Anyone who was a child in 1989 could likely repeat the widely circulated rumor that hoverboards — the wheel-less, floating skateboards featured in Robert Zemeckis’ “Back to the Future Part II” — were 100 real.
Given the nature of rumors, few children could pinpoint its origin.
The information circulated was that parents were writing angry letters to hoverboard manufacturers, even before their release, that hoverboards weren’t safe, spoiling fun for kids everywhere.
Another rumor was that, during the “testing phase” of the toy, a young boy had died after falling off of a hoverboard, leading…The post It Took Almost Every Technique in the Book to Make the Hoverboards Fly in Back to the Future Part II appeared first on /Film.
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