The return of the now-completely obsolete phone booth for Bill & Ted Face The Music will likely add another layer of comedy that a van — while outdated, not extinct — simply could not.
Plus, if you think about it, it’s a good thing our favorite time traveling dudebros ended up not navigating through time in a van.
It’s not totally clear why they switched gears, but having Bill and Ted use a phone booth instead definitely helped set the movie apart from the super-successful Back to the Future series and its infamous DeLorean.