New Stranger Things LEGO Set May Reveal Max's Fate — and an Unlikely Season 5 Team-Up

We are about a month out from Stranger Things season 5, and Netflix is keeping the plot tighter than a demogorgon gate. We know Eleven and the Hawkins crew are heading back into a rematch with Vecna, we know not everyone may walk away from it, and... that is basically it. So fans are doing what fans do: reading the tea leaves in the merch aisle. The latest culprit? A new LEGO set that appears to tease two pretty big story beats: where Max is at, and a wildly unexpected pairing involving Henry Creel and Holly Wheeler. Yes, that Holly.

Quick catch-up: the toy trail already started a few weeks back when a fresh Funko Pop wave quietly hinted Robin (Maya Hawke) and Steve (Joe Keery) are clocking in at new jobs this season. Now LEGO is chiming in with something meatier.

What the new LEGO set seems to spoil

• Max might be doing a lot better than anyone expected. The figures show a near-fully recovered Max hanging with Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin), Mike (Finn Wolfhard), and Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) outside a mini Creel House. That is a huge contrast from where we left her in season 4, after Vecna nearly killed her and sent her into a coma.
• Henry Creel and Holly Wheeler look like they share screen time. One figure is dressed in 1950s clothes, clutching a pocket watch (of course), standing next to a blond girl in a yellow cape. Thanks to set photos floating around, fans have pegged them as Henry/Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) and Mike and Nancy’s little sister Holly (played by Nell Fisher from Evil Dead Rise). That is a curveball.

On Max specifically, the showrunners did not exactly paint a rosy picture after season 4. They said going into season 5 she would be in a catastrophic state, and Sadie Sink has also been blunt that Max is not coming back as the person we knew. Which makes that LEGO pose feel like either a time jump, a remarkable recovery, or a bit of box-art optimism. Still, toys tied to this show have a habit of being pretty on the nose.

'Braindead and blind [with] all of her bones broken.'

That is how the Duffer Brothers described Max’s condition heading into the final season. Sink echoed it in a separate chat, saying Max is definitely not back in the way she once was. Again, if the set is accurate, something big happens to change her trajectory.

The Henry-and-Holly thing is even stranger. Season 4 (and the stage prequel Stranger Things: The First Shadow) established that Henry once had a younger sister, Alice, and he slaughtered her and his parents back in 1959 after he gave himself over to the Mind Flayer. So if he is hovering around Holly now? Maybe he sees a twisted stand-in for the sister he murdered. Or maybe he is using a kid to get leverage on the Wheelers and, by extension, the gang trying to end him for good. Either way, that is a very specific, very unsettling combo to tease in a toy lineup.

A couple of practical notes: the Creel House LEGO set is not actually hitting shelves until January 1, 2026, but images started popping up online on October 21, 2025. So this is one of those rare times where the merchandise drip arrives after the show drops... except the pictures are already out there to pick apart.

Stranger Things seasons 1 through 4 are streaming now on Netflix. The first batch of season 5 episodes arrives November 26. Until then, keep an eye on the toy aisle. Apparently it is doing half the marketing.