Nike MAG shoes with Power Laces still on track for 2015 release, designer says

[Shawn Knight]

It may have seemed to take an eternity for Back to the Future fans, but 2015 – the year that Marty McFly and Doc Brown visited in the second installment of the hit franchise – has finally arrived. And although flying cars and hoverboards still aren’t commonplace, at least one longed-for gadget from the future is still on track to debut this year.

Nice Kicks, a website dedicated to – well, nice kicks – recently attended the Agenda fashion trade show in Long Beach, California. Among the guest speakers was Tinker Hatfield Jr., Nike Vice President for Design and Special Projects.

During his presentation, Hatfield confirmed that his team was working hard to deliver the MAG shoes with power laces this year. He didn’t provide an exact release date but with more than eleven months remaining on the calendar, there’s still plenty of time for it to happen.

Hatfield joined Nike way back in 1981 and has been responsible for designing most of the company’s iconic shoes ever since including the fictional self-lacing Nike MAG kicks featured in Back to the Future II.

Fans of the film and shoe aficionados alike have been campaigning for the athletics apparel company to bring the shoes to life ever since they graced the silver screen in 1989.

Nike partially answered those prayers in 2011 with the release of the extremely limited Air MAG (only 1,500 were made). Those shoes were nearly identical to the ones in the movie except they didn’t feature the coveted power laces.

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[VitalyT]

Self-lacing shoes are as important as self-wiping toilet paper.

Self-ventilating shoes, on another hand, with anti-bacterial nano-coating would be in great demand. But I guess it was too far-fetched back in 1989, for such an idea, and some people just can't move on from their childish dreams.

 

[Seventh Reign]

Self-lacing shoes are as important as self-wiping toilet paper.

Self-ventilating shoes, on another hand, with anti-bacterial nano-coating would be in great demand. But I guess it was too far-fetched back in 1989, for such an idea, and some people just can't move on from their childish dreams.

I would like self wiping TP.

 

[risc32]

Same here. or maybe a helper monkey.

 

[Littleczr]

I think I'm getting old and not finding this COOL.

 

[Skidmarksdeluxe]

I wish somebody would invent a money tree.**sigh**

 

[WangDangDoodle]

This is sad. This is so very, very sad. This is worse than psycho pants. Anyone remember psycho pants? Maybe it was just a Norwegian thing. The pants were too big. All the kids wore them. My old gang used to beat the crap out of kids wearing those pants. Then we pulled their pants off and lit the pants on fire. If I start seeing kids with lights in their shoes, I swear to Bigfoot... I'm getting my old gang back together.