Some Easter eggs: Hellfire Club gear was front and center, and since they figure prominently in the first episode of the season, a Netflix representative confirms that the group members have a high profile role in season four. If you wanted, you could suspend belief for a while and really think it was 1984. And there is another photo opp with bicycles and a doomed backdrop so you can try on either your “Stranger Things” cosplay dreams or perhaps even picture yourself in “ET: The Extraterrestrial.”Įvery detail was accounted for, from the Big League Chew gum and Ring Pops for sale at the counter, to the rats in the locker to the Thinking Cap and viewfinders for sale at Starcourt Mall and the arcade. Naturally, the Snow Ball path leads to Starcourt Mall, Scoops Ahoy and an assortment of neon items - perfectly on trend with 80s gear. ![]() Some folks will stay and take a picture, but others might skeedaddle quickly to the hallways of Hawkins High, look at a few lockers, see a few boxes of Eggos laying about and have the opportunity to buy a Hawkins gym outfit before heading to the Snow Ball, a scene stealer that was the highlight - and end - of Season two of the series. NetflixĪfter walking through the lab, the demogorgon appears out of a wall. The Starcourt Mall is in attendance at the Stranger Things pop up experience in Dallas and Chicago. Some higher priced things are there as well, collectible sculptures of key movie moments with a price point starting at $200. I check: Mad Max hasn’t been playing just yet, so the top spots are still available.Īfter the arcade, you can visit the Hawkins National Laboratory, where you can push buttons, take even more pictures and peruse a wall of t-shirts and demogorgon toys, including a gorgon plushie. There, I enter a blacklight party room with plenty of merch (hello desktop Pacman!) and the holy grail of 80s things: upright, authentic arcade games Gala GALAga, Dig Dug, Centipede and Ms. Yes, you can sit on the couch, right under the alphabet lights, and take a picture.Īfter wandering around the living room, the Palace Arcade is my next step. ![]() You walk in and turn the corner into Joyce’s Living Room, complete with the 80s couch, Dungeons and Dragons game sitting open on the wooden coffee table and a few boxes of Russian Cheerios lining the walls, along with an old-school black and white television, new vinyl albums (for sale) of the Stranger Things soundtrack and an assortment of things that will bring any 70s or 80s kids straight back to the memories of their nostalgic childhood. Folks younger than a certain age will find themselves also humming the music they already heard on the show. Folks of a certain age will find themselves humming from the moment they arrive. ![]() The first thing that hits you is the music.
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