Children’s toys and entertainment don’t change over time as much as we may assume they do. I watched Looney Tunes and read superhero comics with my father when I was a boy because that’s what he liked to do; now, my daughter raids my collections of Calvin And Hobbes and Little Orphan Annie. My grandparents played Monopoly; my future grandkids will probably do the same. I was too old for Pokémon when it debuted in the States, but the franchise has endured long enough—in videogames, in trading cards, and on TV—that I’ve gotten to know it through my kids. The repertoire grows larger every year, but the true classics endure.
Except for Micronauts. Man, those things are just gone.
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