I was at first self-conscious when one of the cast, sporting a neon windbreaker, jolted a VHS camera onto my windshield and I was asked to lip-sync on a giant screen while wearing a mask, but we all looked ridiculous, so I went with it. the first half of the experience.Įverything in the Starcourt Mall area was the right mix of nostalgic and silly, and a great effort was made to get guests, though trapped in cars with windows up, to participate. I am a wimp, and at times “Stranger Things” has even been too scary for me. Martens: While you’re far more knowledgeable on television happenings and all things “Stranger Things,” my primary interest in this event was seeing how a themed environment would be brought to life in a parking garage, and if the show’s ideas and concepts would come through to someone who is less intimately familiar with the show. We especially loved the overall attention to small details, like Will’s horribly dorky, high-waisted shorts, the preponderance of tube socks and the wonderfully obnoxious neon signage. Soda in a Hawkins High School collector’s cup: $12. Workers dressed like Season 3’s Scoops Ahoy employees brought us the teenager-friendly food that we’d ordered from a digital menu: corn dogs, pizza and Skittles at theme-park high prices. Fans will appreciate the “friends don’t lie” squabble between Mike and El, while a DJ at the front of the “food court” entertained with a costume contest (fans had dressed in their ’80s worst), trivia quiz and hype about the “new” mall’s Sam Goody and Orange Julius. Their dialogue, some of it pulled directly from the show, was beamed through our radio. Cast members of the experience, resembling “Stranger Things” main characters Will, Dustin, Lucas and Mike, meandered around the lanes of parked cars, interacting with us through the window. Organizers created “Hawkins Radio,” a digital channel featuring “’80s classics, strange sonic intrusions, radio hijacks and bursts of information” to help transport the audience back to Season 3, which premiered in July 2019. Here’s what our critics had to say about leaving the bizarre 2020s for the strange 1980s. Los Angeles Times’ television critic Lorraine Ali and gaming game critic Todd Martens separately motored through opening night of this pandemic-tailored, hour-plus experience, which spans all three seasons of the series and includes new music from the show’s composers, Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein. Think of it like dinner theater but from the safety of your car. Fans and casual viewers who paid upward of $69 per car drive from scene to scene, reliving pivotal moments from the show inside the Starcourt Mall, the Russian labs, the Upside Down and more. The live entertainment production, which is co-produced by Netflix and the event platform Fever, re-creates key scenes from the show across a 400,000-square-foot set. “Stranger Things: The Drive-Into Experience” opened Wednesday in celebration of Netflix’s beloved sci-fi series about a group of Indiana teens coming of age during the Reagan years and a monster invasion.
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