Watch: Netflix Sneak Peeks ‘Stranger Things: Tales From ‘85’ Animated Series

As part of today’s Stranger Things Day celebrations — marking the day when Will Byers went missing in Hawkins, Indiana (November 6, 1983) — fans have been treated to first-look images and a darkly compelling featurette going behind the scenes of the upcoming animated series Stranger Things: Tales From ’85.

The series is slated for release on Netflix in 2026.

In the featurette, Stranger Things creators Matt Duffer and Ross Duffer explain how the project was initially conceived as an homage to classic ’80s cartoons, noting that creating a new story in an animated world allowed showrunner and executive producer Eric Robles (Fanboy & Chum Chum, Glitch Techs) and his team to really go wild.

“When we started talking about, was there anything else we wanted to do with Stranger Things, this was one of our first ideas,” Ross shares in the video.

Logline: Welcome back to Hawkins in the stark winter of 1985, where the original characters must fight new monsters and unravel a paranormal mystery terrorizing their town in Stranger Things: Tales From ’85, an epic new animated series.

The voice cast is led by Brooklyn Davey Norstedt as Eleven, Jolie Hoang-Rappaport as Max, Luca Diaz as Mike, EJ (Elisha) Williams as Lucas, Braxton Quinney as Dustin, Ben Plessala as Will and Brett Gipson as Hopper. Additional voice cast includes Odessa A’zion, Janeane Garofalo and Lou Diamond Phillips.

Matt and Ross Duffer serve as executive producers, along with Hilary Leavitt (Upside Down Pictures), Shawn Levy (21 Laps) and Dan Cohen. The animation is produced by Australian studio Flying Bark Productions (Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, What If…?, 200% Wolf).

Add Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 to your watchlist at netflix.com/StrangerThingsTalesFrom85.