With Stranger Things taking place in the 80's, it is easy for kids nowadays to not recognize some of the items used throughout the show due to dating.

With Stranger Things taking place in the 80's, it is easy for kids nowadays to not recognize some of the items used throughout the show due to dating.

In the summer of 1993, Steven Spielberg sent Jurassic Park stomping into theaters, and audiences weren’t prepared for its exciting mix of action, thrills, adventure, and horror. The king of blockbusters like E.T. and Jaws had managed to make a film that had heart as well as bite, and the movie based on Michael Crichton's best-selling novel about dino mutation became a mega hit.

These days, it’s hard to imagine a time when Star Wars wasn’t everywhere you looked, with a new movie perpetually on the horizon, and merchandise stockpiled in stores around the world. At one time, there was only the original trilogy of films by George Lucas, and after that, no one knew when another Star Wars film might be released. Kids today, having grown up with Star Wars being a constant presence in the pop culture stimulating their lives, won’t understand certain aspects from a franchise that is decades old.

As the Harry Potter series is now decades old, new fans don’t go through the same experience older fans went through. There’s a disconnect mainly because the novels were set in the 1990s, and the way the world works has now changed drastically.