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    Grab a Bite of Stranger Things with a Tales From ’85 McDonald’s Happy Meal 

    Find out when and where to get your taste of the Upside Down. 

    By Keisha Hatchett
    April 24, 2026

Wishing to tap into the Upside Down without the threat of running into a gnarly Demogorgon or those eerie vines? A tasty new connection to the other side exists right here in our world — no flip necessary.

Netflix is teaming with McDonald’s to bring nerds from around the world a Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 Happy Meal, inspired by the animated series from showrunner Eric Robles and executive producers the Duffer Brothers. All 10 episodes are streaming now.

The new Happy Meal comes packed with plenty of goodies to help fuel your next adventure:

  • A custom Stranger Things: Tales From ’85-inspired Happy Meal box
  • A collectible character toy; two new characters will be revealed weekly
  • Stranger Things activity book
  • A QR code that unlocks an interactive game where you can help save Hawkins 

The Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 Happy Meals will be available in the US beginning May 5. They will also launch globally across Brazil, Singapore, Norway, Australia, the Netherlands, Germany, Portugal, Italy, India, and more in the following weeks. 

Get a taste of what’s in store in the image below. 

A cracked McDonald's Happy Meal box sits on a table surrounded by Stranger Things character toys in a dimly lit room with glowing cracks, promoting Netflix's Stranger Things: Tales from 85.

Grab a meal and settle in to watch Season 1 of Stranger Things: Tales From ’85, about a terrifying threat that has surfaced in Hawkins during the winter of 1985. Our heroes Eleven (voiced by Brooklyn Davey Norstedt), Mike (Luca Diaz), Will (Benjamin Plessala), Dustin (Braxton Quinney), Lucas (Elisha “EJ” Williams), and Max (In Your Dreams’s Jolie Hoang-Rappaport) must solve a chilling mystery and save Hawkins in this new story set in the Stranger Things universe.

Stream all 10 episodes of Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 now, only on Netflix

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