Talk:Hoverboard

Fictional?

I have taken out that the hoverboard is fictitious because there are hovercrafts, that float on air, based on bags and a giant fan. There is a company that designs hoverboards with engines and fans. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Whicky1978 (talk • contribs) 06:57, July 3, 2005

Probably half a decade late on responding to this, but hoverboard and hovercraft (appear to) use completely different means of levitation, and aside from the word "hover" have no more in common than a helicopter and a pair of waxed skis. Hovercrafts float on a thin layer of forced air to reduce friction, whereas the board appears to magically harness magnetism. The existence of hovercrafts is irrelevant; the hoverboard is fiction. 24.79.89.131 (talk) 06:05, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

And make it another half-decade late for me, but as by your own admission the hoverboard is fiction, then how can we assign it with certainty to any specific levitation and locomotion technology? True, the current focus seems to be on mag-lev, but this does not mean future designs will use this technique. I think, in the case of technology, classifying something as "fiction" or "non-fiction" is not appropriate. Calling something fiction seems to imply it will never be, can never be. Today, there is no viable thing being marketed that displays the characteristics we associate with the word "hoverboard," but that is not to say it will always be so. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Primalsteam (talk • contribs) 12:50, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

Trademark

The rumor that Hoverboard is a trademark of Mattel is just a rumor. I have removed it from the article.

In the United States, Hoverboard is a registered trademark of Patmont Motor Werks. The trademark identifies an electrically powered two wheeled scooter for human transportation, produced by Patmont Motor Werks.

This information is verifiable by searching records at the United States Patent and Trademark Office www.uspto.gov

Pre-Back to the Future?

Is BTTF really the origin of this? It seems to be more generic that that, like jetpacks or something.--Viridis 10:21, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

--83.108.18.29 13:24, 15 April 2007 (UTC) The hoverboard is'nt fictional, they realy hover, they have existed for years, but athoreties (Or sumtin) banned them, BTTF were able to get their hands on some for BTTF II

There's no reason whatsoever for banning or even supressing this technology if it was real. Get over yourself. — Kieff | Talk 23:47, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

In the Judge Dredd comics there are characters called Skysurfers who have hoverboard-like contraptions. However these are all powered by "jets" and can fly quite high. Riders are also tied to them by a wire attatched to a loop around one leg so they remain attached if they fall off. In several stories Skysurf gangs use thier boards for robberies or gang wars. Also a recurring character called Chopper is a skysurfer 82.153.230.130 18:10, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

-oops, forgot to add that Chopper's first appearance was around 1979-1980. 82.153.230.130 18:11, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

-And now i actually look it up, and the first Chopper story, "Unamerican Graffiti", appeared in 1981 82.153.230.130 18:16, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

If the Goblin's glider is going to be referenced in this article, the "...first introduced in the films Back to the Future Part II..." has to be taken out as the glider first appeared in Amazing Spider-Man #17 - 1964. They were probably around in other places before but I haven't got any decent references for them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.108.249.111 (talk) 03:51, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Even if we can't find a reference for the Spider-Man comic, the original Transformers movie had a hoverboard in it, and was released in 1986, predating Back to the Future Part II by 3 years. Either way, "...first introduced in the films Back to the Future Part II..." is incorrect.--119.224.42.16 (talk) 14:20, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

For the earliest fictional appearance of a flying board as a form of transport for a person, what about The Silver Surfer (Marvel Comics, March 1966)? (87.112.190.148 (talk) 01:36, 22 March 2014 (UTC))

Reeks of Advertising Propoganda

The site looks like a scam, has no videos, speaks of viable demonstrations but provides nothing. Worst, they charge 100 dollars for a kit. Get this shizzle off the New Alexandria.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.106.159.179 (talk) 10:46, April 9, 2015 (UTC)

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I deleted several of these, and I apologize if my removals caught some legitimate entries.

It annoys me to find lists of WP:TRIVIA in Wikipedia articles. Video games or cartoons where hoverboards are seen or mentioned only briefly or in passing, don't need to be listed. If hoverboards don't play a central role, it doesn't need to be listed. If the video game or cartoon isn't notable enough to have its own article on Wikipedia, it doesn't need to be listed. I propose we use the folllowing criteria to determine whether to list or delete an item (and this has worked well in other lists):

• An entry in this list must refer to a parent article on Wikipedia.
• The parent article must mention the use of or appearance of hoverboards.
• The entry must have an obvious connection to hoverboards; that is, hoverboards should play a central role (not just appear), or the parent article should establish a context in which hoverboards are significant, or there should be independent reliable-source coverage of the presence of hoverboards in the game or cartoon, not just a mention.

Adherance to these criteria will ensure that the list doesn't accumulate useless trivial cruft. I went through and removed what seemed to be obvious candidates for removal (accidentally sweeping up some that might have been keepers). I haven't yet had time to examine the list more deeply to prune it according to those criteria. ~Amatulić (talk) 00:18, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

To the wikipedia user Amatulic

I'm sorry you got annoyed by Trivia. I try to not to post trivia on wikipedia. Movies like "Pinocchio 3000" have hoverboards make their appearance and they do play a role in the movie. "Spider Man 1" 2002 and "Spider Man 3" 2007 did feature a hoverboard that uses ducted fans ridden by Green Goblin. Also "Final Fantasy 8" did have Zell ride a hoverboard in Balamb Garden. "EyeToy: Antigrav" is a real PS2 game where you control teenage characters on a hoverboard. "ReBoot (video game)" PS1 has Bob riding the hoverboard the entire time, those video games did feature a hoverboard that were ridden by a character.

Although I'm not quite sure about your proposal on hoverboard articles but I'll try to establish proof for each show that featured hoverboards or were used in the shows. You can trust me to post the articles that I post on hoverboards in popular culture because I'm obsessed with hoverboards and I have a lot of knowledge on which movies, TV shows, video games feature hoverboards. I'll try be a better team player in contributing articles because, those hoverboards in those shows deserve recognition for being used by the character in the show. CrosswalkX (talk) 04:35, 21 October 2015 (UTC)