Re: Hot Toys - Back to the Future - 1/6 DeLorean Time Machine !!
Well if we are ignoring the fact that gasoline actually wouldn't have been that difficult to get a hold of in 1885 had they been willing to travel to a more industrialized area to get it, the train was pretty much the only plan to get back.
I know. Buford was jailed and there was now no rush to get back.
I get it. The flying Delorean has more of a 'wow' factor to it and a sense of wonder, but for me there is just something so iconic about the Delorean driving. Seeing it speed up as all of the different mechanisms start glowing and sparking before it finally explodes and "punches" its way through time. Seeing it drive on pavement gives you more of a sense of relativistic speed you just don't get watching something flying.
Yeah. It's just the idea they could get in the PTII Deloran and fly to France if they wanted, which couldn't be done with the PTI or PTIII versions.
What is that? I can't think of anything but you have me very curious.
Well, you'll kick yourself when you hear it, lol(Because they used this in the third movie)...
Doc is fond of remonstrating to Marty with the line: "You're not thinking fourth dimensionally!"
What do they need to send the Delorean back to the future? A slug of plutonium. They *have* a working time machine except for the power.
But. They KNOW where the plutonium is. It's in a lead lined crate in the parking lot of the Lone Pines Mall in late 1985...
So, Marty gets a job semi-locally doing whatever he can in 1955, and Doc gets busy using the 1985 Delorean as reference to build a brand new one and(Eventually) becoming good friends with a young Marty McFly. They make sure pretty much everything happens as it did before until Marty escapes the libyans to go back to 1955, they get the crate of plutonium, and then old Marty can get into the Delorean that has been sitting hidden in Doc's garage these past thirty years, travel back to either the day he first arrived in 1955, and give his younger self who has just arrived outside Lyon Estates a slug of plutonium(100% restoring the original timeline), or just before the lightning strike(Ensuring the new timeline stays as is). "old Marty"(The one who has grown thirty years older waiting to get the plutonium) will be eventually erased by the ripple effect like Old Biff was, but no plan is perfect.
Basically, rather than all the shenanigans with the clock tower, sit tight and get the plutonium when you know where it will be. If all went well, as soon as they TALK about that being their plan, technically speaking, old Marty should turn up immediately with their plutonium slug, lol.
I'm not suggesting it would make a better story. Just that it makes an alternate plan in case things go wrong.
And if you think about it, this is kind of what happened in PTIII anyway(And it is also a way for them to have not required a train). Doc stored the time machine, died, and Marty and 1955 Doc found it and sent Marty back.
So, a way to avoid the train stuff is to go into the old Delgado mine, open up the Delorean that Doc just left there, and leave a message for Marty and 1955 Doc to include a 5 gallon can of gas in the trunk...
