By the Power of Grayskull! '80s kid culture returns
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Feeling a little stumped by the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Transformers movies? Some experts believe there's a 20-year cultural cycle and we're right in the middle of it. "It has a relationship to the way that people think about their youth and that moment when they crave re-connection to it. You've got what used to be called a 20-year nostalgia cycle that's built into pop culture in the 20th century, in which cultural products get recycled 20 years down the line for secondary consumption." Read the full story here.Feeling a little stumped by the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Transformers movies? Some experts believe there's a 20-year cultural cycle and we're right in the middle of it. "It has a relationship to the way that people think about their youth and that moment when they crave re-connection to it. You've got what used to be called a 20-year nostalgia cycle that's built into pop culture in the 20th century, in which cultural products get recycled 20 years down the line for secondary consumption." Read the full story here.