The Home Depots viral 12-foot skeleton can talk now

Spooky season starts now — at least according to the Home Depot. Today, the hardware superstore unveiled nearly 30 new Halloween decorations and animatronics for 2026, including an app-controlled version of “Skelly,” its iconic 12-foot skeleton prop.

The full Home Depot Halloween collection will be available online and on the Home Depot app this Thursday, July 16, while supplies last. There’s no set start time, but past drops have gone live between 6 and 7 a.m. ET. Select products will arrive in stores sometime in August.

The new 12-foot App-Controlled Skelly costs $100 more than the 6.5-foot Ultra Skelly, which has similar smart features.
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The new 12-foot Giant-Sized Animated LED App-Controlled Skelly marks the biggest update alternative to the oversized lawn decoration since its viral debut in 2020. You can talk to trick-or-treaters through it in real time using a voice modulator on a companion mobile app. You can also record up to 30 voice lines for it to play. Servo motors make its head and jaw move, and LED lights inside of its ribcage produce a colorful glow. Additionally, its LCD LifeEyes can cycle through 20 different effects.

The Home Depot has introduced smaller upgrades and new accessories for Skelly over the years, but the big guy has never been this interactive or high-tech before. Last year, the retailer released a prototype of sorts with the 6.5-foot Ultra Skelly, which also had app-controlled voice effects, movements, and lighting. It will return variation this year as a web exclusive at the same price of $279.

The 12-foot app-controlled Skelly will cost $379 and also be sold online only. For those who don’t want to splurge, the Home Depot will continue to sell the standard Skelly in stores and online at its usual price of $299. It has eight eye settings but is otherwise a static prop.

Skelly is getting some new giant-sized friends

The Home Depot’s 11-foot mummy is $50 cheaper than its 12-foot counterpart at Lowe’s.
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The Home Depot’s 2026 Halloween collection features five more new giant animatronics. An 11-foot Mummy ($299) has motion-activated lights, posable shoulders, and removable cloth wrappings. It’s a clear answer to the popular 12-foot mummy sold by competitor Lowe’s for $349.

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The new eight-foot Perilous Plant Monster ($299) is a viny, tricephalous beast with motion-activated head movements and sound effects. It joins the Home Depot’s “Wicked Woods” decor line, along with an evil nine-foot tree named Dry Rot Dennis ($299).

The 8-foot Perilous Plant Monster and 9-foot Dry Rot Dennis animatronics are both embedded with bones.
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Dry Rot Dennis has color-changing lights inside of his eyes, mouth, and chest.
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The new eight-foot-long, motion-activated Zombie Velociraptor ($299) is tailor-made for a Jurassic Park-themed display.

Clever girl.
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Finally, the 8.5-foot Knight Frostbane is a headless horseman with a skeletal steed. It has three different animations and five preset voice lines. At $399, it’s the most expensive new giant in the Home Depot’s 2026 Halloween lineup, and you can only buy it online.

Knight Frostbane’s noble steed has a moving head and a light-up ribcage.
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Other fresh additions to this year’s Home Depot Halloween collection include a five-foot Rotwing Parrot ($179) that answers yes or no questions, a 7.5-foot Soul-Stealing Reaper ($199), a six-foot Creeping Spider ($249), and an app-controlled version of the seven-foot “Lethal Lily” witch animatronic ($299) it sold in 2023 and 2024.

A few of these props were briefly up for grabs in April during the Home Depot’s annual Halfway to Halloween sale. Most others will be available for purchase for the first time this week, and they’ll probably sell out fast. The retailer’s Halloween animatronics have a zealous fandom on Facebook, where users discuss new releases and flag annual restocks with “Code Orange” alerts.

The new five-foot Rotwing Parrot responds to yes or no questions.
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Check out the full list of the Home Depot’s new Halloween decorations below:

• 12-Foot Giant-Sized Animated LED App-Controlled Skelly — $379, online only

• 11-Foot Grave & Bones Giant-Sized LED Mummy — $299

• 9-Foot Wicked Woods Giant-Sized LED Dry Rot Dennis — $299

• 8.5-Foot Grave & Bones Giant-Sized Animated LED Knight Frostbane — $399, online only

• 8-Foot Wicked Woods Giant-Sized Animated LED Perilous Plant Monster — $299

• 8-Foot-long Grave & Bones Giant-Sized Animated LED Zombie Velociraptor — $299

• 7.5-Foot Grave & Bones Animated LED Soul Stealing Reaper — $199

• 7-Foot Wicked Woods Animated LED App-Controlled Lethal Lily — $299

• 7-Foot Wicked Woods Animated LED Macabre Witch — $159

• 2-Piece Dead Water Animated LED Duo — $199

• 6.5-Foot Grave & Bones Animated LED Grave Robber — $199

• 6.5-Foot Wicked Woods Animated LED Stalking Scarecrow — $159

• 6-Foot Wicked Woods Animated LED Creeping Spider — $249

• 6-Foot Grave & Bones Animated LED John the Last Call Mixologist — $179

• 6-Foot Wicked Woods Color Changing LED Scowling Sapling — $179

• 5.5-Foot Wicked Woods Animated LED Evil Pixie — $199

• 5.5-Foot Grave & Bones LED Gargoyle — $129

• Animated LED Gremlins 3-Piece — $249

• 5-Foot Dead Water Animated LED Rotwing Parrot — $179

• 5-Foot Wicked Woods LED Wishing Well — $149

• 4.5-Foot Grave & Bones Color Changing LED Groundbreaker — $199

• 4-Foot Animated LED Flying Monkey — $199

• 3.5-Foot Animated LED Mohawk — $179

• 3.5-Foot Wicked Woods Animated LED Hell Hound — $159

• 3.5-Foot Wicked Woods Animated LED Plague Rat — $129

• 3.5-Foot Wicked Woods Animated LED Baby Troll — $119

• 3-Foot Animated LED Stitch — $199

• 2-Piece Grave & Bones Animated LED ‘Til Death Duo — $99

• 2-Piece Wicked Woods Animated LED Burlap Twins — $99

Source: https://mashable.com/life/home-depot-2026-halloween-collection-app-controlled-skelly