The "best of" Stranger Things requests keep coming up between this thread and the USH thread and i feel the need to (again) remark that Season Five WAS a "best of" season, in itself. We're already getting that, y'all. lol
S1 Instead of Will getting abducted, Holly gets abducted.
Instead of the Byer's House with the Demo, we get the Turnbow House with the Demo.
S2 Instead of Hawkins Lab with the Dogs, we get the Hospital with the Dogs.
Instead of the original Hawkins Lab, we get the Hawkins Lab in the Upside Down - or even the NEW lab in the Upside where a lot of scenes with Hopper(that tentacle fight tho) and Eleven take place - bonus points if they choose to re-use the tunnels like S5.
S3 Instead of fighting a big gnarly monster at StarCourt Mall, we fight a big gnarly monster in the Abyss/Dimension X.
S4 Instead of Vecna in the Creel House (present) with teenager kids, we get Vecna in the Creel House (past) with Holly and younger kids. Instead of the Russian Base with a Demo outbreak, we have the MAC-Z with a Demo outbreak - bonus points if they choose to reuse Vecna's lair a la "Running Up that Hill."
The bones are already there for a pretty solid house, imo.
I can see the house opening with the Radio Station facade, going into the Wheeler house for Holly's abduction, maybe even get the bathroom or kitchen scene with Karen, then move to Turnbow house, then move to Vecna's mind lair or Creel House (past), then move to the MAC-Z Demo fight for Will's powers, then move to new Upside Down labs for Hopper and Eleven and the melting room with Jonathan and Nancy, then move to the Dogs in the hospital with Robin and Lucas, then move to the finale to fight Vecna in the Abyss, where we will absolutely get Joyce chopping his head off. That's already 10 or so scenes, so the outline is already pretty close to all the other Stranger Things houses we've already seen...
Season 5, at it's best, is just the best parts of all other seasons shoehorned into a smaller kinda lackluster box. This is truthfully Season Five's ONLY redeeming quality about being turned into a house this year; We're bound to hit the same vibes from stuff we've already seen from other ST houses with a new coat of paint and older looking characters. The bonus for Universal is that they won't have to cast adults to play kids or teens anymore, now they can cast adults to play adults playing kids - just like season 5 did!