The original series has ended, but Netflix is set to take us back to the world of Hawkins with a new animated series based on Stranger Things. With Eric Robles as its showrunner and Stranger Things creators, the Duffer Brothers, serving as its executive producers, the series is set to release on Netflix on April 23. Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 stars Brooklyn Davey Norstedt as Eleven, Luca Diaz as Mike, Benjamin Plessala as Will, Elisha “EJ” Williams as Lucas, Braxton Quinney as Dustin, and Jolie Hoang-Rappaport as Max.

It is set between the original series' second and third seasons. In the final episode of the second season, Millie Bobby Brown's character Eleven closes the Hawkins Lab gate, presenting Tales From ’85 with a conundrum: How would it feature the Upside Down's creatures? According to showrunner, Robles, who produces it under his Flying Bark Productions banner, "That was the big challenge of developing the show."

When the Duffer Brothers went to Robles to find a solution to the aforesaid conundrum, he told them, "Let me do some research on this. Let me really dissect the show, dig into my old memory vault of a lot of ’80s movies I used to watch, and see what I can piece together here." After he started the process of research, he got an idea for Stranger Things: Tales From ’85.

"The horrors of the Upside Down are finally fading, and the kids have settled back into a normal life of Dungeons and Dragons and snowball fights," reads an excerpt from the official description. After a terrifying event, they must embark on an adventure with their radios and flashlights to prevent it.

There may be high stakes in the show, but it is not set in an apocalyptic universe. "These kids are not saving the world, they’re saving the town. “They’re in Hawkins trying to figure out what’s going on in these early episodes," Robles said.