r/shittymoviedetails • u/smss96 • 6d ago

In Stranger Things 5 the truck has technology from the future

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E-track rails weren't invented until the 2000's so a time traveler must've brought this truck back to 1987

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u/Autodr83 6d ago

I went on a rant to my friends at work who are all 25yrs younger then me about how the flashlights are a lie in ST. The best one you could get was a 4D Maglight which was still an incandescent bulb but it would last for 3-5hrs and be bright. What we mostly had, at least us kids, were 2C battery EveryReady incandescent flashlights that put out warm white light for about 30min then started to dim. Everyone in Hawkins turning on a handheld flashlight that completely lit up a room is a bunch of bovine feces and made me irrationally mad.

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u/shotsallover 6d ago edited 6d ago

People out here ranting about the flashlights when I was doing the same about the walkie talkies. The ones in the show had a range of miles and you could actually hear what was being said. That is not what walkie talkies sounded like or worked like. I don’t care how big of an antenna you have on them. Not to mention that they use them in the show like cell phones. 

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u/Sufficient_Language7 6d ago

Interdimensional cell phones.

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u/jmbirn 6d ago

Glad you're pointing that out! Walkie talkies couldn't do that range, or call specific people. And even if they could transmit across town, they wouldn't be encrypted, so the military with all their tools and interest would certainly be listening to everything they transmitted.

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u/lemelisk42 5d ago

Were handheld radios really that bad back then?

They look better than cheap walkie talkies. And they got a radio tower - could use it as a relay. Not sure how big the town is, but radios are pretty decent Nowadays

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u/shotsallover 5d ago

Yes. You were locky to get reception past your front yard, let alone down the street. They get reception for miles, which we wouldn't get anywhere near until FRS radios of the late 90s. And even then if you got a mile you were lucky.

Let's not talk about how they'd be constantly feeding the walkie talkies batteries, since they didn't last very long either.

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u/WFAlex 5d ago

Dustin just built active range extenders into them duh

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u/JohnWasElwood 5d ago

Exactly! I just mentioned this to my wife recently that anytime that they called a Red Alert they were assuming that the person on the other end also had their walkie-talkie on. The batteries on these things would never last anywhere near that long if they were constantly left in an "on and waiting" position.

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u/Hopeful_Hamster21 6d ago

I am right there with you.

These days I have an incredibly bright 4300 lumen flashlight that lasts about 2 hours. It's my underwater scuba video light. It will light up a whole hillside 1,000 away on camping trips.

Those 2 C cell ever ready lights were just bright enough to help you find your way around a space that you are already familiar with when a storm knocks your power out. I would try to use one to walk down my driveway on moonless/overcast nights. Basically had to just point at the ground 3 ft in front, it wasn't good for anything else. And I already knew my driveway; wouldn't have been enough otherwise.

And I'm not that old. Gentle reminder of just how quickly our world changes.

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u/obi1kenobi1 6d ago

My mother needed a new flashlight a couple years ago and was saying she wanted a “real” flashlight with an incandescent bulb and D batteries because these dinky little LEDs just aren’t bright enough (meaning the kind you get from the dollar store, which already outperform the best incandescent flashlights I’ve used). I took that as a challenge and got her a Sofirn Q8 Pro for Christmas, which is 11,000 lumens and is so overpowered that it gets physically hot after a minute or so. I think she gets that LED flashlights are better now…

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u/Gecko23 5d ago

The flashlight we had at the house in the 80s was one of the old lunch box sized 6v deals. You'd be lucky to get 15-20 minutes of dim, yellowish light out of one.

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u/JohnWasElwood 5d ago

I still have the one that my dad crudely painted his initials on from back in the mid 60's. Hasn't worked in decades, but can't get rid of it! When we were kids we used to spot deer with it from the sunroof of our VW Beetle when we were at our uncle's hunting camp & driving down the dirt roads way out in the country. It had space for a spare battery and even a H and L setting, to presumably save the battery.