Marty McFly's Light-Up 2015 Nike MAGs
photo: prop store
Marty McFly's (Michael J. Fox) self-lacing light-up 2015 Nike MAGs from Robert Zemeckis' sci-fi adventure sequel Back to the Future Part II. Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) brought Marty to the future year of 2015 and gave him a futuristic ensemble to help him blend in, including a pair of 2015 Nike MAGs.
photo: prop store
These high-top trainers are made with a flexible synthetic grey fabric over a blue-flecked foam and clear rubber sole. They feature white leatherette padding along the opening and a matching strap holding a white foam heel pad on the back of each shoe. On the sides of the shoes are white Nike logos; the right shoe also features practical lighting elements behind the Nike logo on the top strap, in the colored sections at the side of the heel, and in the clear element on the side of the sole itself. There is also a grey power cord running out of this shoe to a newly added black power pack which, with the flip of a switch, powers the lights on and off.
photo: prop store
The right trainer has been created by the special effects department so the flat shoe laces run out of the bottom of the shoe. These were used to create the self-lacing effect, with a crew member lying beneath a raised platform, on which the shoes stood, and pulling the straps tight from underneath. The Nike MAGs exhibit age and wear, and the foam components have undergone restoration to reconstruct cracked, crumbling and some missing elements. The electroluminescent lightstrips in the top strap and sole of the right shoe, as well as the coloured LED lights in its heel, have also undergone restoration to allow them to light up again. The soles, backstraps and other foam elements of the shoes are especially delicate.
