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The Amaz­ing Live Sea­mon­keys, “inspired by those lit­tle sea­mon­keys one could order out of the back of comic books. Pro­duced as a live-action car­toon, the sets reflected a style akin to water­color paint­ings used for back­grounds in 1950s animation.”

I had a few Sea­mon­key kits in the past and would sit there in front of the con­tainer intrigued that micro­scopic mon­keys could sus­tain them­selves in water. I imag­ined full-sized mon­keys shrunk to the size of a dust par­ti­cle with gills for lungs float­ing around and enjoy­ing their Sea­mon­key environment.

When I found out that Sea­mon­keys were actu­ally brine shrimp my world came tum­bling down. How could they trick us kids into think­ing tiny mon­keys could swim underwater?

As Vezzini from Princess Bride would say: “Inconceivable!”