The past is leaving us, the untried and unknown future is before us, and we can none of us forecast or forereckon what Seventynine, another twelve months, will bring to us and ours. What 1878 has been 1879 may not be, or vice versa ; …

John wants to get his groove on with Melinda.

The cumulative message of the series is that these superfriends somehow combine the forces of nature, the machine and the mind of man […]

Of course, cisboys and trans girls may also want and obtain these items (and clearly, many do), but representing them as specifically girls' toys overdetermines their location.