--- title: Back to the Future Day: How Fans Celebrate Oct. 21, 2015 description: Oct. 21, 2015 is celebrated as Back to the Future Day--the day to which Michael J. Fox's Marty McFly travels in "Back to the Future II." canonical: https://time.com/4078798/back-to-the-future-day/ author: Eliza Berman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-21T04:01:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:00.390Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: 'Back to the Future' Day Has Finally Arrived og:description: Oct. 21, 2015 is celebrated as Back to the Future Day--the day to which Michael J. 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Oct 21, 2015 4:01 AM UTC It’s Oct. 21, 2015, and the future has arrived — at least, the future to which Michael J. Fox traveled as Marty McFly in _Back to the Future Part II_, released in November 1989\. Marty, of course, traversed the space-time continuum in a souped-up DeLorean outfitted with a flux capacitor. The rest of us, for better or for worse, traveled at a steadier pace, unable to fast-forward past the bowl cuts and chirping Furbies of the ‘90s. Though our hoverboard technology is not as advanced as the movie predicted, _Back to the Future_ Day is being heralded as a sort of Christmas in October for diehard fans of the trilogy. Brands are having a field day with tie-ins to the movies: Pepsi is issuing a limited release of [Pepsi Perfect](http://time.com/4061215/pepsi-back-to-the-future/), the imaginary version of the soft drink featured in the film. Verizon and Lyft are mobilizing a [fleet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOsM-P-WSAo&feature=youtu.be) of DeLoreans to pick up New Yorkers requesting a ride using the Lyft app. And Nintendo is releasing [_Wild Gunman_](http://www.digitalspy.com/gaming/news/a674450/nintendo-is-releasing-wild-gunman-on-virtual-console-to-celebrate-back-to-the-future-part-2.html#~prAR1M04rYvttW), an arcade game Marty plays when he arrives in 2015. The unofficial holiday will also see the debut of a second-generation [hoverboard](http://www.digitalspy.com/tech/news/a673925/tony-hawk-designed-hendo-hoverboard-20-to-land-next-week-on-back-to-the-future-day.html#~prARtZnqIag5ga) by technology company Arx Pax, the release of the _Back to the Future_ [documentary](http://time.com/4032641/back-in-time-trailer-documentary-back-to-the-future/) _Back in Time_, reissues of the movies’ soundtracks and a return of the trilogy to theaters across the country. It seems the only thing fans _won’t_ be getting is any promise of a fourth installment to the classic series, which director Robert Zemeckis has [said](http://time.com/3941899/back-future-reboot-director-comment/) will never happen—at least as long as he and co-writer Bob Gale are still alive. But even as _Back to the Future_’s future fades into the past, its legacy is passed on to a [new generation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgkx9JAON-I) of fans. For all of us, after all, the future—as Doc Brown so sagely affirmed—hasn’t been written yet. _Read next:_ [_5 Fan Theories About Back to the Future So Absurd They Might Be True_](http://time.com/3943784/back-to-the-future-theories/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4078798/back-to-the-future-day/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4078798/back-to-the-future-day/"},"headline":"Back to the Future Day Has Finally Arrived","datePublished":"2015-10-21T04:01:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:48:00.390Z","description":"Keep an eye out for Marty McFly at your local arcade","url":"https://time.com/4078798/back-to-the-future-day/","keywords":["movies","Newsfeed","Back to the Future"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfdbeaebb1c932803/698868ee5f570f0acfb1de9d/back-to-the-future.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliza Berman","jobTitle":"Berman is a senior editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfdbeaebb1c932803/698868ee5f570f0acfb1de9d/back-to-the-future.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Back to the Future Part II","caption":"Back to the Future Part II","creditText":"Universal","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4078798/back-to-the-future-day/","name":"Back to the Future Day Has Finally Arrived"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"100 Years of Blockbusters in 5 Minutes","description":"Time has taken the highest grossing film each year for the past century and crammed them into 5 and a half minutes. 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