Spirit Halloween Launch: Spirit Christmas
Spirit Christmas: Spirit Halloween has plans to make the transition from spooky-ooky to holly jolly! The temporary retail chain that pops up in storefronts around the country in September and October will be sticking around longer than usual this year. the company confirms to PEOPLE.
Ten Spirit Christmas stores will open around the Northeast, with some taking over current Spirit Halloweens and others opening in new locations, where, instead of the retailer’s typical cloak-wearing skeleton mascot, guests will be greeted by a giant winking Santa Claus.
Spirit Halloween Launch: Spirit Christmas
A real-life version of the Christmas icon will also available to meet and snap photos with inside.
“Each store offers a unique shopping experience, brimming with a vast assortment of holiday décor, apparel, inflatables, gifts, and stocking stuffers,” a spokesperson for Spirit Halloween told PEOPLE of the new pop-ups.
“Guests can meet Santa for their annual Christmas card photo and receive a free digital postcard featuring you and Santa,” the spokesperson continued. “Wander through the life-sized gingerbread village, where you can mail your letter to Santa at the North Pole and find out whether you’ve been naughty or nice.”
The official Spirit Christmas website also teases what the free Santa pictures — which are already available to book — will look like, showing a family posing with the big guy as they sit among oversize presents and gingerbread houses.
The first Spirit Christmas store in Mays Landing, New Jersey is set to open its doors on Oct. 18, while the other nine locations are slated to open in early November.
New Jersey will see several more of the festive mall pop-ups, with locations opening in Marlton, Brick and Woodbridge. In New York, Spirit Christmas pop-ups will also be opening in Albany, Bohemia and Poughkeepsie.
Locations are also scheduled to open in Erie, Pennsylvania; Waterford, Connecticut and Dartmouth, Massachusetts. All of the pop-ups will stay open through the holiday season.
