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Two things that defined much (maybe too much) of my childhood, Back to the Future and LEGO, may finally come together in one glorious moment of nostalgia. Through LEGO Cuusoo—a website where inventive types can share ideas for new sets, and, with popular support, see their concepts become a reality—a crew has been working on creating a kit that includes the iconic DeLorean time machine along with a little Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) and Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd). The whole set up is a bit like Kickstarter for LEGO.

With the 30th anniversary of Back to the Future fast approaching (2015), this project is inching closer and closer to becoming real. It just hit the required 10,000 supporter mark, and has moved from a simple “idea” stage to a phase where a “LEGO Jury” reviews the project. A bunch of marketing and design folks will test the idea for playability, safety, and to see if this is true LEGO material or not.

I haven’t played LEGO in years—they lost some luster when a temporary feline houseguest used my LEGO pile as an impromptu litter box—but this set is calling. The plans include nods to all three films in the trilogy, including the original DeLorean…

The stupidity of Hollywood executives is near legendary. Their tendency to distill complex ideas down to demographics and childish concepts has ruined more than a few potentially great movies. So what must it have been like for a filmmaker like Robert Zemeckis to go around pitching, what must have at the time been a crazy idea, something such as Back to the Future?

That’s the premise of this video which attempts to recreate the objections Robert Zemeckis must have faced from Hollywood’s brain dead, coked up, 80s studio execs. Watch them suggest he ditch the time travel in favor of spending more time on the heart of the story, Marty and Jennifer’s plan to go camping, in the following Back to the Future pitch meeting re-enactment…

As a Back to the Future fan it hurts to hear this, but the DeLorean was not a very good car. Produced by the DeLorean Motor Company in part as a means to smuggle drugs, the actual vehicle Doc Brown’s time machine was based on looked awesome but sort of ran like crap. Luckily, they’re getting better.

A Houston based company now owns the DeLorean name and they’ve dedicated their time to making and selling new DeLoreans. Don’t worry, they look exactly like the old DeLoreans which means they’re still completely awesome. Last year we learned that they were working on converting their DeLoreans into fully electric vehicles and now… Great Scott, they’ve done it!

Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle creators Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg just finished work directing the new American Pie sequel American Reunion and, they’ve been so successful that Universal Pictures has given them a two-year development deal. That sounds great, until you hear what they’d like to use that development deal to make.

If they had their druthers they’d be remaking Back to the Future.

Talking to Moviehole Hurwitz revealed, “We want Back to the Future, just come out and say it. That’s our favourite trilogy. We’re always having this conversation…”