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On tonight’s episode for Stranger Universe, I will talk about the unfortunate news that
the real life location for Hawkins Laboratory will be demolished, and speculate how this
could impact the plot in Stranger Things 5!
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Back in 2016 when we were first introduced to Stranger Things, the Netflix original series
that would quickly become their flagship franchise and a global phenomenon, the very first thing
that we all saw in that pilot episode was the creepy facility known as Hawkins Lab.
Later on in the show, we’d learn that the building is a secretive government base where
scientists conduct mind control experiments, subjects are held against their will, and
its basement tunnels would end up connecting to the scary alternate dimension called the
Upside Down.
In real life, that place is known as "Building A" on Emory University's Briarcliff Campus.
The 42-acre property where the building sits was originally the site of the vast estate
of Coca Cola heir Asa Candler Jr.
The Georgia Mental Health Institute was built there in the 1960s and served as a treatment
center for decades.
A brochure for the institute once boasted of the building's ultra-modern design and
the state's forward looking attitude in the field of mental health.
But unfortunately, the building's days as a popular filming site seem to be numbered.
Earlier today, Emory Wheel student newspaper reported that Building A is slated to be demolished
as part of plans to renovate the Briarcliff campus into a senior living community.
There is no exact date, estimated time of the year, or even a year itself of when exactly
this is supposed to happen, but it is definitely going to be sad for a lot of hardcore Stranger
Things fans that like to visit the production set and filming locations in Georgia.
This news comes several months after it was reported that Patrick Henry High School, the
school in Atlanta used for both Hawkins Middle and High Schools is set to be demolished in
2023.
It is sad to say that the end of the show is definitely coming, and if you haven’t
gone to these locations already, I definitely recommend you all to visit these places with
filming tours from Atlanta.
As for how this impacts the fifth and final season, it is safe to assume that the lab
won’t be used anymore in the remaining episodes of the series.
We could see stock footage and flashbacks, but all the outdoors filming seems to be finished
unless they will demolish the building after season 5 finishes its production.
As it stands, we’re still months away from Stranger Things 5 beginning its production
stage in Georgia, and the scripts have only started being written as of early last month,
so we’re gonna be in another content drought for the time being.
Maybe we will get more news at TUDUM later this month, and as I speculated on our previous
episode, we are bound to get some updates on November 6th for Stranger Things Day.
But in the meantime, we are only left to speculate about the end of the series.
In regards to Hawkins Lab, I was hoping to see more scenes featuring the younger Henry
Creel and his time at the Lab under the direction of Martin Brenner, seeing how that relationship
grew and strained over time.
But the likelihood is that we’ll get that information in prequel novels sometime after
season 5 comes out.
Here’s hoping that we get more news and updates for Stranger Things 5 in the near
future.
Overall, very exciting times.
And that is all that we have for today.
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