

“The conversation looked like I had fans in city hall,” Dave Appel said. The display’s creators Dave and Aubrey Appel did indeed meet with the Plainsfield village officials, and were given the okay to put their elaborate Stranger Things Halloween decorations back up. Courtesy of Netflix © 2022 Illinois village officials rule in favor of Halloween cheer Stranger Things display will returnįortunately, this is a story with a happy ending. STRANGER THINGS Sadie Sink as Max Mayfield in STRANGER THINGS. They think it is the most awesome thing and when they found out they were going to be getting closed, the daughter literally was crying so hard.” “It’s so awesome,” neighbor Trina Mahon said. We understand why you are doing this’ and to have that blow up in your face.” “It’s upsetting, you know, to be told ‘we support you. “Everyone seemed OK with it, until they weren’t,” said Aubrey Appel, who created the display. According to ABC News, the family took down their display until they could meet with village officials to decide its future. While this might seem pretty amazing to us nerds, there was one neighbor who was less than enthused about the extra visitors to the area.

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People have come from far and wide to see the display, which has caused a huge increase in foot traffic to the quiet neighborhood where it’s located. The Halloween display has gotten an enormous amount of attention after it went viral on TikTok. The centerpiece of the decorations is a life-size mannequin of Max Mayfield floating in mid-air, recreating the iconic scene from Stranger Things season 4 where she’s attacked by Vecna in the cemetery. The display stretches across their lawn and driveway and depicts several prominent images from Stranger Things, including a Demogorgon and Billy Hargrove’s tombstone. It’s not all fun and games in Hawkins, and neither is it in Plainsfield Illinois, where a family is being pressured to take down an elaborate Stranger ThingsHalloween lawn display by one of their neighbors.
