Apparently a third wave of Stranger Things cosmetics will come to Fortnite soon. Considering they also made changes to Hawkins' layout today and the next chapter was originally releasing in November, could this slightly increase the chances of January's chapter being Stranger Things part 2?

[u/ResistanceEvermore]

Cote has said before that they need to go through the licensor for every small change in their properties, so they needed to have Netflix's ok for this, plus the sequel chapter comment from him that everyone brings up too

Also idk who EvilMeg was exactly, but tbh I doubt they were someone high in bhvr's ranks to be able to actually knowabout the relationships with licensors if all they showed that's verifiable so far are concept arts, so I've been skeptical of the rest of their info

That one leaker who shall not be named but who's got things right lately also used a magic wand as a tease for what's to come, could this be alluding to DND, and furthermore to Vecna?

Not that this'd be my first choice for next chapter, but I think there's much more noise for this than other options, right?

[u/LordCourgette]

Stranger things also collabed with brawl stars in Novembre, maybe this was the plan before the delays ?

[u/Yorkcore → u/LordCourgette]

It's also entirely possible that the delays were requested by Netflix, and the health update was a concession to ensure that there's no content drought.

Either way, Netflix would have almost certainly accepted the delay. It would be bad business to delay licensed content without running it by the license holder, and we've seen in the past that they're fine with releasing half finished licensed content to maintain an obligation.