Spirit Christmas replacing Spirit Halloween at select locations, merchandise revealed
From haunting to holly jolly, eight Spirit Halloween locations will become Spirit Christmas for the 2024 holiday season. Take a look at some of the merchandise!
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Updated Oct. 31, 2024 with merchandise and reduced locations; original version published Oct. 6, 2024.
Ho, ho, Halloween
Spirit Halloween is about to get Spirit Halloween’d. The chain store of Halloween costumes and décor typically operates seasonally inside vacant, defunct department stores. This year when spooky season concludes, a handful of Spirit Halloween locations will be transformed into Spirit Christmas, replacing the macabre merchandise with a winter wonderland of holiday apparel, décor, and stocking stuffers.
Spirit Christmas will also be home to a meet & greet with Santa Claus, offering free digital photos from Nov. 29 – Dec. 24, 2024.
Merchandise sold at Spirit Christmas
While merchandise isn’t available for purchase online (or at least, it’s not at the time of this writing … except for “ugly” sweaters), the Spirit Christmas website lists some of the items customers will be able to find at the store.
A unique area within the stores called Inflatable Land will be dedicated to inflatable yard characters. Another section, Creepmas, will focus on products that combine horror with the holidays.
Spirit Christmas will also sell specialty gingerbread house kits emulating the stores’ Gingerbread Lane Post Office displays.
Speaking of Gingerbread Lane, that’s where visitors can pose for photo-ops and write letters to Santa.
Other items sold at Spirit Christmas stores include:
- candy
- pet apparel
- kids’ apparel
- adult apparel
- kitchen décor
- animated décor
- bathroom décor
- stocking stuffers
- “White Elephant” gifts (aka “Yankee Swap” gifts)
Spirit Christmas locations
The Spirit Christmas locations for 2024 are limited to the northeast U.S.
- Dartmouth, Mass. (Faunce Corner Shopping Center)
- Brick Township, N.J. (Market Place at Brick)
- Marlton, N.J. (Willow Ridge)
- Mays Landing, N.J. (Consumer Square)
- Woodbridge, N.J. (The Plaza at Woodbridge)
- Bohemia, N.Y. (Sayville Plaza)
- Poughkeepsie, N.Y. (Chestnut Plaza)
- Erie, Penn. (Mill Creek Mall)
Note: Additional locations were initially announced for Albany, N.Y. and Waterford, Conn., but both have been been canceled, according to the Times Union and the Connecticut Scoop, respectively.
At this time, the opening dates of the stores are unknown.
Spirit Halloween operates 1,500 stores nationwide. The company previously operated Christmas-themed stores in the early 1990s (Spirit Christmas) and mid-2000s (Holiday Spirit), according to newspaper clippings cited on Spirit Halloween Wikia.
(h/t Funko Pop News)
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Wish they open a few in Colorado where I live. It would be fun to visit a Christmas themed store.
I went replacing spirit Halloween and new spirit Christmas in Utah area
That’s awesome I would live to see a spirit Christmas store in utah!!
Open one in Phoenix AZ pleeeease.