Yes, we know you’ve waited all this time and you STILL don’t have your hoverboard, but the folks at Lyft can offer you this: in honor of “Back to the Future Day” on Wednesday, the app-based ride sharing company is offering free DeLorean rides in New York City.
From 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. customers in New York City can shift into “McFly Mode” and be picked up in a DeLorean for a free 15-minute ride. The promotion is being co-sponsored by Verizon. The idea, while well-timed isn’t exactly original: The Verge notes that Lyft rival Uber offered a similar promotion in 2013.
It’s just one of a number of BOF-themed celebrations, including movie screenings, symphony concerts and graffiti murals.
The sequel to the movie premiered in 1989 to less than stellar reviews.
Here’s what the late Roger Ebert wrote:
“Part II,” for all of its craziness, lacks the genuine power of the original. The story of the ’85 film has real heart to it: If McFly didn’t travel from 1985 to 1955 and arrange for his parents to have their first date, he might not even exist. The time travel in that film involved his own emotional confrontation with his parents as teenagers. “Part II,” on the other hand, is mostly just zaniness and screwball jokes. But on that level, it’s fun.
But many of the gadgets featured in the film have captured the imagination of the public. National Public Radio did this fun piece on which gadgets and what technologies the movie got right. No hoverboards or self-tying shoelaces, but we do have surveillance drones and Google Glass.
And the BTTF2 prediction that the Chicago Cubs win the World Series in 2015 has legions of fans hopeful that this may be the year for the team, which is currently down two games to the New York Mets in the National League Championship series.