Stranger Things season four volume two will drop on Netflix this week and one toy company is celebrating with its launch of their Mystery Capsule. It was fun. As a production designer, you always hope for a set that is a character in its own right or that goes through some evolution in the course of a season or gets featured in the way the Byers’ house was featured. It's always a lot of work, especially in Season 1 and 2. Both times we were doing these elaborate lights and drawings, [we had to ask ourselves,] “How do we make this space that we're going to spend a lot of time in go through this visually interesting evolution that also is moving the story along?” It's a total pain in the ass in terms of scheduling, because we didn't duplicate that set. We're always working with that same space. It was a real ordeal choreographing with all the departments that are necessary to make those big changeovers, do big lighting changes, change walls out and just physically destroy things. It's a challenge. It's a logistical headache and a continuity nightmare, but ultimately really satisfying because everybody thinks about that set when they think about Stranger Things. Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. The Upside Down is an alternate dimension that mirrors our world — or at least our world if it was a toxic hellscape overrun with creepy, moving vines, filled with murderous creatures linked together in a hive mind system, and is constantly experiencing electrical storms. Stranger Things 4 revealed a lot about Eleven’s past and dropped a big twist about who is the true mastermind behind the Upside Down’s war on humanity. But with only one season left to go, we still have a lot of unanswered questions — several of which center around the Upside Down.

When Vecna first entered the Upside Down, he wandered the wasteland until he came across a living cloud of dark mist, which was a primitive form of the Mind Flayer. Vecna, who absorbs beings’ consciousnesses and resultantly feeds off their power, knew he had stumbled upon exactly what he needed to exact his revenge on the world: When Henry Creel/One/Vecna (who we will hereafter refer to just as Vecna for simplicity’s sake) first entered the Upside Down, the location he arrived at didn’t appear to be a version of Hawkins, though. All we saw was a mountainous landscape and more electrical storms. No houses. No school. No Castle Byers. Vecna reached out to the Mind Flayer, seemingly using his powers to reshape it into the spider-legged monster he had doodled as a child. It was in this moment that Vecna likely created the Upside Down hive mind, becoming the puppet master behind all the monsters while simultaneously growing stronger by absorbing their minds. Let’s start with everyone’s favorite alternate dimension, the Upside Down, which is obviously alive and well in Season 4. It may be on a parallel plane, but it also mirrors the characters’ real world. Do you build every set twice — one regular, one dark and demented — or do you create one set and make it all look horrible? Secondly, you can set your default for each capsule size. To do this, put in a capsule as normal, but press and hold the button on top until you have sufficient water in your cup, then release the button. Next time you brew a coffee with that style capsule, just tap the button once and you’ll get your programmed amount of coffee. Repeat for each capsule volume that you use.In addition to the dangerous flora and fauna that thrive in the Upside Down, such as the toxic vines and spores, the dimension is crawling with monsters. These include the Mind Flayer, the terribly powerful, many-legged mist being; the Demogorgons, whose adolescent forms are called Demodogs; and Demobats, which can fly and may be smaller than Demogorgons, but are equally vicious. But if the Upside Down didn’t always mirror Hawkins, is it truly a parallel dimension that reflects our world or an alternate dimension that was transformed to reflect our world? Or maybe it’s simply that the Upside Down expands far beyond Hawkins and we’ve previously only glimpsed a small portion of it. Did Eleven create the Upside Down? Image: Netflix

When that Demogorgon escaped into our world, it was able to create multiple temporary gates between the two dimensions, such as the one in Will’s room and the one Nancy goes through in the base of the tree. Eleven has also created temporary gates in the years since her escape from the lab, including the one in Hawkins Middle School. So in short, his motivations don’t seem to be that complicated: destroy Eleven and destroy humanity, all under the pretense of doing it for a better world unencumbered by humanity’s stain. But how Vecna has been executing this vision is a bit more complex. GIFT FOR STANGER THINGS FANS– This official licensed merchandise from the hit Netflix show Stranger Things is THE retro 80’s unboxing experience fans have been waiting for. The perfect gift for fans of all ages. Likely because of these storms, the Upside Down affects the electromagnetic field of our world. This is how Will was able to use the Christmas lights to communicate with Joyce and why compasses will, if they’re in close enough range, point to Upside Down gates rather than true north.To insert the capsule, you need to open the lid, which can be automated or manual. Inside, you’ll see a capsule holder, and the Vertuo capsule drops into this upside down. In the first part of season 4, Dustin guessed that Vecna was the Mind Flayer’s “five-star general,” but it’s actually the other way around.