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Contents 1 Liquid Nitrogen or Dry Ice 2 Inspiration 3 "Different Models"? 4 "Pop Culture" 5 "Behind The Scenes" 6 Iced DeLorean in part I only. False. 7 DeLorean or De Lorean? 8 Repetition 9 "Deus ex machina"

[edit] Liquid Nitrogen or Dry Ice

one part of the article says that liquid nitrogen was used to freeze the outside of the car while another part says dry ice. Which is it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Uther Dhoul (talk • contribs) 16:55, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Inspiration

A flying De Lorean-like vehicle appears in the 1984 film, The Last Starfighter. Does anybody know whether this was an influence on the Back To The Future design? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ernstk (talk • contribs) 20:26, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Different Models"?

What exactly is this section showing us? Different car models the filmmakers used? Obviously not different models of the car in the film itself (it's all the same one car... not multiple cars...). Different modifications made in the film? This is not a "model". I would argue that only the former (different models used by filmmakers) would be valuable info, and I don't see any evidence that that's what this is (no sources anyway) TheHYPO (talk) 20:24, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Pop Culture"

I'd like to know, where in Half-Life is the gravity gun is mentioned to have a "flux capacitor". I just want to know, because I thought I would have heard of that by now. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.122.222.24 (talk) 08:47, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

That does seem a bit odd, as I've played through Half Life 2 and Episodes multiple times and nothing is mentioned about flux capacitor. Might be fair game to remove it if no source is provided, such as a sound clip.--CLS (talk) 01:05, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] "Behind The Scenes"

I believe the material that has been posted there is from the behind the scenes material on the DVD set of Back to the Future. If someone wants to figure out how to cite it, that is where I would look. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.83.222.146 (talk) 03:18, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Iced DeLorean in part I only. False.

"Upon arriving at the destination, the DeLorean is extremely cold, with ice covering much of the exterior (this is only seen in Part 1) for reasons not made clear in the film (although often explained away by fans as a result of Doc Brown's upgrades to the DeLorean with future technology seen at the end of Part 1). In real world terms, it was a matter of production cost/logistics of applying dry ice to the vehicle to achieve the effect, which was felt to be insufficiently important to continue in the sequels."

First, one only needs to watch the movie once to see that there is indeed ice on the DeLorean in part II. At the point when Doc and Marty go back to 1955 and park behind the Lyon Estates billboard. The hood is completely covered in ice.

Second, I don't know how anyone could claim themself a fan if they were to not know this fact in the second film and would explain away that Doc's upgrades reduced or eliminated the accumulation of ice during time travel.

Last but not least, what producer and/or director (Speilberg for that matter) would decide that the COST to produce the ice effect would be too great when it was applied multiple times in the first film and is obviously not a very complicated or involved special effect even for the 80s. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Molec (talk • contribs) 18:07, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] DeLorean or De Lorean?

Both are used. Are they both also correct? Apoyon (talk) 10:43, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

P.S. The Flux capacitor chapter says the "what makes time travel possible" part twice. Too repeating.

[edit] Repetition

The same idea is conveyed in more or less the same words on two seperate occasions. Its the part about Doc getting the idea about the flux capacitor from a knock in the head. I will remove one of them to make the article read a little better. --Reballare (talk) 03:30, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] "Deus ex machina"

This term is used improperly to describe the Flux Capacitor... It is supposed to refer to a plot device that appears suddenly to solve away a problem. How is the time machine a deus ex machina? It doesn't just appear suddenly. It's a main component of the films.

Perhaps the term is just used because the Flux Capacitor is so advanced that one cannot explain its machanics, therefore making it a plot device that is improbable? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.173.128.228 (talk) 05:35, 8 June 2008 (UTC)