Nike recently announced that the company has finally released the Nike MAG shoes that Michael J. Fox wore in Back to the Future 2 (pictured above), and while it’s not exactly completing my lifelong dream of owning a hoverboard, it’s a pretty good start. But before you hop over to Zappos to order yourself a pair, you should know that there’s a catch – only 1,500 pairs are being released and you can’t afford them.
As my Uproxxian colleagues Maske and Robopanda have pointed out, Nike will post the shoes on eBay for auction at the rate of 150 pairs per day. They are currently going as high as $5,600 for today’s auctions that will end around 8:30 p.m. ET. All proceeds benefit the Michael J. Fox Foundation.
But the fun didn’t just start with eBay. Last night at the Montalban Theater in Los Angeles, the very first pair of MAGS were auctioned off by Community’s Joel McHale. The winner paid $37,500 for the shoes. In related news, I cashed in my change jar at a Coin Star.
The auction — co-hosted by Joel McHale — went down at the Montalban Theater … and after an INTENSE stand-off between two shoe-a-holics … the winner was eventually crowned.
Along with the shoes, the winner also received a “plutonium case” where he can store his “McFly’s” (Via TMZ)
While they didn’t say who won the auction for these shoes, I’m guessing that his name rhymes with Shmentin Shmarantino.
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“Robopanda? What kinda stupid name is that?”
Mad Dog Tannen, 1885
They don’t self-lace.
In response to ““@Filmdrunk: Some dude paid $37 grand for self-lacing Back to the Future shoes. [t.co]
Anyone else read that as Joel McHale went down on Montalban? I imagine that’s a lot of people’s fantasy.
Those will go great with Schweddie Smurfy’s red Delirious suit for the Oscars. He loves movies much more than Tarantino, you know.
Tarantino would pay extra for a used pair, though.
Fucking Coinstar. That 8% is a killer. And no, I do not want a gift card to Barnes & Noble instead of cash.
I’m not running the Twitter feed, so take it up with the big-thumbed guido.
This is the coolest way to let people know you made out with your mom back in the 50s.
Dammit Michael, stay in frame with the shoes or we’re going to have to tie you down again
They don’t tie themselves but they DO come with a Haitian orphan who’ll tie them for you for the first six days*.
*Longer if you feed and water him however results may vary.
It is asinine that these don’t tie themselves, because you know damn good and well that Michael J Fox can’t tie his by himself!
Wait, so they don’t lace themselves up? So they are just ugly AND expensive? What is the fucking point then? When I was a kid I had shoes that lite up AND had velcro straps. These things are basically just a modern, expensive version of that. Oh, and my shoes had fucking dinosaurs on them, so suck on that.
I like the idea of these shows. It’s like a beacon to help you avoid a rich insufferable douche.