October 21st, 2015 marked the day that Marty McFly blasted into a futuristic version of Hill Valley in Back to the Future Part II. While the world he explores in the film is much different than our own, organizations around the world celebrated the occasion with various tributes and parodies.
USA Today
In the film, Marty’s son is arrested for theft and the incident is, apparently, important enough to warrant a front page story in USA Today. Once his father races to the future and prevents the event from happening, the paper morphs into a story about a group of bullies getting nabbed by authorities instead. The October 21st edition of the real USA Today featured a reprint of the film’s first version wrapped around each copy.
A Mysterious Incident in Scotland
On the morning of October 21st, police in the Scottish community of Ayrshire reported an unusual incident. They claimed that they had received reports of a strange vehicle causing a great deal of commotion in the parking lot of a local supermarket. Supposedly, it nearly collided with two citizens buzzing around on hoverboards. Officers raced to the scene to discover a teenager and a man in a white coat struggling to fix a broken down DeLorean. Needless to say, the Facebook post was a gag and the reps made to sure include the hashtags “JustForFun” and “#BackToTheFuture.”
The Hoverboard Police Unit in Australia
The police department in Mount Isla, Australia, ran a doctored image of three officers riding hoverboards on their website. It was accompanied by a report about the trio buzzing over to deal with a traffic accident involving, you guessed it, a DeLorean. The officers allegedly discovered a teenager behind the wheel with an outdated driver’s license from 1985 who asked for directions to the nearest cinema screening Jaws 19.
The Toyota Promo
The auto manufacturer rounded up Back to the Future stars Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd for a promo video that debuted on October 21st. The two sit in a diner and discuss various things in the middle chapter of the series that have yet to come to pass, like flying cars, hoverboards, and sneakers with mechanical laces before meeting with Mischa Pollack, an aero-mechanical engineer. He teaches them all about various advancements in biofuel technology before taking them for a spin in a new Toyota Mirai.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVebChGtLlY
