

Surprise in store is an Medium Special habitat that uses 2 material types and 3 total pieces. It is best treated as a focused layout rather than a generic decoration cluster.
The full recipe for Surprise in store is Balloons ×2 and Boo-In-The-Box ×1, totalling 3 stacked items across 2 distinct materials. Balloons is the largest single ask in the recipe at 2 units, so treat that one as the gating material when you plan farming routes — locking down a daily collection loop for Balloons usually unblocks several adjacent habitat builds at once, not just this one.
Surprise in store attracts Haunter, Gengar, and Zoroark. Because Pokémon visits are habitat-bound, the moment this build is placed the entire roster above becomes eligible to drop in on the right time-of-day and weather windows. That cluster behaviour is what makes habitat investment pay off — one recipe, multiple Pokédex pages cleared.
Surprise in store is rated Medium difficulty in the Special category. Medium habitats sit between starter and end-game. The recipe usually pulls one or two materials that need a deliberate farming detour, but nothing yet that requires region-tier progression. Special habitats are the irregular ones in the catalogue — event-locked builds, story-driven encounters, or one-of-a-kind layouts for legendary visits. Expect tighter prerequisites and dialogue gates that the generic Nature/Garden recipes don't have.
Once Surprise in store is up, the natural follow-ups in the same Special category are Illuminated tall grass, Large luggage carrier, and Trash collection site. They share the broad material family and the visiting Pokémon types overlap, so each successive build extends an existing farming route instead of starting a new one — that's how you compound habitat investment without spreading materials too thin across the map.
Rebuild this setup by matching the exact material mix below. Tight material counts matter because many Pokopia habitats overlap visually but trigger different attraction pools.
Surprise in store currently attracts Haunter, Gengar, Zoroark. Use these linked Pokemon pages when you want to compare spawn conditions, evolution lines, or related habitat builds.
Browse other Special habitats when you want nearby alternatives in the same biome family.
Best zone
Place Surprise in store inside a Special leaning part of your island so nearby props reinforce the habitat signal.
Scaling
Repeat the layout in clusters and pair it with matching support props to improve spawn consistency for the Pokémon listed above.
Special habitats
Special habitats tend to be more sensitive to surrounding props and often work best when isolated from unrelated biome pieces.
Surprise in store's recipe calls for Balloons ×2 and Boo-In-The-Box ×1 — 3 stacked items across 2 distinct materials. The biggest single ask is Balloons at 2 units; lock down a daily route for that one and the rest of the recipe usually follows.
Surprise in store attracts Haunter, Gengar, and Zoroark. Building the habitat once opens visit windows for the entire roster, so plan around the cluster rather than chasing a single entry.
In the same Special category, the natural follow-ups after Surprise in store are Illuminated tall grass, Large luggage carrier, and Trash collection site. They share the broad material family and overlap on visiting Pokémon types, so each successive build extends an existing farming route instead of starting a fresh one.