jeez this is just ridiculous.

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Not excited about this.

It's been done so many times before and when you actually look into it, it's not that great.

This park that they built has been made out of wood and painted to look like concrete so that people think it can be ridden anywhere, but it can't. It has to be over a magnetic surface. That's pretty much nowhere right now.
They put a thin layer of magnetic material under the wood so that it would work, but only people who read the description of Youtube videos like this would come across that information.

The superconductors have to be kept cool using liquid nitrogen which will give you about 20 minutes of riding time before you need to refill it.
You'll need a tank to keep the liquid nitrogen cold if you're going to transport which bumps the cost up from around 10-15 cents to about $400.
Have fun buying and lugging that around with you every time you want to take your hoverboard to your specially built park to ride around on it for 20 minutes.

Not only that, but unless the entire park was polarized you couldn't ride this thing in anything but a straight line or sideways.

They use the excuse of 'it's a stepping stone on the way to the hoverboard of back to the future!' No... it's not.
Hoverboards cannot work over anything but a magnetic surface. That's how magnets work.

Hoverboards are turning into nothing but an expensive gimmick, and this, like the Hendo Hoverboard will go nowhere, physically and metaphorically.

I thought there was one on Kickstarter?
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I saw this when it 1st came out. Way better than the one Tony Hawk tested.