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Visit Doc Brown's House For The 25th Anniversary of 'Back to the Future'

This year is the 25th anniversary of one of our favorite movies—Back to the Future. Michael J. Fox and company reunited last night on the Spike network to celebrate the occasion, and they’re stamping out plenty of Blu-ray Discs in advance of the movie’s release in high definition next week. Since we can’t travel back to 1955 to see some of the movie’s filming locations, we’re suggesting a visit to Doc Brown’s mansion instead.

Doc Brown’s Arts and Crafts style home isn’t really in Hill Valley, but it’s actually in the real life town of Pasadena. It was famous before the movie, as it is The Gamble House, and it is listed as a National Historic Landmark. If the name of the house sounds familiar—that’s because it should—it’s Gamble as in Procter and Gamble.

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Great Scott! Time Machine Now Available For Rent

On your next trip, get a little more adventurous with your rental car choice, and we’re not talking about getting a Prius or a Smartcar. Go with something that will leave a lasting impression on everyone you drive past—something like the DeLorean Time Machine from the Back to the Future series.

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Video: Back to the Future Ride Holds Final Countdown

Yesterday, Jaunted was invited to attend the final countdown for the Back to the Future Ride at Universal Studios in California. The final countdown? What's that? Well, it turns out the Back to the Future ride is closing on Sept. 3 so if you are headed to Universal Studios before then, you must ride the BTTF ride as you may never again get the chance. Word is they are putting a The Simpsons ride in its place in 2008.

So to commemorate the 14 years of the BTTF ride's existence, Universal held a countdown extravaganza complete with a masse of DeLoreans in the parking lot, a meeting of the real Doc Brown (actor Christopher Lloyd) and a fake Doc Brown, a short speech by the movie's co-creator Bob Gale and of course, the start of the countdown in front of the Hill Valley town clock.

This was by far one of the most awesomest press junkets we have ever been to and that's not because we are crazed BTF fans. No, it's because if you were to use the unintentional comedy rating scale, this junket would be off the chart.

The second more exciting video is after the jump.

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Adventures of Link: DeLirious DeLoreans

Is it still camel casing when it is part of a persons last name? All those DeLoreans in one place can only mean one thing, and don't worry Jaunted wouldn't miss our chance to capture 1.21 jigawatts worth of pics on our digital cameras.

Full report tomorrow. Until then:
·Rent your own DeLorean in Los Angeles [brianbero]
·Time Travel for Beginners [lifesci]
·The Real Life Twin Pines Mall [Official Site]
·Doc's House is the Gamble House in Pasadena [Official Site]
·We Will Always Have Osaka [Jaunted]