'Back to the Future II' Closer to Reality as Tony Hawk Rides Real Hoverboard

Anybody who watched Back To The Future II as a kid dreamed of owning a hoverboard one day, and that dream looks to be moving closer to reality. 

The "future" part of the 1989 movie was set in 2015, and a company called Hendo hope to have something available in October of next year that resembles what Michael J. Fox whipped around in during the hit movie.

Skateboarding legend Tony Hawk rode a prototype of the hoverboard, which is called the "Hendo Hover," and this time, it is the real deal, unlike the Funny or Die clip that caught people out earlier this year.

As Yahoo notes: 

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The hoverboard itself is designed much more like a mini-hovercraft and it isn’t the floating wheel-free skateboard that first captured the world’s imagination in Back to the Future II. Nonetheless, it looks like an amazing feat of engineering that left Hawk very impressed.

Hendo is also working on future hoverboards that will look much more like what we saw a young Michael J. Fox riding around on all those years ago. The future hoverboards will be much thinner than the one we see in the Tony Hawk video and will be able to levitate up to one inch off the ground.

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Hendo are financing the development of the boards through a Kickstarter campaign, which has already raised $450,000 in just three days.

Now, all we need is a copy of Grays Sports Almanac and a holofilm version of Jaws 19 to complete the Back to the Future dream. 

Unfortunately, for now, it is Back to Reality. 

[YouTube: RIDE Channel, h/t Yahoo]