It’s impossible to write TimeMachiner and not talk about the reveal of the “New Delorean”. For a few months the Delorean Motor Company (no relation to the original DMC) has been teasing something new. A couple of silhouettes were put onto their homepage and that was it. Some rumors were floating around on whether it would be stainless steel, how powerful it would be, and what it would price at. Now we have our answers. This new “delorean” is dubbed the Alpha5. It’s a fully-electric car sporting a 100kWh battery pack, a 2.99 second 0-60 and a $175,000 price. From…
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Back To The Lego
In 2013 Lego introduced the first Back to the Future kit. This time-traveling Delorean was notable for being the first Lego Cuusoo fan-created set to be sold. Of course I bought it right away and to this day it sits on a shelf for everyone to see. But, like most Lego, it takes a bit of imagination to see it for what it is. That is now going to change. Jonathan Gitlin at Ars Technica has more details. For those who missed out, there’s now a way to get a Lego BTTF DeLorean—no time machine required. On April 1, the…
Netflix’s DeLorean Documentary Series
Leave it to Netflix to get in on the action with a plethora of new DeLorean movies / documentaries recently coming out. There were no less than three DeLorean Movies out from 2018 until last year. Each one focused on John DeLorean himself. I don’t know how this was not on my radar. There may be demerits applied to my Nerd Card for this infraction. I learned only this past weekend that Netflix has released a new series titled Myth & Mogul: John DeLorean. This three episode series covers the rise and fall of John DeLorean. You may know him…