OUR dreams of owning a hoverboard have come one step closer to reality.

The good people at US toy company Mattell have announced they will be making the pink hoverboard made famous by Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly in Back to the Future II.

Problem is they don’t hover. And that’s just the start of it.

Mattel also says it needs a critical mass of orders before going into production.

“If we don’t receive the minimum orders, won’t go into production and customers will not be charged,” the company said.

Mattel is expected to set a price for the boards later this month.

Meanwhile, boffins working on the real hoverboard technology better get a move on. They have just three years left.

In 1989 Back to the Future II predicted we would have our hoverboards by 2015 and by golly scientists are in for one angry mob if we do not get them.