Growing up in the 70s & 80s, there was no shortage of "cool" shows and character to like, love and be fanatic about. To name just a very few: The Six Million Dollar Man, Jaws, The Hardy Boys, Star Wars, Happy Days, Evel Knievel, Bruce Lee, Pinball machines, Scooby Doo, Captain Caveman, Spider-Man, Superman, KISS, Charlie’s Angels, Wonder Woman, Grease, The Hulk, Battlestar Galactica, David Cassidy and the list goes on and on.
Again in the 80s we had He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, the Atari 2600, G.I. Joe, Alf, The Backstreet Boys, Rubik’s Cube, Back To the Future, Music Videos, E.T, My Little Pony, Batman, The Cosby Show, The Smurfs, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Madonna, Indiana Jones, Hulk Hogan, Mr. T, Pac-Man, Knight Rider, Van Halen, The Thriller album, Strawberry Shortcake, The A-Team, Boy George, The Goonies, Nintendo and another list goes on and on.
What will the kids (aka young shits) of the first couple of years of the 20-double-digits look back on, with nostalgia, in twenty or thirty years from now. I mean most things these days don’t seem to have much of a lifespan (and yes, I’m sure someone was saying the same thing about the stuff I liked back when I was a kid) or a lifespan at all. That being said, there are a few things I think will survive the test of time to and become the darlings of hipster doofeses and lonely 20 something guys and gals in the future. So I give you my list of five things, our kids will be buying on Ebay 2032 (and yes I know, we’re only a couple years into the 2010's so but this is what we’ve got so far)
Beiber - Yes, Justin Beiber. My mom, whom I can hardly imagine she even listened to them, still has a Beatles serving tray. 20 years from now, moms will be regaling their young daughters with tales of Beiber. I’m sure by then, he’ll be hosting a game show or dead from a drug overdose and the young daughters of our daughters will be all like "Gross mom! That guy’s skeevy (or whatever they call old douchebags in 2032)!"
Xbox 360/Playstation 3/Nintendo Wii - Given how far video game systems have come in the past 20 years, I can only imagine what kids (and adults) will be gaming on in the year 2032 and on. No matter what, it will definitely look different.
Gamers all over clamour for old NES and Super NES systems and the three I mentioned, like these two, are still consoles. In twenty years, the home gaming console will be long gone and replaced with something else I’m sure, so these three bad boys from the last days of bygone era, will be hot tickets.
Spongebob Square Pants - Actually if you were doing a list of things that will be retro cool from the early 2000's, twenty years from now, SB could go on that one too. Eventually the water will drain out of Bikini Bottom and Spongebob will final "be ready" to go off the air, only to resurface 20 years from now on a Retro Cartoon channel for grown men to watch and remember a much simpler time of eating cereal and watching Spongebob any day of the week on an all-day cartoon channel (in my day we had to watch our cartoons on Saturday morning and we liked it!).
Mixed Martial Arts - Now I’m not saying that mixed martial arts will be gone by the year 2032, but I’m sure it’s popularity, like boxing and professional wrestling before it, will have long since waned. If there’s one thing about people, we always want to see a new way for guys to beat the hell out of each other. Who knows what that will be in 2032, but it will probably a couple of steps away from MMA. Hell the way things are going, we’ll be in Hunger Games mode by the (speaking of the Hunger Games, if this was a list of "Six" it could easily be the Hunger Games/Twilight taking the sixth spot.
Nickleback - For much the same reason as Bieber, Nickleback will survive the test of time, mostly as a punch line, but so have bands like the Bay City Rollers and Poison. Get used to the idea that you will
NEVER in your lifetime, get rid of the sparsely talented lads from Vancouver cuz, after say, oh a ten year lull, they’ll be back on oldies stations and nostalgia tours.
