Spirit Halloween has a tendency to be seen as a hokey gimmick pop-up store. Every product, while useful last minute for a costume, would likely break under gravity's force before even hitting the ground, if dropped. The cheapest most rudimentary plastic caricatures of whatever it may be that is under a hilariously generic alternative name to avoid copyright. The stores often find themselves propped up in a building no longer in use, & likely far too small to utilize the dimensions of said building, often taking up only 2/3rds of the space said building provides,. The only barrier that separates the products from the back-storage is a flimsy, inch thick cardboard that is just as pathetic as the decorations & costumes being sold there in the first place.

INTERMISSION

Once upon a time, I used to build these magnificent castles out of a series of toys that would be universally compatible with previous bundles from the same company. The packages would often include various walls, doors, ramparts, etc, enough variety & similarities to warrant no two castles looking the same between any amount of kids building them. One structure I had built was a very long wall of these plastic panels - the perimeter of a presumably much larger masterpiece that never was - it was just a linear husk that was barely able to be kept upright due to a lack of any foundation. I was quite proud of how it looked, at times, but as soon as I had looked at it from any angle that wasn't face-on, I would realize that I had created a sham.