Nike self-lacing ‘Back to the Future’ trainers expected to fetch HUGE prices
First pairs of stunning new sneakers have been sent out to a small group of lucky owners
A pair of self-tying Nike trainers inspired by “Back to the Future II” could fetch up to £8,000, it has been claimed.
The shoes are finally in the hands of a very small group of ridiculously lucky fans who have already taken to social media to share their unboxing videos.
In the video above, new owner Christopher Jones takes his new Nike Mags right out of the box and slips them on like it’s no big deal.
Jones was putting his feet into an extremely rare piece of sneaker history. Nike only produced 89 pairs of the self-lacing Nike Mag shoes (Jones has pair #60) and fans had to pay $10 to enter a raffle to win one of the available pairs of shoes.
All proceeds from the raffle went to the Michael J. Fox Foundation. It is natural for the charity to be Fox’s, considering he made the sneakers famous as Marty McFly in 1989’s “Back to the Future II.”
In the movie, McFly travels “back” to 2015 with Dr. Emmett Brown. Upon arriving in the future, McFly is given futuristic clothes so that he fits in with his new surroundings. The first thing he puts on are a pair of gray and white self-lacing Nike sneakers.
The Nike Mag shoes are pretty much an exact replica of the ones from the movie.
When someone steps into them, a sensor automatically starts to lace them up and users can adjust the fit via two buttons inside the shoe. There is also a button to turn on the shoe’s lights.
The New York Post’s Kase Wickman got to try on a pair earlier this month.
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“It’s pretty cool, when you put them on and push your heel down, you can feel it start to tighten up because it knows you’re there.”
“These shoes are very emotionally present.”
This is not the first time that Nike has released a “Back to the Future”-inspired shoe. In 2011, they auctioned off 1,500 non-self-tying Mags on eBay, with all proceeds also going to the Michael J. Fox Foundation.
The highest accepted bid for a pair of the shoes was $9,959.00, and a total of $5,695,190.53 was raised for Fox’s charity
Given the laws of supply and demand, coupled with the extreme rarity of the self-lacing Mag, prices for the new shoes should easily surpass the $9,959.00 mark set in 2011.
That is, if one of the lucky 89 decides to sell their new kicks.
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