The long-time Fox River Mall ... “Santa Mac,” has known Motschenbacher since the mid 1990s. In 2024, McMullen became the first Wisconsin inductee to get into the International Santa Claus ...

embracing the thousands of kids and families who came to see Santa at the Fox River Mall, year after year. "Being Santa, and being Santa for the people over there in Wisconsin, was so important to ...

2025 Santa Russell spent 25 years as the Fox River Mall Santa before retiring in 2019. People say it felt like he was still Santa Claus even when Motschenbacher wasn’t in the photo booth.