Home Depot upgrades viral 12-foot Skelly with app-controlled features
Home Depot will sell an upgraded 12-foot Skelly on July 16 for $299, adding Bluetooth voice control, custom sounds and 20 eye effects. Stores will get giant animatronics later in August.
Home Depot is set to put a more interactive 12-foot Skelly back on sale online and in its app on July 16, with the giant skeleton returning at its original $299 price before rolling into stores later in August. The company will price all of its in-store giant animatronics under $300.
The 2026 version adds app-driven features. Owners will be able to customize Skelly’s head and mouth movements, speak through the animatronic in real time over Bluetooth, record up to 30 sounds, and choose from 20 LCD LifeEyes effects. The skeleton also picks up custom sounds, light movement and servo motor motion, extending the tech package first introduced in Home Depot’s smaller Ultra Skelly.
Home Depot launched the 12-foot skeleton in 2020, during the pandemic, and the decoration quickly became a viral Halloween fixture, with many owners leaving it up year-round. By 2025, the company had widened Skelly into a broader skeleton family that included Ultra Skelly, Skelly’s sitting dog, Skelly’s cat and the original 7-foot dog companion. The 2025 Halloween collection went on sale online on August 4, 2025.
Home Depot brought Skelly back again in April 2026 through its Halfway to Halloween collection, which featured 20 LifeEyes options, servo motor movement and app-based voice recording with modulation.
The 2026 Halloween collection is scheduled to launch on Home Depot’s website and app first, with store shelves getting Halloween products in late August. The line is inspired by Halloween communities and social trends.
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