Macy's Windows Taken Over by Space Elves, Snow Beasts

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The narrative of Macy's holiday windows starts off as a traditional one: boy is too excited to sleep on Christmas Eve, boy takes out telescope, and then—Oh! What's that?—boy sees Santa's sleigh dash across the sky. But look closer and you'll see that Santa's sleigh is actually a spaceship, those reindeer are space reindeer, and they're headed straight to Uranus and Neptune—icy planets inhabited by bearded snow beasts. Everyone eventually ends up on Venus, which is conveniently populated by toy-making elves. Let's piece this story together, in the gallery.

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