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Sadie Sink (from left), Noah Schnapp, Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard and Caleb McLaughlin in a scene from season 3 of “Stranger Things.” | Netflix

‘Stranger Things’ season 3 trailer released: Watch it here

“We’re not kids anymore. I mean, what did you think, we were just going to sit in my basement all day? Play games for the rest of our lives?” asks Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) in the trailer for season 3 of the Netflix hit supernatural series “Stranger Things,” released Wednesday.

The series, created and written by the Duffer Brothers (Matt and Ross), returns July 4 with the first of eight new episodes. Season three is set in 1985, months after the cast escaped “The Upside Down.” Everyone is back for the new season, including Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Charlie Heaton, Natalia Dyer, Joe Keery, Dacre Montgomery and Sadie Sink.

The show also welcomes newcomers Cary Elwes, as the mayor; Jake Busey, as a local reporter; and Maya Hawke, as an Robin, employee at the Starcourt Mall’s ice cream shop. Priah Ferguson joins the cast now as the recurring character of Erica Sinclair, who, according to the official statement from Netflix, will embark on awild mission to save Hawkins from a dangerous and unexpected new threat.”

As the trailer warns, “one summer can change everything.”

Caleb Mclaughlin, Sadie Sink and Noah Schnapp attend the Netflix Original Series “Stranger Things” Press Conference on December 10, 2018 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. | Alexandre Schneider/Getty Images for Netflix)

Caleb Mclaughlin, Sadie Sink and Noah Schnapp attend the Netflix Original Series “Stranger Things” Press Conference on December 10, 2018 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. | Alexandre Schneider/Getty Images for Netflix)

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