Stranger Things: Starcourt Mall

Stranger Things: Starcourt Mall was a Roblox event sponsored by the show, Stranger Things. The event began on April 16, 2021, after being soft-launched. The event was closed on May 5, 2021, because the game was in beta and are making an updated event for the show's upcoming Season 4, which would be delayed until early 2022 shortly after the game's soft launch due to the COVID-19 pandemic.https://netflixlife.com/2021/04/18/stranger-things-season-4-coming-out-2022-finn-wolfhard/ This led to speculation that the game's release date would also be pushed back to adjust for the show's production delay; however, it is likely that this delay did not affect the game's development timeline whatsoever. QA testing finalized on June 16, 2021, and the game launched on the following day for final tests. The game relaunched with noticeable upgrades, including a price drop on many of the game's accessories and various bug fixes and gameplay improvements towards the Ice Cream, Slingshot, and Demogorgon minigames. The game was officially launched on June 22, 2021, with some bug fixes, 6 new bundles and a new accessory. This event was pulled off from the Events tab on July 22, 2021. The event was a temporary addition.
An individual game was created for this event which resembles many locations from the Stranger Things' Starcourt Mall. The objective for the game is to explore the Starcourt Mall world in-game and complete quests the character gives to the player for Star Coins. They could have also been purchased with Robux. Star Coins could then have been used to purchase four marketplace items from the in-game Accessories Shop and 6 bundles from the in-game Costume Store. Due to a lack of maintenance, the event eventually stopped working, with Star Coins and daily missions not loading, the bundle shop not showing, the Starcourt Badge not showing up in the item shop, and the accessories being replaced with non-existent prizes. The game officially shut down on March 27, 2023, at 5PM PST.
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==Game==
Name 	Image	Creator/Group
Stranger Things: Starcourt Mall	 	Netflix
==Marketplace items==
===Obtainable===
Note: Star Coins are an in-game currency.
Name 	Image	Price
Starcourt Badge (Stranger Things) 	 	50 Star Coins
WalkieTalkie (Stranger Things) 	 	1600 Star Coins or 240 Robux (previously 3000 Star Coins and 240 Robux)
Eleven's Headgear (Stranger Things) 	 	1600 Star Coins or 240 Robux (previously 3500 Star Coins and 350 Robux)
DustinHat 	 	Granted for free upon joining the game for the first time
Hawkins High Backpack (Stranger Things)	 	1100 Star Coins or
320 Robux
Steve's Scoops Ahoy Costume 	 	2750 Star Coins or
800 Robux
Robin's Scoops Ahoy Costume 	 	2750 Star Coins or
800 Robux
Eleven's Starcourt Splatter Costume 	 	2750 Star Coins or
800 Robux
Will the Wise Costume 	 	3350 Star Coins or
1000 Robux
Demogorgon Costume 	 	3800 Star Coins or
1150 Robux
Hazmat Suit 	 	2400 Star Coins
or 720 Robux
==Minigames==
Name 	Objective 	Good Rank Reward 	Great Rank Reward 	Amazing Rank Reward
Delivery Dash	Get the ranks Good, Great or Amazing	10 Star Coins (+ coins collected)	25 Star Coins (+ coins collected)	35 Star Coins (+ coins collected)
Name 	Objective 	Good Rank Reward	Great Rank Reward	Amazing Rank Reward
Hi-Score Slingshot	Get the ranks Good, Great or Amazing	10 Star Coins 	25 Star Coins 	35 Star Coins
Name 	Objective 	Reward
Escape Hawkins Lab	Escape as a survivor or capture everyone as the Demogorgon	20 Star Coins
Name 	Objective 	Winning Reward	Losing Reward
Dueling Dice	Win or Lose the round	35 Star Coins 	10 Star Coins
==Daily Quests==
Name 	Reward
Cast Ambush 5 times in Dueling Dice. 	100 Star Coins
Cast Fireball 5 times in Dueling Dice. 	100 Star Coins
Play the Hawkins Lab Escape twice. 	100 Star Coins
Teleport 3 times as the Demogorgon across all games of Hawkins Lab Escape. 	100 Star Coins
Play Hi-Score Slingshot 3 times. 	100 Star Coins
Play Delivery Dash 3 times. 	100 Star Coins
Roll 3 Critical Hits across all games of Dueling Dice. 	200 Star Coins
Cast Ice Storm 12 times in Dueling Dice. 	200 Star Coins
Cast Ensnaring Strike 12 times in Dueling Dice. 	200 Star Coins
Cast Lightning Arrow 12 times in Dueling Dice. 	200 Star Coins
Defeat 5 opponents in Dueling Dice. 	200 Star Coins
Hit 20 Demorgoron and Demodog targets without missing in a single game of Hi-Score Slingshot.	200 Star Coins
Eliminate 7 Survivors as the Demogorgon across all sessions of Hawkins Lab Escape. 	200 Star Coins
==Updates==
*On April 16, 2021, the game went public and the event officially began after a soft-launch.
