But despite the fact that the ‘80s and early ‘90s were a golden age of churning out unnecessary toy lines (Demolition Man, really?) there were surprisingly few Back to the Future-based playthings. There were weirdly no action figures; mostly we just got some Micromachine knock-offs and a Power Wheels-style DeLorean for wealthy parents looking to send their kids aged 4 – 7 on confusing Oedipal adventures.
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The most glaring omission here is the distinct lack of a toy hoverboard, which you’d think would have been a slam-dunk moneymaker once Back to the Future Part II hit theatres. After all, this movie was produced by Steven Spielberg, who earlier in the decade had hawked everything from E.T.’s rubber finger light to friggin’ E.T. vitamins, which were presumably just stale Reese’s Pieces.
So why no hoverboards? Likely it’s because any replicas they built wouldn’t really hover, which would have been extra confusing to kids since director Robert Zemeckis winkingly claimed in a behind the scenes TV special that hoverboards actually exist and have “been around for years” but “parents’ groups have not let the toy manufacturers make them.”
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