Overview

• Netflix schedules Stranger Things: Tales From ’85’ for a 2026 release, positioning it between Seasons 2 and 3 of the live-action series.
• Footage previewed at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival on June 11 revealed original heroes battling new monsters spilling from the Upside Down.
• The series adds Nikki Baxter, a pink-haired tinkerer, to the Hawkins ensemble in the winter of 1985.
• Executive producers Matt and Ross Duffer, Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen collaborate with showrunner Eric Robles under 21 Laps and Upside Down Pictures.
• Australian studio Flying Bark delivers high-grade CG animation styled after ’80s cartoons with a family-friendly tone.