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Back to the Future Day: Seven signs of today’s McFly mania
BACK TO THE FUTURE DAY <br>

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Oct. 21, 2015: That's the futuristic date when Marty McFly and Doc Brown arrived in 1989's Back to the Future Part II. It's not quite the future the filmmakers imagined, but fans are trying to make today as much like it as possible

EVAN ANNETT

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Advertisers jump on Back to the Future Day

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1. THE DOCTOR IS IN

Christopher Lloyd, reprising his role as Doc Brown, had a special message for Back to the Future fans:

2. JAWS 19 SNAPS BACK

Jaws 19, featured in the film as a holographic theatre marquee that terrifies the time-travelling McFly, got its own trailer today from Universal Studios:

3. RECALLING THE DETAILS

A bureaucrat at the Government of Canada was able to post a tongue-in-cheek recall notice as a nod to our actual lack of time travel today.

DELOREAN issued a recall on the DMC-12 model - Recalls & alerts - Healthy Canadians Website

4. DAS HOVERBOARDEN

Everybody knows hoverboards don't work on water. But on Tuesday, Austria's transport ministry clarified something else, ABC News reports: Hoverboards can be classified as "small off-road vehicles" and users must not "endanger passersby or motor traffic."

Hoverboards are still not commercially available, by the way. But Universal made a commercial for them anyway:

5. WHERE WE'RE GOING, WE WON'T NEED ROADS

We're still a long way off from the clean-burning "Mr. Fusion" engine that Doc Brown uses to power the DeLorean's flux capacitor in the films. But Toyota is seizing on Back to the Future Day to promote its hydrogen-powered car, the Mirai, which launched in Japan last year. (Mirai is Japanese for "future.")

6. BRITAIN TO THE FUTURE

Back to the Future got a groan-worthy cameo in Britain's Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday. Referring to Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn's position that Britain should dispose of its nuclear weapons, Prime Minister David Cameron rebuked him by saying, "I am not surprised that many people sitting behind him say he should get in his DeLorean, go back to 1985 and stay there."

7. USA TODAY, TOMORROW

USA Today readers are getting a blast from the past on Thursday: a wrap featuring the fake Oct. 22 newspaper cover depicted in the 1989 film (which accurately predicted that print newspapers would still exist in 2015). USA Today also tweaked the logo on its website to resemble the one from the movie.

Read more about Back to the Future events in store today.

Magnetic hoverboard floats over some major drawbacks

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