*On April 17, 2021, the game received many major bug fixes, such as fixing a teleport bug with the "Escape Hawkins Lab" minigame.
* On May 10, 2021, the game was closed.
*On June 17, 2021, the game was reopened with improvements and a free hat upon joining.
*On June 22, 2021, the event was officially launched and the game was updated with 6 new bundles and a new accessory.
*On October 10, 2021, many major bugs, such as not being able to buy the Starcourt Badge, were fixed.
* On November 3, 2021, the accessories shop items were replaced with Will the Wise Cloak, Steve's Baseball Bat, and Demogorgon Legs, although they are not purchasable
* On March 27, 2023, the game was permanently shut down, officially ending the event and making all items unobtainable.
==Criticism==
Many users have criticized this event due to it having several glitches that resulted in players not being able to earn the Starcourt Badge (Stranger Things) accessory. On release, players were unable to teleport to the "Escape Hawkins Lab" minigame, causing the "Play all minigames in the mall!" quest to be incompletable. This event was also criticized for offering prizes that required Robux, or a lot of grinding for in-game currency to purchase them.
There was a bug where the daily quests and leaderboard buttons would not load upon joining the game, making them inaccessible. This caused the daily quests and leaderboards not to function. The only way for the player to regain access to these buttons was to leave and rejoin the game, though that sometimes didn't work.
There were also bugs in which the leaderboard didn't show the correct scores. The game only updated the score once—any subsequent new high scores after the first did not appear on the leaderboard.
Additionally, there was a visual bug which may have been encountered by purchasing an item with Star Coins. It was possible for the coin counter to show a negative amount of coins, which could be fixed by leaving and rejoining the game.
It was common for minigames to not give the reward upon completion, causing the player to replay for the reward. 
==Trivia==
*This was the second Stranger Things event, the first being Stranger Things 3.
*The event game had PC, Mobile, and Console support.
*The event game shared similarities with the Wonder Woman: The Themyscira Experience event.
*It cost 17,800 Star Coins, or 5,270 Robux, to obtain all six bundles in the shop.
*The fictional franchises visible in-game, Burger Things and Taco Man, are references to the fast-food chains Burger King and Taco Bell.
*Like the Metaverse Champions event, the earnable Bundles do not give their respective costumes, and instead give each part separately.
*One way people grinded coins was through taking turns surrendering in the Dueling Dice minigame. Every time one person surrenders, the other person receives 35 coins for winning. This method, however, only worked if at least one spell had been cast in the match.
**It was also possible to grind money by repeatedly entering and exiting the Hi-Score Slingshot minigame. After about 30 seconds of repeatedly doing this, it would start giving you 10 coins for each time you exit. This worked because the game normally makes you wait until the 30-second mark before it would let you receive coins from exiting. However, the game did not properly end when you exit it. If, during the current game, you reached the 30-second mark from any of the previous games, you would still be able to receive coins from exiting. This allowed you to rapidly claim 10 coins over and over. This also caused various bugs, such as lag, the idle screen and game screen merging, and not being able to move.
*It was possible to take the slingshot out of the Hi-Score Slingshot room. If you pressed the Escape or menu button, a dialog would pop up asking if you wish to quit the minigame. If you clicked Cancel, you would be forced to walk towards a certain spot in the room, then be given the slingshot again. If you were in this walking state at the moment the minigame's time ran out, you would be given the slingshot after the game ends, and you would keep it until you rejoined or restarted the Hi-Score Slingshot minigame.
*The game's leaderboard changed when you changed servers, causing some minigame rewards to be unobtainable if the player rejoined a different server upon completion of the minigame.
*Two unreleased badges were created shortly after release, promoting the Dustin's Camp Know Where Cap and Eleven's Starcourt Jumper (AKA Eleven's Mall Outfit) These were originally obtainable through promo-codes during the Stranger Things 3 event. These two items were never made available through Stranger Things: Starcourt Mall, though.
== Gallery==
Stranger Things- Starcourt Mall Coin Counter.png|Coin Counter Tab
Stranger Things- Starcourt Mall Leaderboard.png|Leaderboard Tab
Stranger Things- Starcourt Mall Daily Quests.png|Daily Quests Tab
Stranger Things- Starcourt Mall Shop UI.png|Shop UI
==Videos==
===Promotional content===
Roblox - Stranger Things- Starcourt Mall Experience - Official Trailer|Official trailer for the event.
==References==
Category:Sponsored events
Category:2021 events