John scribbled out pretty much every futuristic Hill Valley technology you craved for as a kid, all the way down to Griff's automated baseball bat and rhino boots (which were apparently based on Bell's actual footwear at the time).
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John Bell: design guru by day, the Iron Shiek by night.
What '90s kid didn't grow up wanting their very own go-go gadget hate crime bat? Remember the disappointment when you realized they didn't really exist? And now, 30 years later, we're still waiting for that groundbreaking extendo-bludgeon technology!
Oh, wait ... no, we're thinking of these:
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Fuck you, gravity.
That's right, you shits. Along with the entire aesthetic of Back To The Future's vision of 2015, Bell designed the Holy Fucking Grail of fictional toys -- and consequently, every child's first taste of profound disappointment for the real world. Thanks, John! Any other ways you'd like to dominate our childhood fantasies like some kind of one-man dreamland cartel?
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