Yes the Canadian Winter. Putting "Frost Shields" on the car windows. Remember doing this with dad when I was a teenager.
How about a Cox U-Control Planes and engines in every K-Mart, Sears, Hudson Bay and Eatons Store. The Bay in downtown Winnipeg had a whole section of just Cox and Testor U-Controls.

Was at a Radio Shack in Houston back in the summer of 2003. Two kids had taken a foamie outside to try in the parking lot. They wondered whether it would fly. It was a Cox F-4. I said it's from Cox. It should fly. They never heard of Cox. [] Sigh, what they missed out on. Darn video games.