.  Doc would have had to have played everything very close to the vest to not screw that up.

HEY!  WHAT HAPPENED TO 1985AA MARTY!?!?!   The ONE WITH the TRUCK?!?!?!  1985 Marty MURDERED him!

The End.

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    ^ ME                             SHONZIE ^

No... I'm just too lazy to log into another site.  Especially one where I don't have a presence to speak of.

This changing the name and retaining the old one in thread titles is really annoying...

xhonzi, I like your idea, certainly more original than actual chronological order. I wouldn't hurt yourself in trying to understand alternate timelines. I had to give up after the first few times I did it.

I mean!

UH!

*disappears in a flash of light followed by a triple-thunderclap*

xhonzi said:

HEY!  WHAT HAPPENED TO 1985AA MARTY!?!?!   The ONE WITH the TRUCK?!?!?!  1985 Marty MURDERED him!

I realized soon after posting that, that 1985AA Marty did not die he just went back to 1955AA.  You know, the one with Marty prime already running around as Calvin Kelin.  What did 1985AA Marty do there?  If he traveled back to the same place and time that Marty Prime did... they would have crashed and potentially killed each other.  Let's say he arrived moments after Marty prime...  How would he not screw that up?  And if that Marty ever makes it to 2015, does the same stuff there, and then ends up back in 1955... THERE WOULD BE THREE MARTY's in that 1955!

Or, for a minute, let's assume that he went back to a 1955AA without 1985 Marty in it (so this would be 1955AB).  1985AA Marty grew up with parents that fell in love when George punched Biff at the dance.  So, if he went back to 1955 (or AA or AB), he wouldn't know the bit about his dad getting hit by the car, wouldn't push him out of the way, so the regular 1955 would probably progress from that point.  Causing 1985AA Marty to return to the future to 1985, not the 1985AA he had left.  Which really just means that 1985 Marty and 1985AA Marty switched timelines.  With the only possible difference that Doc would still be alive (assuming the letter bit went the same as it did in 1955AA) so I guess that does make it a 1985AB- but the parents would more or less be the same as the ones from 1985 prime.

Man, this Marty would probably not be happy with that present!  What would he do?  I mean, if Doc comes back the next day with the time machine, wouldn't he insist that he go back to 1955AB to try to get back to 1985AA?

yeah, I know that feeling, Ziggy. get away as quick as possible or he'll melt away every last bit of your mind! run! you're still in time!!