Back to the Future

Back to the Future is a human film franchise involving time travel.

Fiction

2005 IDW continuity

After returning from a temporal mission, the crew of the Lost Light watched the second installment of Back to the Future. Tailgate admitted he had never seen the first film, but Cyclonus later led the crew in a singalong of its theme song, "The Power of Love". Predestination: An Expert's Guide The film inspired Tailgate to acquire a hoverboard. Our Steps Will Always Rhyme

Ask Vector Prime

Vector Prime admired a version of Back to the Future starring Eric Stoltz. Ask Vector Prime, 30 September 2015

Toys

Collaborative

• Gigawatt (October 1, 2020)
  • Accessories, Pole, Mr. Fusion generator, blaster

The second figure released in the Collaborative line, Gigawatt is an extensive retooling of Siege Sideswipe that transforms into a heavily customized DeLorean, representing the iconic vehicle from the Back to the Future film trilogy. In his vehicle mode, his gull-wing doors can open and close, plus a "lightning rod" can be added to the back to replicate the climax of the first film. He can also be converted to the hovercar mode from the first film's ending (and how it appeared in much of the second film) by adding the "Mr. Fusion" generator to the back and folding his wheels down.

In robot mode, Gigawatt displays a chest-mounted flux capacitor with three dates, each corresponding to the time periods Doc and Marty visited in the first two movies. His knees also feature molded-in (and unpainted) flux capacitors to boot (ha ha). The lightning rod becomes a whip weapon, and the Mr. Fusion can be plugged into the back of his rifle, which bears a distinct resemblance to Siege Optimus Prime's rifle, but is an all-new sculpt.

Gigawatt is packaged in a nostalgic Generation 1-styled box in vehicle mode, much like the contemporaneous Vintage G1 line and Ectotron. The figure was released in two separate versions: a Walmart exclusive numbered edition was put up for preorder on July 2nd 2020 (and seemingly sold out within mere minutes) with added graphics on the box identifying the figure as one of a limited run of 1,985. A standard non-numbered version was made available through Hasbro Pulse and other "select retailers" on October 1.

Notes

• As a seminal time-travel story in Western culture, Back to the Future has had its share of influences on Transformers. To name a few:
  • The ninth part of the Marvel UK story "Target: 2006" and the Rescue Bots episode "Bot to the Future" homage the film's title.
  • Rescue Bots features a solar car inspired by the iconic DeLorean time machine and the Cybertron episode "Hero" references a "flux-capacitor".
  • The Dark of the Moon incarnation of Wheeljack has a head design inspired by Doc Brown.
• Vector Prime's enjoyment of Eric Stoltz in Back to the Future is a reference to the first film's production cycle, in which Stoltz was initially cast as protagonist Marty McFly before being fired and replaced by Michael J. Fox only weeks after filming began.

External links

• Back to the Future at Wikipedia