October is here and it’s time to start setting up your Halloween decorations. And this year, Home Depot’s infamous giant skeleton has returned with an app that gives the new Ultra Skelly a voice and fresh moves to spook trick-or-treaters.
Make no bones about it: Skelly is high-tech this spooky season. The new animatronic version is shorter than the original, at 6.5 feet tall, but you can freak out your whole neighborhood with this skeleton’s rotating upper torso, moving mouth and 18 LCD eye variations (ew).
Skelly, selling on the Home Depot website or app for $279, can now chat with visitors through five preset recordings and up to 30 seconds of custom recordings, plus Bluetooth capabilities that let you interact in real time. And you can modulate your voice to make everything sound extra spooky.
Skelly was launched in 2020, when the pandemic forced people to celebrate Halloween at a distance. Perhaps because of its giant stature — it’s easy to spot, even when social distancing — the skeleton became a hit and has been resurrected every year since with upgrades and friends. This year, those friends include dragons, trolls, scarecrows and a Skelly Cat (not to be confused with Smelly Cat).
