There’s consistency in the device’s function in our world. It’s easy to understand how it works.Īs a kid, you might have thought that the pegs looked kinda similar to those strings of incandescent Christmas lights that were pretty much everywhere at the same time, and which were used in the show’s first season by Joyce Byers and Will. There’s a very direct connection between the use of the light and the colour of the pegs. You may have taken a look in the back of the unit and seen the incandescent lightbulb that would light up the device’s colourful pegs. If you grew up relatively well-to-do, there’s a chance you owned a Lite-Brite.
I guess the question here is, how important is technological realism and internal consistency in a fantasy television show? Or, ironically, I just need to lighten up a bit and stop taking this kind of stuff so seriously.Ĭhill, it’s not that deep, as the kids say these days. Or the writers have no respect for the toys I grew up playing with, so now I’m going to start a petition to get Stranger Things off the air! They don’t know Lite-Brite the way I do!! I love the 80’s because I was a kid and now today sucks because I’m an adult with responsibility, so why do these actors get to time travel and have fun while I have to work 9-5!!! Or maybe the writers just needed a way for the two sides to communicate and it also works as a commercial tie-in to make money. That essence of the light is perhaps what’s affected by the Upside Down not the electric coil in the bulb. The explanation for this, in my mind, is that the pegs, while lit by the bulb initially, kept some of the light within them. There are no wires or electronics in the individual pegs in the toy in our world. Stranger Things’s version of the Lite-Brite works more like an LED panel with each peg affected by the touch of the people in the Upside Down. The Lite-Brite, initially released in 1967, works by using a light bulb to brighten up coloured pegs, which are arranged into shapes like a cock - also known as a rooster. Now, this is where my brain started to perk up.
We’ve learned that Eleven is part of a top-secret training program designed to create next-generation microwave ovens, Will Byers’s love of DND actually comes from being distantly related to Gary Gygax (who makes a guest appearance), and Hopper is actually a double agent for the Japanese government!Īnyway, while all of those fun revelations were unfolding, another one shows us how Will was able to communicate while trapped in the Upside Down in the show’s first season.Ī group of characters, who are also trapped in the Upside Down in Season 4, are able to move their fingers across the surface of a Lite-Brite in order to make words appear through the little plastic pegs. stranger to the world of video games and VR as there has been Stranger Things: The VR Experience, multiple mobile games, a mobile and console game called Stranger Things 3: The Game, and even a canceled Stranger Things game from the now-defunct Telltale Games.Stranger Things Season 4 has been a helluva ride with revelations galore (and gore) about the show’s characters, its multiple settings, and criss-crossing plot lines. Tender Claws has previously worked on such games as Virtual Virtual Reality 1 & 2, The Under Presents, Tempest, Tendar, and George in the Tub. Stranger Things VR is a psychological horror/action game developed by Tender Claws and coming to major VR platforms in Winter 2023."įor those who may not know, Vecna was the big bad of Stranger Things 4, and you can check out our breakdown of the villain, the truth about Vecna, and Vecna actor Jamie Campbell Bower breaking down the big final moment from Season 4, Part 2.
Invade minds and conjure nightmares in your quest to enact revenge on Eleven and Hawkins. "Become an explorer of unknown realities as you form the hive mind and tame the void. "Play as Vecna in this new Stranger Things adventure in VR," the official description reads. Stranger Things VR was revealed during the Stranger Things Day 2022 celebrations with a short teaser that features the ticking grandfather clock, demogorgons, and even an appearance by Eleven.Įver want to spend a day AS vecna? now you can with Stranger Things VR coming winter 2023 to a VR headset near you! /X9gLze9ord- Stranger Things November 6, 2022
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