Great Scott! Back to the Future VHS Tape Sells for £8,000 at Auction
By Milo Pope | Updated: 05:22 EDT, 28 August 2023
Hold onto your flux capacitors, folks, because we’ve got some seriously retro news. Remember those ancient VHS tapes we used to watch movies on before streaming was a thing? Well, get ready to have your jaw drop like you’ve just traveled back in time – a super rare VHS tape of the iconic 80s flick Back to the Future just scored a whopping £8,000 at an auction. And no, this isn’t some fancy special edition – it’s a legit old-school cassette still wrapped in its original packaging!
Back in the day, when mullets and neon ruled the world, this gem of a movie hit the screens and apparently etched itself into people’s hearts. Fast forward to now, and this “mint condition” VHS, part of the OG batch from 1986, strutted its way to Heritage Auctions in Dallas, Texas. Guess what? It not only crushed its predicted £4,000 price tag but pulled off a double with a final bid of £8,000. That’s like turning a DeLorean into a money machine!
Remember the times when VHS tapes were as common as questionable fashion choices? Well, those tapes are now becoming cooler than ever for some reason. Folks who grew up in the 80s are feeling all nostalgic and have some extra cash to burn. So, guess what they’re spending it on? That’s right, VHS tapes of their favorite classics. It’s like someone pressed the “retro” button, and now we’re all living in a mixtape-fueled time warp.
Let’s rewind a bit and talk about the VHS era. Picture this: big plastic rectangles that held the secrets to movie magic. They were the bees’ knees until DVDs strutted into the scene in 1995, stealing the spotlight. By the late 2000s, VHS tapes were pretty much as useful as a screen door on a submarine. Yeah, they had become that irrelevant.
So, what’s the deal with this specific Back to the Future tape? Jay Carlson, the VHS guru at Heritage, spilled the beans. Apparently, this tape is a unicorn among VHS tapes. It’s got this fancy watermark thing that screams “I’m super early edition!” And it seems that this movie is like the magnetic force that pulls everyone into its time-traveling charm. Whether you were rocking a mullet back in ’85 or just wish you were, Back to the Future has got you hooked.
By the way, did you know that this flick, starring the legendary Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, hit the jackpot in 1985? It raked in a whopping $210 million dollars, making it the top dog of that year’s box office bonanza. If time-traveling were real, we’d totally go back and invest in a bunch of these VHS tapes.
But wait, there’s more! In 2022, actor Tom Wilson, the guy who played the bully ‘Biff’ in the movie, waved goodbye to his own Back to the Future VHS for a jaw-dropping £60,000. He seriously thought VHS was here to stay. Talk about a blast from the past!
And there you have it, folks. A tale of an ancient VHS tape, a classic movie that refuses to fade away, and collectors who’d spend big bucks to own a piece of their childhoods. Who would’ve thought that a bunch of plastic, some magnetic tape, and a touch of 80s charm could still make waves in the 21st century?
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