October is here and it’s time to start putting up your Halloween decorations. And this year, Home Depot’s infamous giant skeleton returned with an app that gives the new Ultra Skelly a cool voice and moves to scare away tricksters or cheaters.
Don’t make 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 entire neighborhood with this skeleton’s rotating upper torso, movable mouth, and 18 LCD eye variations (EW).
Skelly, selling on the Home Depot website or app for $279can now chat with visitors via five preset recordings and up to 30 seconds of custom recordings, as well as Bluetooth capabilities that allow you to interact in real time. And you can modulate your voice to make everything sound very scary.
Skelly launched in 2020, when the pandemic forced people to celebrate Halloween remotely. Perhaps because of its giant stature – it’s easy to spot, even while social distancing – the skeleton became a hit and has been resurrected every year since with improvements and friends. This year, those friends include dragons, trolls, scarecrows, and a Skelly cat (not to be confused with a smelly cat).
