Same with Kinder Surprise. When I was a young child, I got a flywheel mouse with multiple interlocking precision gears. I must have spent hours disassembling and reassembling it, instead and studying how all the pieces fit together. When I was an older child I got a single-piece plastic gorilla with green fur. It turned over in my hands a few times and probably threw it away.
Also, those Bionicle Happy Meal toys got me hooked on Lego Technic. Most addictive gateway drug ever.
Being subscribed to a service that brought about a dozen magazines every week that we would rent including Donald duck, gossip magazines, etc. Sometimes getting to sneak the ‘adult’ one to the bathroom and spend some quality time there.
The internet was a physical location. You had to go to a specific place to get online. If you had it at home - if you had it at home! - there would be one room in your house where you could find it.
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