things that are strange

The Official Story Behind the Legendary Series is set to be released June 30th. If there is more content coming, I'm sure they'd want to talk about it in this book.

Setting up an ARG of this scale is basically unheard of, would have taken a huge amount of planning and secrecy, and there's no way it would be left out of a book about the show. In fact, I'm willing to bet it's what the book is mainly about.

We've had similar books before, like Worlds Turned Upside Down, the official behind the scenes companion:

That's already pretty comprehensive, right? So why do they even need to create this new book?

Well, someone apparently thought they did. Here is the description:

Okay....

Well, a lot of that sounds like what we've already seen, right?

But if they've been planning a Choose Your Own Adventure for years, possibly even since S2, there actually would be a lot more to discuss!

Now, worst-case scenario, the finale we saw was actually meant to be taken at face value and this book is just another soulless cash grab with nothing new to offer save some pics of Eddie's costume variants.

Second worst-case scenario, CG is real but it's going to be released even later than this book, and the secret bonus website is yet another puzzle to unlock and tease about it. I don't think this is very likely, but who knows!

My ideal scenario, they release something very soon, maybe at the Superbowl, and then maybe release the finished season/additional movies for Valentine's Day, or at the very latest Will's birthday.

The ONLY thing that's making me wonder about option 2 is the fact that we have some merchandise mentioning summer. The Bradley's Big Buy merch says something about a summer deal, or the sale expires August 5th:

That's a pretty random choice.

But I still don't think it would make sense to publish this official book without the remainder of the show!

Duffers drawing seen in the doc is the last page of the legacy book that came out today.

"Gross" mind flayer?

Good question, also no that won’t help.

shitty MS Paint 3 minutes doodle, nto entirely accurate: When you have your pinky hooked on the “bottom” edge of the phone for the extra security so it doesn’t slide out of your hand that easily, you’re wreaking damage on your hand, since the pinky is extremely askew from it’s resting position. You might have noticed that when you hold your phone like that for long time it begins to hurt, like when you are gripping a pen too tightly for example.

Like the amount of yellow, red, blue connections are insane 🤯

Of course because I’m annoying, and excited about colour theory - I shared in the comments that there’s a painting called ‘Yellow-Red-Blue’ (1925) by Wassily Kandinsky.

And it’s relevant because one of his paintings appear in S4. My post about it here

Anyway…the way I side eyed Josh when I noticed his podcast logo colours!!:

And this is what it used to look like: