Along with dreams of going back in time and playing Little Richard songs to an audience of pre-rock&roll era high schoolers Back To The Future is the film that led to millions of people dreaming of the day they’ll get a hoverboard.

Here at Mpora, we’re no different. Since the moment we first clamped our peepers on Marty McFly escaping Biff and his gang on that bright pink deck, we’ve dreamt of riding the streets, hovering three inches above the tarmac.

2) Lexus

This summer, Japanese car giants Lexus jumped on the hoverboard band-waggon with their bid at making our childhood dreams come true.

They dropped this super stylish edit, complete with a stunning looking sun-lit skatepark, a Rudimental soundtrack, and UK skater Ross McGouran doing incredible stuff on the board.

Our excitement overrunneth, not least because, unlike the Hendo, it appeard that the Lexus board would work on concrete and, unlike the one in the Back To The Future Films, would even work on water!

But… there’s always a ‘but’ when things get exciting, isn’t there. But, after a bit of digging around, we found that, like the Hendo, the Lexus board was again, a magnet and some super clever science stuff.

And that concrete park? It was concrete, but a very thin layer over a specially built metal skate park. Even the water was a thin layer sitting in a metal tray.

Oh Lexus, if we’d never seen such riches, we could live with being poor.

Legitness: 7/10

3) Mr Hoverboard

Magnets? Schmagnets! That’s what we always say.

Just when we thought it may have been impossible to make a hoverboard without opposing magnetic poles, we stumbled across this little beaut’.

A chap called mr Hoverboard (handy, given what he went on to create) got an old skateboard deck, and bolted on the motors of four leaf blowers to created a genuine, hovering board.

It works much like a regular hovercraft, floating on a layer of air that’s made by the four super-charged hair dryers on each corner. A big plus of this hoverboard is that, with a bit of handywork, it’d be easy enough to make one yourself.

That said, it looks a little too big to do much more than pootle along slowly on, or spin about a bit. If Marty mcFly was relying on one of these to get away from Biff and the boys on, he’s have been Smacked To The Future faster than he could say ‘disappointing third film”..

Legitness: 8/10

5) HUVr

Back in 2014, a company called HURv shocked the world with a video of an actual, real life hoverboard.

The board appeared to work just like the ones from Back To The Future 2, without needing to rely on magnets, leaf blowers, drones, or any of the other stuff that drags our child-like dreams back into reality.

The release was given credibility by a cast of stars that appeared in the video, including skate legend Tony Hawk, musician Moby (played by the Heat Electric turtle), a rapper called Schoolboy Q who we’d neither heard of before or since, and, of course, Christopher Lloyd – the man who played Doc Bown himself.

The storm of excitement that the video created could bee seen from space. In fact, the level of reaction to the video could only be surpassed by the one when it was revealed that the video was a fake.

So incensed was the internet that they’d been lied to that Tony Hawk himself felt the need to drop a second video apologising for misleading excited fans.

As opposed to being a real hover board, the HUVr was just a prop, and the video was put together using the same rigs and special effects used in the Back To The Future films themselves.

Sadly, our hoverboard dreams have yet to be realised. But we have hope. There’s always hope.

Legitness: 0/10

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