{"id":95268,"date":"2025-10-21T18:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T18:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/95268\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T18:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T18:28:08","slug":"i-guess-you-guys-are-ready-for-this-and-your-kids-are-gonna-love-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/95268\/","title":{"rendered":"I guess you guys are ready for this, and your kids are gonna love it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To mark the 40th anniversary of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/films\/back-to-the-future\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Back To The Future<\/a>, Gibson has launched an exclusive ES-345 guitar collection.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/blogs\/nme-blogs\/24-facts-about-back-to-the-future-that-might-surprise-you-770414\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">24 facts about Back To The Future that might surprise you<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/michael-j-fox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael J. Fox<\/a>, as the movie\u2019s protagonist Marty McFly, plays an ES-345 Cherry Red guitar in one of its most iconic scenes.<\/p>\n<p>So, to honour October 21 \u2013 recognised as Back To The Future Day because of its importance in the film\u2019s sequel \u2013 Gibson has launched a range of special guitars, apparel and accessories.<\/p>\n<p>The Back To The Future 1955 ES-345 Collector\u2019s Edition from Gibson Custom in Cherry Red is limited to just 88 guitars globally \u2013 a nod to the DeLorean time machine in the film needing to accelerate to 88 miles per hour \u2013 and has exclusive design details. It costs $19,999 (almost \u00a315,000).<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3900937\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Gibson-Back-To-The-Future.jpg\" alt=\"The 'Back To The Future 1955 ES-345 Collector\u2019s Edition' from Gibson Custom in Cherry Red\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1270\"  \/>The \u2018Back To The Future 1955 ES-345 Collector\u2019s Edition\u2019 from Gibson Custom in Cherry Red. CREDIT: Gibson<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3900941\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Gibson-BBTF-Certificate.jpg\" alt=\"Gibson Custom Certificate of Authenticity\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1270\"  \/>CREDIT: Gibson<\/p>\n<p>The Epiphone Back To The Future ES-345, meanwhile, is limited to 1,985 guitars to celebrate the year the movie came out. It costs $999 (almost \u00a3750).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3900942\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Epiphone-BTTF.jpg\" alt=\"Epiphone 'Back To The Future' ES-345\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1270\"  \/>Epiphone \u2018Back To The Future\u2019 ES-345. CREDIT: Gibson<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3900943\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Epiphone-Back.jpg\" alt=\"Epiphone 'Back To The Future' ES-345\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1270\"  \/>CREDIT: Gibson<\/p>\n<p>Among the other items are t-shirts, hats, plectrum tins, a guitar strap and an AXE HEAVEN mini guitar.<\/p>\n<p>A video from Epiphone showcases the guitar, includes footage of Fox playing the ES-345 during the movie\u2019s \u2018Enchantment Under The Sea\u2019 dance scene, and finishes with a spin on one of the film\u2019s most famous lines: \u201cI guess you guys are ready for this, and your kids are going to love it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBringing this guitar to life has been a passion project for many years, and it\u2019s incredibly exciting to finally see it become a reality,\u201d says Mark Agnesi, Director of Brand Experience at Gibson. \u201cWe couldn\u2019t be prouder of how these guitars turned out\u2014they\u2019re truly special. This is the guitar that inspired me, and countless others from my generation, to pick up playing in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fans can head to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gibson.com\/pages\/gibson-garage-nashville?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Gibson Garage Nashville<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gibson.com\/en-gb\/pages\/gibson-garage-london\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">London<\/a> locations to see the collection in person, and view them all online at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gibson.com\/collections\/gibson-back-to-the-future-collection\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gibson\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the summer, Gibson and Fox <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/film\/back-to-the-future-stars-join-search-for-missing-guitar-from-the-movie-3867193\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">teamed up to launch a Lost To The Future search<\/a> for the original guitar that the latter played in the movie. The guitar\u2019s location is still unknown, but the search has been narrowed, and Gibson is pursuing a number of leads. Fans can still submit tips at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.losttothefuture.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Lost To The Future website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also today (October 21), meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/tag\/apple-tv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple TV<\/a> announced that season three of its comedy-drama Shrinking \u2013\u00a0which is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/tv\/michael-j-fox-to-make-acting-return-in-shrinking-season-three-3862870\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">set to feature Fox as a guest star<\/a> \u2013 will return on January 28, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To mark the 40th anniversary of Back To The Future, Gibson has launched an exclusive ES-345 guitar collection.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,270],"class_list":["post-95268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}