r/BacktotheFuture

Lesson? Either run away once a person hits you in the face or fight back, poor guy was probably trying to deliver something.

Two framed copies of the USA Today Oct 22, 2015 issue (I have two more not pictured) a signed pair of Calvin Klein’s from Lea Thompson, a signed Pepsi Perfect from both Michael J Fox and Christopher Lloyd, and a signed Sports Almanac from Christopher Lloyd

It was a life-long dream of ours and a way to honor my father who passed away last year and introduced me to Back to the Future as a kid in the 80s. I was fortunate enough also to have worked on the A-Car restoration team which started me down this path. I first got the car about 16 years ago and served as my daily driver for about 10 of those years. We worked a lot of the mechanical issues out over that time, but I kept de-prioritizing the build as other things came up. When my dad got sick I decided it was time to get more serious about it.

It took about a year and a half of 60-ish sessions working 8-10 hours a day (with the help of over 50 people). It was a full-time project researching, gathering the parts, talking to experts, and building electronics. It can swap between plutonium and fusion. We chose not to do a lightning hook (way too difficult to swap between fusion and plutonium if you go that route) It makes every sound effect you'd expect including door open and close sounds. I know I'm certainly not the first and I won't be the last, but we hope our efforts and hard work show. Happy to entertain any questions about our build.

If you want to stay in touch, we go by Hill Valley Time Machine on all social media.

Hope you enjoy these photos. Thanks in advance!

(Photography by Patrick Murphy)

The more you stare, the more you see. May not be a Toyota but it's still pretty heavy

Today is my birthday and my parents got a ton of BTTF stuff ( yes my bedding is sonic )

Got this a few months ago but only getting round to reading it on holidays. Finished it in a day (it’s not long)

(1:32 scale)

Just wanted to post this for no reasons, and because I love this Trilogy

Hi, in 2004 I was working for a band that played a show at the Universal Amphitheater. Which butts up against the Universal backlot. A buddy and I were wandering around and ran into someone that worked there. He took us into an area where some of the cars were kept from movies. Including BTTF.

He took us to one of the Deloreans used in BTTF 2. It was covered by a tarp, the windows were down, it had a bunch of leaves in it. It was sad. BUT he opened the car and LET US SIT IN IT. The flux capacitor…fluxed and everything. Highlight of my life.

Just dug up one of the photos and thought y'all might enjoy. Ignore my goofy face.

I was just thinking about how funny a coincidence it is that George and Doc both happened to receive awards, that made the front page of the paper, on the same day as George's death and Doc's asylum commitment in the other timeline.

So I was just wondering what Marty and Doc might've done if Marty had burned the almanac, and then the papers changed to "Mayor Wilson caught urinating in public" or "Hilldale propety values fall" or something like that.

Did the crazy thing of deciding to go to Chicago FanExpo and drive 300 miles with less than 12 hours between idea and making the idea reality... Or as I like to say to my bleeding wallet , "Shhh... We can accomplish anything if you just put your mind to it"

OK we all know Marty had his fair share of dealings with Biff and his relatives but did he not have his own generational version of Biff to deal with just like all other generations of the McFly family had? It seems the Tannens skipped Martys actual generation.

I've watched Back to the Future a million times. It's one of those movies I just keep coming back to. But like 20 years ago, during a late-night rewatch, I paused on this one shot, McFly's house at night, porch light on, dark wood framing the door. And I noticed something I'd never seen before.

The house number.

It's right there on a wooden beam above the door. At first glance it's just a regular address, 4714. Or 4174, depending on how the light hits it. Either way, it's just a number, right? Probably just some random prop they grabbed in 1985. But for some reason I kept staring at it. And then I thought, what if those numbers aren't numbers?

I started reading them as Greek letters. Not because I was trying to find something, just because that's how my brain works sometimes. And that's when I got chills.

The 4 looks like Delta or Alpha, depending on how you read it.
The 7 can be read like a T.
The 1 like an I.
And the last 4 is Alpha again.

Put those together and you get A.T.I.A. If you know Greek, or if you've ever watched a European sci-fi flick, you'll recognize it. To anyone who can read Greek, that definitely spells ATIA. It stands for Άγνωστης Ταυτότητας Ιπτάμενα Αντικείμενα. That literally means UFO.

Now think about who lives there. That's the McFly house, George McFly's childhood home. And George? The guy is obsessed with aliens. He's reading sci-fi comics at the dinner table, writing alien stories in his room, and eventually publishes a book called A Match Made in Space. Aliens are his whole thing. And his house number just happens to spell UFO in Greek.

It's like the universe loves George McFly so much that it had to sneak that in, even if nobody planned it. What are the odds that a random four-digit number chosen by a prop guy in 1985 just happens to spell UFO in Greek, and that number ends up on the house of a character whose whole identity is built around aliens? It's almost like the universe added that number there because George was already destined to love aliens.

But here's where my brain went after sitting on this for two decades. What if the number wasn't just a coincidence? What if George noticed it as a kid, stared at it every day without knowing what it meant, and then one day, somewhere in school, in a book, or in one of his comics, he saw the letters Α.Τ.Ι.Α. and learned what they stood for? Subconsciously, his brain connected the dots: That's my house. That's UFO. What if that number actually influenced him to become obsessed with aliens, rather than just reflecting who he already was? Like the universe planted that seed in his childhood home because it already knew he was destined to be a great sci-fi writer. It nudged him toward his future, and he never even knew it.

I noticed this back in the early 2000s, and I just filed it away as a weird coincidence. Never posted it. Never Googled it. Just kept it to myself. Every now and then I'd rewatch the movie, see that number, and think: Yep. Still there. Still UFO. Still nobody's talking about it. So I'm finally sharing it now.

I'm 99% sure it's not intentional. I really doubt Zemeckis and Gale sat down with a Greek dictionary and a number chart. It's almost definitely a coincidence. But it's a super wild one.

And even if it wasn't planned, it still fits way too well. George is the alien guy. The number says UFO. It just works. It's one of those things that makes you go "huh" and move on, but you never really forget it.

I've held onto this for two decades because I wasn't sure if it was worth posting. But honestly, it's just a cool little observation. And sometimes the best Easter eggs aren't the ones the director put there on purpose. They're the ones you stumble into and just can't shake.

Again, I'm not saying this was intentional, just a wild coincidence. But what do you guys think? I wonder what Robert Zemeckis would think if he ever saw this.