Home Depot Now Has An App-controlled Version Of Its Viral Halloween Skeleton

The summertime isn’t halfway over, and Home Depot already wants you to commencement reasoning astir Halloween. After introducing a limited-edition animated version of its 12-foot-tall skeleton decoration past year, nan hardware institution is hoping for much viral fame this twelvemonth pinch a caller Ultra Skelly. At 6.5 feet tall, it’s overmuch smaller than nan original towering Skelly, but Ultra Skelly features much animated features, further lighting effects, and nan expertise to talk to trick-or-treaters done a mobile app.

Ultra Skelly’s precocious torso and caput tin some rotate independently utilizing motors, while nan skeleton’s correct limb tin move up and down. It has LED lights successful its rima and chest, arsenic good arsenic LCD-screen eyes (the larger Skelly has nan aforesaid eyes), which tin show 1 of 18 different animations, including feline eyes, hypnotic swirls, aliases moreover nan waving stars and stripes for those who want to reuse nan skeleton for July Fourth.

It includes 5 prerecorded Halloween-themed phrases that play while nan skeleton’s animated rima moves. You tin besides grounds up to 30 civilization 30-second messages pinch voice-changing effects — aliases speak straight done Ultra Skelly utilizing nan mobile app while it’s connected complete Bluetooth. 

The original $299 12-foot Skelly will beryllium disposable arsenic accustomed this year, going connected waste connected August 4th done Home Depot’s unit locations, online store, and mobile app. The caller Ultra Skelly will beryllium conscionable somewhat cheaper astatine $279.

There are besides respective different options too original Skelly and Ultra Skelly. There are caller 5-foot canine ($249) and feline ($199) skeletons pinch animated LCD eyes, a caller animated troll ($249) pinch a spiked nine successful hand, an 8-foot motion-activated animated dragon pinch a glowing and color-changing thorax ($399), and an imposing 15-foot animated scarecrow ($399) pinch flickering LED lights successful its eyes and mouth.

And, finally, nan 7-foot animated Frankenstein’s monster ($279) introduced past twelvemonth will nary longer beryllium scaring kids alone. He’ll beryllium joined by a caller 6-foot bride of Frankenstein ($279) pinch six animated movements, animated LCD eyes, and 4 prerecorded phrases.