One licensed alphabet wall product exists. It is a set of 61 peel-and-stick decals, and the lights are printed on — there are no bulbs in the box. Every officially licensed lit version has been discontinued, and Netflix's own shop sells no string lights at all. If you want the wall to actually glow, you are buying the decals from one company and the lights from another.
Checked 10 August 2026. Below: what the one product is, what it costs in each market, why the lit versions vanished, and the one thing the production team has actually said about how the original was built.
The only official product
RoomMates makes it, under SKU RMK5240GM. The full name is a mouthful — Netflix Stranger Things Christmas Light Peel and Stick Giant Wall Decals with Alphabet — and the specification is straightforward:
- 61 individual decals
- 27.42 by 46.04 inches across the full arrangement
- Repositionable, and removable without damaging paint
- No lights
The lettering and the bulbs are both printed graphics. You get the wall, not the illumination.
Where to buy it, market by market
The availability here is genuinely uneven and worth checking against where you live before you get attached.
| Where | Price | Stock |
|---|---|---|
| RoomMates direct | $23.99 | In stock |
| Amazon US | $17.99 | In stock |
| Amazon CA | CA$31.62 | In stock |
| Hot Topic | $23.90 | In stock |
| BoxLunch | $23.90 | In stock |
| Amazon UK | — | Not available |
| Amazon AU | — | Not available |
| Walmart | — | Out of stock |
It is also listed at Home Depot, Michaels and Kohl's in the United States. Those three storefronts blocked our automated checks, so we are noting that the product is carried there without quoting prices we could not load ourselves.
Two practical conclusions. In America, the marketplace listing at $17.99 is meaningfully cheaper than buying direct from the manufacturer at $23.99, which is unusual and worth taking. For British and Australian readers, Hot Topic and BoxLunch are the only routes we could confirm — the regional marketplaces do not carry it.
The lit version you cannot buy
People arrive at this looking for a wall that lights up, so it is worth being specific about what has disappeared.
Rubie's made an "Alphabet Tapestry With Lights" at 68 by 46 inches — larger than the decal set, fabric rather than vinyl, and genuinely illuminated. It reads as currently unavailable on the American marketplace and has for some time.
Spirit Halloween sold a lit tapestry as a seasonal item in 2017. It was not repeated and is discontinued.
Netflix's shop sells no string lights of any kind. We checked the full catalogue. The only illuminated Stranger Things item we could find at a major retailer is a "Welcome To Hawkins" LED neon sign at Hot Topic, at $24.49 — a different object entirely.
So the honest summary is that the licensed market has decided this is a decal product. If a listing promises you an official lit alphabet wall in 2026, treat it with suspicion.
What the production team actually said
There is one primary account of how the original was made, and it is short.
Netflix's Tudum feature on the show's props credits set decorator Jess Royal with stringing the lights on the Byers living room wall, and describes her working with the production's electricians to build a master control panel that could switch each individual bulb and overhead light on and off as required.
That last detail is the one that reframes the whole thing. The wall is not a string of lights being run in a pattern — it is an addressable grid, wired so that any single letter could be lit on cue. Every scene where the wall spells something out one letter at a time was a practical effect run from that panel, not added afterwards. The production designer on the series was Chris Trujillo.
One thing we are flagging as unverified: the C7 and C9 bulb specifications that circulate in almost every guide to recreating this wall do not come from anyone on the production. They originate in the fan and DIY community, and they are a reasonable inference from the look of the bulbs on screen — but they are an inference. We have not found a crew member stating a bulb type.
How people actually build it
The standard approach is a hybrid, and it works well: the official decal set for the letters, plus a generic vintage-style string for the light.
The decals solve the hard part. Hand-painting 26 letters in a convincing 1980s hand is beyond most people, and the printed set is repositionable, which matters more than it sounds — you will want to adjust the spacing once the lights are up.
For the lights, the fan-standard choice is a retro-fit C9 ceramic multicolour strand. One widely used option runs 25 feet with 25 bulbs at $24.98. It is a generic product with no licence attached and no connection to the show, which is exactly why it is cheap.
Total, honestly: around $43 in the United States for both parts, and rather more elsewhere.
If you cannot have it
Two situations where the official product is the wrong answer.
If you are renting and cautious. The decals are repositionable and advertised as removable, but "removable" and "removable from the paint your landlord used" are different claims. A safer construction is to mount the whole thing on a sheet of foam board or a stretched canvas and hang that — you get the wall, and it comes down in one piece.
If you want it bigger. The official set is a little over two feet by not quite four, which is smaller than the Byers wall reads on screen. It sits well above a desk or a bed's headboard, but it will not dominate a room. The discontinued Rubie's tapestry was substantially larger, and the fact that nothing has replaced it is the real gap in this market. If scale matters more than the licence to you, hand-painting letters onto a large piece of fabric is the only route to a wall that size, and the irregular hand-lettering is closer to the original anyway — the screen version was painted by a person, not printed.
And a note on the point of it. The wall works on screen because it is a communication device, not decoration. The letters exist to be lit one at a time. A version with no lights in it is a poster of a wall. If the budget only stretches to one half of this project, buy the lights and paint the letters — not the other way round.
FAQ
Is there an official Stranger Things alphabet wall product? Yes, exactly one: RoomMates SKU RMK5240GM, a set of 61 peel-and-stick decals measuring 27.42 by 46.04 inches. It is repositionable and removable.
Does it come with lights? No. The bulbs are printed graphics on the decals. You have to buy a string of lights separately.
Can I buy an official lit version? Not currently. The Rubie's lit tapestry reads as unavailable, and Spirit Halloween's was a 2017 seasonal item that was discontinued. Netflix's own shop sells no string lights at all.
How much does it cost? $17.99 on the American marketplace, $23.99 direct from RoomMates, $23.90 at Hot Topic and BoxLunch, and CA$31.62 in Canada.
Can I get it in the UK or Australia? Not through the regional marketplaces, which do not carry it. Hot Topic and BoxLunch are the routes we could confirm for those readers.
What lights should I use with it? Fan builds standardise on retro-fit C9 ceramic multicolour strands, with one common option at $24.98 for 25 feet. Note that the C7 and C9 specifications come from the fan community, not from anyone on the production.
How was the original wall made? Set decorator Jess Royal strung the lights on the Byers set and worked with the electricians to build a master control panel that could turn each individual bulb on and off, so single letters could be lit on cue.
Will the decals damage my paint? They are sold as repositionable and removable. If you are renting, mounting them on foam board or canvas and hanging that is the lower-risk version of the same result.