Flux Capacitors Now Secretly Being Sold By O’Reilly Auto Parts
Did your flux capacitor in your Delorean break down, and you’re now stuck in an alternate dystopian future where your Dad’s high school bully is one of the wealthiest people on Earth? Well, apparently, you can just head over to the O’Reilly Auto Parts website and pick up a new one. By following the right steps, you can find an actual page on the company’s website advertising a Back to the Future flux capacitor.
O’Reilly Auto Parts advertises a Flux Capacitor from Back to the Future on its website, while warning that it’s not currently for sale.
In what is an admittedly decent marketing ploy, going to the O’Reilly Auto Parts website and typing in “121g” in the search bar will lead you to this page, which is a flux capacitor product listing that is not available for purchase. The flux capacitor, as Back to the Future fans know, is the device that powers Doc and Marty’s time-traveling adventures in the franchise. The product listing offers some appropriately in-depth information too.
According to the Product Details, the flux capacitor has a maximum power of 121 gigawatts, a working speed of 88 mph, and material compatibility with plutonium. The Back to the Future product also lists time travel as its modifications under the Applications for this Product section. The product description further advises you to time travel at your own risk.
Additionally, the O’Reilly product description advises that plutonium is not available for purchase at O’Reilly Auto Parts and that you will need to contact your local plutonium supplier for those materials. Of course, it also stipulates that you will need a 1981-1983 DeLorean DMC-12 to ensure the proper function of the device.
Of course, O’Reilly wasn’t founded until 1957, so this product wouldn’t have been available to Doc and Marty when they traveled back in the first and third Back to the Future movies.
While it’s a bit disappointing that you can’t actually buy a flux capacitor from the O’Reilly website (even if it was just a replica that didn’t work), there are undoubtedly other places online to buy models of the Back to the Future prop.
Additionally, the O’Reilly product description advises that plutonium is not available for purchase at O’Reilly Auto Parts and that you will need to contact your local plutonium supplier for those materials.
Granted, none of those options are probably going to be all that cheap, but movie memorabilia seldom is. Of course, if there was one piece of memorabilia from that franchise that anyone would love to have, it would have to be the Delorean.
Back To The Future
If you have somehow avoided seeing any of the Back to the Future movies over the years, then you’re definitely missing out and should go remedy that ASAP so you can wish for a real flux capacitor too.
The films follow the time-traveling adventures of Michael J. Fox’s Marty McFly and Christopher Lloyd’s Doc Brown, and each entry to the franchise is a classic. Unfortunately, it’s not all that easy to find them on streaming services.
While you can certainly rent or buy the Back to the Future films on places like Amazon Prime or Apple TV, there aren’t any major streaming services that have them available at the moment.
They have been on streaming services in the past, but you would need O’Reilly to sell you a flux capacitor and get it to work if you want to watch it on Netflix or another streaming platform. Still, if you don’t mind dropping a few bucks for renting it, you won’t regret the purchase.
