His more boisterous style of leadership, supplemented by a fashionable wife and a taste for visits to fairgrounds, suggested that he might be closer to the people.
They can also sail on Grandad Dog's pirate boat, enjoy a dinosaur ride, see what Grandpa Pig is growing in the greenhouse or play games at the Fun Fair fairground.
Lucas had been one of those statistically minded economists, busy documenting relationships between higher inflation and stronger employment in the giant fairground that is the American economy.
For nearly 17 years, I've stayed inside the gates and the archive of this fair, not only because of that story but because of a real life-and-death racial drama that played out on the fairgrounds.
A week after I moved here and I set up a show in Richmond, collectors fair flock to fairground that was a first show I ever did here at the Richmond Fairground, and I set up in a toy show.