It was one of the first posts on our blog and it is back in the news again, almost exactly a year later. We have finally reached 2015, the Future from Back To The Future 2. We don’t have flying cars, commercial hover boards, holographic billboards, or Jaws 19. But Miami does have a baseball team and, if Nike has their way, we will finally be able to own self-lacing Nike MAGs. Tinker Hatfield is the man who designed the original MAG for the 1989 movie and he still works for Nike. He took the stage in Long Beach recently at an event for the Agenda Trade Show. Among the topics discussed was a possible 2015 re-launch of the MAG sneakers but this time with a self-lacing mechanism. Hatfield confirmed that he has a team working hard to deliver the MAGs in 2015, stating that they still have “11 and two-thirds months left in 2015.” Last year Nike filed for a self-lacing patent, depicting a shoe very similar to the MAGs (images after the break). It would be safe to expect the shoes to be released either around the 30th anniversary of the original movie in July or near the October 21st date that Doc and Marty jump to. Hopefully the 2015 version of the MAGs will not be as limited run as the 2011 version.
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