AKIPRESS.COM - After months of public relations hype, luxury car company Lexus revealed their real, working hoverboard, SBS reports.

The object of childhood fantasy since Back to the Future movies of the 1980s, the floating skateboard got its first test-drive by professional skateboarders.

In a custom made skate-park, skateboarders rode the board which operates using liquid nitrogen and magnets.

While it looks streamline, the heavy metal board is packed with ceramic tiles that are then cooled with liquid nitrogen to about 190 degrees Celsius below zero and act as superconductors.

A big downside of the Lexus hoverboard is that it only operates within the specialized skate park, which is made from wood, painted to look like cement and embedded with a magnetic track.

Appearing to ride on water, the magnetic track also runs under a small pool in the skate park.

Created by a group of scientists in Hamburg, Germany, who have been working on maglev technology, Lexus paid them to shift focus on creating a hoverboard.