You’ve got your sports car, which is where you simply present a toy, and varoom . . . they’re off! There is no gap. It’s just turn the key, press the gas, and zero to sixty. And then you’ve got your Model Ts. You have to crank that engine—sometimes for five minutes—before they actually respond to the toy. But when they do, they really do. And once their hunting mechanism has been cranked to the point of the key turning over, they’re in the game. That’s why we use toys like laser pointers. They’re like those old-time engine cranks on the Model T.

